Any user who wants to buy a processor Ryzen 3000 meets the pitfall of motherboards. If you have a view to the future you will have to opt for X570 to get PCIe 4.0, if you are looking for something cheap or with a good price / feature ratio you are forced to opt for B450 or lower, knowing that your processor will not be able to get PCIe 4.0 on the ports of rigor.
Therefore, B550A as a chipset was being highly anticipated by users, but the jug of cold water arrived when its existence was confirmed exclusively for OEMs.
AMD may not provide chipsets such as the B550A for consumption
The ASRock B550AM It has been the first motherboard seen with great detail, where they have confirmed with it the existence of support for PCIe 4.0, essential for the future. In addition, it has a large number of VRM phases, something strange for an OEM, since as a rule this type of products is not intended for overclocking, which has raised doubts, some as we will see reasonable.
Apparently, plate manufacturers are supplying their models and OEMs are in some cases selling them under their own name, in others they keep the name and simply include them in their prefabricated equipment.
The problem is that it is not really clear that this type of plates is using B550 as such, but it could be a B450 highlighted in some models, which would maintain the support for PCIe 4.0, which desktops cannot offer by AMD order.
B450 highlighted and enabled PCIe 4.0?
In case this was not enough, since Gamer Nexus It is claimed that this board is the same that was leaked 4 months ago and that it is being included in PC Cyberpower brand equipment, sold for example at Best Buy.
In addition, as confirmed by the chipset and chipset is a copy of the B450 renamed 47B2, where the most striking is that the chipset has no capacity to support PCIe 4.0. So what's going on?
Apparently, this is a series of chips and chipsets highlighted as B550A that are really B450 unlocked by UEFI to support PCIe 4.0 in the first PCIe X16 slot and also offer 4 PCIe 4.0 lines for an NVMe M.2 SSD.
Logically, after the controversy that arose after the denial of the feature to all users who could opt to enable PCIe 4.0 on their B450 boards, this AMD play may not feel good to the community.
