Closer Look / Product Photos
Inside the box, we will find I/O shield, manuals, drivers and software DVD, WiFi antenna and the motherboard itself. The main difference between the package contents of this motherboard and the B450 Gaming-ITX/ac is the WiFi antenna. With the X470 motherboard, it’s a bit better and should provide a better signal. On the other hand, we had no issues with the standard double antenna set of the B450 Gaming-ITX/ac.
PCB design is pretty good and everything looks perfect. The motherboard offers 6+2 power design what is good enough for every available processor for the AM4 socket. Our Ryzen 2600X is not causing it to heat up and everything is fully stable during various tests.
If we wish to use multiple drives then we can use up to four SATA connectors and a high-speed M.2 socket on the back of the PCB. Personally, I stick to single M.2 drive and then I don’t have to use any cables but I assume there are still many users who wish to use multi-drive setups. The X470 Gaming-ITX/ac offers various RAID modes on SATA controller so it’s not a problem to use a larger capacity array if we really need it.
We have tested the B450 Gaming-ITX/ac motherboard and it’s not hard to notice that the higher version, based on the X470 chipset uses exactly the same PCB design. Higher chipset adds some features but in general, shouldn’t change much for gamers and less demanding users. Both versions are well designed and should be a perfect option if we wish to build a small, yet powerful gaming PC.
Let’s move to the next page to check what options we can find in BIOS/UEFI.
