These are all listed from left to right below. There is no port sharing with M.2 sockets.Īcross the bottom of the boards are several headers and a switch. Just below the SATA ports a front-panel USB 3.2 Gen1 header. On the far right edge of the board past the pushpin-attached chipset heatsink are four SATA ports. The bottom slot supports up to PCIe 3.0 x4 devices only and does not have a heatsink on it. The top socket supports both PCIe- and SATA-based modules up to 80mm in length and runs up to PCIe 4.0 x4. Just above the full-length PCIe slot is the first of two M.2 sockets. Since there is only one full-length slot, multi-GPU support isn’t even a consideration here. One is full-length, CPU-fed x16 lanes and uses slot reinforcement while the other two are x1 size with bandwidth fed from the chipset. In the middle, there are a total of three PCIe slots. This isn’t the best audio solution we’ve seen, but again, par for the course on the budget end and sufficient for most users. Sliding down to the bottom half of the board, on the left side is a fully exposed audio section showing off the mid-range Realtek ALC892 codec, along with four Chemicon brand audio caps. Below this is the 24-pin ATX power connector, SYS_FAN2 header and finally, a front-panel USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-C header. This is a great value add, especially on motherboards that do not have the 2-character debug display. If there is a problem with one of those steps, an LED stays lit identifying the problem area. During the POST process, these LEDs light up and turn off as it successfully passes each phase (CPU, DRAM, VGA, Boot). Just below the system fan header is a debugging section with 4 LEDs. I'll be using the Ryzen 5 1600X processor and ASRock X370 Killer SLI AC motherboard for this review to test the performance potential of AMD's more cost effective chips that aim to offer Core i7 level performance for the price of a Core i5 chip. Hiding in the same area is the first (of four) RGB headers, in this case a 3-pin ARGB. Today, we I'll be taking a look at the Ryzen 5 mainstream chip, a 6 core and 12 thread processor. In the top-right corner, we spy two more fan headers, the PUMP header and SYS_FAN1 header. On the right edge of the board, there’s a lot going on. We were able to set our four sticks (32GB total) at DDR4 3600 MHz without issue during testing. As always, your mileage may vary depending on the RAM and CPU used. The four DIMM slots support up to 128GB of DDR4 RAM at speeds up to DDR4 4400 MHz (OC). There’s plenty of power available here to connect fans and pumps. Outputs on the System fan headers are 1A/12W, 2A/12W on the CPU header, and 3A/36W on the PUMP_FAN1 header. All ports support both PWM and DC modes for speed adjustment via the BIOS. To the right on top is the first (of five) four-pin fan headers.
Below is a list of what’s included, along with the board. Like the Gigabyte board, the MSI B550M Pro-VDH Wi-Fi box didn’t come with a lot of accessories, but enough to get going. (4) SATA3 6 Gbps, * Supports RAID0, 1 and 10 (1) PCIe 4.0 x4 / SATA + PCIe (up to 80mm), (1) PCIe 3.0 x4 / PCIe Only (up to 80mm), *NVMe supports RAID0, 1
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