From a submit by ASUS’s Technical Product Marketing Manager (u/ASUSTechMKTJJ) on Reddit, ASUS seems to be to be readying up a brand new B550 motherboard primarily based on its ProArt collection. The ASUS ProArt collection primarily goals to supply to creators, and its new ProArt B550-Creator is the primary AMD AM4 motherboard to profit from Intel’s up to date Thunderbolt Four controller. Also included are an marketed 12+2 section energy supply and twin 2.5 GbE networking.
Similar to earlier iterations of its ProArt motherboard, such because the ASUS ProArt Z490-Creator 10G, it follows a simplistic design with straight traces supplied by a pair of rectangular M.2 and an L-shaped energy supply heatsink. Keeping consistent with its fundamental theme, it omits any built-in RGB LED lighting. ASUS advertises the B550-Creator as together with a 12+2 section energy supply with teamed energy levels, with an 8-pin and 4-pin 12 V ATX CPU energy enter pairing offering energy to the processor.
Currently, ASUS hasn’t revealed detailed specs, however we are able to see that the ProArt B550-Creator consists of three full-length PCIe slots, with the highest probably conforming to PCIe Gen4 with the underside slot likely pushed by the B550 chipset. It consists of two PCIe 3.zero x1 slots, with 4 SATA ports for storage, with probably two PCIe M.2 slots because of the location and size of the pair of M.2 heatsinks featured on the board. It consists of 4 reminiscence slots with as much as 128 GB of capability, however ASUS hasn’t supplied data on supported speeds.
Much of the fanfare surrounding this announcement is the inclusion of Intel’s newest Thunderbolt Four controller, which seems to be to be the primary time it has been applied on an AM4 mannequin. This is current on the rear panel of the ProArt B550-Creator with two Thunderbolt 4 Type-C ports, a single DisplayPort enter, 4 USB 3.2 G2 Type-A, and two USB 2.zero ports. Also current on the rear panel is a pair of two.5 GbE ports which ASUS hasn’t specified which controller it is utilizing, with a PS/2 combo port, one HDMI video output, and a small BIOS Flashback button. Finishing off the rear panel is 5 3.5 mm audio jacks and single S/PDIF optical output, which is powered by a Realtek ALC1220A HD audio codec.
The ASUS ProArt B550-Creator motherboard is predicted to be launched someday in April with an anticipated MSRP of $299.
