B550 vs X570

[Wingfan]

The new B550's look pretty good, what's the difference between them? What is the advantage of an X board? prices are almost comparable.

I got my X570 in Dec for $140USD, and im seeing some of these B550 boards for more?

[Jurrunio]

Apart from stuff board vendors mention in their websites, X570 gets more bandwidth down the chipset than B550, making it more appealing for those running a ton of storage and extra expansion cards. this comes at a cost of chipset fan being common though

 

Things like power delivery is often not cut down from X570 to B550, while the newer B550 boards may even get an edge in memory overclocking. That's why the price hasn't really gone down.

[Dr0y]

Jay's two cent did a video about that ... let me find it for you ... I was watching it while being distracted by some text messages and didn't catch some of it ... hope it will answer your questions.

 

 

[Bartholomew]

17 minutes ago, Wingfan said:

The new B550's look pretty good, what's the difference between them? What is the advantage of an X board? prices are almost comparable.

I got my X570 in Dec for $140USD, and im seeing some of these B550 boards for more?

Advantages x570: more io (more pcie4, more high speed usbs)

Advantages b550: less io, a bit of pcie4 but less than x570, no fan needed, somehat cheaper boards available (at least here in europe) with still good vrm.

 

For the majority of uses/users the difference is negligable, however due to (regional dependant though) marginal pricing differences, if one can accept the fan, might as well go x570.

 

In both cases though most (gaming) users would be fine with either one or even just b450 anyway, but somehow many think they need a vrm that can handle a 3950x on ln2 for their 3600 or 3700x on a aio.

 

Above that (3900x and up) the need for better vrm becomes a bit more real and that cpu segment is the balance between cpu and mainboard price shifts significantly and the difference in price between x570 and anything lower becomes less pronounced (relative to cpu/total system cost), so "why not" (where some with fan allergies can now opt for b550).

 

 

[Wingfan]

I have an X570, and the board fan i dont even hear. Must be loud on some boards?

[Bartholomew]

12 minutes ago, Wingfan said:

I have an X570, and the board fan i dont even hear. Must be loud on some boards?

Same here, and its completely off a lot of the time as well unless doing most demanding of tasks (im on tomahawk x570). Still, no fan would have been nicer, but wasnt willing to "step down" just because of it.

 

A lot of other x570 boards have it right under the gpu though, and if the gpu cooling solution fins point towards it (most common case) gpu blows warmed air into it, causing it to spin up more frequently/all the time; that might be bothersome to some (and which is one of the reasons why i waited for the tomahawk as msi placed the fan more down than others but their earlier boards where either too expensive or had - for their pricepoint - too moderate vrm).

 

[Wingfan]

So what are the B550 boards doing?