AMD B550 PG Riptide ATX Motherboard Dual Channel DDR4 4933 MHz AM4 Socket 128 GB SATA3 6.0 Gb/s M.2

Great boards for am4 processors, keep in mind only two ram slots so factor that in for your build. Very high quality board that's easy to build and well labeled. The speed of build is very quick with these micro at boards. USB and all pins labeled well and easy to nav. Bios is easy to update. the board looks really cool and high quality. I've had no issues with stability and the computer runs crisp and clean. If your looking to build a nice budget build on a am4 processor this is a perfect board for that, priced well and a good quality board. Start to finish the build takes about 30-40 mins and is easy as the micro at platform gives you plenty of room even in a smaller case and just makes for a easy and quick build. A great budget build for basic gaming is this board, 2x 16gb sticks of ram, ryzen 5 5600x and a 1660 super and a 550w psu. You can build that for a fairly low price (ram is crazy expensive now) and have a stabile computer that is capable of decent gaming and multi tasking and is plenty fast for general use and basic gaming while maintaining good FPS. Add in a quality wifi card for wifi connection and your ready to go for a low price with a solid system on a budget and a easy first build for someone.

I'm not using this motherboard for gaming; I'm using it to migrate to Windows 11. I selected it because it supports TPM (pretty common these days,) has enough SATA ports for me, and supports AMD CPUs with built in graphics. Windows 10 was installed on one of the installed disks. Apparently Microsoft wants us to buy a new version of Windows in order to migrate, so my Windows activation is no longer valid. I'm guessing this will be true when a motherboard changes even if the same disks are used. Update: Windows 11 activated. The motherboard supports it, but (because of Windows issues) I was unable to update Windows 10. I had to install Windows 11 rather than upgrade. If you use Windows, you should buy your Win11 license using Groupon for about $10. The picture shows the installed motherboard. The I/O shield is on the top left, under the fan. Partially hidden under the CPU fan cable is an unused four pin 12V ATX connector next to the connected eight pin 12V ATX connector. My power supply didn't come with a four pin connector, so I didn't use it. The manual doesn't make it clear exactly why there are two 12V ATX connectors. As you can see, there's no graphics card used here. The motherboard supports (AMD) CPUs that have built in graphics, which is all that's needed when a gaming motherboard isn't going to be used for gaming. The motherboard has six SATA ports. I'm using four because three extra disks were available. You should be more careful than I was when considering which case you use. The case I used has two connectors that don't plug in anywhere on the motherboard. It doesn't have a reset button, instead using a front button to control RGB lighting. I use it as a reset button instead, so I can't control RGB lighting. The back panel has six USB 3.2 Gen 1 ports, an HDMI connector and even (although I haven't seen one in ages) a PS/2 mouse/keyboard port. There are also line in, speaker out, and microphone ports. I don't use these. I would use the speaker out but my speaker line is a couple of inches too short to connect where I can see it. The case is installed inside a desk and I'd have to do this by feel. It's not that important yet. The headphone port on the front of the case works. The motherboard supports more fans than I have, has a COM port connector (which requires a PCI card to use,) an RGB LED header and an addressable RGB LED header, two USB 2 connectors, and a TPM connector. Almost all of these connectors are extras. You don't need any extra TPM. The motherboard and CPU provide this function. I have the case LED connector plugged into the addressable RGB header. It probably should have been plugged into the plain RGB header, since my front fans don't glow at all. I'd try switching it, but glowing fans weren't important enough to bother with. The /ac model also contains wireless LAN antennas. The same I/O shield is used for both models. It has unused holes. Here's the net: This motherboard does everything I ask of it, but I'm not really stressing it. It's physically sturdy. It started off in a case that wouldn't fit where it was needed and moving it to a smaller case didn't cause any problems. Before moving it, it ran 24/7 for about two weeks and now that it's been moved it's been running 24/7 for an additional week. You should look at reviews that contain graphics cards if you're going to use one. (I think you'll need one to support multiple monitors.) Make sure your case and motherboard are going to work well (enough) together.

Runs no issue, boots in seconds with nvme and 5800x, pc games great with 2x16GB ram and 6900Xt. Affordable with optional m2 for wireless card like a laptop would run, has holes for the antenna too! I have used Asrock for Ryzen cpus many times and never had an issue with their boards. Happy with this board and the price.

Really solid B550 board that does everything you would expect it to do and does it with zeal. This board is a perfect mix of value and decent features. No, you aren't getting everything you could possibly desire, but at this price point in comparison to others you get a hell of a deal; to get these same features elsewhere it adds another 20%. That isn't a lot of money, but if you are on a tight budget with a build, it makes a difference knowing you can get a quality part at the right price point

I've been using this motherboard for about 2 years now, no complaints. Works great

This motherboard does NOT have an actual SATA controller for the 4 onboard ports. If you use either of the M.2 slots, you will disable all the SATA ports because it can't handle the bandwidth of both. Absolutely useless. This is not made clear in the description. Seemed too good to be true - and it absolutely was. Now I have to sell this motherboard used at a substantial loss because the return window is closed and the board isn't "bad." But it definitely isn't good. Steer well clear if you're intending to use this for a NAS build.

Excelente producto

This board was such a pain in the butt to get working and I made sure all the parts were compatible with PCPartPicker first, as I did not need incompatibilities creating an unknown variable. TROUBLESHOOTING: I ran into an issue with a lack of output to the display... At first, I thought it didn't support the 5700G CPU I had, but then I realized that P2.10 was the BIOS installed and it should support it. However, It wasn't showing any video with the internal GPU or with the Graphics Card I had installed (AMD 6600 XT)... I even went as far as purchasing a Ryzen 3 3100 to flash the firmware to a newer version, but even that CPU wasn't displaying any output! I had no beeps indicating there was an issue (Yes I installed a speaker and tested it by removing the RAM and it certainly recognized that). In addition to this, the CPU, Case, and GPU fans all had power, so that wasn't an issue either. I began to search for others having a similar issue and found a few posts where people were using CPUs showing as supported with all motherboard versions and still not producing any output. One guy said he couldn't get it to display anything with the HDMI port on either his video card or his Motherboard with an integrated GPU (That's extremely poor design and testing of this product). Armed with new information, I tried a Display Port cable and unfortunately, my Grandson was "Helping", in between text messages to friends (this is his computer)... Apparently, he didn't think it was okay to leave the DP cable plugged into the Monitor at the same time as the HDMI cable and as soon as I figured out what he did, we finally had video output with the Discrete GPU. The real problem here is that the board should poll each video connection and try to get a signal, yet this was the only board I've ever owned that didn't do this. If the board polled the ports, there wouldn't have been any guessing games about why I had no video and no beep codes telling me something wasn't right. Even more, the AMD 550 and 570 chipsets both support BIOS Flashback for updating the BIOS without a CPU installed, and yet these motherboard makers decided that should be reserved for their high-end products only (Asrock and Asus both do this and it's dumb), so they never implemented it. They knew this was an issue with AMD CPU support when they made these boards and still they decided you didn't need the feature. VALUE The big selling point is that you can support 5000 series CPUs and NVME drives. Unfortunately, they skimped on so many other areas that their only value is these two items. This board lacks a USB-C Header or USB-C Port, It only has two RAM slots, a single x1 PCIe slot, and a single x61 PCI-E slot, and there's only support for a single case fan and CPU fan, so that's not great either. For $20 to $30 more their competitors give you most of the features this board is missing and they likely work without all the hassle. I've had some very nice AsRock boards in the past, but this one is an extreme disappointment for an ATX board. GAMING Yes, it will work for gaming, but limited fan headers mean the only way to power some of the fans would be a straight plug to the power supply and that will give you zero control over the cooling speeds and noise levels. I could see mid to higher-end cards and CPUs throttling with this setup. OVERALL It's a cheap, no-frills motherboard that allows you to use 5000 series CPUs and supports faster RAM. Had I known what a hassle it would be to work around its flaws, I might have just paid the difference and purchased a slightly higher-end model. Am I keeping the board? Well, now that we got it working, we will stick with it, but hopefully, this helps other people make their decision when buying 550 series motherboards.