ASUS TUF B550M-Plus WiFi Review

CPU and VRM Temperatures

Although our overclocking efforts always try and push the CPU to its absolute thermal limits and thus this graph isn’t all that useful as far as the overclocking results are concerned, it does at least demonstrate how efficient the motherboard is and the kind of heat generated you can expect. When we’re limited by the abilities of the CPU itself it also shows how much/little voltage is needed to hit our silicon limits, and of course whether VRM temperatures are a factor. We did use an infrared thermal probe on the board and the VRM area was not hot at all, it really annoys us when we cant shout about things like temps because they have to our eyes been purposely hidden, even their own software didnt show it and there was no visable VRM option in the BIOS either (the Strix E did)