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Gigabyte B550 Aorus Master AMD AM4 ATX Motherboard $259.99

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  • Supports AMD Ryzen™ 5000 Series / 3rd Gen Ryzen™ and 3rd Gen Ryzen™ with Radeon™ Graphics Processors
  • Dual Channel ECC/ Non-ECC Unbuffered DDR4, 4 DIMMs
  • Direct 16 Phases Digital VRM Solution with 70A Power Stage
  • Advanced Thermal Design with Fins-Array Heatsink, Direct Touch Heatpipe and Thermal Baseplate
  • Ultra Durable™ PCIe 4.0 Ready x16 Slot
  • Triple Ultra-Fast NVMe PCIe 4.0/3.0 x4 M.2 with Thermal Guards
  • Onboard Intel® WiFi 6 802.11ax 2T2R & BT5 with AORUS Antenna
  • AMP-UP Audio with ALC1220-VB and WIMA Capacitors for Rear 120dB SNR
  • Blazing Fast 2.5GbE LAN with Bandwidth Management
  • USB 3.2 Gen2 Type-C™ & HDMI Support
  • RGB FUSION 2.0 Supports Addressable LED & RGB LED Strips
  • Smart Fan 5 Features Multiple Temperature Sensors , Hybrid Fan Headers with FAN STOP and Noise Detection
  • Q-Flash Plus Update BIOS without Installing the CPU, Memory and Graphics Card
  • Pre-installed IO Shield for Easy and Quick Installation
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Created 01-11-2021 at 01:41 PM by DJ3xclusive
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HawkeyeBear
01-11-2021 at 11:14 PM.
01-11-2021 at 11:14 PM.
Quote from kingp1ng :
Reason you'd buy this:
  1. You plan on overclocking with a Ryzen 3900x / 5900x or higher.
  2. Your PC case does not have a front USB-C port. None of Gigabyte's B550 boards have an internal USB-C header.
  3. You plan on watercooling. The metal backplate helps with passive thermal transfer and gives extra rigidity for watercooling components.
Also, motherboards with a metal back plate are heavy! Don't be surprised when it feels like a slab of steel.
Your advice is really helpful! Thanks!
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joeymcjoeysalot
01-12-2021 at 06:32 AM.
01-12-2021 at 06:32 AM.
Quote from kingp1ng :
Reason you'd buy this:
  1. You plan on overclocking with a Ryzen 3900x / 5900x or higher.
  2. Your PC case does not have a front USB-C port. None of Gigabyte's B550 boards have an internal USB-C header.
  3. You plan on watercooling. The metal backplate helps with passive thermal transfer and gives extra rigidity for watercooling components.
Also, motherboards with a metal back plate are heavy! Don't be surprised when it feels like a slab of steel.
Also with point #3 it has 2 pin temperature readers for water temperature sensor. I just swapped out this board from MC this weekend from an x570 TUF and my RAM overclocks are stable at 3600 CL 14 1.46 volts, and I couldn't get my ram to post at all at 3600 on the TUF anymore.
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gpreston
01-12-2021 at 08:39 AM.
01-12-2021 at 08:39 AM.
In-store only
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Jesse
01-12-2021 at 10:33 AM.
01-12-2021 at 10:33 AM.
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Teaser38
01-15-2021 at 08:37 AM.
01-15-2021 at 08:37 AM.
Quote from Jesse :
This is the fastest B550 board for overclocking by a LOT. Somebody put together an overclocking comparison chart and it wrecked everything else.

https://imgur.com/a/9EEyaS6
That's not what that chart shows. Also, generally Zen 2 isn't a good at overclock.
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DonkeyFinest
01-16-2021 at 10:55 PM.
01-16-2021 at 10:55 PM.
Stupidly overpriced. Asinine.
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nugdiaper
02-28-2021 at 10:04 AM.
02-28-2021 at 10:04 AM.
I just bought this at Micro Center because they were out of stock of the Gigabyte x570 master. Once i realized it was missing the usb-c header i did more research and found the other issue with the 2nd and 3rd nvme ports sharing the gpu cpu paths. I decided to buy the x570 master on newegg and I'm returning the b550. Its nice for what previous users have said but i already have multiple nvme drives waiting to be used
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