Gigabyte B550 Aorus Master Preview

PCI Express Layout

The PCI Express layour is the difference between a lot of the B550 boards. Other than the more visible component specification, VRM quality is going to be how the manufacturers decide to use the PCI Express lanes available between the CPU and the chipset. We have already done a preview on the Aorus Pro Motherboard and the difference between the two boards and how they use the lanes specifically for storage purposes is significant.

The Master’s M.2 storage lanes are all PCIe 4.0 which sounds brilliant but it does come with a slight drawback. While the top M.2 is wired directly to the CPU the second and third slots share bandwidth with the PCIe (GPU) connector, so if you use those slots the GPU will run at 8x.

Either way the Master gives you plenty of high speed storage options, but you do just have to consider the impact this may have on the rest of your system. We are now sat here trying to work out how we can actually try and test this to get some usable data to show you! 

  

  

 

Video

If you like the look of the master and are amazed by the mental 16 Phase VRM’s then treat your nerd pr0n loving eyes to our video and dont forget you can have a chinwag about the Gigabyte B550 Aorus Master Preview on the OC3D Forums.