Evaluation of ASUS B450 Heavy Gunner Main Board

The AMD B450 chipset was launched in 2018. After two years of trials and tribulations, it was originally thought that B450 a main board With the launch of the third generation of Ruilong, it will slowly withdraw from the market. Unexpectedly, AMD announced that Zen3 would also support the old motherboard some time ago, which made the B450 chipset with high cost performance become popular again. recently ASUS Also released a new B450 chipset motherboard product: ASUS TUF GAMING B450M-PRO S , referred to as ASUS B450 Heavy Gunner for short, is a new product of ASUS Tough Guy TUF GAMING series.

In appearance, ASUS TUF GAMING B450M-PRO S still continues the overall tough guy characteristics of TUF GAMING, but there are also some changes. Compared with the ordinary TUF GAMING series, the heavy artillery hand paints more black elements, while the yellow slightly decreases, making it more simple and profound.

ASUS B450 heavy gunners have upgraded the power supply this time, using 8+2 power supply module, ASP1106JGQW customized by the PWM master for ASUS, and SIC639 MOSFET, which is an integrated DrMOS with unidirectional output current of 50A.

8+2 power supply module

SIC639

ASP1106JGQW

The ASUS B450 heavy gunner motherboard also uses a high-quality 8Pin ProCool high-strength power supply interface to ensure the stability of the CPU power supply system.

Power supply interface

In terms of memory sockets, the ASUS B450 heavy gunner motherboard has four DDR4 memory sockets, supporting dual channels, with a maximum capacity of 128GB and a frequency of 4400MHz.

Memory socket

In terms of graphics card slots, this motherboard provides two PCIe x16 long slots. The upper one equipped with metal protection armor is X16 mode, and the lower one without armor is X8 mode. When installing, it is recommended to insert the single display into the first slot with metal armor, which has good protection and greater bandwidth.

M. 2 slots

    There are two M.2 slots around the graphics card slot, which support 2242/2260/2280 SSDs. One of them is equipped with thermal armor, but neither of them currently supports PCIe 4.0 slots

M. 2 slots

In the I/O area, this motherboard interface is also very rich. It has two USB 2.0 interfaces, four USB 3.2 Gen 1 interfaces, one of which has the BIOS FlashBack function, and can upgrade BIOS with one button. In addition, this motherboard has two USB 3.2 Gen 2 interfaces, one of which is Type-C mode, one HDMI interface, one DP interface, one 2.5G network interface, and five regular audio interfaces.

I/O area

In terms of sound card, Asustek B450 heavy gunner motherboard adopts Crab S1200A high-quality audio chip, with 108dB SNR output and 103dB SNR input.

S1200A

We all know that in competitive games, interaction with teammates is a great test of the quality of voice. This time, the new motherboards of this year, including the ASUS B450 heavy gunner motherboard, basically include an important technology of ASUS: AI microphone noise reduction. This technology uses AI artificial intelligence and deep learning technology to effectively distinguish between human voice and background noise, and perform advanced processing on voice input, effectively reduce noise, make your game black voice communication clearer, and have high compatibility, using 3.5mm audio jack Any type of headset or microphone such as USB or Bluetooth can realize this technology.

The network card chip of this motherboard is RTL8125B, which is a 2.5Gb network card. The network speed is 2.5 times that of the gigabit network card. In addition, this motherboard also has the blessing of ASUS TurboLAN network acceleration technology, which can adjust the network priority by one button, give priority to ensuring the transmission of game data, and let the game say goodbye to the delay.

RTL8125B

The I/O chip is IT8655E.

IT8655E

The ASUS B450 heavy artillery player supports ASUS AURA SYNC Shenguang synchronization, which can realize the light effect linkage of the whole machine, and this motherboard also has light effect on the side of the PCB.

ASUS B450 Heavy Gunner Light Effect

    The ASUS B450 heavy gunner motherboard does not have a pre installed I/O baffle. The baffle is included in the accessories. When you install it, you should pay attention to that the baffle has a certain dust-proof function.

Test platform:

Next, let's start the performance test. First, let's introduce the test platform:

Test platform

This time, we used three generations of highly cost-effective Ruilong 53600 processors to test together. This processor has 6 cores and 12 threads,

CINEBENCH R20：

Let's take a look at the test results of CINEBENCH. CINEBENCH is a benchmark recognized by the industry Software It can be seen in most system performance tests of mainstream media at home and abroad.

CINEBENCH can test processor and single core performance and multi-core performance. In the test of CINEBENCH R20 version, the Ruilong 5 3600 processor has played a strong role. Both single core and multi-core scores are good.

Productivity testing:

Now let's start the productivity test. This time, we will use the X264 test of video decoding class and POV Ray for rendering class.

X264

POV Ray multithreading

The productivity performance is more focused on the number of core threads of the processor, but it will also be affected by the processor frequency. At present, the advantage of the three generations of sharp is that they are super multi-core. The mid end model of the Ruilong 5 3600 processor also has 6 cores and 12 threads, which can form a productivity platform with a high cost performance ratio with the Asus B450 heavy gunner motherboard.

Game test:

Next, we conducted the popular game test, and we selected《 Island Frightening 5 》, Tomb Raider: Shadow《 CS : GO This old FPS game has a resolution of 2K, except CS: GO, which is made by players BENCHMARK In addition, the game's own BENCHMARK was used for testing.

Island Frightening 5

Tomb Raider: Shadow

《CS:GO》

The graphics card is used this time RTX The 2070S graphics card, on the ASUS B450 heavy gunner motherboard, and the Reebok 5 3600 showed excellent game frames. The "Island 5" reached 77 frames, the "Tomb Raider: Shadow" reached 74 frames, and the "CS: GO" was even more terrible, reaching about 257 frames. If you have high requirements for game frames, you can refer to the following platform composed of ASUS B450 heavy gunners.

Copying test:

Finally, we conduct copying test and use AIDA64 This software makes a single copy of the CPU. Look at the performance of ASUS B450 heavy gunners when the CPU is under high load. The radiator is an air-cooled radiator with five heat pipes.

Copying machine

We conducted more than 50 minutes of copying test, The CPU temperature is around 82 ℃, and there is no crash, green screen and other adverse reactions. The performance is very stable, because although the ASUS B450 heavy artillery player is a mid end motherboard, ASUS has also made great efforts in heat dissipation, and the armor heat dissipation is very effective, so there is no problem in the face of this mid end three generation sharp dragon. If you use a better radiator, the high-end sharp dragon can also ensure stability.

Write at the end:

When testing, we used the mid-range Sharp Dragon 5 3600. It can be seen that the ASUS B450 heavy gunner can easily meet the needs of this processor. At the same time, this motherboard also has good temperature performance in the copying machine, even better than some X570s, which indicates that this motherboard can fully meet the power and cooling needs of high-end Sharp Dragon, For example, the Ruilong 7 3700X or the Ruilong 9 3900X can be used to create a high-end Ruilong platform or a cost-effective platform.

In general, as a mid tier entry-level motherboard, the quality of the ASUS B450 heavy gunner is excellent, and it is not much worse than the recently released B550. After the upgrade of the ASUS B450 heavy gunner, on the one hand, it has further strengthened the power supply, which can meet the needs of the three generations of Reeves, and on the other hand, it has added new black technologies such as AI microphone noise reduction, In addition to further stabilizing the overall performance, it can also provide better experience for e-sports players.

ASUS B450 Heavy Gunner

At present, ASUS B450 heavy artillery players are selling for 609 yuan in JD, as well as the activity of printing and returning 50E cards, which is equivalent to only 559 yuan, which is even cheaper than most B450s. The cost performance ratio is really high. AMD promises that Zen3 will also use the AM4 socket. At that time, ASUS B450 heavy artillery players can also support the new Ruilong processor, further improve the cost performance ratio, and continue to fight for the future.

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