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Rating 4.7 out of 5 stars with 1549 reviews

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    Rating 4.6 out of 5 stars

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94%would recommend to a friend

Customers are saying

Customers frequently mention the ease of installation, affordability, and compatibility of the B550 GAMING PLUS motherboard. They appreciate its budget-friendly nature and reliable performance for gaming and general use. However, some customers express disappointment in the lack of built-in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, and a few have encountered defective units or issues with the M.2 slot.

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  • Rated 4 out of 5 stars

    Exactly as advertised

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    Posted . Owned for 1 month when reviewed.
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    Simple swap from a b450. I'm not the biggest fan of the MSI bios and fan utility, but it does what it needs to. I found that Gigabyte utilities were more user-friendly.

    No, I would not recommend this to a friend
  • Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Good Board

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    Posted . Owned for 1 month when reviewed.
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    Great Motherboard, pretty good feature-set, pretty much all you need for a B550 board honestly. Bought this one as a replacement for a Gigabyte B550 that was DOA, would've wanted another one of those, but I needed a new board pretty quickly as I was tired of waiting for my computer to be up and running.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Perfect!!!

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    Posted . Owned for 1 month when reviewed.
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    I love a very complete plate that covers my needs.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Performance

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    I love it

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    Posted . Owned for 1 week when reviewed.
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    This motherboard helps me to use all the performance that i need for my pc

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Performance

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    MSI Motherboard

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    Posted . Owned for 2 weeks when reviewed.
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    I’ve built two PCs using this motherboard and they work perfectly. I’ve used a 5600X and 5800X on this motherboard with no issues.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Rgb

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Great motherboard.

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    Posted . Owned for 1 year when reviewed.
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    Great motherboard, love the RGB on the board. Looks too good.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Cons mentioned:
    Manual

    Rated 1 out of 5 stars

    Debug lights dont indicate actual mobo issues

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    Posted . Owned for 3 weeks when reviewed.
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    Niche issue but important. Debug lights don't accurate reflect onboard weaknesses/issues. Other issues I'd like to state was a lack of an included physical manual (minor but really?) and MSI's BIOS interface is kind of trash. I wanted to like this board, the aesthetic is clean, the capabilities are nice for am4, and the integrated IO shield is always a lovely touch. (Seriously why isn't this just standard these days?) Something went awry in the production process though. Possibly QC, but maybe I just got a board that had been unlucky? In any case, the debug light function. Now you'd assume when there's an issue with the motherboards ram slot that either the ram or the mobo light would flare up. Alas. That light working it claimed would have saved me weeks. To preface: Grounding mat/wristbands were utilized for every hardware swap. CMOS resets were deployed as appropriate to maximize chances of stability. Nothing was overclocked. None of the usual suspects, in other words. On initial POST things appeared fine, had several hours of stable use. Second boot however, bsodloops began. Many, many error codes were thrown. However they were so varied and odd (and that cursed bsod screen so fast these days) that troubleshooting the windows install came first. The lack of stability made even assessing the eventviewer and the logs half impossible. So this took longer than expected. Eventually though the error codes patterned, showing a lot of random things but a peppering of the 'hardware error' one. Ah. Ok. Here we go. Ran the memory check. Memcheck states ram (at least one stick anyway) is bad. We do the dx of singlestick in dimma1 and memcheck. Bsodsloops and corrupt for each. This is deeply suspicious but not impossible. Would again state that the debug light never did a thing in all this to indicate an issue. Odd but alright. We purchase (and thus have to wait for) more memory thats compatible for the board. In the interim, once more rebuild using the old mobo* we were upgrading from and POST, stable, run memcheck on old memory, everything is ...perfect. Suspicions founded. As for whether it's INDEED poor soldering, I cannot confirm this without tools but the performance indicates it and careful examination of the board reveals no corrosion, scratches, or burnt capacitors. Unfortunately, this was outside the scanty return window provided by Best Buy. I would have been better off returning it with a "idk it doesn't work >:(" 2 days later instead of performing due diligence. *The old mobo was being swapped out due to what were evidently longterm psu issues despite the psu being highly rated, had been throwing errors. The mobo itself has since performed fine. lol lmao even smdh. I *hate* troubleshooting. This ones a wallpost for another day though. A clarification here - The hardware is possibly good if you get a well soldered board, or one without connexion issues - the issue here I have as a massive Do Not is that the onboard debug lights at no time indicated an issue with the dram itself or the dimm slots. This is in part an issue with Best Buy and MSI both - the refund span for Best Buy is too brief when doing a thorough debug of what turns out to be bad hardware at home.

    No, I would not recommend this to a friend
  • Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Great MOBO for budget pc

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    Posted . Owned for 6 months when reviewed.
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    Great motherboard that does not break the bank. I have it running with a ryzen 5 3600 and a GTX 1650 ( in a GPU shortage it's all i have), 16 GB of 3.2 GHz RAM.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Bios

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Good Motherboard

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    Posted . Owned for 3 weeks when reviewed.
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    Great motherboard, works well, no complaints on this build.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    5/5

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    Posted . Owned for less than 1 week when reviewed.
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    I bought this with the ryzen 7 5800x great duo to play games on

    I would recommend this to a friend
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    Performance

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Great

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    Posted . Owned for 11 months when reviewed.
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    Second motherboard in my setup and it has worked great for me.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Performance

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    MSI b550 gaming plus

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    Posted . Owned for 3 weeks when reviewed.
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    This is a good MB , easy steps and quality, I installed a AMD Ryzen 7 5700g with 16g of Ram , this is a beast gaming pc

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Cons mentioned:
    Wifi

    Rated 3 out of 5 stars

    go with asus

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    Posted . Owned for 1 year when reviewed.
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    ive got two of these boards, one the chipset lanes failed out of the gate. no usb drives but usb type c would work and first one took forever to get a first boot

    No, I would not recommend this to a friend
  • Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Good Mobo option

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    Posted . Owned for 1 week when reviewed.
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    Lots of space for upgrades. 2 M.2 slots. 2 PCIE slots. 4 RAM slots. Very solid plug and play for mid tier.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    B550 gaming plus

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    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    Picked this up a month ago and glad I did cool thing too is you can upgrade the cpu to something new now and days.. waiting for a 3060 to drop in my basket though lol. I highly recommend this motherboard.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Quality motherboard, says a first-timer

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    Posted . Owned for 3 weeks when reviewed.
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    This was the first motherboard I purchased piecemeal for my first custom PC, but I do have some hardware and engineering background. The instructions were rather thorough, accounting for all the varieties of other parts that are possible to connect with this mb. It did take a few attempts at installation, but due to my own mistakes. The board seems well built; the connections are solid. I enjoyed not having to remove the I/O plate and install it separately. I would buy again now knowing what I learned.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Price

    Rated 4 out of 5 stars

    pretty good for cheap

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    Posted . Owned for 3 weeks when reviewed.
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    it’s pretty good i got it bc my motherboard fried and i needed a cheap new one

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Price

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    MSI MOTHERBOARD

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    Posted . Owned for 1 month when reviewed.
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    Great motherboard for the price, would definitely recommend!

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Bios

    Rated 2 out of 5 stars

    Overall good motherboard but not on bestbuys end

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    Posted . Owned for 1 month when reviewed.
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    The only reason this is 2 stars and not 5 is because of BestBuy i had a DOA motherboard and thats fine the odds of that are slim. So thats fine but only having it for 3 hours at the max BestBuy employee told me it had a smell and that it was wet and couldnt return it long story short manager got involved replaced it for me. Now the motherboard its self is flawless no issues some off the comments was saying there was a problem with all 4 ram slots being used im not experiencing that but i will update is it goes but for now i love the motherboard not how BestBuy treated me especially since i pay for totaltech.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Clean Looking and Easy to Use

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    Posted . Owned for 3 weeks when reviewed.
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    Super nice looking motherboard. Had a new cpu so needed to update the bios which was made easy using the flash bios button. Would highly recommend this to someone who doesn’t have a later gen cpu to update the bios.

    I would recommend this to a friend
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