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BIOSTAR RACING B550GTQ AM4 Motherboard Review

Motherboards/AMD AM4 by stefan @ 2020-09-04

The B550GTQ AM4 board from BIOSTAR is a very interesting affordable and compact offering, which sports a clean design, including reinforced PCI-E slots, enough connectivity ports, passive cooling for the chipset and the ability to install no less than four memory modules. The UEFI interface has been further refined and contains enough options for system tuning as well; as we have noted with other platforms sporting Ryzen 3000 processors, manual overclocking is not really needed, since the CPU will clock itself accordingly depending on the cooling system and other operating factors.

A Closer Look Part III

The RAM slots are all black, for a more subtle design and not color coded:

In the top right corner, it is all about the LED headers -> two 5V headers and one 12V header:

Near the CPU socket, we will also find the CPU_FAN header:

Speaking of the socket, this falls in line with the rest of the boards’ color scheme:

Nearby we will locate the rest of the VRM components, which are not covered by a passive cooling system:

On the back side of the board, we will not find any other notable components, besides the CPU back plate:

As we have seen with other high-end boards before, the I/O shield is a part of the motherboard now; here we will find the following interfaces:

-DVI-D video output

-HDMI and DisplayPort ports

-PS/2 combo port and two USB 2.0

-an USB 3.2 Gen2 Type A port, along with an USB 3.2 Gen2 Type C port

-two USB 3.2 Gen1 ports

-the LAN port coupled with two more USB 3.2 Gen1 ports

-the audio jacks

After assembling the whole test system, the overall result is quite cool!

All RGB lighting can be configured from the BIOS or from the dedicated Windows OS application:

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