AMD has launched the corporate’s Zen 4 lineup, providing us a few of the finest CPUs available on the market. That does not imply that motherboard distributors have dismissed older processors. ASRock will launch the corporate’s first all-white motherboard because the B550M Professional SE for Zen 3 and prior chips.
The B550M Professional SE is not ASRock’s first white motherboard. The corporate has distinctive fashions from the Aqua, Taichi Carrara, and Metal Legend sequence. Nevertheless, these are usually black motherboards with white armor, whereas the upcoming B550M Professional SE is a real white motherboard from the PCB up. Curiously, ASRock would somewhat launch the model’s first white motherboard with an older chipset as an alternative of one of many newer AMD 600-series chipsets. If we needed to make an informed guess, ASRock in all probability simply refreshed certainly one of its current B550 motherboards alongside the traces of the B550M Pro4 or one thing to present it a brand new white theme.
The B550M Professional SE is a micro-ATX motherboard carrying the AM4 socket and B550 chipset. Though the AMD 500-series chipset helps Zen 3 and older processors, it will not deal with all of them because of the capability limitation of the BIOS chip. Nonetheless, we count on the B550M Professional SE to help at the very least the Ryzen 3000 (Matisse) and Ryzen 5000 (Vermeer) sequence from AMD’s mainstream desktop lineup and the Ryzen 3000G (Picasso), Ryzen 4000G (Renoir), and Ryzen 5000G (Cezanne) sequence from the APU aspect.
In line with the B550M Professional SE renders (by way of Hoang Anh Phu), the motherboard appears to characteristic an eight-phase energy supply subsystem. The motherboard receives energy from a regular 24-pin energy connector and an 8-pin EPS connector. 4 DDR4 reminiscence slots help as much as 128GB of reminiscence. The information fee will rely on which Ryzen processor you pair the motherboard with, nevertheless it ought to do over DDR4-4733 with the suitable chip.
We will observe that the B550M Professional SE has two M.2 slots. Billed because the “Hyper M.2” by ASRock, that slot adheres to the PCIe 4.0 x4 interface and helps as much as 80mm lengthy M.2 drives. The secondary M.2 slot, beneath the chipset, also needs to help SSDs of the identical size however restricted to slower speeds. It in all probability sticks to PCIe 3.0 x2 like a lot of ASRock’s different price range B550 motherboards. As for normal SATA III ports, there are 4 of them on the B550M Professional SE.
Like different microATX motherboards, the B550M Professional SE solely provides three growth slots. The first growth slot, which options strengthened metal, operates at PCIe 4.0 x16, whereas the secondary growth slot is restricted to PCIe 3.0 x4. Logically, PCIe 4.0 help is simply obtainable on Ryzen 3000 and Ryzen 5000 processors, whereas the supported Ryzen APUs are nonetheless on PCIe 3.0. The motherboard additionally presents a PCIe 3.0 x1 slot for much less bandwidth-hungry gadgets.
Show outputs on the B550M Professional SE embrace one HDMI 2.1 port and one DisplayPort 1.4 output. You will want a Ryzen APU to make use of these ports since pre-Zen 4 chips did not have built-in graphics. For connectivity, we spot a PS/2 combo port and 6 USB ports. The angle of the render does not reveal the colour coding for the USB ports, so we won’t say for sure the pace. Nevertheless, we are able to see the one Ethernet port and three 3.5mm audio jacks that in all probability leverage a Realtek audio codec.
ASRock has already registered the B550M Professional SE with the Korea Radio Analysis Company (RRA), so it should not be lengthy earlier than we get a complete specification sheet and data on pricing and availability.
