GIGABYTE B550 Gaming X V2 Motherboard, Supports AMD AM4 Ryzen 5000 Processors, ATX, DDR4, Dual M.2, SATA 6Gb/s, GbE LAN, PCIe 4.0

This board feels well made and reliable right out of the box. Setup was straightforward and everything worked as expected with my Ryzen build. I like the features and the WiFi 6 has been stable, the M.2 slots are easy to access, and the EZ-Latch makes installs less annoying. It runs smoothly and feels like a good long term choice for an ATX build.

Great buy for the price. Plenty of storage slots. Everything worked accordingly. Clear markings when assembly. Went online for the manual. Free and easy. WiFi works great as does the network wire. No complaints.

Board works perfectly! Download your drivers from the site before starting your build on a USB Stick. THE Wi-Fi won't work OUT OF THE BOX. DOWNLOAD THE DRIVERS on a USB prior. Use Rufus.com to convert a Windows ISO into a UEFI boot file. Always ground yourself while building (touch the metal PSU, pc case, or fridge in intervals). Board is awesome.

Great board for the money. Its running my R9 3900x with no issues. Everything booted right up . Decent amount of fan headers (5) . Flashed the bios and had to download the wifi driver from gigabyte. Thats about the only work you might want to do. The OC app is a bit simplistic , but works well, as does the fan app. Looks to be well made even if it lacks all the bulky plastic and heat sinks of more expensive boards . Ive always had real good luck with gigabyte boards dating back to the AM2 days . Would recommend 100%

Delighted with this motherboard, it’s been 2 months since I bought it, it has a very fast boot, a beautiful BIOS and it works perfectly with my components, I really like that it has 2 M.2 slots, it’s extremely necessary especially if you want your PC to look clean, honestly I haven’t had any problems with this motherboard, it even includes USB-C, the downside I see is that it has few USB ports and right now I have all of them in use and I think they’re necessary, it also has the plus of including Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, but there’s also one issue and it’s that I thought it was defective because Wi-Fi and Bluetooth weren’t connecting, later I found out that I just had to install the drivers and it worked perfectly, I feel like they should make them install automatically, other than that the motherboard is excellent and its design is very nice and casual.

Came with IO shield and works great! Love gigabytes motherboard for budgets

My 1 year old really enjoyed using this! It promoted great cognitive abilities and he did so well!! He had so much fun he took a big nap after!

Some installation tips: 1) Install (at least AMD) CPU before you mount it in the case. AMD fans require you remove the plate and install theirs. The back part can be very hard to get to once mounted. 2) Pay attention to where the memory sticks are installed. The must be installed in a particular order in particular slots. It's marked on the mother board, but easy to miss if you don't specifically look for it. Fail to do this and it won't boot. 3) Install the aluminum back port cover before you mount the motherboard. I did have 2 issues with the board - the onboard video and sound, with wifi to a lesser extent. This was a rebuild due to Win 10 support ending and my old hardware not being supported by Win 11. My plan was to get this built, get the OS installed and configured, migrate my data, then once I'm satisfied with everything, move a few premium parts from my old machine, like the video card, to this machine. But when I first tried to power it on, no onboard video (at all, not even bios splash screen) and no beep codes either. I thought the board was fried. HD activity light showed life, as did memory (it has lights) and keyboard. I then tried an old video card I wasn't using and got video, but still no sound. Checked the bios and onboard sound was enabled. I did a "reset bios to factory defaults" twice, and finally got the onboard sound working. I haven't tried the onboard video to see if that was fixed since I was always going to use an add-in video card anyway (which is still working just fine). The onboard wifi doesn't work out the box (you'll need to download drivers for Windows), so you'll either need some other way to get internet when installing Win11, or use the shift+F10 oobe\bypassnro trick to get around the internet requirement.