MSI PRO B550M-P GEN3 AM4 Micro ATX Motherboard $139 + Delivery ($0 MEL/SYD C&C) @ Scorptec

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  AndrewMTG on 04/11/2022 - 19:01

  Looking to buy Ryzen 5700X waiting for further possible price drops and a cheapo motherboard that is good value and has decent ports and oc support and what not. This could be good but I reckon there will be better deals so time to hold !!!

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  zihengg on 04/11/2022 - 19:05

  Hi,
  do you have any deal for B450 or B550 with wifi? I already got at 5600 CPU and waiting for a motherboard with wifi for a great deal.

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    AndrewMTG on 04/11/2022 - 19:05

    you can try get a wifi adaptor instead

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      zihengg on 04/11/2022 - 19:08

      A good wifi6 adaptor with Bluetooth is not cheap as well. around $60~$90. adding this price to the motherboard will make the total price more than $200.

      Hopefully can find a motherboard with wifi that is around $150

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        AndrewMTG on 04/11/2022 - 19:09

        +1

        Best of luck 👍

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        ATangk on 04/11/2022 - 19:09

        I got a b550 wifi board from MSI for like $125 last year. Surprised they’re still quite expensive now.

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          zihengg on 04/11/2022 - 19:13

          +1

          @ATangk: hopefully i can get one on black Friday .

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        mystarey on 04/11/2022 - 19:29

        If you get a motherboard with an E-key M.2 slot, which under $200 is basically just Asrock boards, you can add the Intel AX200 WiFi 6 kit for $39. However I don't see the point of doing this until the MSI Mortar WiFi permanently disappears from the sub-$200 market.

        But yeah, sometimes the Asrock B550M turns up for $139, so that plus the AX200 kit can be a decent deal if MSI's offerings aren't obtainable for whatever reason.

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    mystarey on 04/11/2022 - 19:15

    +1

    The MSI B550M Pro-VDH has been available for two years now and is still the pick for this use case. Sadly the price of it has been and still is climbing, and it may be being discontinued in favour of these crippled "Gen3" boards. Not only does it add WiFi (granted older WiFi 5 a.k.a. wireless ac) but it cuts none of the other corners that the Gen3 boards cut. I will say it has one other noted downside, which is the lack of a rear USB-C port, but it has a header front one, for cases that have USB-C ports. Kind of bizarre really when most lower-midrange motherboards do the opposite.

    I see the Pro-VDH is still available for $159 at Centrecom and I would say buy that. It used to be $149-159 everywhere but it looks like everywhere else the prices for it have gone up. You can of course wait for Black Friday, but there's also the possibility that this will be gone by then, such is the risk with buying for the older AM4 platform, options that used to be plentiful are slowly vanishing.

    EDIT: For $195 they have a pre-order availability listed for the B550M Mortar WiFi, which is essentially this model's bigger brother. I would personally therefore not pay more than $170-odd for the Pro-VDH because the Mortar has better everything.

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  notaccel on 04/11/2022 - 19:06

  +4

  What's the point of this board? A PCIe Gen 3 only version of the B550M Pro?

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    Dvbargain on 04/11/2022 - 19:08

    +3

    Rubbish imo.. B550 has had pcie4 standard from the start

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      tekisei on 04/11/2022 - 23:51

      +1

      Technically the B550 chipset itself did not support PCIe4 - the gen4 support was from the gen4-capable CPU having direct lanes to the first M2 slot and the main card slot.

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  BROKENKEYBOARD on 04/11/2022 - 19:20

  +4

  The VRM package is the same as the B550 Gaming Plus and B550-A Pro

  This can't be true, do you have any reviews showing it's the same because in the pictures it looks clearly different.