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4000-series APU support is a given for B550. I've been looking at this board for my upcoming HTPC build, but the power phases (and tiny VRM heatsink) has me wary of it - I won't be touching CPU clocks for that APU, but I'll definitely be looking at pushing the iGPU as far as it's willing to go, and those VRMs combined with that toothpick-sized heatsink probably won't be a good choice for that. IMO $130 sounds too high for a relatively stripped-down board like this - only one m.2, cheap VRM, terrible heatsink, no front USB-C, cheap audio codec, and the most stripped-down rear I/O I've seen in a while. Not to mention a relatively poor layout. I don't think this is worth $130. It would be great at $100. It's good that we get budget ITX options, but they should at least then be priced reasonably. If the Gigabyte B550I Aorus is the rumored $179, you'd be paying $49 over this for an extra m.2 slot, two much better heatsinks, far superior power stages, 2.5GbE, WiFi 6, even dual HDMI ... that's a bargain in comparison!

<blockquote data-quote="Valantar" data-source="post: 204227" data-attributes="member: 5738">4000-series APU support is a given for B550. I've been looking at this board for my upcoming HTPC build, but the power phases (and tiny VRM heatsink) has me wary of it - I won't be touching CPU clocks for that APU, but I'll definitely be looking at pushing the iGPU as far as it's willing to go, and those VRMs combined with that toothpick-sized heatsink probably won't be a good choice for that. IMO $130 sounds too high for a relatively stripped-down board like this - only one m.2, cheap VRM, terrible heatsink, no front USB-C, cheap audio codec, and the most stripped-down rear I/O I've seen in a while. Not to mention a relatively poor layout. I don't think this is worth $130. It would be great at $100. It's good that we get budget ITX options, but they should at least then be priced reasonably. If the Gigabyte B550I Aorus is the rumored $179, you'd be paying $49 over this for an extra m.2 slot, two much better heatsinks, far superior power stages, 2.5GbE, WiFi 6, even dual HDMI ... that's a bargain in comparison!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Valantar, post: 204227, member: 5738"] 4000-series APU support is a given for B550. I've been looking at this board for my upcoming HTPC build, but the power phases (and [I]tiny[/I] VRM heatsink) has me wary of it - I won't be touching CPU clocks for that APU, but I'll definitely be looking at pushing the iGPU as far as it's willing to go, and those VRMs combined with that toothpick-sized heatsink probably won't be a good choice for that. IMO $130 sounds too high for a relatively stripped-down board like this - only one m.2, cheap VRM, terrible heatsink, no front USB-C, cheap audio codec, and the most stripped-down rear I/O I've seen in a while. Not to mention a relatively poor layout. I don't think this is worth $130. It would be great at $100. It's good that we get budget ITX options, but they should at least then be priced reasonably. If the Gigabyte B550I Aorus is the rumored $179, you'd be paying $49 over this for an extra m.2 slot, two much better heatsinks, far superior power stages, 2.5GbE, WiFi 6, even dual HDMI ... that's a bargain in comparison! [/QUOTE]

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