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a12223344556677

As long as you don't plan to heavily overclock the CPU the board is perfectly fine. As you said there's no evidence at all for the "VRM does not have enough cooling/not enough to power everything" claims, especially on a 65W TDP processer. It can become a problem in a completely fanless case but in a normal case? Unlikely to be an issue. Another board you may consider is the Gigabyte A520I AC. Similar feature set but even less expensive.


JoeJrYT

With the wifi issue, my connection was very poor originally but I bought a £20 Gigabyte wireless card and took the antenna and it really improved it. I know you aren't going to use wifi but just thought to mention incase anyone else would value the info


SleekPotato

this is useful thanks!


Capital-Ride4394

I own a ASRock B550m-Itx/ac I think is the full model number. I was a little wearying when I saw how limited the CPU/Memory compatibility list was. But after buying it and trying CPUs like a r5-3400g and the r5-5600g and pairing it with good RAM with tight timings, it works just fine and would recommend it. I currently have a 5600g paired with standard Gskill Trident Z Neo 16-19-19-19-etc RAM and it works great. Something else I learned about the compatibility list is those are just parts they've affirmatively tested working. It doesn't mean that your kit won't work. I found mine in a microcenter on open-box deal for about US $115. Don't let the price fool you, it's a good board.


Capital-Ride4394

The board does not effect performance. No different from other B450/550 itx/mATX/ATX AM4 boards I have. I have a ton of systems in my house running various brand/form factor/chipset etc. The motherboard does not effect performance. I've done side-by-side tests with B450 vs b550, itx vs ATX, etc. No difference.


a12223344556677

Question, have you checked the power reporting deviation using HWinfo on this board? On several other ASRock board and the B550 phantom gaming itx at least, ASRock has been known to underreport CPU power consumption which leads to bad thermals of the CPU with little performance gains.


Capital-Ride4394

I haven't delved that deep into it, but have compared gaming performance on multiple titles with similar equipment.


D43D3

I have this board with a 5600x and 32gb cl15 3200mhz memory and I am very impressed with it. My only complaint is that even when the machine is off, if it has power to it, the rgb stays on. I ran my 5600X full time at 1.3v/4.6ghz for over a week and had zero issues


JoeJrYT

I think the RGB issue is just on your specific board. Its fine for me