Gigabyte B550M K
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The Gigabyte B550M is an affordable and compact motherboard from Gigabyte based on the budget AMD B550 chipset. Part of the 2023 Ultra Durable product line, most of which is in the workhorse class. During production, Gigabyte strives to keep the final cost as low as possible while increasing the reliability of the device and increasing its lifespan. This model uses special double locks for RAM modules, durable resistors with anti-sulphur coating and compacted textolite.
Sacrificing reliability, the company's engineers brought a weak power envelope, which makes it not the best choice for a powerful gaming or work build with a lot of RAM and a powerful Ryzen 7/9 level processor. According to the manufacturer, the optimal scenario for using the Gigabyte B550M K will be to work as part of an office work machine or a home multimedia PC with a video card built into the processor, which does not require miracles in terms of overclocking and performance.
With dedicated HDMI and DisplayPort ports, you can stream directly from the built-in Radeon Vega video core on Ryzen processors. In addition, the board is equipped with four slots for DDR4 RAM with a maximum frequency of 4733 MHz. The maximum amount of RAM is 128 GB (4x32 GB with support for XMP technology). Four classic SATA 3 connectors and two modern M.2 ports for installing fast and compact M.2 SSDs are provided for installing drives.
