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  • romrunning - Monday, December 7, 2020 - link

    This board has been out for quite a while, and it's been proven to be a good buy. If you done any homework at all on mini-ITX B550 boards, you'll know it's one of the top ones.

    The main difference between this board and the other top competitors is that it doesn't have a Type-C front-panel port. That seems to be the main reason why it's a bit cheaper than the other boards. I can see Gigabyte adding it in a "v2" of the board, though. If your choice for a new mini-ITX case has that style of port available, it may factor into your decision.
  • gavbon - Monday, December 7, 2020 - link

    Of course, I agree with you. It's why it's been highlighted as my go-to Mini-ITX model in our AMD motherboard guides.
  • romrunning - Monday, December 7, 2020 - link

    What's annoying is that we can get these great mini-ITX boards back in stock, but the rest of the new components are out of stock. My NR200 & this Gigabyte board was going to be the base of a new build, but everything else is not available. I'm not going to buy from over-priced eBay offers, so for now, patience is the key.
  • Zagreus86 - Monday, December 7, 2020 - link

    I'm in the same boat, except I have everything except the case at this point (NR200). Seems we can't get them into the UK for love nor money at the moment!
  • Questor - Wednesday, December 9, 2020 - link

    Where is my Ryzen 5900X? I swear it was right here just a minute ago. Did you see it?
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  • calc76 - Monday, December 7, 2020 - link

    Another big difference is how many high speed ports the Asus B550-I has vs the Gigabyte B550I has, not just the lack of front 10Gbps Type C. Gigabyte probably skimped to be cheaper there as well:

    Asus B550-I:
    5 10Gbps
    2 5Gbps
    4 480Mbps

    Gigabyte B550I:
    2 10Gbps
    6 5Gbps
    2 480Mbps
  • mkarwin - Tuesday, December 15, 2020 - link

    And another is how the "supreme surround sound" is done through analog outputs - Asus requires connecting 2 rear ports and front-panel line-out for 5.1 analog speakers, while Gigabyte utilises rear ports only...
  • Quad5Ny - Friday, March 26, 2021 - link

    When you see ONLY 3 audio ports on the rear these days its usually auto-switching. So you'll get 5.1 using the back panel and 7.1 if you use the back and front panel. -Skip the mic and line-in on the rear and consult your MB manual.
  • ozark - Tuesday, December 8, 2020 - link

    For this exact reason I op'ed for the MSI MPG B550I, which is listed for $200 but often on sale for $185 or lower on Amazon. When you are on an ITX build, every port is precious and a front panel USB-C port is immensely useful. It's bit a of shame that the MSI board uses slightly inferior setup for their audio or wifi solution, although for most people there's no detectable difference.
  • mkarwin - Tuesday, December 15, 2020 - link

    It might have inferior codec setup, but allows better flexibility and connectability using the rear panel I/O audio ports...
  • Questor - Wednesday, December 9, 2020 - link

    Unfortunately for Gigabyte, the lack of a front USB-C header is a deal breaker. I had the same thought you did, hoping and holding out for a V2.
  • Gigaplex - Wednesday, December 9, 2020 - link

    How much of a dealbreaker? You can get USB3 to USB-C header adapters.
  • Questor - Thursday, December 10, 2020 - link

    Hm. I didn't think about that. Amazing how we miss things right in front of us. Not so much of a deal breaker me thinks. As long as the USB connection is reachable, since it wasn't placed as a front panel header.
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  • kkilobyte - Monday, December 7, 2020 - link

    Hopefully, it isn't as buggy as their X570 motherboards, that drop dead randomly and require removing the CMOS battery to be able to start it again - an issue that Gigabyte, in more than a year, never solved or even tried to solve.
  • meacupla - Monday, December 7, 2020 - link

    That seems to be a common issue on any Gigabyte motherboard.

    It's like their EEPROM chips have a 50% failure rate within 3yrs and 90% in 5yrs
  • Deicidium369 - Monday, December 7, 2020 - link

    I have dozens in service - some going back to Conroe and never once have had a EEPROM die - maybe you should look at your power delivery system.
  • Samus - Monday, December 7, 2020 - link

    I’ve seen EEPROM failure on a few gigabyte boards going back to socket 939 it’s widely known to be an issue and Gigabyte seemingly knows it because they were making the first (only behind ABIT and DFI) to advocate ‘DualBIOS’ which they naturally did away with awhile back because it is expensive.
  • star-affinity - Tuesday, December 8, 2020 - link

    :-O

    Is that why my (or my sister's nowadays) 11 year old Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD5 behaves like this:

    https://www.dropbox.com/s/f0bgoxfquiu7mky/GA-EX58-...

    I've done all I know of, switching around RAM modules, remove the CMOS battery, press reset CMOS on the back. Got it to start BIOS recovery from the ”DualBIOS” once, but even during that process it turned itself off.

    Could be the power supply perhaps, but I've seen other videos online of Gigabyte motherboards doing the same.
  • meacupla - Tuesday, December 8, 2020 - link

    yup, that's exactly what happens.

    The only remaining fix I could think of was replacing the soldered in BIOS chips
  • star-affinity - Tuesday, December 15, 2020 - link

    Just wanted to say that my problems was resolved with a new power supply! So now the Gigabyte motherboard is working fine again, believe it or not. :)
  • duploxxx - Tuesday, December 8, 2020 - link

    not to mention cold boot - bios resets - unable to save q-fan profiles etc...
    I was very impressed by the x370 although it lacked some easy visual design.
    The x570 gigabyte is not worth the money, would stay away from it as much as possible.

    I also own an Asrock B450 board, a much better bios layout.
  • Dug - Tuesday, December 8, 2020 - link

    Strange. I have Gigabyte going back to p965 with no issue.
    No issue with my x570 aorus pro wifi like you describe either, like thousands of others.
  • kkilobyte - Tuesday, December 8, 2020 - link

    I - and others - have zero idea on what is triggering the issue. There is clearly something fishy going on with the power distribution on the Aorus X570, but so far, it was not possible to pinpoint the origin of it. ErP, USB load, PSU, DisplayPort, Sleep modes, RAM modules all have been suspected, but none of those elements led to anything conclusive. There is a +20 pages thread on hardforum.com about it. I tried to probe the issue with my scope, but it happens completely randomly; so far, it happened to me 3 times in about 8 months, and last time it happened, I was in a hurry and couldn't test.

    Doing a CMOS reset through the jumper doesn't solve the issue; it could thus mean that it is not a cmos-ram corruption, but a more fundamental electrical issue. My best bet is that somehow a power spike at shutdown is sometimes high enough to wrongly toggle a signal line that 'locks' one of the components kept alive by the battery.

    Finding the solution would require identifying the components that are kept powered by the cmos battery; without precise motherboard schematics, however, that's going to be difficult; even if it gets identified, I don't see how it would be solved without some sort of hardware hacking.

    My personal solution is to design an arduino-based circuit that plugs on the battery connector of the motherboard, and allows a 'reset' through a front panel button. It's less than ideal, but that's better than having to open the case and remove my gfx card just to get the battery out.
  • mkarwin - Tuesday, December 15, 2020 - link

    Well if CMOS reset does not fix the issue there's either a failing BIOS chip or circuitry throughout the board's layers... Theoretically one could pinpoint the issue by replacing the BIOS chip...
    BTW. I honestly wonder why they haven't thought of putting BIOS(es) on microSD cards, some of those smaller ones would be dirt cheap nowadays and capacituous enough to handle modern UEFI BIOSes - easy to remove/replace/reflash, could maybe improve the consumer attitude towards the issue if it is related to BIOS chips...
  • hansip87 - Monday, December 7, 2020 - link

    What i don't understand with AMD mini ITX board is how few are their USB ports available at the back. one of the reasons why i chose going intel route was that there is this cheap Asrock Z490 itx board with 8 USB ports at the back. Sure it;s not the only factor but why can't any of AMD ITX boards do the same?
  • romrunning - Monday, December 7, 2020 - link

    Well, you can always just get a plug-in USB hub if you need more. I think the mfgs don't add as many USB ports mostly as a cost-savings.
  • mkarwin - Tuesday, December 15, 2020 - link

    Seems quite odd considering they are still asking more ($) for less (size & features)... It's not like they're running out of space on I/O shield, there's no integrated massive cooling openings in most cases, so adding eg. 4 extra even 2.0 USB ports would be more beneficial than having 3 display outputs for the integrated Radeon solutions... I could see a future where more integrated display outputs is beneficial - if they allow adding those server/compute accelerators without display outputs so that they could pass through the display to those board integrated ports. Otherwise, I think maybe 1 HDMI is enough. Especially if you can use said HDMI to pass through audio from the integrated card as well...
  • jeremyshaw - Monday, December 7, 2020 - link

    Probably the massive AMD AM4 keep out area. It doesn't really matter for mATX and ATX, but for mITX, every mm^2 matters. But every B550 ITX board is flawed in some way.

    ASUS hates rear I/O altogether, ASRock ditches the S/PDIF and doesn't have all that many USB ports (still more than ASUS). Gigabyte's never head of USB-C headers, and MSI gets all of that right, but has a proprietary backplate.

    X570 came out a year earlier and is worse in many ways. ASUS is pricing their top end board for people without sense, and all of the X570 mITX boards from all other vendors lack the USB-C header. All of them are also 1GbE only, which seems like a waste for such a fast platform. ASRock has TB3, but only one M.2 slot, and very few USB ports.

    In the end, I've held off upgrading my old AB350 Fata1ity ITX, since nothing is really appealing w.r.t. upgrading (not to mention almost twice the price!). Ryzen 5000 might force my hand, but I'd still rather not "upgrade" to boards that are very flawed (IMO) vs their Intel counterparts.

    On Intel, all is not perfect, but there are more "perfect" boards that don't have these same issues.
  • quorm - Monday, December 7, 2020 - link

    What is the massive AMD AM4 keep out area?
  • Slash3 - Monday, December 7, 2020 - link

    The space around the CPU socket required for mounting clearance is probably what they're referring to. On that note, the Asrock AM4 mITX actually use Intel LGA11XX mount spacing for this reason.
  • meacupla - Tuesday, December 8, 2020 - link

    The AM4 keepout area is a good thing though. Especially when the mobo adheres with the steel backplate.

    There are plenty of LGA11XX mITX boards that completely ignore the back side of the MOBO and run into issues with aftermarket CPU coolers that require backplates.
  • Allan_Hundeboll - Thursday, December 17, 2020 - link

    I "upgraded" from ab350 fata1ity to the b550i Aorus pro because I wanted a board that would support ryzen 5000. I also hoped the better vrm would make it possible to oc my water-cooled 3700x a little higher.
    But the the b550I seems to hate my 2x16GB micron rev E memory. So I just can't make 1900Mhz IF/3800Mhz MEM stable like it did on the cheap ab350.
    The strong VRM didn't oc my 3700x any better, but I discovered that low PBO power draw values (like 5W) makes. PBO boost like crazy, when disabling C3 sleep. So my cpu benchmarks gained a little performance.
    So you made a smart decision holding on to that ab350!
  • Mr Perfect - Monday, December 7, 2020 - link

    The lack of USB ports is odd, especially when they included three video ports that a majority of people will never use. If AMD CPUs had built in video ports, then sure, throw in a whole bunch of graphics ports, but a gaming board isn't likely to get an APU installed.
  • calc76 - Monday, December 7, 2020 - link

    The B550 chipset is the limiting factor with USB 3 ports. The B550 isn't really in the same class chipset as a Z490. The B550 supports more ports than are in some of the mini-ITX boards but ones like the ASUS B550-I support nearly all but some of the extra USB 2.0 ports.
  • mkarwin - Tuesday, December 15, 2020 - link

    Even with USB3 count restriction, there are still USB2 options - most printers/keyboards/mice/scanners won't need the gen 3 speeds so adding a quartet of additional rear I/O placed USB2 ports wouldn't break the bank whilst giving a lot more connectivity that people could actually use... Though at the same time, X570 boards from the same product family are not fairing any better whilst being "top of the line AM4 chipsets" sporting. Somehow the ATX size allows adding more ports to the rear I/O, but already mATX suffers nearly the same as mITX. I'm not sure if those ATX offerings come with additional USB controllers on board that just can't fit on ITX boards or maybe it's merely manufacturers way to skimp $1 on a set of connectors on the back and treat it as an excude for no additonal signaling work through the PCB whilst still asking higher prices for the premium smaller market...
  • Luminar - Monday, December 7, 2020 - link

    Just what we need instead of a 6800 review lol
  • Golgatha777 - Monday, December 7, 2020 - link

    True, you can actually buy this.
  • vanilla_gorilla - Monday, December 7, 2020 - link

    This is exactly what I need. I'm currently using an X570 I Aorus Wi-Fi mini-itx board in a SFF case. The problem is I cannot find any AM4 Mini-iTX boards with multi-gig or 10GbE LoM. I'm really disappointed we don't see more multi and 10Gb boards. I just got an email last week that Google Fiber now offers 2Gb/s service here in Nashville. I was looking at USB based multi-gig adapters but I'd much rather have it on the motherboard, of course.
  • romrunning - Monday, December 7, 2020 - link

    Almost all, if not all, of the better B550 ITX boards ($180+) released in June/July of this year have 2.5Gb ports. For onboard 10Gb, you would have to go with some specialized solutions, like the ASRockRack mini-ITX server boards. They have EPYC-based mini-ITX boards and even a X570 board (X570D4I-2T) with 10Gb.
  • Olaf van der Spek - Tuesday, December 8, 2020 - link

    Just buy a PCI-E NIC. Oh wait...
    ;)
  • Dug - Tuesday, December 8, 2020 - link

    or wait.. Bifurcation
  • mkarwin - Tuesday, December 15, 2020 - link

    Oh wait.. similar approach could almost be used here... If only they added even more higher speeds USB outs (eg. with TB support) one could use them and plug in some USB NIC dongle as a stop gap interim solution... but the amount of 10/5gbps connectors is at a premium here as well ;)
  • mkarwin - Tuesday, December 15, 2020 - link

    Especially since 2.5GbE does not force replacement of cabling... and AFAIK costs on the NICs are somewhat similar if not equal. Heck, I wonder why premium ATX boards come with 2 multigig NICs and premium mITX or mATX do not (besides those AsrockRack server'y solutions that skimp on all the other QoL integrations we've come to expect from home/desktop PC parts).
  • lorribot - Monday, December 7, 2020 - link

    I would like to see more variation in the features not offered on ITX boards so they could be cheaper. mATX boards are the cheapest you can buy, but also come with a wide range of options, ITX seem to only come fully loaded.
    First I would delete any Video out capability as most AMD processors have none built in for the majority of users this is pointless. 2.5Gb networking is not required for most people, 2.5GB switches are few and fa between and definitely of no use in the UK for any internet capability and no router in the UK comes with that so you would have pay out for expensive switches, if you really need to move a lot of data. How about no wireless or only wireless? Or dual gigabit.
    Task based designs rather than one size fits all.
  • mkarwin - Tuesday, December 15, 2020 - link

    I almost agree... though not entirely.
    I'd leave one display output, just to appease corporate overlords and PR departments so they could check the box near the "applicable for Ryzen with integrated Radeon solutions"... As to which one to use, that's another question. Perhaps leave only HDMI would appease most users as this is one standard that's proliferated among displays' connectors the widest... Plus, I'd allow sending digital audio from the integrated audio card through the same HDMI connection. But I'd add such a setting on the BIOS level, so as to remove dependency on OS drivers. That'd tick another box on the feature lists... Alternatively, I'd consider using USB-c connected to the CPU - for the port to be used as a DP over USB3-c as it is done on laptops, or as a iGPU output akin to the USB-c port on the new Radeons... Then again if not used in such a manner allow it to be switched to a very fast general purpose USB with connectivity nearly straight to CPU right within the BIOS to again remove any obstacles from driver/OS reworks/compatibilities...
    As to networking - I disagree whole-heartedly. I'd say go with dual multigig ports, preferably X550-class based 10GbE. And if 10GbE is too far, go with 2.5 and 5GbE solutions instead. The internet speeds are not the important, most devices are connected to LANs. And here, higher speeds matter much, especially in mITX forms. Why? Cause one could use external storage of NAS variety - it's easier to add tons of disks and copious amounts of space to NASes than to your PC's small mITX cases ;) Plus, you may want to work more using various network appliances, or in enthusiast markets home servers. And for that purpose, high quality high bandwidth NICs are a must. I'd even go one step further, and consider using 2.5/5GbE on all consumer boards and switching to (Q)SFP+ slots to reduce the costs a bit (though I understand that this instead requires more space which is at a premium in smaller builds/MBs). After all the market adoption is driven by the masses, and currently we're having a chicken and egg situation here - most home networks are still at 1GbE speeds cause there aren't many devices most people are using that come with higher speed wired NICs so there's no push towards higher network gear, and since there's no push this not a lucrative enough market for the netowrk appliance manufacturers to start offering faster devices that could support those higher speeds at the prices an average Joe could find enticing. BTW. the enthusiast market as well as pro market have already gone forward and people are already thinking of jumping ship to 10GbE, either in CAT6A/CAT7 or FC forms. Just check the popularity of Mikrotik's 10GbE SFP+ switches... Plus you need to remember that due to smaller consumer base with mostly enthusiasts and pros, companies can easily price those products accordingly and still sell out batches of products - once the speeds become more widespread the rules of competition and market push would enforce price drops for mass-produced offerings. Plus, you'd really need to use 2.5GbE+ wired speeds to keep up with the WiFi6 speeds ;)
    And onto the WiFi debacle - I'd still leave the antenna ports, but instead of WiFi/BT module on board, I'd suggest adding M.2 port for those WiFi/BT devices on the back side or on top of M.2/chipsets - that way they'd get the chance to sell another additional product option, one that is tested and used widely in laptops already with success, one used in their NUC-alikes as well, one that's easily replacable or upgradable, and one that could reduce the pricepoint for those not wanting to shell out on sucha feature... That's a fair bit more interesting boxes to tick for the PR people and the "start small go big" mantra...
    And speaking of M.2 connectors, I'd really appreciate if more devices actually came with support for 22110 sized ones - even though 2280 has become the defacto standard for M.2 NVMe drives, the 22110 is the one used by the more pro-oriented/server-grade markets due to those usually packing PLP circuitry on board.. That's a tiny QoL feature that could easily differentiate the devices on offer and again allow the PR reps to show how one product stacks better than the competition...
    And speaking of server-grade stuff that most MB manufacturers are already doing very well in their server departments, why not dig deeper into those roots as well and start adding BMC in those prosumer solutions? Those in the know would appreciate it, others might find it an extra feature... Sure, Intel has vPro and AMD has joined the game with their Pro series but neither can replace a full BMC solution for remote working/helping...
    Now going wireless only solution could sound great on paper but would require a lot work - they'd have to allow WiFi connection management including security/WPS on BIOS level to allow eg. PXE. Furthermore, they'd have to polish the BT issues/stack on BIOS level - so eg. they could allow BT keyboard/mice for system management, so OS agnostic. Furthermore, they might have to instead get in touch with various key/mice manufacturers and license built-in RF transmitters to speak with those devices - its doable and possibly easier than getting BT stack working fully on BIOS/firmware level... Than maybe they'd have to discuss opening to NFC communication. And going back to BT, they'd have to get AptX and similar certs to speak better with wireless audio devices - and that's additional costs many CEOs wouldn't agree to unless presented with a clear ROI numbers... and possibly market adoption of competition's products with similar feature sets. Similarly going the wireless route would necessitate digging into the HDMI over WiFi/WirelessHDMI standards which are not yet adopted widely. I dare say that it's easier to sell the idea of going full 10GbE wired product stacks than finding the wireless HDMI solution markets. Of course having a built-in LTE/5G modem could well play the "going wireless" game in any product stacks but there is another issue going wireless requires - MBs would have to get option to create WiFi networks and act as APs/WiFi routers thus the BIOS would have to get at least a simple WiFi sharing functionality....
    Dual gigabit? Nah, that's too restrictive - either think of 4x1GbE or 2x2.5/5GbE or 10GbE. Don't let yourself be rooted in the years old standard that should have already been replaced in all cabled devices.
    Now the task based designs could fare great if their implementation was made correctly...
    But I'd just consider some copanies thinking of the fact that nowadays smaller boards are not chosen mostly by average users, rather these are power users, enthusiasts, pros... And they need something more for a product to be seen as a premium offering. For example, Gigabyte could have easily gone the Xtreme Waterforce route and create and sell a mITX board with integrated full-board monoblock+pump+res (or monoblock only) that covers CPU+VRM+SoC+M.2 - I bet such a product could easily find new homes among the target consumer group ;) Especially if they priced it right. Heck, Asus could just reach out to EkWB/Bitspower for a cooperation and release boards with blocks out-of-the-factory... I'd say nowadays those smaller monoblocked boards would sell like cupcakes (provided they are priced reasonably) and they could push more people towards custom loops, thus also proliferating monoblocked GPU sells. Or maybe go even one step further and get in touch with both block maker and AIO manufacturers - I think every company would like to consider such cooperation offer to sell truly integrated solutions... for the AIO companies that would have necesiteated only slight adjustments to pump/block/reservoir-combo units to adjust for the full coverage solutions, but you could get far better temps throughout the lifecycle and these would still sell well for the mITX market or even mATX - 240mm/280mm/360mm rads would suffice to cool such full coverage heat sources...
  • DiHydro - Monday, December 7, 2020 - link

    Have you tried to use Smart Fan 5? I found it to be horrible! I have a Noctua CPU cooler and it had the fans spinning at near max, even when the CPU temp was down in the 50°C range.
  • Gigaplex - Tuesday, December 8, 2020 - link

    I suspect you're doing it wrong, then. SF5 is working great for me. The fan curve follows the temperatures I set just fine. Each fan port gets its own fan curve, so maybe you're setting the curve on the wrong port?
  • DiHydro - Sunday, December 13, 2020 - link

    I did see that it has per fan curves, but the out-of-the-box curves are terribly aggressive. Even in the so called silent mode.
  • Grabo - Tuesday, December 8, 2020 - link

    I've had this board since summer, currently on the latest firmware. No complaints, except the disappearing bluetooth. Sometimes it's there, mostly it isn't. Dual booting linux and windows and it's the same in both. I acquired a usb bluetooth adapter as soon as I read about others having the same issue with this board.
  • mkarwin - Tuesday, December 15, 2020 - link

    Seems like using the BT for key/mouse wireless device is out of the question in this case then?
  • R3MF - Tuesday, December 8, 2020 - link

    I have this board, been great.
  • Fujikoma - Tuesday, December 8, 2020 - link

    The owner's guide is pretty skimpy. There were no instructions or visuals for installation of the NVME drives, which I found very odd because the top side spacer screw threw me for a moment. It may seem dumb, but I'm a stickler for reading instructions before installing even simple things. Very much enjoyed seeing this article, since I bought this board for my wife to use for lite gaming.
  • Dug - Tuesday, December 8, 2020 - link

    For the love of everything motherboards, please go back to or start testing the components on the motherboard. Wifi, ethernet, sound, memory, storage of m.2 front and back, sata, bluetooth, USB. These are the things that make or break a consumer buying a motherboard.

    All the testing you do, just says it runs some benchmarks. That's great, but unless a motherboard fails (I haven't seen a review yet that a motherboard fails to run your tests), then it's not really helping us.
    How about clearance for popular heatsinks.

    And why do you insist on measuring non uefi boot times? It's a waste of your time and everyone else.
  • Gigaplex - Tuesday, December 8, 2020 - link

    Fair comment, I did have some clearance issues with this board for heatsinks. Even the stock Wraith Stealth needed the plastic shroud to be rotated 90 degrees to fit on this board.
  • Gigaplex - Tuesday, December 8, 2020 - link

    This is a weird time to post a review like this for this board. It has been out for a while, and has been solid for most of that time. However with the Zen 3 enablement BIOSes, there's been a lot of issues.
  • 6YearsLater - Tuesday, December 8, 2020 - link

    Why didn't anandtech do graphis card reviews?
  • biatch0 - Wednesday, December 9, 2020 - link

    I recently got this exact board and am happy with it overall - other than the Bluetooth requiring a complete power off and disconnect from PSU in order to work regularly... but apparently that's a B550 issue?
  • Grabo - Wednesday, December 9, 2020 - link

    That may indeed be the case, am reading about the same issue for several brand B550 boards now. Back when I got this board in the summer I only found references to it. But yes, there was the unplug psu and replug advice then too, which does always work, but it isn't very handy when the psu is built into the chassis (nr200)..so I got an aptx usb bt adapter which always shows up. Software wise one just needs to handle the ax200 bt when it does randomly decide to show up (which it does sometimes, even if you don't unplug the psu).
  • Gigaplex - Wednesday, December 9, 2020 - link

    I'm not sure how that would be a B550 issue, as the Bluetooth module is an add-in card.
  • Questor - Wednesday, December 9, 2020 - link

    "The end decision could come down to performance, memory compatibility, and other aspects such as power delivery, rear panel I/O connectivity, which all three models include respectable offerings..."

    Not so much. There is only so much one can expect (as the article states) with mini-ITX boards. The one thing they had to do? A USB C front panel header. They failed. H

    Had this board in cart and was about to hit the, "send it to me yesterday" button when something made me pause. A quick doublecheck and sure enough, no front panel USB C connection. Less bling and more substance please. Fan headers and accessory connections = good. Flashing lights = police stop. No thanks.
  • jeremyshaw - Wednesday, December 9, 2020 - link

    Yeah, every B550 ITX board has one problem or another. MSI has their custom backplate. ASRock has never heard of SPDIF and are allergic to including enough USB ports on their AMD boards. ASUS has serious hate for USB ports (4 USB-A!?) along with nixing the SPDIF port. Gigabyte still pretends USB-C headers are an exclusive Intel feature.

    Most of these problems magically disappear when these vendors make Intel ITX boards.
  • Questor - Thursday, December 10, 2020 - link

    Amazing how that just magically happens.

    I was reminded by another here there are USB A to C connectors one can buy. So that is less of a deal breaker to me now. It still depends on the position of the USB A connection since it was not purposely placed as a front connection. Cable length matters.
  • mkarwin - Tuesday, December 15, 2020 - link

    Or when they do AMD ATX ones ;)
  • Silver5urfer - Thursday, December 10, 2020 - link

    AT even 6900XT Is out Where are your Architecture reviews ? FFS. We got that stupid M1 BGA trash review deep dive and saying x86 is fucking dead. But where are the reviews of the Nvidia and AMD graphics cards this time AMD got Nvidia in Raster technology but we need the technical details.

    Really horrible.
  • Gigaplex - Thursday, December 10, 2020 - link

    Calling the M1 "trash" is flat out fanboy bias. It's an interesting chip and performs well. AnandTech covers all areas of tech, not just gaming on Windows.
  • Silver5urfer - Thursday, December 10, 2020 - link

    BGA Trash son. Its called BGA trash for a reason, if you love soldered HW enjoy that irreparable garbage, and forget even upgrading RAM, SSD, everything soldered and gated by "custom blackbox security chip". M1 is first product on the translation and ARM based Mac it is garbage and will be garbage, so unless they can catch up and beat Intel and AMD at SMT it's of no use.

    AT HW is majority for Linux and Windows. Macs ? Do AT review macbooks ? Nope. This is their first. Because of that obsession of showing Apple in glowing light.

    10% marketshare product is Mac OS, same sales value for Apple as well, so yeah trash.
  • Gigaplex - Thursday, December 10, 2020 - link

    Pretty much every single Intel laptop is soldered on, too. The M1 architecture doesn't mandate BGA soldering. It's the portable form factor that does. You can't call the architecture garbage just because of a form factor you're not interested in.

    And yes, AT does feature Apple products. There's plenty of Macbook articles and reviews. Now you're just being ignorant. There's a whole section for Apple.

    https://www.anandtech.com/tag/apple
  • Avalon - Friday, December 11, 2020 - link

    I've got the non-ITX version of this board, and it's fantastic.
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  • Ronzino - Sunday, January 24, 2021 - link

    This mobo is more than wonderful just because it offer two pcie slots,simply buying an adaptor from m2 to pcie16x(4x electrical), you can use the back m2 slot as an addition slot. It is exactly what I was looking for... Mini itx with 2 pcie slots.
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  • Samuel Vimes - Saturday, March 13, 2021 - link

    In mini-ITX format, the MPG B550I GAMING EDGE WIFI is IMHO the better choice because of its M.2 active cooling (when we know PCIe Gen4 SSD tend to heat-throttle). It's PWM regulated so its temp-speed curve can be adjusted (or switched off) so it's all bonus, and in a cramp mini-ITX build (not a test bench), the active Gen4 cooling will make a difference.
  • Flying Aardvark - Wednesday, April 14, 2021 - link

    Samuel Vimes that is a valid point. That said, I always prefer fanless boards. It's not really "help" to add a fan.. you can add any (industry standard) fan you'd like to anything. No reason for vendors to help us with that, which is often a difficult to source and replace proprietary fan. At minimum they need to advertise they're using a standard 40mm fan so you can drop in a Noctua or whatever you like instead. I use an Asus X470-i but my favorite board on the market today is this Gigabyte B550i. Both of the Asus 500 series boards have fans on them, but they're used on the VRM directly not the M.2 so it's even worse than what MSI did.
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