MSI B550M Pro-VDH WiFi AMD B550 Micro ATX με Socket AMD AM4

Ordered a CPU, on arrival it had clearly been opened before and reshipped to me. All the pins were bent, they refused a return without a photo "of the shipping packaging" and refused to send me the return address. They wanted to blame the courier for what was obviously just repackaged and shipped by them. In breach of consumer law. I sent 5 emails they refused over and over again.

very good value for money

Good mobo, easy installation. Didn't have to use it but bios flashback is a nice feature, but I used with Ryzen 5 5500 and worked right out the box. But you can essentially flash the bios without a CPU if you have the right drivers on a usb. IO is decent, shield was fine to install, just snaps in. The only thing I had to get around was the WiFi doesn't work right out the box, you need an ethernet connection to download the drivers first, but aside from that it's a decent board for the price. Solid build quality as far as I can tell! The software such as mystic light is a bit of a pain but I don't have much RGB other than the case fans and they have their own controller so was fine for me.

Improvement Points: Finding that this motherboard randomly reboots / restarts and the EZ Debug lights are totally random. Motherboard was fitted with care, no scratches, shorts etc and it behaves weird. Can't get the integrated HDMI to work.

Good Points: Good motherboard with great features such as compatibility with ryzen series CPUs as well as wifi and an easy-to-navigate bios screen. Improvement Points: To utilise the motherboards wifi you have to download the drivers online (which requires wifi) so that may be a challenge unless you have an ethernet or can transport files via a USB

Good Points: Works well does the job and not a bad price

Good Points: The four diagnostic LEDs are very helpful; it would have been much harder to get working without them. The ability to update the BIOS without any parts fitted is very useful too; make sure you read the manual before trying to update the BIOS (chances are that you will need too!) otherwise you could be making the task much harder than necessary! Improvement Points: A BIOS update was needed straight away as the CPU I was fitting (5600G) wasn't recognised by the motherboard.