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Amazon has Gigabyte B550M Aorus Elite AX Motherboard (B550M AORUS ELITE AX) for $109.99. Shipping is free.

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Product Features:
  • AMD AM4 Socket: Supports AMD Ryzen 5000 Series/ Ryzen 5000 G-Series/ Ryzen 4000 G-Series and Ryzen 3000 Series Processors
  • DDR4 Compatible: Dual Channel ECC/ Non-ECC Unbuffered DDR4, 4 DIMMs
  • Sturdy Power Design: 5+3 Pure Digital VRM with Low RDS(on) MOSFETs
  • Connectivity: PCIe 4.0 x16 Slot, Dual Ultra-Fast NVMe PCIe 4.0/3.0 x4 M.2 Connectors, Realtek GbE LAN chip
  • Fine Tuning Features: RGB FUSION 2.0, Supports Addressable LED & RGB LED Strips, Smart Fan 5, Q-Flash Plus Update BIOS without installing, CPU, Memory, and GPU

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Amazon [amazon.com] has GIGABYTE B550M AORUS Elite AX for $129.99 - $20 when you 'clip' the coupon on product page = $109.99.
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About this Item:
  • AMD AM4 Socket: Supports AMD Ryzen 5000 Series/ Ryzen 5000 G-Series/ Ryzen 4000 G-Series and Ryzen 3000 Series Processors
  • DDR4 Compatible: Dual Channel ECC/ Non-ECC Unbuffered DDR4, 4 DIMMs
  • Sturdy Power Design: 5+3 Pure Digital VRM with Low RDS(on) MOSFETs
  • Connectivity: PCIe 4.0 x16 Slot, Dual Ultra-Fast NVMe PCIe 4.0/3.0 x4 M.2 Connectors, Realtek GbE LAN chip
  • Fine Tuning Features: RGB FUSION 2.0, Supports Addressable LED & RGB LED Strips, Smart Fan 5, Q-Flash Plus Update BIOS without installing, CPU, Memory, and GPU

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Model: GIGABYTE B550M AORUS Elite AX (AM4/ AMD/ B550/ Micro ATX/Single M.2/ SATA 6Gb/s/USB 3.2 Gen 1/ Realtek GbE LAN/PCIe 4.0/ Motherboard)

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Wouldn't pay over $100 for B550 its already 4 years old if spending that much should be getting newer AM5 B650 which is similar priced $110-$150 for M-ATX
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01-25-2024 at 11:01 AM.
01-25-2024 at 11:01 AM.
Quote from spacenoodle :
I've always assumed (with no evidence) that Gigabyte mobos aren't good quality. Anyone have firsthand experience with them? I have an Asus ROG and am unsure if it's the reason my pc regularly locks, requiring a restart. Potentially looking for a new AM4 mobo.

it's probably not your motherboard
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01-25-2024 at 11:01 AM.
01-25-2024 at 11:01 AM.
Quote from spacenoodle :
I've always assumed (with no evidence) that Gigabyte mobos aren't good quality. Anyone have firsthand experience with them? I have an Asus ROG and am unsure if it's the reason my pc regularly locks, requiring a restart. Potentially looking for a new AM4 mobo.
from what i've been told. gigabyte for intel = no, gigabyte for AMD = ok.

as far as your locking up goes, usually a bios update fixes that, but i have read on some forums that there are some boards to stay away from as they can't get the bios running right for that motherboard.

but to be fair, i have encountered a lot of motherboards that seemed bad, but to fix all of them i just had to tweak the bios settings a bit, on both intel and amd. most times, it's just the memory controller in the chip needs a little extra boost as the bios has the voltage a tad bit to low. but remember, each case is different and you would have to look at the windows logs to figure out what's happening. Good luck!
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01-25-2024 at 11:27 AM.
01-25-2024 at 11:27 AM.
Quote from spacenoodle :
I've always assumed (with no evidence) that Gigabyte mobos aren't good quality. Anyone have firsthand experience with them? I have an Asus ROG and am unsure if it's the reason my pc regularly locks, requiring a restart. Potentially looking for a new AM4 mobo.

A lot of people look at motherboards by brand. I look at specific models after brands. You could get a board from the top two brands but still end up with a dud, or pick out the best most reliable motherboard from one of the average or low tier brands and end up with a reliable running system. Also, more ports, chips and features = more things to fail. It was hard to get a reliable Intel extreme socket platform motherboard because a lot of them had parts that would just die while a more consumer friendly less featured common platform would work because it didn't have 8 dimm slots and 4 or 5 pci e slots. Look at which boards are mass manufactured and decide if there are issues or not. I assume the average PC builder spends 80% of their parts decision on a graphics card, but the motherboard is the most important piece on the build. Look for a mobo with the least amount of negative reviews from multiple online retailers.
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01-25-2024 at 04:19 PM.
01-25-2024 at 04:19 PM.
I have an Aorus after having evga for nearly two decades. The board is pretty good. Less features than I'd expect from the same evga board but it's considerably cheaper. The easy processor less bios update feature came in handy and the components feel quality. So far it's been running great with zero problems. The pcie and sata architecture is also pretty good. You only lose 2 sata ports for having 4 nvme drives. Overall I'm happy. The tuning software is nowhere near evga but I don't plan to tweak anything this time around. With evga potentially leaving the mobo market I'd say the top two brands now are asus rog and aorus.
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01-25-2024 at 05:43 PM.
01-25-2024 at 05:43 PM.
Quote from spacenoodle :
I've always assumed (with no evidence) that Gigabyte mobos aren't good quality. Anyone have firsthand experience with them? I have an Asus ROG and am unsure if it's the reason my pc regularly locks, requiring a restart. Potentially looking for a new AM4 mobo.
I've had 2 of them over the past 5(6?) years on AM4. I don't overclock or need any special features. One of them died for reasons unknown, the other recently died after updating the bios for a potential 5x00 series upgrade. Everything seemed fine but then stopped booting to the primary drive about a week later.

Gigabyte is probably the worst, but all mobo makers are kind of bad. Excited to try something else soon.
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01-25-2024 at 05:54 PM.
01-25-2024 at 05:54 PM.
Wouldn't pay over $100 for B550 its already 4 years old if spending that much should be getting newer AM5 B650 which is similar priced $110-$150 for M-ATX
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01-25-2024 at 07:17 PM.
01-25-2024 at 07:17 PM.
Quote from Alucard400 :
A lot of people look at motherboards by brand. I look at specific models after brands. You could get a board from the top two brands but still end up with a dud, or pick out the best most reliable motherboard from one of the average or low tier brands and end up with a reliable running system. Also, more ports, chips and features = more things to fail. It was hard to get a reliable Intel extreme socket platform motherboard because a lot of them had parts that would just die while a more consumer friendly less featured common platform would work because it didn't have 8 dimm slots and 4 or 5 pci e slots. Look at which boards are mass manufactured and decide if there are issues or not. I assume the average PC builder spends 80% of their parts decision on a graphics card, but the motherboard is the most important piece on the build. Look for a mobo with the least amount of negative reviews from multiple online retailers.
Good advice. I was looking at Z790 boards from Asus and the reviews were all over the place for different models of the Z790 chipset. No correlation between price and reviews. Landed on the ROG Strix Z790-A Gaming Wifi II because it had a comparable price and the best reveiws.
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Good advice. I was looking at Z790 boards from Asus and the reviews were all over the place for different models of the Z790 chipset. No correlation between price and reviews. Landed on the ROG Strix Z790-A Gaming Wifi II because it had a comparable price and the best reveiws.

When I read reviews, I usually look at the negative reviews and how many total number of reviews. The higher number of total reviews kind of shows the popularity and number of sales that board gets. You would already know what you want out of features so reading positive reviews won't help much. On Newegg, I usually consider less than 10% bad reviews a good part, especially if it's more than 50 or 100 reviews. a 5 or 4 star reviewed part but only has 10 reviews won't mean much if not enough people buy it (or it's too new).
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01-25-2024 at 08:11 PM.
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I've had 2 of them over the past 5(6?) years on AM4. I don't overclock or need any special features. One of them died for reasons unknown, the other recently died after updating the bios for a potential 5x00 series upgrade. Everything seemed fine but then stopped booting to the primary drive about a week later.

Gigabyte is probably the worst, but all mobo makers are kind of bad. Excited to try something else soon.

From my experience of buying boards and researching through the AM4 generations-
ASRock X470. The Asus and Gigabyte boards were okay for B550. MSI for X570S MPG Carbon or MAG. I built a new AM5 and the ASRock X670E Steel Legend was the only one that stood out being reliable with not too many negative reviews. Some of these manufacturers have different assembly lines when building boards and some of their best featured or low/average budget products might end up being a bad product. Example, the Asus STRIX B550 is a more reliable mobo than their higher end X570E version. Sometimes their TUF series are better too than their STRIX counterpart (look at their video cards). It just depends on the generation if they just put way too many features and something isn't reliably working consistently (coil whine?).
I say, Biostar is the worse of the mobo brands. There are other brands I don't touch either such as NZXT or EVGA as they specialize in other products like video cards or cases/AIO watercooling. Gigabyte is decent sometimes (I liked their ITX Aorus B550I mobos) but I wouldn't touch their power supplies as they don't specialize in making those. Don't order a rice dish on a noodle shop that specializes in making ramen.
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When I read reviews, I usually look at the negative reviews and how many total number of reviews. The higher number of total reviews kind of shows the popularity and number of sales that board gets. You would already know what you want out of features so reading positive reviews won't help much. On Newegg, I usually consider less than 10% bad reviews a good part, especially if it's more than 50 or 100 reviews. a 5 or 4 star reviewed part but only has 10 reviews won't mean much if not enough people buy it (or it's too new).
I have a formula, lol. 1 star reviews can't be more than 10% of the 5 star reveiws. So if there are 65% 5 star, 1 star can't be more than 6%. This seems to work well so far.
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01-26-2024 at 10:38 AM.
01-26-2024 at 10:38 AM.
Thanks everyone for the helpful comments, I'll mess with my bios soon and hopefully not break everything. Apologies to those who downvoted me, my comments likely didn't help with this deal at all.
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01-26-2024 at 10:46 AM.
01-26-2024 at 10:46 AM.
Most of the bad reviews are from when the board came out with it's earliest bios it was not super stable and had issue make sure if you are buying a board you update to the latest version and get one that is still being supported

I did pull the trigger I got the white AUS rog one with this setup
It comes Tuesday I'll let u know if I have any issue
I did already grab the latest bios and drivers ready to go before install of the OS
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