Gigabyte B450 Aorus Elite Power Delivery

[Bajeetas]

I am putting a build together for a friend and I am wondering about the power delivery and overclocking potential of this board in particular. (planning to use Ryzen 5 3600) How has anybody's OCing been so far? What were your results? Thanks

[Entropy.]

Just now, Bajeetas said:

I am putting a build together for a friend and I am wondering about the power delivery and overclocking potential of this board in particular. How has anybody's OCing been so far? What were your results? Thanks

It's not bad, you should be able to max out most chips on it. Vrms are... actually, I dn't know off the top of my head, and the vrm spreadsheet is wonk right now, so I can't tell you that. From other reviews that I've seen at least, It should be able to run basically everything up to a 3900x/5800x to the cpu's limit. In other words, It's likely fine. 

[Mitico]

I have that motherboard and a friend got it, and it works fine, vrm temps are always low and power is stable.

[Haro]

11 hours ago, Bajeetas said:

(planning to use Ryzen 5 3600) How has anybody's OCing been so far? What were your results? Thanks

The board is good enough for a 3600, with an OC or not. 

 

11 hours ago, Brok3n But who cares? said:

It should be able to run basically everything up to a 3900x/5800x to the cpu's limit.

What? 

The B450 Aorus Elite has 4 4C10N and 8 4C06N Discrete Mosfets with a joke of a heatsink, and absolutely can't handle a maxed out 12 core. 

[Entropy.]

4 hours ago, Haro said:

The board is good enough for a 3600, with an OC or not. 

 

What? 

The B450 Aorus Elite has 4 4C10N and 8 4C06N Discrete Mosfets with a joke of a heatsink, and absolutely can't handle a maxed out 12 core. 

To think you'd say all it could handle is a 3600.... lol.... 
VRM heatsinks look totally fine for what it's worth. 4c10N's and 8 4C0N's should be good for chips far past the 3600. 

[Haro]

51 minutes ago, Brok3n But who cares? said:

To think you'd say all it could handle is a 3600.... lol.... 

When did I say that exactly? All I said is that it definitely cannot handle a maxed out 12 core. 

 

52 minutes ago, Brok3n But who cares? said:

VRM heatsinks look totally fine for what it's worth.

It's mostly plastic, it looks large, but in reality, the Aluminum part is only a small portion of it.  

 

[THED173]

On 4/24/2021 at 7:15 PM, Haro said:

 

It's mostly plastic, it looks large, but in reality, the Aluminum part is only a small portion of it.  

 

im sorry but.... what? what portion exactly? because i own this motherboard and i can garuntee the heatsink is alumnium throughout. dont know what you've been readingin your spair time.....

[Haro]

On 10/6/2021 at 11:50 AM, THED173 said:

because i own this motherboard and i can garuntee the heatsink is alumnium throughout.

...I'm not sure why you're bothering to necro an old thread that has already been answered. 

But: How exactly can you guarantee that? If you're answer is by "feeling" it, then that isn't credible enough to be actually taken seriously. 

 

 

(Source: Gigabyte's site) 

Pictured above is the B450 Aorus Elite, what's outlined in black is the actual aluminum heatsink and the rest -outlined in orange- is just a plastic fashion accessory. 

Further proof would be looking at the B450 Gaming X: 

 

 

(Source: Gigabyte's site) 

Above is the B450 Gaming X, which heatsink is the exact same as the B450 Aorus Elite, minus the plastic fluff and as it's clearly seen, it's an incredibly small heatsink. 

 

Another would be looking at the B450 Aorus Elite (Or even the Aorus Pro for that matter) to easily tell that that "heatsink" is mostly just a big plastic heat insulator. 

 

(Source: Anandtech:https://www.anandtech.com/show/12982/gigabyte-b450-aorus-pro-wifi-a-second-gen-midrange-motherboard)

While yes, this is admittedly the B450 Aorus Pro -which heatsink is still technically somewhat better than the Elite's-, same thing applies, the actual heatsink is only a small portion of what's shown from a top down angle. 

 

Another thing would be this board's performance, while yes, it doesn't have the highest end of power delivery (4C10N on the Hi-Side and 4C06N on the Low-Side) you'd expect the board to perform significantly better -temperature wise-   if all that heatsink was, in fact, aluminum, but in reality it isn't, most of it is just a plastic heat insulator to give first impressions on the heatsink as being larger than what it actually is, because in practice, the board performed like utter garbage for what it was priced at. 

[The Blackhat]

On 10/6/2021 at 4:50 AM, THED173 said:

im sorry but.... what? what portion exactly? because i own this motherboard and i can garuntee the heatsink is alumnium throughout. dont know what you've been readingin your spair time.....

Haha, very funny, quite helpful.