The B550 Creator features an all-black colorway with hints of gold on the I/O covers and chipset heat sink. It's a three-slot PCIe x16 board with support for two NVMe SSDs and four SATA ports.

Most available ports are angled 90 degrees, including SATA and internal headers for USB 3.0. the rear of the motherboard carries 6 PWM doublers for the 12 phase CPU power.

A PCIe USB expansion card is a cheap and quick solution, making use of that vacant PCIe x1 slot. Instead of getting a USB hub to get more ports, an expansion card makes full use of the USB bandwidth, ...

The NZXT N7 B550 comes with six SATA 6Gb/s ports and two USB 3.2 front panel connectors that will both offer two USB 3.2 ports for the front panel on your case.

USB 2.0 Ports HDMI 2.1 Port USB 3.2 Gen 2 10Gbps (Type-A) USB 3.2 Gen 2 10Gbps (Type-A+C) Optical S/PDIF-Out On the back of the board, we have a whole lot of nothing going on! Just as we would ...

The Asus ProArt B550-Creator is a niche product, but its rare inclusion of Thunderbolt 4 on a midrange AMD motherboard makes it very appealing if you need these ultramodern ports.

Unusually for a B550, there are eight SATA ports, four provided by the chipset, another four by an ASMedia ASM1061 controller. Graphics-wise, there are three PCIe x16 slots.

RACING B550GTA and RACING B550GTQ motherboards are also equipped with PCIe M.2 4.0 which deliver lower latency with the highest bandwidth 64Gb/s and it’s 2 times faster than PCIe M.2 3.0.

Running down the right side of the motherboard are two USB 3.0 headers, along with a USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C header and eight SATA 3.0 ports.