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🎮 ASRock B550 Phantom Gaming-ITX/AX: High-Performance Motherboard for 3rd Gen AMD AM4 Ryzen and Future Ryzen Processors Review

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BrandASRock
CPU SocketSocket AM4
RAM Memory TechnologyDDR4
Memory Speed2400 MHz
PlatformWindows 10
SeriesB550 PHANTOM GAMING-ITX/AX
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Description of 🎮 ASRock B550 Phantom Gaming-ITX/AX: High-Performance Motherboard for 3rd Gen AMD AM4 Ryzen and Future Ryzen Processors

Supports 3rd Gen AMD AM4 Ryzen / Future AMD Ryzen Processors. 8 Power Phase Design, Digi Power, 90A Dr.MOS. Supports DDR4 5400+ (OC). Graphics Output Options: HDMI, DisplayPort. 7.1 CH HD Audio (Realtek ALC1220 Audio Codec), Nahimic Audio

Reviews

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Revainrating 5 out of 5

A wonderful product, its nice to use.

I took it to the dns, while everything is working, after 2 defective boards from the gigobut - true bliss. Planks - wipers for 3733, took hmp, set the voltage to infinity factories, set it on the bars, set it to 1.325 percent, in osst 45 minutes without errors, frequencies are not discarded, everything is fine! The wireless modules have not fallen off yet, the bios has been ated to 22022, in case of bluetooth failure, I just unscrew the vrm plug, pull out the wireless module, wipe the contacts…

Pros
  • Works!
Cons
  • The price tag is at least 14k, not the best radiators (and per m2 too), the BPM heats up within the normal range, but still, 60-70 degrees. Build quality, I wish the i/o shield could not be washed with a finger.

Revainrating 4 out of 5

I like the product, the quality did not disappoint.

Wireless adapter issue gone after bios ate With its pros. At the time of release, perhaps the best am4 itx board. Two m.2, both with a theoretical possibility to put a ssd with a heatsink. I perfectly overclocked the memory on it (but here we must rather pay tribute to 4750g) Has some cons The wi-fi Bluetooth adapter is simply cut down. Ceases to be determined until a full reboot with a power outage. To replace the wifi adapter, you need to remove the heatsink. The menu for "overclocking" the…

Revainrating 1 out of 5

Solid board on computer components

I had good experience with AsRock on X99 with their Extreme4 board, so I thought I would choose AsRock this time too. The only thing that let me down about this board is the RGB software, it's not that good with mediocre lighting effects and isn't connected to anything else in my system than it would be with Asus Aura, I don't regret not having the STRIX board for that to have bought specific reason. Otherwise, as other reviewers have said, this board is a great option. Wi-Fi is good, it has a…

Pros
  • Something above
Cons
  • Minor issues

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Two dead MOBOS for motherboards

1st death in less than 6 months, RMA received. As a replacement, I did a rebuild around the new APU 5700G. The board I received last week on 8/1/2021 came with the original bios, luckily it had a different APU and updated bios and the board wouldn't boot after that. I've built a lot of PCs over the last 10 years so I'm pretty sure I did it right, but now the new APU and the OLD APU aren't working. I usually buy Asrock because I got a good price, but after that I ended up. Previous generations…

Pros
  • Useful not only for its intended purpose
Cons
  • Low maintainability

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Excellent B550 ITX motherboard with some notable issues.

I bought this motherboard to assemble with the NZXT H1 case. Here are the pros and cons. Pros: - The front USB-C connector is full-speed Gen2 (10Gbps), while competing motherboards use cheaper half-speed Gen1 connectors. - The audio driver on ASRock website is Realtek Universal Audio Driver (UAD). the terrible Realtek HD Audio (HDA) driver. In combination with the high-quality Realtek 1220 audio chip, this means excellent sound quality. Excellent WiFi and Bluetooth support with BT 5.0 and…

Pros
  • cool product
Cons
  • something different

Revainrating 3 out of 5

Good specs but firmware issues

Overall this motherboard performs quite well. It has some nice modern features like onboard Wi-Fi 6, USBC compatible front panel connectivity, PCIE GEN4 x16, PCIE GEN4 M.2 (NVME), fan profiles, support for high-performance RAM speeds, overclocking, etc. all in the ITX -Housing. Most of these (and other) features work fairly well. My biggest motherboard problem has to do with the EFI boot manager. It "forgets" its boot records periodically. This is not uncommon on motherboards, as Rod Smith…

Pros
  • Not cheap but decent
Cons
  • Nothing

Revainrating 4 out of 5

Reliable mITX board with the features I need!

I will be brief in my review and answer a few questions. My board came with UEFI version 1.10 which does not support Ryzen 5000 series processors. I downloaded ASRock's 1.80 update to a flash drive, plugged it in, booted into UEFI, flashed the firmware, rebooted the system and installed Windows with no problems. The full flashing took no more than 5 minutes, but be aware that you may need a backup system to boot the updated UEFI file onto a flash drive, so for those who don't prepare it won't…

Pros
  • New
Cons
  • Security

I consider this board to be the best in the Mini-ITX form factor from those released on the B550 chipset. The B550 itself is only slightly worse than the X570 (less USB and SATA, no PCIe 4.0 support for the chipset). But at the same time, its memory support is on average better than that of the X570. If you do not take into account small overlays with drivers, then it can be safely recommended for installation in compact cases.

Pros
  • 1. High-quality electrical circuit system - 8 full-fledged power phases are suitable even for a 16-core 3950X. With my cold 3600, the VRM temperature does not exceed 50º. 2. Fast memory support is better than many X570 boards. 3. Latest generation audio codec ALC1220 (sound quality is excellent) and WiFi 6. 4. As many as two M.2 connectors (front under a metal casing for PCIe 4.0, rear only for PCIe 3.0)
Cons
  • 1. Big problem with drivers. After installation, WiFi or Ethernet did not work. Win10 does not by default include drivers for the new I225V network controller that is used on this board. I decided by downloading the Bluetooth drivers to another computer and transferring them here. As Bluetooth started working, it became possible to distribute the Internet from the phone. Only then Win10 automatically downloads the drivers for the network controller and normal WiFi and LAN appear.