The B550GTQ AM4 board from BIOSTAR is a very interesting affordable and compact offering, which sports a clean design, including reinforced PCI-E slots, enough connectivity ports, passive cooling for the chipset and the ability to install no less than four memory modules. The UEFI interface has been further refined and contains enough options for system tuning as well; as we have noted with other platforms sporting Ryzen 3000 processors, manual overclocking is not really needed, since the CPU will clock itself accordingly depending on the cooling system and other operating factors.

The B550 chipset does have some limitations over the high-end X570 variant, but it consumes three times less power and should be more than enough for mainstream gamers; PCIe 4.0 storage and graphics is only enabled by using 3000 series Ryzen processors, otherwise the slots will operate in 3.0 mode.

If you need to attach extra RGB lighting systems, you have no less than three headers available, while the I/O shield does sport its own embedded lighting as well. All this is controllable from the UEFI interface or the RACING EVO application inside Windows OS.

At the time of the review, the BIOSTAR RACING B550GTQ could be found online for about 129 Euros.

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We would like to thank BIOSTAR for making this review possible!