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compared to x4 70 and we're looking at still a really wide feature set as well as the ability to overclock so JJ just a quick high-level any updates for B 450 we should know about and then also maybe the three series's of motherboards that we have here in front of us oh nothing super specific I mean for most intensive purposes before 50 is gonna be pretty similar to be 350 in terms of kind of all the kind of key i/o spec and kind of a layout and support that you noted ddr4 support is gonna be a little bit different in terms of maximum frequency that's officially supported compared to expore 70 you get a little higher yeah well no as far as just a baseline frequency x47 yeah you're correct in terms that it's officially quote-unquote 2900 speeds here's a little bit lower its 2600 speeds okay but overclocking support actually all these ports for DRAM is more in that kind of 3000 ish range so it's pretty much par for the course so all the way around probably the biggest difference that probably to keep in mind is gonna be on the IO spec and some of the storage and we can get into that when we jump in the boards cool alright and then from Asus we have three primary motherboard lineups they have the main stream represented by the prime B 450 plus right here we've got the tough gaming series that's represented by the B 450 M Plus which is a micro ATX board and then we've got the highest end in this series which would be the RO strict ROG strict series of words this is the B 450 - F gaming where should we start let's go ahead and take a look at the prime right now other words we're talking about today are already available for sale they launched earlier this week so the prime be 450 - plus is up on new egg I believe it's also available on Amazon 110 dollars this motherboard that's that's quite reasonable yeah and I think that's the whole point you know be 450 chips that it's the mid-range series chipset the whole point is to try to really give a good balance in terms of kind of the core specifications so if you want things like USB 3.1 gen2 or Gen 1 you still want type C connectivity you want em to support still full performance for PCIe gen3 all those kind of key specs you're gonna want when you're building a system are still are gonna be present here the cool part is of course still with before 50s you have overclocking support for the CPU and for the DRAM now with the prime series board this is really I'd say more about kind of turnkey experience it's probably not gonna be free uses the one that jumped straight into kind of overclocking you know 2700 X on this board right there really probably looking to take advantage of the great in box coolers that the CPU is already come with you know the Wraith series actually are quite solid they do provide a very competent and experience in terms of really maximizing the xfr performance as well as the precision boost which if you guys don't know those are now formally a hundred percent baked in for second gen rise in MP 450 where it wasn't necessarily 100% fully supported on be 350 hmm and that was kind of one of the benefits of going from X 370 X 470 was kind of full support for this latest generation of kind of how Aimee's fine-tune some of the turbo technologies but if we jump into the board perspective I'm right off the bat I really like the monochromatic color aesthetic it's clean it's simple it's gonna work with any type of bill you don't have to worry about continuing competing with colors this board does add in from previous generations issues or a sink support so if you drop in you know compatible memory like here we've got this t force Delta R you know of course it may be a strict series graphics card any of those type of items you're good to go but plus you can connect your standard stuff like fans LED strips tasks with LED lighting anything like that and some people also wonder about what happens if you only have one header you can get splitters now you can get them from new egg and Amazon they're cheap they're generally in the range of like about like 7 to 10 bucks and you can go usually from one two three or four additional headers so it's a really easy way that if you want to have more RGB connected devices you can do that very simply let's the sync control boxes that allows you to take an input from the motherboard under the control box the under splits it out to let you control multiple things yeah so that's a very streamlined so from there beyond the monochromatic color stetic you've got all the standard kind of eye that you're looking for you got six SATA ports you still have a full performance MDOT to slot that fully supports PCI gen3 with nvme support so whatever type of MDOT you drive you want to pop in there you're good to go and now this one doesn't have a heatsink but we still do kind of focus on thermal isolation so it's not directly underneath that physical by sixteen primary slot above it so we don't have to worry as much of from heat pooling right that we would have from our graphics card and you also still even get our upgraded isolated audio design now the software package isn't gonna be as extensive as what we're gonna see on the tough gaming and definitely not on the strict series yeah but you still get a solid audio codec this is a the eight eight seven as compared to on the higher end boards we're going to the twelve twenty like on the Strix so there will be some improvement there but overall I think a really solid board you know that's gonna give you a very turnkey experience if you want to drop in something like you know rise in five rise in three I think it's a perfect choice and for ap use which you noted earlier on - you do have a full hdmi 2.0 certified port on there and you're good to go and last but not least i would probably say is on the drm side the board does support up to 3200 speeds and it will support our DCP memory profiling options so that essentially just means that like if you want to automatically apply the frequency voltage and timings for your X and T enabled kit just go into the UEFI click that option it will load that profile for you and you're good to go it's a very simple process to do and also ap user great sort of upgrade path if you don't have quite as enough cash to buy a discreet graphics card right now and inexpensive motherboard an APU will give you the ability to play games right now especially for just gaming at 1080 and all these boards have video outs in order to handle it yeah and actually I didn't want to last on one thing one other update that we have for this generation the mid-range was just nice is that we did being bring over the fan expert for mapping technologies so very shortly essentially what that really means is that mostly on previous gen boards the fan headers were always responding to the CPU temperature but now you do have GPU temperature sensing points so that if you want let's say your intake fans to respond to the graphics card temperature you can set that up within the fan expert software nice that's a really cool feature all right let's move on next we got the tough gaming series and just to point out you guys there are more motherboards in each of these lineups than what we're going over today so these are just kind of representatives of the overall line this is a micro ATX motherboard currently on sale for $100 it is also available in a full-size ATX version as well the tough B 450 plus gaming on that one's currently following 420 dollars and said not not a whole lot of difference between the two besides the size yeah exactly if you're just looking for that ATX form factor and the benefits that it provides or maybe just the aesthetic perspective from it you pretty much shift over to the non end version and like I said it's a little bit more but you can of course that a little bit more expansion you would usually get with an ATX series ma avoiding now just as kind of quick recap most you may not necessarily be familiar yet with tough gaming it's still actually pretty new from us this kind of replaces a previous pro gaming line that we might have had in our entry series segment so from Asus if you're kind of looking for our quote-unquote true gaming series board so boards that are designed from an aesthetic perspective software perspective potential heart respect then you're gonna be taking a look at tough gaming is our entry level really designed kind of for first-time builders then we move into our Strix line and then for kind of the users that are really the kind of the dive in will enthusiasts the most passionate users people will want the absolute best we have formal ROG but there is no ROG series motherboards for p450 they're essentially limiting it up to the top align which will be this fixed before 50 - eff uhm so tough gaming though I think once again has a clean nice stylized aesthetic that's of course a bit more game or s compared to what you have at the prime and still predominately neutral we do have a couple of things that are here highlighting some of that color tone that we have kind of selected for the tough gaming line which is it's sort of a nice alternative from the RGB thing I think ya be like um and one thing that we've kind of worked on very heavily is that for this kind of segment because RGB tends to be a little bit more expensive in terms of kind of the overall accessories and ecosystem up parts is that we have created something that we call the tough gaming Alliance and so we've worked with a wide range of partners you know from Coolermaster to a team group with here you see an example over the tough gaming Alliance memory that we have that kind of designed to match with this memory there's a compatible fans there's coolers there's a lot of different items so that if you want to kind of build something that looks aesthetically complementary it's all tough branded you can do that but when you take a look at the board itself you can still see it's predominately monochrome it does have aura sync support so that if you still do want to add something in terms of the header just like we had on the prime Series board you can do that you're good to go does support have any light up elements itself or is it just the header just actually just the header on this board go you're gonna have in terms of light up everything else is pretty much passive and this is going to be very similar to the prime Series board you know you've got the USB 3.1 gen2 support m26 out of 60 ports on the board pretty much all standard stuff that's par for the course the one probably biggest point of improvement say an upgrade from the prime is going to be the audio design of this one so this is the toughest gaming audio and the biggest difference is the codec is essentially the same you still get audio great capacitors the shielded codec and the same actual codec that's used on the prime but it features our tough audio gaming package and so what we did there is we worked with DTS and there's a custom software suite that's optimized for different game experiences you have a little bit more customization options to be able to kind of tailor the sound experience but all the way around you know very solid entry option if you're looking to be able to kind of build something it's got a little bit more of a stylized focus and definitely I think for a lot of users out there that were interested in seeing a micro ATX version so here you've done in micro X but you've also got the ATX version which and I was like the slightly smaller form factor of micro ATX while you still have a few expansion slots and yeah this little board here the tough p450 m+ gaming and now under the big boy this is the ROG Strix be 450 dash F gaming and now our G is JJ already mentioned this usually like the highest-end issue stuff where they do lots of tricky things and they experiment and do features that not everyone is going to make use of ROG Strix is sort of like taking that down to a still high-end gaming level yep but maybe not just all the crazy stuff that you might not actually use yeah I definitely say you hit it on the head it sir I think really comes down to specialization as an example you might kind of jump into the cross here which is on the X or Sony chipset and an example something that everybody's gonna use is like the dedicated temperature Inlet and water flow monitoring right that's built onto the motherboard right for the water cooling crop that's great but for the vast majority users they're not doing that right or even you know the more specialized vrm options or the external bus clock generator so you newbie CLK overclocking these are all things that you know it's cool and certain segments of the audience might have but really we're Strix is is that we're trying to offer you I think that best balance that if you're just an everyday gamer it wants a great experience whether it's in the overclocking fan controls audio and networking as well as great aesthetics that's all gonna be baked in you can have a really great experience across the board but at a definitely more reasonable price point so I'm speaking of price point this is currently available for sale for 130 US dollars yeah so I think definitely as we come look through the board it's definitely gonna feel I think like a more premium board and actually it might be more expensive than that first and foremost you see the aesthetic I think is great it's got this monochromatic color scheme so it won't contend and compete definitely this is probably a board that's going to be more squarely aimed at target market that's gonna want to go with an RGB type build experience and it's gonna fit really well with that and of course this also is gonna really complement our strict series graphic cards which feature the same kind of overall matte black stylized clean monochromatic color aesthetic some of the cool things that you'll see that are gonna be different than the prime or the tough gaming series is we've got the full integrated IO shroud but we also have an integrated IO shield so that not only makes the build installation process more streamlined and easier a lot of people don't realize that pre mounting the our shield to the motherboard also significantly improves our EMI and ESD performance because we can actually create a much more bonded contact and so that's beneficial because most issues that you have with EMI or ESD is going to be actually related to consistently plugging in devices and so you plug most your devices into the backplane so that's an improvement that we have this board will feature integrated RGB lighting so that will be here the rgi okay you will have to RGB headers on this board compared to the other boards which only had one RGB header so there's one here at the top of the board and then another one down here at the bottom of the board so that's a really good kind of split configuration for how you might do building in the chassis maybe you want to run a splitter up here to the top fans or maybe front intakes and then maybe down here for you know anything from SSDs to other fans to LED strips your chassis is whatever it might be are those both 12-volt yeah these are standard four pin 5050 you're good to go they're on the memory side this is just like those other boards they fully support up to 3200 base speeds and frequencies you're good to go and this pretty much like all the other boards that we talked about in terms of the e source or sink support is also expanded to any type of accessory that plugs into the board so well that's gonna be graphics cards memory or anything else like that speaking of memory I just don't out memories are important with resin I've talked about this many times on the channel and getting faster memory is a great way to get the most out of your rising configuration and one thing I always point to is once you've chosen your motherboard and go check the qvl list the actual memory that the manufacturer has tested and asus does a really good job testing lots of different options they're gonna find a huge range of kits that they've tested they've confirmed it yes this works with Raven H or the APS or what have you and you know you can plug it in set up the XMP values and you're good to go yeah and to your point on the execute values just like we talked about with the other boards this offers the same do CPU memory profiling options so you can just go into you if I and set that in addition to this this board does have some nice upgrades we've got dual MDOT two on this motherboard as composed to the other boards which only have a single end up to slot so if you want to be able to go into that higher-end kind of raid type configuration options you do have available that you do all have full support for CPU nvme base raid configurations here also so definitely a little bit more tuned towards that kind of higher-end audience okay now as we move into some of the other upgrades as well I think some of the targeted areas that really kind of uplift the board um is going to be on the audio section so this board features supreme effects audio so this is a significant upgrade compared to what we had on the primer of the TUF so when we jump over to pretty much the highest end chips that you can get the S 1220 that's gonna be much much better performance for to channel for multi-channel as well as line level input so some people use on microphone so use an analog microphone here the line in performance on the 12 to 20 is much better than it is on like the 800 series chipsets so if you're gonna game in stream or whatever anyone have nice crisp clear audio from your mic yeah and in addition to that we also do have an extensive software suite we call it Sonic studio sonic studio allows you to go in and make customization per applications per games - everything from you know different types of frequency spectrum if you want to do voice vocal enhancement if you wanna do bass improvement if you want to add multi-channel audio but we also do have post-processing for the microphone so incoming audio as well as outgoing audio we can apply post-processing filters to kind of clean up noise or nd an environment noise things like that so there's a lot of kind of subtle things that really help to improve the overall experience whether it's gonna be you know music movies games whatever it might be you also do have improved audio grade components on here so you have to a degree capacitors but you also have operational amplifiers in there that pretty much squarely just gives you better dynamic range higher volume levels as well as the ability better to drive higher-end headphones okay so that's gonna be for the front headphone and for line level out so both of those are gonna be covered and ice is their impedance level for headphones yeah it is support up to 600 but without getting kind of too technical you know headphone and Peeta's shouldn't always squarely be looked at your voltage actually that you're being able to provide from the operational amplifier is more critical okay and so really our goal here is that is just trying to make sure that we can provide a more powerful delivery experience to the headphone probably if you're going 600 ohms you probably really actually have like an outboard amplifier oscillating with it that's really designed to well suit that but I think a lot of people feel lastly looking at this or probably also looking at overclocking probably more seriously they're probably in that higher-end range of the risin five verizon seven series part and here we do have an upgraded vrm you can see that we've got a much beefier two-stage vrm heatsink it's gonna be able to be more adequately cool and be able to provide a better experience and this board I know it's gonna have something that you've used a lot for more boards in the past with our auto tuning technology and so if you want to be able to go into the 5a optimization suite you know click a couple of buttons to be able to easily and effectively overclock your system with full real time stress testing this board has it for you so you can very easily overclock your eyes in series part even if you don't have any knowledge to do so so really all the way around big upgrades this one also does step up to an Intel NIC with our packet priority software gain first packet priority software so you go ahead and prioritize your streaming your gaming or downloading your browsing whatever it might be pretty much a lot of stuff really baked into this board I really think be able to offer you a very high-end experience but without getting too crazy the last thing I did want to touch on this board before we give a little bit of context to the Mini ITX port or just come out which I'm sure a lot of you guys know I'm interested is you can do a little bit of a site customization this will actually come with two covers for the actual fch plate right here ins here you can see we've got kind of a colored cover plate and there we've got kind of the more stealthy kind of matte black cover plate so the choice is up to you depending on how you want the board to kind of look and feel your embrace whether you embrace or reject RGB exactly the choice is up to you cool alright so 430 dollars that's a very nice set of features and of course overclocking like just and just like that you can overclock with all these boards now you mentioned a mini ATX version yep and I think with the mini ITX that's gonna be the Strix before 50 - I gaming that's gonna come in at just about $150 and it's gonna pretty much have every single thing that we talked about here including the dual m2u so it's got an N dot - that's on the front of the board it's actually in our audio riser card and then there's gonna be an MDOT - that's gonna be on the back of the board um it has illuminated actually RG RGB audio outputs on the back of the board which is something you've seen like on a higher importance it upgrades to this board and that it has an addressable header and a standard legacy RGB header and you're also have the full audio design that we talked about is also going to be on that mini ITX board and it's also got a very solid and robust vrm with a good quality PR me in sync design so pretty much the only thing that you would we'll be missing between the - F and the - I is gonna be the additional PCIe expansion but otherwise all the really great things that we talked about and proved audio networking the fan controls that we also touched on previously for the prime boards are all here in terms of you know temperature input mapping for the CPU for the GPU or for different temperature sources all that stuff is on e or even our quick diagnostic LEDs you know we didn't touch on that too much but in the higher-end space I think you can get sometimes more complicated builds so it still sometimes nice to be able to see a little four point LED for the CPU the memory the graphic card or the boot device and it will light up to let you know if you may have an issue so all that is gonna be baked on into either one of these boards if you want to go for the really cool small form-factor build or I am build like this one you're good to go awesome and I have you personally used the X 470 version of the Mini ITX which is very similar to the B 450 version and it's just amazing how much actual hardware is packed into that little seven inch by seven inch board but guys that is pretty much gonna wrap it up for this video JJ thank you so much for stopping by today awesome to be here and if you guys have any questions comments feedback specifically these a suit boards I'll definitely be checking out the comments I'll try to respond to you there and if you guys have any feedback on designs features functions anything you'd like to see in the next generation series of motherboards for Macy's make sure to let us know but definitely I like to take that feedback back and talk to our product design team and see what we can't do for you guys alright well I've made JJ suffer enough in my garage where it's getting steadily warmer as the Sun continues to bake us so we're gonna cut off this video thank you guys so much for watching hit the thumbs up button if you did enjoy it and check links in the video description down below where I will link to these boards as well as some other fun stuff that you might be interested in thanks you guys and we'll see you next time