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GIGABYTE B550M K AMD AM4 Micro-ATX Motherboard $70.99
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Amazon.com [amazon.com] has the GIGABYTE B550M K AMD AM4 Micro-ATX Motherboard for $70.99 with free shipping for Prime Members.
Why post an AM4 motherboard. AM4 is back in demand since Ramageddon.
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Amazon.com [amazon.com] has the GIGABYTE B550M K AMD AM4 Micro-ATX Motherboard for $70.99 with free shipping for Prime Members.
Why post an AM4 motherboard. AM4 is back in demand since Ramageddon.
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Model: 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
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Technical explanation of what's happening: There's two problems with the VRMs. They're both underbuilt, and have no heatsink. If the VRM are well designed, they don't heat up a ton and don't need cooling. If the VRM are barely sufficient, they can be fine IF they have a heatsink to cool them. The double whammy of being underbuilt AND not having heatsinks mean that they quickly shoot up to their thermal max (only takes ~3 minutes under full CPU load), and then thermally throttle, which means dropping supplied power to the CPU, which means that your CPU clocks plummet for a split second before they come back for a few seconds and then plummet again. It's not enough to just point a fan at the board. With a 5800XT, I had to add small heatsinks to the VRMs AND point a fan at them for it to throttle less. Still throttled after that though. You have to downgrade to a 65W CPU for this board's VRMs to be sufficient. It seems to fare ok with a 5700x, VRM heatsinks, AND a fan pointing at the heatsinks. Stock, this motherboard is bad enough to obliterate the experience of almost any Ryzen CPU.
Also, Gigabyte knows this. They've released several firmware updates for this board to try to combat the problem, and their attempts to fix it intentionally cap the power delivery to the CPU to try to reduce overheating. Not only does it not work, it basically just reduces your CPU performance across the board while still not solving the thermally-induced lag spike problem.
To reiterate, this is not cork-sniffery about motherboard design. This is truly just a bad enough motherboard that most processors will have problems that you'll notice in real-world use. The issue it causes is massive lag spikes, not just slightly reduced performance.
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