Gigabyte B550M DS3H Motherboard - Supports AMD Ryzen 5000 Series AM4 CPUs, 5+3 Phases Pure Digital VRM, up to 4733MHz DDR4 (OC), 2xPCIe 3.0 M.2, GbE LAN, USB 3.2 Gen1

I bought this to build a cheap AM4 proxmox home server with a Ryzen 5600X and ECC ram.ECC RAM (Micron unbuffered ECC) works without issue and I'm even able to boot the system without a GPU once quick boot is enabled in the BIOS. Gigabyte has a good history of this working without issue and don't restrict their boards arbitrarily hence I picked them over other brands, along with solid reliability.It's a shame theres only two case fan headers (plus the CPU cooler) so I had to use a splitter to add a third fan, but this isn't really an issue and works fine.Overall a great board if you're on a budget without many compromises.

Great board. Always buy Gigabyte, always have. Runs Infinity Nikki with 5600XT, 32GB ram and 6600GT 2xOC GPU. Just missing WIFI and bluetooth, so had to add a card for that.BIOS is very user friendly. Rock solid. ARGB led stuff works great too.Factor in the WIFI though, only caveat.

This is an excellent value small (micro) ATX board for a decent spec budget PC build.There are many features built in.PCIe 4 support, 2 x M2 SSD slots including a fast one for your system drive, All the B550 bells & Whistles for the latest 5000 series AMD CPU's, Revamped pretty and extensive easy to set up Gigabyte BIOS with the built in BIOS flash from USB memory stick (without the need for plugging in Graphics card keyboard HD etc.), decent sound quality etc. etc.The downsides are few (but could be significant if you need to add any PCI expansion cards)The big drawback is that with a dual sized graphics card the 2 spare slots on the motherboard are obscured and so unusable. (e.g. no PCI sound card can be added). It should also be noted that some of the older AMD socket AM4 CPU's aren't supported by AMD's B550 chipset.Other than the minor limitations above this motherboard is up to the usual high quality Gigabyte standard and is a great board for an easily overclockable Windows 11 build which I would have no hesitation using again. (NB review based on Amazon price of £72.99 in early 2022).

Worked straight out of the box with a 5600x.

Arrived well packaged and new, as some have said the boxes were open well this one wasn’t it was sealed. I paired it with a new ryzen 7 5700x. Now this cpu will work with this motherboard but not out the box. You need to go to the gigabyte website and download the latest bios. Make sure you get the correct revision. The revision is on the white label on the box so this one was rev 1.7. Download the bios from the website, extract the folder and place the update bin file on a usb stick formatted to fat32. Then rename the update file to gigabyte.bin. Put usb stick in the usb port which has bios next to it on the io panel and press the a flash button. Wait for it to update ( about 3 mins max ) there is a little led in the board next to the a flash button which when it stops flashing the update is done. That’s it the board will now suppprt the latest Ryzen CPUs.Also, the motherboard would only boot with 1 stick of RAM, which I thought was strange. To get it to work with 2 sticks I had to boot into bios with just 1 stick installed and change the ram profile to xmp profile 1. Save and exit. I installed the other stick of RAM and it works fine. Been using it all day yesterday and today and it’s amazing. The auto overclock boost works well.after having this motherboard for a couple of months now I have found it to be excellent. i have manually overclocked the CPU to 4.7ghz and it has been stable and good. I have recently just built another system with an identical CPU but went with a b550 msi Tomahawk. I would say the gigabyte is equally as good as the MSI motherboard in fact I prefer the gigabyte.

This is my go-to motherboard for any build I do for friends, colleagues etc - sure it doesn't have features they will never use and some enthusiasts have a real downer on MATX but in my experience everyone likes the fact that I build them a compact unit, not one of these ugly boxes that you need an extension on your house to accommodate. I must have used about 8 of these and they have never let me down and I have never seen a compatibility issue with RAM and have never had the "need to flash the BIOS for the CPU to work" issue.

Built a second PC with this mobo for relaxed gaming in the lounge, very easy to build with, it posted on first try and is running with cool temps, very quiet in compact case, it's a basic board but VRM's are fine for my 5600X, 3060ti system. highly recommended for budget AM4 system

Unfortunately I’ve tried multiple times to update the bios on this board and still can’t make it happen. I’ve contacted manufacturers and awaiting second response …