GIGABYTE B550M Ds3H Ultra Durable Micro ATX Motherboard with Pure Digital Vrm Solution, Pcie 4.0 X16 Slot, RGB Fusion 2.0, Q-Flash Plus, Ddr4 Sdram

This is my second PC build and my second Gigabyte Motherboard (Still have GA-B85M-D3H, 4th Generation Intel; which I had purchased 6-7 years ago). It was time to upgrade. I bought it in the Great Indian Festival (Amazon) for 15k, it was originally priced at 17.6k. So it was a pretty sweet deal and I took it without hesitating.I have paired it with a Ryzen 7 3700x (supported right out of the box). I won't be overclocking until I feel the need to do so, but I had seen the UEFI BIOS, it has a plethora of options which would certainly be helpful. I won't be gaming on this, would be using it for development purposes.- ATX build, should be compatible with most of the cases available.- Very good build quality, the heatsinks are a nice addition- Felt the strength while installing the CPU cooler: AMD Wraith Prism, I could confidently apply pressure.- Clean and aesthetic look- Has RGB strips on the left hand side of the board, but they are not that prominent, I guess they are meant to illuminate the back of the board and giving an elevated effect. Some might mind this.- It comes with onboard LED indicators for CPU, RAM, VGA & BOOT. They are helpful for troubleshooting, incase of failure in any component.- It takes around 3-4 seconds for the Windows 10 (May Update, ver 2004) Lock screen to come up after power on. This was on a regular Kingston SSD. Pretty slick I would say.- I wouldn’t recommend the Gigabyte apps, they are kind of bloatware.- The box contents contain a driver CD as well. Thought of mentioning it.I won't go into the technical details of the board, that information is easily availble on the Gigabyte website. However I would like to mention that the board I had got was shipped with F2 BIOS version. I had registered this on the Aorus website for warranty purposes, it comes with 3 years of warranty from the date of purchase. The board was imported on August 2020.Specifications -Motherboard - Gigabyte B550 Aorus Pro ACProcessor/CPU - AMD Ryzen 7 3700xRAM - G.Skill Ripjaws V 8GB (G.SKILL F4-3200C165-8GVKB)Existing items -SSD - Kingston UV240 x 2HDD - Seagate 1TB x 1GPU - Gigabyte Geforce GT 710 2GB DDR5 (GV-N710DS-2GL)Case - Corsair Carbide SPEC-04 (1 Pre installed fan, will have to add more as the temps can go high)PSU - Corsair VS650 Power Unit (650 Watts)Thanks to the seller, they had almost immediately dispatched the Motherboard after I had placed my order. I got it within 2 days. The package was sealed, Amazon wrapping as well as the Gigabyte seal on the motherboard box.This is a great motherboard, one may go for it without second thoughts. Will update the review with any noteworthy changes if required.Thanks for reading.

I got it for Rs. 17309 during a lightning deal, and the motherboard is amazing for it's features at this price. Everything works as it should, BIOS is good (don't forget to boost your ram clock by setting xtreme profile in it), and it was easy to install, except for lack of in depth CPU cooler installation instructions, which you can google.Sound quality from the sound card is amazing. I have highly sensitive earphones and I get no background hiss on it which I get on literally any other laptop/mobile. I built it with Ryzen 7 3700X, stock cooler, Zotac 2080 Ti. 16GB 3600MHz CL17 ram, crucial P1 SSD and corsair RM 750 PSU.

Very good motherboard.pulled the usb 3 cable and i pulled out the whole usb 3 header guide plastic socket. the whole thing came off. maybe user error?

Long term review after using it for about 4 years.Great processor support for AM4 socket.Has PCI express 4.0 thanks to B550 chipset and is still a value for money mobo.

Provided me motherboard with faulty CPU socket, I had to travel kms to get it fixed since Gigabyte centre is very far from me. Yes i couldve returned it, but the socket was damaged some way that it was running 2 of my RAM and it couldnt run 4 RAM later so my hands were tied

Great motherboard, super performance, one limition is there is no type c connectors

This motherboard has everything you need in a budget motherboard best value for money. RGB, ARGB, NVME gen4, PCIe Gen4 good of you are using RTX 3000 series. Hybrid fan headers automatically identify of you are using a fan or aio pump and with fan stop that turns the fan off if you're watching movies or left something for downloading overnight. 5+3 phase power design is very good my Ryzen 5 3600 never drops below 4ghz on last motherboard Asus exa320m it berely touched 4ghz use to fluctuate a lot in speeds. Maximum ram speed supported is 5100(O.C) and Ryzen 5000 ready.

Good motherboard.Cons:1. Gigabyte Control Center software sucks big time as compared to the Asus armory crate. and my personal experience with a same-tier Asus Motherboard was slightly better overall. Rest time will tell.2. The CPU power pin on the motherboard is a pain to access.Pros:1. The marketing page has enough of it.Tip: Do not put any 2000 series CPU just for checking also.