Asrock B550M Steel Legend Motherboard, Supports 3rd Gen AMD4 Ryzen, PCIe 4.2

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About US Established in 2001, Funky Kit has a global reach of over 2 million visitors each month (and growing) . Delivering lower temperature and higher energy efficiency for overclocking, it's able to support the latest DDR4 memory modules with most extreme memory performance! connectors, one of which is equipped with an armor design to help dissipate heat and maintain optimal performance. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. In summary, the Asrock B550m Steel Legend is an excellent and affordable motherboard option for the 4th generation Ryzen processors.pretty easy to work with, has good RAM - CPU clearance and the variety of connectors are in pretty convenient places, though it doesn't have a USB-C header. The trademark Mr Memory is the exclusive property of Americanino Limited and is protected by UK Trademark Registration No: 2616298. Some of the data that are collected include the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously. However, the lighting is not overly extravagant, with one LED on top of the heatsink fairing and another on the chipset.

If this is your first time upgrading a Hard Drive or SSD, please read our SSD Installation Guides in advance so that you are comfortable with the process before completing your purchase. So with that said, I’m sure that the B550M Steel Legend is already an interesting option for gamers and performance users alike. A cookie set by YouTube to measure bandwidth that determines whether the user gets the new or old player interface. If I had to choose again I would pick the full ATX version of this board ONLY because of more PCIE 3.Delivering lower temperature and higher energy efficiency for overclocking, it’s able to support the latest DDR4 memory modules with most extreme memory performance! While the AORUS version has an additional graphics card slot and more VRM phases, the Steel Legend version is recommended if you prefer a motherboard with more RGB LEDs. For not too much extra with the b550m steel legend, it's future proofed to PCIe gen 4, supports 3rd gen Ryzen and beyond, and has a great feature set, it also looks the part. Moreover, the ASRock B550M Steel Legend is equipped with the AM4 socket, allowing compatibility with both Zen 2 and Zen 3 Ryzen processors. It does lack a front USB-C header, and RGB software cannot directly control individual LEDs through the ARGB headers, which is why I ended up using a separate controller.

I believe it says the version on the board itself near the IO shield but it is not there on the pictures.The ASRock B550M Steel Legend is currently one of the cheapest B550 boards, and it is also one of the best for the ryzen 5000 CPUs, if you want to have a great motherboard for gaming and don’t need to do any enthusiastic tasks, this is your go-to choice.