GIGABYTE B550 AORUS PRO V2 (AMD Ryzen 5000/ B550/ ATX/ PCIe4.0/ DDR4/ Realtek ALC1220-VB/Front & Rear USB Type-C/RGB Fusion 2.0/ Dual M.2 Thermal Guard/Gaming Motherboard)

Very good

This is a premium segment board and got it around 14.5k in great Indian festival' 22. Now coming to pros and cons --1. Out of the box 3rd generation ryzen support. My 5700x had no problem.2. Parmanent IO shield makes the job of installation easy.3. Overclocking is breeze via bios.4. Upto 128GB Ram support on four Slots.5. Swift mount of Deepcool gamex 400 cooler with the original motherboard base plate.6. Lots of USB headers.7. No heating issue.8. 2+2 , a total 4 nvme slots.9. 5 cooling fan support.10. Clean and spacious layout.Cons1. Expensive and really big. You need a full ATX gaming cabinet.2. SMPS point is very tight and auxiliary 6 pin connection is at difficult angle. It is suggested to connect these points before mounting the board.3. WiFi and Bluetooth are missing, which should be available for the boards in this premium segment.Overall a premium board for serious gamers and heavy users.P.S I am running it on seasnic 550 Watt PSU in Deepcool kendoman cabinet without any problem.The motherboard is connected with one 500 GB crucial NVME SSD, two hdd of 1 TB each on SATA and one sata DVD rom. There are two crucial 16 GB 3200 MHz Rams and one gigabyte RTX 3070 graphics card , all running fine so far.

La scheda madre è molto buona, anche a livello di bios facile e veloce da aggiornare. Ci sono delle cose che avrebbero dato quel plus però, per il prezzo che ha.Manca sia il bluetooth che il wifi (e mi sarei aspettato almeno il bluetooth)Gli effetti rgb fusion 2.0 sono talmente brutti che anche quelli di un controller per le ventole low cost ha effetti migliori.Se decidi di sincronizzare il colore di ram/ventole, alcune ventole invece di essere rosse ad esempio, saranno verdi, mentre invece le ram gialle.Se invece volessi non usare il controllo della scheda madre sulle ram, ma solo sulle ventole, sarei costretto a riavviare il pc per annullare il cambio colore fatto dalla scheda madre.Software completamente inutile e disinstallato, orribile.

Getting a new motherboard is always both exciting and stressful due to all the points of failure when putting a new system together. My old 7700k system was starting to struggle so I thought it was time to upgrade. Everything went smoothly. Paired this up with a 5700g and 32gb of 4400mhz ram clocked at 3800mhz. The increase in performance in games of course was noticeable compared to the igp in the intel but what surprised me was the increase in basic windows and non 3d apps as well. The virtualization performance using Bluestacks is a LOT better than my old system which I wasn't expecting. Overall I'm very pleased with this board.

I did a massive research before going for a motherboard, and that was the only one that had all the new stuff that a b550 can offer without breaking the bank. 2.5LAN, usb-c front and rear (gen1 and gen2 respectively), new amp-up audio, plenty of usb ports, q-flash, and all without the annoying extra fan the x570 will require and its price. Installation was super easy, no need for q-flash out of the box before installing my ryzen 5000 cpu, whole thing booted up nicely on the first attempt.Addressable lights are pretty discreet and should mostly disappear if you install an aftermarket cpu heatsink.Gigabyte apps look unfinished, but they do the job and help me keep an eye on temperature sensors.It took me a while to close the deal on this one, but boy am I happy I did that.

Nicely laid out with preinstalled and reinforced back plate. Also reinforced CPU fan back plate allows easy installation of tall and heavy custom coolers. Separate fan PWM connector is provided for custom water cooling. All connect points for fans, LED control etc. are nicely placed around the board with the majority of front panel connecting points being aligned at the bottom of the board so you can route the wires on top of the PSU housing for a clean looking build. Keep in mind that the board is full ATX (there is two mm clearance in my mid tower case over the PSU housing ). The main NVME slot is provided with a cooler and pad and keeps my 1Tb Samsung SSD at 34 degrees under load with the two 120 fans I have in the case (one front, one back) at room temperature (23 degrees). Second NVME slot does not have one but I do not intend to use it (normal 4Tb SSD via SATA serves as general storage). So your mileage might vary if you want to use both NVME slots. Onboard sound is good for general usage and gaming and so is the inbuilt LAN. No WiFi but I prefer wired network anyway as it provides more consistent performance when streaming games to the living room TV using Moonlight. Application suite provided is a bit archaic looking but works just fine to tune case/cpu fans/light performance of CPU/memory, BIOS update/backup, System information and logging (for performance/health analysis). Cannot comment about LED control as I do not use any but the option is there on the board and in the software.