Not high positioning, good materials, ASRock B550 PG Riptide motherboard disassembly review

I. Introduction

Each motherboard brand manufacturer has one or more unique labels, which are very real and distinctive. For ASRock, it is generally a demon board, a pile of materials, and a price-performance ratio, and these few words are very expressive, and the summary is quite in place.

The demon board need not be said more, because the demon board has been out of the ancient Hua Qing! Asrock motherboard designers are absolutely brain-opening, usually easy to get on the head, from time to time because of some special, unreasonable needs, directly launch a motherboard. Other people's homes are through accessories to solve the problem, ASRock directly through the design of the motherboard to solve the problem, in addition, ASRock also has a special demon board academy, many of the motherboards in it are very interesting.

Stacking and cost performance this is easy to understand, ASRock's motherboard, in the same positioning, the price range, its motherboard materials, configuration as a whole will be better. In simple terms, it is the same positioning, the material is better than you, the price is cheaper than you; the same price is higher than you, the material is better than you, just like this, simple and rude!

For example, today's ASRock B550 PG Riptide motherboard, positioning the mid-range entry, but the power supply part uses 10 50A DrMos, directly and vigorously out of the miracle, do not talk about Wude!

ASRock B550 PG Riptide motherboard out of the box

▼ The packaging of the motherboard is very traditional, blue and black color, there is a huge motherboard series LOGO in the upper left corner, and the specific model of the motherboard in the lower left corner.

▼ There is a lot of content on the back of the package, which details the information of the motherboard's materials, interfaces, power supply, etc., and many places are beyond the level.

▼ The accessories in the package are OK, in addition to the traditional SATA interface, ASRock's new motherboard is equipped with a graphics card bracket as standard.

▼ It is such a specially designed metal material, it looks very interesting, how to use it, we will see later.

THIRD, ASRock (ASRock) B550 PG Riptide motherboard appearance

▼ The appearance of the motherboard is in line with the positioning of its motherboard, the overall black, the left side of the power supply, the top M2 slot and the south bridge are covered with metal heat sinks, the rest of the part is relatively ordinary. However, the various components on the motherboard look dense and look very high-end.

▼ The power supply on the left side of the motherboard is covered with a large area of metal heat sinks, and the top is also designed with a special shape to increase the contact area with air.

▼ The main M2 interface of the motherboard has heatsink coverage, the main PCIe slot has metal reinforcement wrapping, and the south bridge part also has metal parts covered, which is good.

▼ The CPU auxiliary power supply of the motherboard is designed with 8+4Pin, and the power consumption of this power supply is enough to cope with some of AMD's high-end processors.

▼ There are four pieces of memory, a single one maximum support 32GB capacity, the frequency of up to 4933MHz, but for AMD processors is not very useful.

▼ There are three 4Pin fan sockets on the memory slot, as well as a 5V three-pin lighting interface and a 12V four-pin lighting interface.

▼ The motherboard's 24Pin power outlet has two USB3.2 front sockets underneath, one for the regular and one for type-C.

▼ There is also a USB3.2 front socket interface below, look at this board positioning is not high, but the interface positioning can not be low at all. USB3.2 front socket one vertical and one bedroom, directly to the two, high-end. There are also six SATA3.0 interfaces below, which is more traditional.

▼ The motherboard's near IO interface part also has a 4Pin fan socket, which is well received! The fan socket in this location is very easy to use, and it is very convenient to use the chassis fan directly to the rear of the chassis.

▼ The M2 socket and PCIe socket closest to the processor of the motherboard support PCIe4.0, and the speed is still very fast.

▼ In addition, there are two PCIe slots below, as well as an M2 interface, which supports the M2 solid state of the 22110 specifications up to a maximum.

▼ The interface under the motherboard is also very rich, from left to right, there are audio interface, 12V four-pin lamp socket, 5V three-pin lamp socket, 4Pin fan socket two, USB2.0 socket three.

▼On the right side is the pin of the lightning connector and the Debug indicator of the motherboard. In addition, there is a 4Pin fan socket under the SATA connector.

▼ The IO interface part of the motherboard, the leftmost is the Wifi antenna bracket, followed by the HDMI video interface, USB2.0 interface two, USB3.2 interface 8, one of which is the Type-C interface, two mouse, keyboard custom interface, the right side also has a 2.5G Killer E3100G wired Lan port and audio interface.

▼ The back of the motherboard is relatively empty, only a lone metal backplane, which is used to fix the AMD original radiator bracket.

ASRock B550 PG Riptide motherboard disassembly

▼ According to the convention, the motherboard should be disassembled into the hand.

▼ There are not many metal parts covered on the front of the motherboard, and you can remove all the fixing screws by unscrewing them.

▼ From the side, the volume of metal parts is not small, and there are some designs that increase the area of air contact.

▼ After removing all the metal heatsinks, some of the components on the front of the motherboard are very clear.

▼ The power supply circuit part is very beautiful, there are 8 DrMos on the left side and 2 DrMos on the upper side, and the material is excellent.

▼ There is a PWM main control chip in the upper right corner of the power supply circuit, screen printed UP9505S, which is a dual-channel six-phase PWM controller, which supports 4+2 power phase control at the maximum.

▼ The left power supply part of the motherboard has 8 DrMos, silk screen printing SIC654, which is a DrMos integrated with the upper and lower bridges and the Driver, and the maximum stable output current of 50A per single one is still very powerful. In addition, this DrMos is mainly used in high-end motherboard power supply circuits, compared with the traditional upper and lower bridge power supply, its internal resistance is smaller, the heat is smaller, and the response is better.

▼ In order to allow the four-phase PWM control signal to control eight DrMos chips, ASRock used two phase multiplier chips on the back of the DrMos chip. This chip screen printED UP1911R, here use two, this multiplier chip supports two modes of operation, one is 1 out of 2, the other is 2 out of 4, here it works in the double phase mode of 2 out of 4.

▼ The upper side of the motherboard also has two DrMos, silk screen printing SIC654, and a maximum stable output of 50A.

▼In addition, the inductance of the power supply circuit is also a high-efficiency inductor of 60A, which has a great advantage over ordinary inductors in terms of electrical performance.

▼There is a two-phase peripheral power supply circuit in the lower left corner of the power supply circuit.

▼ Memory power supply part, single phase, up and down bridge design, one up and two down, Mos are N channels, the maximum stable output current 46A, the overall good.

▼ There are two chips next to the USB socket in the front of the chassis, a P13EQX, signal bridging, relay chip, and below is an ASM1543, USB3.2 main control chip.

▼In addition, there is an ASM1074 on the back of the motherboard, which is also a USB main control chip.

▼ The lower right corner of the motherboard is the familiar Southbridge chip, AMD's B550 chip.

▼ There is an HD3SS3415 in the lower right corner of the South Bridge chip, which is a four-channel high-performance differential switch that provides signal differential services to the SATA interface next to it.

▼ There is also a P13EQX behind the USB interface on the back of the motherboard, which is mainly used for bridging and trunking of signals.

▼Then there is the ASM1074 chip, the USB3.0 main control chip, which can be huge below to provide support for many USB3.0 interfaces on the rear of the motherboard.

▼ The sound card chip of the motherboard is the ALC897 of the small crab, next to the physical segmentation part to prevent signal interference.

▼ The lower left corner of the motherboard has a NUC121ZC2, which is an ARM architecture single-chip chip, which is generally used for the lighting effect control of the motherboard.

▼ The motherboard's Bios chip is placed under the main PCIe slot, and the capacity should be 32MB.

▼There is also an HD3SS3415 high-performance differential chip in the middle of the PCIe slot under the motherboard, which is used to provide signal differential services for the two PCIe slots.

▼Then there is a GL850G chip next to it, the main control chip of USB2.0. ASRock here is very conscientious, the ordinary motherboard basically gives two USB2.0 sockets, ASRock here to force three, with some special water cooling, fans and other equipment that needs USB hub control will be very easy to use, no need to buy USB2.0 hubs.

▼There is a huge NCT6796D chip next to the M2 socket, which is used to detect the parameters of the motherboard.

▼ There are two interesting ones in the lower right corner of the motherboard, and on the left is the Debug indicator of the motherboard, which assists in locating faults and is convenient for quick troubleshooting. On the right is a memory chip, used to store some information, look at the sign next to it, it seems to store light control information.

▼ The back of the motherboard looks empty and has no components.

▼ There is also an ASM1543 chip near the back of the IO interface of the motherboard, the main control chip of USB3.2, which provides support for the USB interface on the back of the motherboard.

▼ There is also a Killer's E3100G chip below, which provides support for the 2.5G Lan port.

5. ASRock B550 PG Riptide motherboard installed

▼ The construction of the test platform is still very simple, here the 5900X is installed on the CPU socket.

▼ The memory is ZADAK's SPARK, 8G*2 3600 MHz, the appearance of the memory is still very beautiful. The memory vest features a contrasting design with a black bottom, a silver top, and a multi-segment RGB strip in the middle.

▼ This design is very good, the black part can be matched with the black memory socket of the motherboard.

▼Then stuff the motherboard into the inside of the chassis.

▼ Metal graphics card bracket for accessories that install the motherboard, installed in the lower right corner of the motherboard, is secured by two screws that fix the motherboard.

▼ Install the graphics card, Yingchi's RTX3070Ti Star Yao OC graphics card, the appearance of the graphics card is very beautiful.

▼ The graphics card is installed horizontally normally, and the graphics card can be installed completely horizontally through the support of the motherboard's graphics card bracket.

▼ The graphics card bracket of this motherboard is very good to use, the support effect is very good, the size is very small, and it is usually completely invisible. Structural design, fixing design is very interesting, through the clever combination of screws and metal bending force, the vertical force of the graphics card is converted into a lateral force, and then against the side of the motherboard and the two fixing screws in the lower right corner.

▼ Then install the power supply, Antick's HCG850 gold medal full module power supply. This power supply is very reliable, all-Japan capacitors, 10 years replacement warranty, very good. This year is the 35th anniversary of the Antic brand, and there is no problem in a few more 10 years, and the power supply can be used with confidence.

▼ The length of this power supply is very short, only 14cm, and the compatibility performance is very good.

▼ In addition to the power socket and switch at the tail of the power supply, there is also a fan operation mode selection button, which can be switched between temperature control and silent mode, silent, temperature control, as you control.

▼After the power supply is fixed, plug in the power supply lines of each part.

▼ The chassis is Antec's DF700 Flux, the chassis's power compartment is independently designed, there are openings on the side, you can directly see the side of the power supply, good.

▼ Boot, light up once, the overall effect is still very good.

▼ The front of the Antic DF700 Flux chassis has a large area of metal punching mesh, as well as a special curvature shape, with the internal color ARGB lighting effect of the fan, the overall appearance is very beautiful, a bit of a dreamy feeling.

▼ Water-cooled is the Lingjing 360 of the overclocking three, and the appearance of the water-cooled head is very beautiful, and the luminous area is very large. In addition, this cold head also supports rotation, no matter what the installation situation, can make the overclocking three LOGO level on the cold head, the favorite of obsessive-compulsive disorder patients, haha.

▼ The lighting effect of Zadak SPARK memory is very beautiful, and the top looks like a complete RGB light strip. Next to the overclocking sanling mirror 360 cold head top there is a special light and shadow, I heard that the top cover is made of glass.

▼The side of the memory is a multi-segment RGB light strip, which is very designed.

▼In addition, the south bridge cooling part of ASRock's motherboard also has RGB lighting effects, which looks very delicate. But under normal circumstances, it will be blocked by the graphics card, haha.

ASRock B550 PG Riptide motherboard test

▼ The whole machine configuration at a glance, the processor is 5900X, the motherboard is ASRock's B550 PG Riptide, the graphics card is Yingchi's RTX3070Ti Star Yao OC, and the memory is Zadak's SPARK.

▼ Simple running points, the whole machine score 177W, processor 92W, graphics card 60.7W, the whole machine performance is very powerful.

▼ The processor is still familiar with the 5900X, and it feels particularly cost-effective recently.

▼ Simple run a CPU-Z test, single-threaded 668.6, multi-threaded 9445.4, slightly optimized, the score will be higher.

▼ Run an R23 test, single-core 1592, multi-core 21528, are very powerful!

▼ Memory open XMP can easily run to 3600MHz, 5900X memory controller frequency is easily stable at 1800MHz, no crossover.

▼ Simple run a memory read and write test, read and write at 53000MB/s, latency 61.8ns, the overall performance is good.

▼ Daily standby, air conditioning 26 °C automatic, processor temperature stabilization at about 35 °C, power consumption 63W.

▼ The temperature of the left power supply heatsink of the motherboard when standby is 28.6 ° C, which is measured after half an hour of standby, the temperature is almost nothing, DrMos is cool.

▼ Simple run a CPU-Z pressure test, processor power consumption of 190W (PBO2 has been turned on), full core turbo frequency of about 4.3GHz, processor temperature 77 °C.

▼ The temperature of the left power supply part of the motherboard is 34.6 ° C, and the touch is not hot, and the power supply of the motherboard is very powerful.

▼ Finally, the single-baked FPU test, the processor power consumption is about 210W, the temperature is 90 ° C.

▼ Stable single baking FPU for about 10 minutes, the left side of the motherboard power dissipator temperature up to 41 ° C, still very stable.

▼ Use the temperature gun to retest it, find a location with high temperature, the highest temperature is about 43 ° C, and the temperature of the power supply part of the motherboard is indeed not high.

▼ In addition, the top two DrMos on the motherboard are the SOC power supply of the processor, the power consumption is not high, and the surface temperature of DrMos is up to about 47 ° C. If you have a small partner with obsessive-compulsive disorder, you can paste two metal sheets on it, and the temperature will be much lower.

7. Summary

ASRock this B550 PG Riptide motherboard is still very good, although the positioning is not high, the price is not high, but the overall experience of the motherboard is very good, the material is very good, the details of the design is in place, the restoration is equipped with a motherboard graphics card bracket This is a very magical, very good accessory. If you want to buy a B550 motherboard, and it is an ATX large board, this board is still very worth buying.

The power supply part of the motherboard is used for great, 50A DrMos, directly to 10 pieces, Vcore with 8 pieces, SOC with 2 pieces. The specifications of this power supply circuit are comparable to the power supply materials used in many other brands of mid-range and even high-end boards. With 5900X measured temperature is no problem, open PBO2, single baked FPU, power consumption of 210W, about 10 minutes of the left side of the motherboard power supply temperature is more than 40 ° C, no problem.

In addition, in some details, this board of ASRock is doing a great job. For example, it has 7 4Pin fan-powered sockets; three chassis front USB3.2 sockets, one of which is also a Type-C interface; four lighting sockets, three pins, two each of the four pins; three USB2.0 sockets, which are also equipped with plastic covers; and an M2 Wifi socket, which is convenient for installing Wifi wireless cards. This kind of extended socket, ASRock this board is very sufficient, daily installation opportunities are very convenient.

HUAQing has been a demon since ancient times, and there is nothing wrong with this. But in addition to the big demon board, there are also some small demon boards, such as today's board.

Thank you!

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