Getting Started PCIe 4.0 Motherboard Yingchi B550M Phantom Evaluation

Last year, AMD brought us three generations of Sharp Dragon and X570 a main board , which greatly improved the overall performance of AMD platform. More importantly, it provided us with PCIe 4.0 technology. At that time, manufacturers such as Picasso also launched PCIe 4.0 solid state disk. However, the overall cost of PCIe 4.0 technology was not cheap when it was launched early last year. The price of the X570 motherboard and PCIe 4.0 solid state alone persuaded many users to quit. Now the market has changed. The B550 motherboard, which also supports PCIe 4.0, has come out. It is an upgraded version of the B450 motherboard and a good partner of the mid tier entry-level Ruilong, Because the focus on cost performance has also enabled PCIe 4.0 technology to achieve consumption degradation, and this time we want to evaluate it is from the film and television company B550M Phantom Motherboard, for entry-level users, focuses on cost performance.

Yingchi B550M Phantom a main board

01 Yingchi B550M Phantom motherboard evaluation

Yingchi B550M Phantom motherboard is a standard entry board, so it is not equipped with armor. The overall style is the black PCB as always, supplemented by white lines with Yingchi characteristics. The PCB board has been polished, and it feels very textured.

Yingchi B550M Phantom motherboard

The B550M Phantom motherboard of Yingchi provides two memory sockets, which support dual channel DDR4 type memory. The frequency can support 3600MHz, and the maximum capacity is 32GB. Moreover, Yingchi adopts a two-way buckle design, which is more important for everyone to install the machine.

Memory socket

In terms of graphics card slot, Yingchi B550M Phantom motherboard has prepared a long PCIe X16 slot. It should be noted that this slot is not designed with a snap. In addition, this motherboard also has a PCIe X1 slot.

Graphics card slot

The Yingchi B550M Phantom motherboard provides an M.2 interface to support PCIe 4.0 technology. The theoretical bandwidth of PCIe 4.0 is twice that of PCIe 3.0, reaching 64Gbps. The biggest help to the consumer market is the improvement of the speed of solid state disk drives. We will conduct corresponding tests later.

M. 2 Interface

    SATA interface This motherboard provides 4.

SATA interface

  In the I/O area, Yingchi B550M Phantom motherboard interface is very rich, providing two USB 2.0 interfaces, two USB 3.2 Gen2 interfaces, two USB 3.2 Gen1 interfaces, and one PS /The 2-button mouse interface, a VGA video interface, an HDMI interface and a DVI interface are very complete. Users who use the APU with an old interface display can use it with confidence.

I/O area

The Yingchi B550M Phantom motherboard does not have a pre installed I/O backplane, but an I/O baffle is prepared in the accessories, which can be used during installation, and has a dust-proof effect.

The Yingchi B550M Phantom motherboard uses 4+2 phases for power supply this time. The PWM chip is RT8878B, and the MOSFET is one upper bridge and two lower bridges, MDU1511 and MDU1514 respectively.

power supply

RT8878B

MOSFET

The monitoring I/O chip is IT8613E.

IT8613E

The audio chip uses ALC 667 sound card chip, which supports 6-channel surround sound effect.

ALC 667

The CPU power supply interface is a single 8pin, which is enough to meet the use of the conventional third-generation Ruilong processors.

CPU power supply interface

      Yingchi B550M Phantom motherboard this time integrates 5V 3pin ARGB interface and 12V 4pin RGB, with Yingchi's exclusive light synchronization Software It can enable the whole machine to realize the linkage between waiting and calibration, and customize its own host environment.

12V 4pin RGB

02 Performance test

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

Test platform

In this test, we used the Ruilong 5 3600, a 6-core 12 thread processor, and used Yingchi HOF PRO M.2 to test PCIe 4.0.

CINEBENCH R20：

Let's first take a look at the performance of CINEBENCH R20. CINEBENCH is a benchmark software recognized by the industry and can be seen in most system performance tests of mainstream media at home and abroad.

CINEBENCH R20

With the support of Yingchi B550M Phantom motherboard, the Ruilong 53600 has played its due role in both multi-core projects and single core projects, with the multi-core score reaching 3251cb and the single core score reaching 474cb.

Fritz Chess  Benchmark ：

Fritz Chess Benchmark is an old CPU test software, which tests the multithreaded large-scale scientific computing capability of the processor, and supports up to 16 threads.

Fritz Chess Benchmark

The Ruilong 53600 also played stably in this chess test, and Fritz Chess Benchmark scored 22779.

Productivity testing:

Next, we begin to test the productivity. At present, content creation is very popular. This time, we use POV Ray for rendering classes to test.

POV-Ray

The POV Ray test results are also very good. It can be seen that the mid-range Ruilong processors such as the Yingchi B550M Phantom motherboard and the Ruilong 5 3600 can form a small content creation platform, and office design is also a good hand.

PCIe 4.0 Test:

Next, we use the basic hard disk test software CrystalDiskMark to test PCIe 4.0.

PCIe 4.0

On the Yingchi B550M Phantom motherboard, the reading and writing speed of Yingchi HOF PRO M.2 is very terrible. The reading speed has reached 4984.4 MB/s, and the writing speed has also reached 4246.6 MB/s, which is far more than the reading and writing speed of about 3000 MB/s during the PCIe 3.0 period. For users who need fast reading and writing of hard disks, the cooperation between Yingchi's two products is quite valuable.

Game test:

Next, we used Tomb Raider: Shadow, Wilderness Escort 2, and《 Island Frightening 5 》These three AAA masterpieces, with a resolution of 1080p, were tested with the game's own BENCHMARK.

Tomb Raider: Shadow

"Big Wild Escort 2"

Island Frightening 5

Previously, we saw that Yingchi B550M Phantom motherboard and the third generation of Ruilong can form an entry-level mid-range productivity platform, and in the game test, this motherboard can also enable each hardware to give full play to its strength. In the test of three 3A games, there are high frame game performances, which shows that Yingchi B550M Phantom motherboard is more than enough as a weapon for game players.

Copying test:

Finally, we test the copying machine, using AIDA64 The software copies both the FPU and the CPU to see if the Yingchi B550M Phantom motherboard can withstand the pressure of the Ruilong 5 3600, a 6-core 12 thread 95W TDP processor.

Copying machine

Radiator We used an air-cooled radiator with 100 yuan double fans and 5 heat pipes. The temperature of the Yingchi B550M Phantom motherboard was kept at about 84 ℃ when copying the machine, and there was no crash, green screen and other adverse reactions when copying the machine. Facts have proved that the Yingchi B550M Phantom motherboard can fully meet the high load demand of the mid end Reelong.

03 Summary

The experience of Yingchi B550M Phantom motherboard is that although the sparrow is small, it has all kinds of functions and all kinds of interfaces, and its performance can also meet the needs of the entry-level mid tier three generation Reelung processors. It is also suitable for use with such processors. It is recommended to use processors below 95W TDP, Because it is a motherboard for entry-level users, this motherboard does not support overclocking, but it is also good to synchronize light effects. If you need a more powerful motherboard, Yingchi will launch a more high-end Gamer series later. You can look forward to it.

Yingchi B550M Phantom motherboard

Finally, let's talk about the price of Yingchi B550M Phantom motherboard: 669 yuan, which is quite attractive for entry-level motherboards. However, compared with the B450 series, the price of B550, including Yingchi B550M Phantom motherboard, has actually increased a lot, which is mainly because the B550 motherboard has brought PCIe 4.0 to the consumer market, In the test, we also saw the terrible technology of PCIe 4.0, which can greatly improve the read and write speed of the solid state disk. It is said that the next generation of NVIDIA graphics cards will also use PCIe 4.0, which is likely to make the performance of the new graphics cards better. Therefore, as the consumer motherboard carrier of the new generation bus protocol, the price of Yingchi B550M Phantom motherboard is also justifiable.

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