GIGABYTE B550M K AM4 AMD B550 Micro-ATX Motherboard with Dual M.2, SATA 6Gb/s, USB 3.2 Gen 1, Realtek GbE LAN, PCIe 4.0

Love the design
As always gigabyte has secured, a good motherboard with a good price

Great board for my rig, with some cons though…
I’ve never been to finicky with the visual presentation of my board, whether it be more stylish and sleek or conventional and industrial looking. Performance and ease of use are above all else. This board succeeds with the former, but can be lackluster with some of the latter.Physical installation was a breeze, but the same cannot be said about Gigabyte’s proprietary software application. While the BIOS is inoffensive and easy to use, the Control Center app is an absolute nightmare. GCC tries at every opportunity to override every other first-party software dedicated to hardware control. I removed Gigabyte Fusion entirely because custom color selection from the software wasn’t remotely accurate to what displayed on hardware ARGB. Even after removing everything related to Fusion in my system registry, just running GCC in the background caused hardware ARGB to flicker, and would break my PWM settings even though I don’t have any other fan control software installed. I eventually just disabled GCC altogether, and even still, the Update Service will sometimes self-launch in the background randomly and inconsistently upon startup every now and then.The real pain, however, was the onboard wireless adapter. Every single component got the necessary firmware and drivers they required via LAN upon my first boot…EXCEPT the wireless adapter. I tried over and over to manually install the latest drivers listed on Gigabyte’s own website, and it still would not function. It took reinstalling a wireless card for Windows to even bother retrieving the driver automatically. The adapter was now functional, but wouldn’t detect 5G networks. It took hours of browsing tech forums before being directed to an off-site forum hosting Realtek drivers, then trial-and-error through downloading and attempting to manually install a few compressed packages from there before finally getting the device manager to recognize one of them and successfully install it.My last gripe would be the front-panel USB 3.0 hub location. I have no idea why Gigabyte thought it’d be great placing it right where most people would install their card in the lower PCIE port to give their storage devices some breathing room. All PC cases I’ve owned had beefy 3.0 plugs that need additional space lest you bend and damage either the pins, board or cable. Thankfully I’m not entirely dependent on having the front panel USB ports, but it would be nice to have them working for my leisure.All that being said, I can’t complain too much or really dissuade anybody from getting this board. So as long as you avoid GCC like the plague and configure your preferred performance settings in the BIOS, it gets the job done. CPU and air cooler are snug and firmly sit, RAM runs well, all my temps are read correctly and my SSD has room to breathe. I only wish Gigabyte tech support was more helpful and informative than some obscure tech forum sites.

Seriously…just…DONT.
My wife’s daughter’s lenovo legion tower 5 went kaput, so I decided I would pull all the parts from the tower and replace all, keeping the tower for matx availability and slightly less expensive build.Original build was as follows:Gigabyte b550m DS3H Rev 1.7 moboRyzen 5 5600x CPUGeForce RTX2070 super GPUexistent ssdExistent memoryWent through every troubleshoot known to man and 6 certified technicians. They all knew gigabyte was a headache for people, and they figured it might be a bios issue (even though Rev 1.7 shouldn’t need a bios qflash for the cpu of choice).Then we bought new ram modules and GPU in order to avoid no display bios qflashing. Switched to appropriately sized ram modules and a GeForce RTX 3060. All items confirmed compatible.Then we honed in on the fact that when we turned the computer on after connecting, all fans and lights would start up no problem, but motherboard power went into idle, AND won’t shut off with a power button long press and hold.This is a sure sign that the motherboard is already messed up from the beginning.Other reasons not to buy this board or any from their brand…I have been in multiple discord groups, facebook groups, and reddit groups/threads, all with people complaining of the same issue, and nearly all of them fixing it by returning the board due to terrible installation instructions, worse bios flash instructions, and overall headache of boot issues and crashes.I did troubleshooting on this board for 6 hours a day average for nearly 10 days, including all my research time, and if i didn’t care about getting my money back for another board, going with MSI, then I would climb to the top of a cell phone tower like I used to do for work and Frisbee this thing as had as I possibly could into the nearest high traffic interstate. Gigabyte is by far the absolute worst board I have ever encountered for being user friendly, instructions friendly, or ANYTHING friendly.Seriously just DONT GET THIS BOARD or ANY of their boards EVER. Pay a bit more money and get the good stuff.

great product
Great product came new and super cool!

Depois de mais de um ano, posso dizer que essa placa realmente é otima!! Me atende super bem, vou ficar com ela mais uns 2 anos pelo meno.. Melhor Placa da plataforma AM4 para se ter hoje.

Una tarjeta que tiene dos puertos para discos sólodos M2 y una grán mayoría de puertos USB 3.2. es una tarjeta que vale mucho la pena.Recomendada si quieres un equipo económico y potente.