Gigabyte B550 Gaming X V2 Motherboard - Supports AMD Ryzen 5000 Series AM4 CPUs, 10+3 Phases Digital Twin Power Design, up to 4733MHz DDR4 (OC), 2xPCIe 3.0 M.2, GbE LAN, USB 3.2 Gen1

Looks great - works as expected and is just simple. Quality is good, and decent value for money although still pricy now for AM4.

Perfect example of a motherboard; reasonably priced, integrated wifi, standard layouts (M-ATX, DIMM 2+4 for standard DDR), hestsinks included where beneficial, port selection is fantastic, VRMs are good enough to handle even budget PSUs for high end components (outside extreme overclocks, in which case, your issues are the OC with budget PSU, not this mobo)Highly recommended for any build that supports M-ATX for speed and ease of installation, especially if you want to maximise AM4 longevity rather than upgrade to AM5. I'd reccommend the 5700X3D with this, if you're running a mid-high end gaming rig. I run that with the 7800XT - zero complaintsPurchased one for myself, was so confident in it's quality, I purchase for other's builds too

This motherboard covers the essentials and offers solid support for various needs. It's compatible with Windows 11 and includes a Q-Flash Plus button for added convenience. Installation is straightforward, thanks to the pre-installed back panel.It's worth noting that the motherboard supports integrated GPUs and provides ample USB hubs (3.0 and up) on the back.However, there's one drawback: the fan curve setting in the BIOS doesn't save changes, which can be frustrating. Despite this minor flaw, the motherboard performs well and provides good value for its price.Overall, it's a reliable choice for gamers and PC users, offering ease of installation, excellent value, and satisfactory performance.

A good board for the price. The form factor is a bit cramped, making the Pcie 2nd slot practically useless - no way could you fit 2 GPUs on it. The VRM produces quite a bit of heat, so you need to be careful with airflow. For example don't blow air over the VRM blocks into your CPU cooler - suck the air out of the case instead. Other than being a bit cramped it's a good board with plenty of USB 3 ports, 4 SATA connections and a slot for a 2nd Nvme drive. Has been stable so far, with several weeks of daily use.

first Micro ITX build, actually love this board, makes me want to convert my large ATX builds to ITX now. has everything you need on the board. Wifi works very well once the drivers directly from gigabyte was downloaded. temps are incredibly good surprisingly. Running 3950x and a 5700xt and temps are very good in a small lian li Q58 case. M.2 drives performing incredibly well, dueled up with a 500gb and a 4tb samsung pro m.2.'s. One slot is at the back of the board which is new for me, was looking at the board for 10 minutues wondering 'where on earth is the second slot'. Great product.

Bought this as a build to downsize from homelab ex enterprise kit.Very happy with it, accepted all the bits and bobs i needed to attach, and as a bonus it supports bifurcation so it worked with a 4xNVMe pcie adaptor at full pci4 speedRunning Windows Server 2022 on it, and the devices could have been a bit easier to setup (but to be fair Server 2022 isnt on the supported OS list). Hyper-V working great on it, paired with 128Gb memory (another nice feature of this board), 2 WD black nvme drives, 3 Samsung SATA ssds and a 5600x cpu, a SAS card stolen from my old Dell server, and a 12Tb SAS hdd.Seems to do a good job of keeping my 3 pin case fans quiet.Have not tried all the RGB stuff since thats not my thing, but there seem to be a bunch of headers on here for it if thats your thing.Only thing worth noting is that only the big metal PCI-E slot is pci4 speed, the other 2 and the 1x are slower, similar for the NVMe slots, only 1 is 4th gen PCIe, which isnt a problem for me, as I can shove the NVMe drives on the fast pci slot, and the SAS controller and basic GPU on the other. For those who want a gaming PC with a fast GPU, you would be limited to a single NVMe at 4th gen on this board. Apparently if the AMD processor has integrated graphics this gets even worse.Overall, would recommend this board strongly. Have achieved my goal of a power drop from 140w idle to 88w, with a noticeable bump in performance and reduction in my computer sounding like an airport - i can barely tell its on.UPDATE Nov 2023 - I liked this board so much I bought a 2nd one for my son as the basis of a gaming PC, and I can report that Windows 11 installs cleanly on it, and picks up all drives auto-magically over wifi, including the suite of Gigabyte tools for things like fan monitoring/control etc.I stand by my 5 star rating - this is a great mobo for this gen of AMD