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amazon Gigabyte B550I AORUS PRO AX reviews
The B550I AORUS PRO AX board has a similar appearance to the huge heatsink blocks. This time the board for the Red team has been stripped of the copper color and made more silver to make a difference. The size of the B550I AORUS PRO AX is 17cmx17cm, a standard size for users who want to build a small Small Form Factor rig, but don’t underestimate the power of this board.
The first is the motherboard’s power with 8 Phases Direct Power 90A Smart Power Stage that helps bring significant power to the B550I AORUS PRO AX with 3rd Gen Ryzen CPUs from AMD. In addition, when possessing high power, the temperature will also be very high. To solve these problems, GIGABYTE uses an advanced heatsink design with an aluminum backplate, layered VRM heatsink, and especially a circuit board. 2x PCB printing are all designs that give users better overclocking, better performance utilization, and better heat dissipation. The board supports Smart Fan 5 with five temperature sensors and three hybrid fan power ports supporting the water cooler’s PWM and Voltage mode fans.
Not only powerful, but the B550I AORUS PRO AX board also supports the super-fast M.2 NVMe PCIe 4.0/3.0 x4 SSD standard and is also equipped with a heatsink block. Not only one, but GIGABYTE also cleverly equip a second SSD slot on the back, increasing good storage capacity for users. In particular, the B550I AORUS PRO AX board also has a protective back cover with a cooling effect.
Besides SSD, GIGABYTE also equips B550I AORUS PRO AX with two DDR4 XMP RAM slots with the bus up to 5300 MHz+. The board also has a PCIe 4.0 x16 slot. This RAM and PCIe slot is protected with a super durable design from GIGABYTE with Ultra Durable armor layers to prevent bending, breaking, and better heat dissipation.
Regarding connectivity, despite being a Mini-ITX board, GIGABYTE is still equipped with 2.5GbE Ethernet ports, WiFi 6 802.11ax 2T2R, Bluetooth 5 support, USB 3.2 Gen2 Type-C port, DisplayPort, and HDMI support dual.