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I agree. We are at PCI-E 5, it should be PCI-E 6 at this price! And socket AM5. Oh and it should have whatever comes after m.2. I mean while we're future-proofing and whatnot..
I think your getting B550 confused with B520. B520 does not come with pci gen 4. But all B550 comes with it. Click the listing. Look at the photos up close. If you still can't see it. Then I dunno what to tell you. Go back and resume watching ernst goes to camp and live in some alternate universe then
Good luck getting access to that lower PCIe with a graphics card installed.
Yeah that was the norm for almost every motherboard for several years up until recently. They do make mini pci express extension cables and someone could re route one down if they wanted to.
But it's a B550 motherboard for 100$
Actuality I think there's some other B550 motherboards out there for 10-20$ more that are way better than this. MSI has one and Asrock as well
This is a much better motherboard in my opinion for 10-20$ more. Better spacing and features including WiFi. But I didn't read the reviews on it. I'm someone who got an ASUS tuf gaming B550M plus motherboard a few months ago and it's been pretty good except for some random usb issues that ASUS has yet to fix….
Be careful using this in a SFF PC Case, where they put the SATA ports is where the PSU is going to sit and will not be usable due to clearance.
Speaking from someone who has a different B550 motherboard but a very similar layout as far as pin out connectors and sata is concerned is the same. I'm running a thermaltake s100 m atx case and I have no problems as far as spacing. It probably depends on the case. My case has the power supply garage and there's at least an inch of space between the cage and the bottom of the motherboard.
I don't think your supposed to put an m atx motherboard into a small form factor case. That's basically exclusively for ITX form factors. At least the vast majority of small form factor cases out there are that way. If there is some that supports m atx…. well I think having trouble with clearances just comes with the territory lol
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I went a little nuts lately and splurged to get the Gig X570s AM. What your getting here for only $100 is pretty amazing. If you're trying save some dough to spend it on crazy priced GPU then this seems like a good contender.
I m sure it's not going to be a problem once I can actually buy a gpu
Any good ram deals for this motherboard?
Seriously! I was just looking at video card prices, a video card that was on sale about 20 months ago was just sold used on Ebay for double that price (and that was used, not new). It looks like prices for a new card are easily 4 times as high as the sale prices were from 2 years ago. I wish they would ban cryptocurrencies.
I just bought a Ryzen 5 5600G that will be installed in my preexisting system. It is a MSI B450M PRO-VDH MAX motherboard with 16GB 3200 RAM, an older graphics card (7970 or R9 Fury) and a budget M.2 NVME drive. Any advantage in upgrading to this B550 board? I may eventually pick up a better GPU and faster RAM one day.
Edit: I guess the 5600G doesn't support PCIE gen 4 so this wouldn't be an upgrade right?
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I just bought a Ryzen 5 5600G that will be installed in my preexisting system. It is a MSI B450M PRO-VDH MAX motherboard with 16GB 3200 RAM, an older graphics card (7970 or R9 Fury) and a budget M.2 NVME drive. Any advantage in upgrading to this B550 board? I may eventually pick up a better GPU and faster RAM one day.
Edit: I guess the 5600G doesn't support PCIE gen 4 so this wouldn't be an upgrade right?
Yea if you have a good B450 board that supports the 5600g then no need to upgrade.
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But it's a B550 motherboard for 100$
Actuality I think there's some other B550 motherboards out there for 10-20$ more that are way better than this. MSI has one and Asrock as well
This is a much better motherboard in my opinion for 10-20$ more. Better spacing and features including WiFi. But I didn't read the reviews on it. I'm someone who got an ASUS tuf gaming B550M plus motherboard a few months ago and it's been pretty good except for some random usb issues that ASUS has yet to fix….
I don't think your supposed to put an m atx motherboard into a small form factor case. That's basically exclusively for ITX form factors. At least the vast majority of small form factor cases out there are that way. If there is some that supports m atx…. well I think having trouble with clearances just comes with the territory lol
It does support PCIe 4.0 from the CPU, GPU and main M.2 hard drive, if you're running a supported 3000+ series AMD CPU.
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Any good ram deals for this motherboard?
Here are the technical specs:
https://www.amd.com/en/chipsets/b550
Not sure why are you arguing with people when you are clearly wrong.
Edit: I guess the 5600G doesn't support PCIE gen 4 so this wouldn't be an upgrade right?
Edit: I guess the 5600G doesn't support PCIE gen 4 so this wouldn't be an upgrade right?
Yea if you have a good B450 board that supports the 5600g then no need to upgrade.
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