Prepare ASUS TUF GAMING B450M-PRO II evaluation for Zen3

Today ASUS Another a main board New product: ASUS TUF GAMING B450M-PRO II. This motherboard is still launched for the mid tier entry market. Its feature is that compared with its previous generation B450 products, it has added the BIOS one button upgrade, and upgraded the BIOS capacity, which is to be more compatible with the Zen3 processor to be released on October 8, At the same time, this motherboard also adds more USB 3.2 interfaces, AI microphone noise reduction and other new black technologies. It should be noted that this motherboard is an upgraded version of the previous generation ASUS TUF B450M-PRO GAMING.

ASUS TUF GAMING B450M-PRO II

01 ASUS TUF GAMING B450M-PRO II Appearance Introduction

In appearance, ASUS TUF GAMING B450M-PRO II uses the classic dark green and Lamborghini yellow TUF GAMING LOGO for embellishment, but the overall style is more profound than ever, and the style of a tough man is revealed.

ASUS TUF GAMING B450M-PRO II

ASUS TUF GAMING B450M-PRO II provides four DDR4 memory sockets, supports dual channels, and the maximum capacity can reach 128GB. The frequency of overclocking memory can reach more than 4400MHz.

Memory socket

In terms of graphics card slots, this motherboard provides two PCIe x16 long slots, one of which is equipped with metal protective armor in X16 mode, and the other is in X8 mode. The metal protective armor can reinforce the graphics card and is not easy to damage. If it is a high-end graphics card, it is recommended to insert it in the metal slot on the top, which will theoretically be faster.

Graphics card slot

ASUS TUF GAMING B450M-PRO II provides two M.2 slots, which currently does not support PCIe 4.0.

M. 2 slots

There are 6 SATA interfaces.

SATA

SATA

In the I/O area, this motherboard provides two USB 3.2 Gen2 interfaces, four USB 3.2 Gen 1 interfaces, and two USB 2.0 interfaces. One of the interfaces also supports the BIOS FlashBack function. BIOS can be easily upgraded without memory graphics card and processor. In addition, this motherboard also has an HDMI interface, an upgraded DP interface, which is not available in the previous generation, a gigabit network interface and three conventional audio interfaces.

I/O interface

The front provides two USB 2.0 interface jumpers and a USB 3.1 Gen 1 jumper.

In terms of sound card, ASUS TUF GAMING B450M-PRO II motherboard adopts S1200A high-quality audio chip, which is one of the flagship sound card chips at present.

sound card

This year's new motherboards, including ASUS TUF GAMING B450M-PRO II, basically include an important ASUS technology: 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. This technology can be achieved using any type of headset or microphone, such as 3.5mm audio jack, USB or Bluetooth.

02 ASUS TUF GAMING B450M-PRO II chip materials

Next, let's take a look at the chip materials of this motherboard. Because it is a mid end M board, and there is basically no light effect on the front, disassembly is very easy.

Panorama

In terms of power supply, this motherboard uses 8+2 phase power supply, the PWM master is uP9505, the MOSFET is two up and two down, the upper bridge is 4C10B-YEMW66, and the lower bridge is 4C06B-YEMW70. This is no different from the previous generation.

power supply

uP9505

MOSFET

This is the chip for USB BIOS Flashback technology: AI1315-AO.

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  The BIOS chip is 25Q256JVEQ, which is a 32MB 256Mbit memory. This time ASUS has made a key upgrade in this place.

25Q256JVEQ

The USB 3.2 Gen 2 interface uses PI3EQX1004B1 as the trunk, which is not available in the previous generation, while the USB 3.2 Gen 1 uses ASM1543.

USB

The network card chip of this motherboard is RTL8111H, which is a gigabit network card. In addition, ASUS has also used TUF LANGuard network security protection, and Turbo LAN network acceleration can adjust the network priority with one key to ensure the transmission of game data first, so that the game can say goodbye to the delay.

ASUS TUF GAMING B450M-PRO II

ASUS B450 supports ASUS AURA SYNC Shenguang synchronization, and provides Aura RGB light strip connector, which can realize the light effect linkage of the whole machine. At the same time, this motherboard also has light effect on the side of the PCB.

03 ASUS TUF GAMING B450M-PRO II Practical Test

Next, we will formally test. First, we will introduce the test platform:

Test platform

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 R20

CINEBENCH R15

CINEBENCH can test processor and single core performance and multi-core performance. The Reelon 7 3700X performs well in both the single core and multi-core versions of CINEBENCH R20 and CINEBENCH R15. It seems that because of the optimization, CINEBENCH's overall score is also higher than before.

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

At present, the advantage of the three generations of sharp is the super multi-core, which is very popular in productivity software, and the single core performance of the three generations of sharp dragon has also been enhanced a lot this time, so the POV Ray and X264 tests performed well. The sharp dragon 7 3700X and Asus TUF GAMING B450M-PRO II can form a productivity platform with strong performance.

Game test:

Next, we conducted a popular game test. We selected Tomb Raider: Shadow, a three A masterpiece, and《 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.

Tomb Raider: Shadow

《CS:GO》

At present, the third generation of Sharp Dragon is no longer a bottleneck in playing games. It can also form a powerful game platform with high-end graphics cards. This time, ASUS TUF GAMING B450M-PRO II will be paired with the Sharp Dragon 7 3700X RTX 2070s video card, Tomb Raider: Shadow has reached 90 frames in 2K resolution, and CS: GO has reached about 348 frames, which can easily meet users' demand for high frame experience.

Copying test:

Finally, we conduct copying test and use AIDA64 This software copies the CPU and FPU, and has a look at the performance of ASUS TUF GAMING B450M-PRO II when the CPU is under high load. The radiator is an air-cooled radiator with 100 yuan and 5 heat pipes.

Copying machine

After an hour of copying, the temperature of the motherboard is very good, The temperature of MOS tube has basically stabilized at 81 ℃, which is very good for the use of ordinary air-cooled radiators. In addition, the CPU is also the 8 core 16 thread Reelon 7 3700X, indicating that the ASUS TUF GAMING B450M-PRO II motherboard can meet the power supply and cooling requirements of high-end Reelon, and there is no need to worry about instability under high load.

04 Summary

Asustek TUF GAMING B450M-PRO II is a surprising small board. In the test, this motherboard can easily meet the needs of high-end Sharp Dragon 7 3700X, and a higher level of Sharp Dragon 9 3900X is certainly not a problem, so the performance of Zen3, which has not yet been released, must not be a problem.

ASUS TUF GAMING B450M-PRO II

ASUS TUF GAMING B450M-PRO II is still a mid tier motherboard, which focuses on cost performance. After upgrading, this motherboard is also equipped with AI microphone noise reduction and more USB 3.2 Gen2 and DP interfaces, which further enhance its value, The TUF GAMING tin motherboard itself has excellent quality, and now it is more difficult to find competitors in the small middle end boards.

The ASUS motherboard will be launched after the National Day at a price of 699 yuan. You can choose to use it together with the middle and high-end third-generation Sharp Dragon to create a cost-effective high-end Sharp Dragon platform, or you can wait for Zen3 to be launched. This time, ASUS TUF GAMING B450M-PRO II joined BISO to upgrade its BIOS chip capacity with one click, This motherboard will also have a very high cost performance ratio in the Zen3 period.

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