ASRock B550 Phantom Gaming-ITX/ax

I certainly do like my Mini ITX gear, as I always find it charming to see how much high-performance gear the motherboard manufacturers can cram into such little real estate. And yeah, with PCIe 4.0 on Graphics and M2 slots and overclocking ability dare I say it who needs X570? That said, pricing is the trivial point here as ASRock oppressed this motherboard with bonus features, but 200 USD / 209 EUR is a lot of money with anything based on the B series chipset. That being said, I am not saddened by this product. Dual M2 slots, WIFI6, and 2.5 GigE are some of the premium features. Then there's the single M2 shield, and of course, the sheer performance as B550 on that processor and feature level runs as fast as the more expensive X570 boards. The 17x17cm board also allows for four SATA3 drivers. So yeah, your bases are covers, (and all you base are belong to us). Performance among X570 and B550 is simply put the same with minor differences here and there. You can argue the lack of PCIe slots on Mini ITX of course, but yeah for every build there is a solution. We cannot complain about this product other then we had a few issues with the latest BIOSes posting with XMP memory, the newest Beta fixed that. We also noticed instability due to the WIFI driver, once we installed the latest revision, that problem was gone with the wifi wind. Overall, yeah, why not? .. Recommended.