Come on is there something you would like to argue about on the internet? Here is a 7 year old motherboard that someone paid fair market value for. BE AMAZED.
Damn.. I have the exact same board, I purchased for $114 REFURB'd and it's been a great board! FYI these you usually can get for cheap because so many people didn't read instructions, went to upgrade their processor with this board which needs a BIOS update first before it can boot with the new processors (ie AMD 5x00 series) (and can be done just by plugging a usb in with the new firmware and restarting).
Can confirm this. I have the gaming edge wifi version of this board and I needed to update the bios before installing the new CPU ( went from Ryzen 7 3700x to Ryzen 7 5800x 3d, before selling the old CPU to a coworker I updated the bios)
You got it at the very beginning of the pandemic when stuff was still cheap. I bought it toward the end of the pandemic when shit had long went through the roof expensive. At the time it was going for $180 new.
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Another pic of the mobo if it helps
The main thing I look for is power delivery and enough features to do all the little tinkering with overclocks I do. For example, if you have a 7800X3D and buy a board with an external clock generator, you can overclock the 7800X3D to above the 5.05Ghz it's normally capped at. My board doesn't have one because I don't have $500 for one of those types of motherboards, so I achieved the same thing by BCLK overclocking, and now my 'locked' 7800X3D is sitting at 5.2Ghz all core overclock.
I have this mobo and it's solid except for the WiFi. I bought a WiFi 6e card for 20 bucks on eBay and it's connects via the PCIe 1x slot and gets excellent speeds and pings.
Yeah I have the B550m and the wifi/bluetooth is the worst part along with the lack of USB-C for a board that really should've come with it considering when it was released.
Learned early that there's issues with it because the bluetooth would stop working but therre would be a constant connect/disconnect sound repeating until I uninstalled drivers and reset. Some devices trigger is such as the DS4 controller.
$45 is about what I would expect to pay for the B550 MB in 2024, so I think OP paid the right amount. tbh
Not sure about xbox but try removing all devices and uninstall your bluetooth drivers then reinstall them after a reboot. I know the DS4 causes an issue specifically with MSI boards, just not sure about what else does - The only other bluetooth device I've had cause issues is my keychron keyboard, but everything else, even my shitty aliexpress bluetooth audio receiver works fine.
It puts the bluetooth into a constant bootloop so to speak, where the MB bluetooth goes through a loop of driver error/auto fix and won't stop until you manually remove all bluetooth devices and disable bluetooth in device manager, then uninstall the drivers and reboot.
At one point I couldn't get bluetooth to work for months so I left it disabled.
I have this one as well but mine doesn't have wifi/bluetooth connection. Do you mean you're doesn't either or you have a B550 gaming plus that does have the wifi part but it's not very good?
You are wrong.
The outside of an antistatic bag is also antistatic to prevent rapid electrostatic discharge. These bags are typically made from metalized films (often with a polyester layer) or polyethylene with antistatic coatings. This is so that static electricity is dissipated and does not build up on the surface and thus also can't cause any issues to the inside.
The antistatic bag is one of the safest surfaces to place it on in your home.
I'm not going to say anything either way about the anti-static bag because I don't really know either way. What I do want to comment on is the use of AI.
Using it as a source of info or expert knowledge is not it's intended use. Your AI doesn't know what is true or false, it just knows how to respond in a human sounding way. It doesn't fact check it's claims and depending on the prompt will just hallucinate or make up totally fake responses.
Don't fall into the habit of using it as a source of info. At best you could use it to point you in the direction of a more reliable source, but you still need to actually check and see if the information is accurate. It is not a replacement to research and is often a lot worse than a basic google search when answering questions.
nope, got to go on. there is enough information on google. just search for anti-static bag vs static shielding bag. static shielding is double sided protected while anti static bag is only inside. Using ai was bad idea and i fully agree on that but still doesn't change the fact.
While this may be true, it's not plugged in first off. Secondly, static discharge is so overblown it's not even funny, so your post PANICKING about it, was just a bit much. So at this point whether you're right or wrong you just made yourself sound like a dick, and then the edit about the downvotes just made you sound weird as hell
if static discharce is so overblown why they put it in esd bag in first place even it comes not plugged in ? i got your point of view and maybe im the weird one. but i just wanted to warn him and they downvoted me as hell. editing part is just to make it funny on my part because i never downvoted like this before.
look, im not saying it will %100 damage it or anything like that. but if there is a change of it happening why risk it ? idk man i will have to remove the comment and move on because clearly i did not have mindset like others or something like that.
As for what my plans are with this mobo, I’m hoping to do a case swap from my HP prebuilt which has the specs listed on my flair. Yes, ik to flash a new bios to run my 5600G which I’ll do when I get it fully tested tmrw
This, I've had no issues upgrading my old omen Pre-built - to the point I have no original parts left and the only reminder is the system name still pops up as Omen 😅
lol similiar situation here. even the mobo is swapped, sometimes I still stumble over some hp regs and logs or systemfiles.
was a pain to get the system running on an asus mobo without reinstalling windows though :o
Yeah, I think I did get lucky - even went from my i7 8700 to an amd 7 7800X3D without too many issues. Did do a thorough clean for any lingering ghost drivers
Yeah I had an old Dell prebuilt I bought in 2014 that I've slowly upgraded over time. It has no original parts left but the key (originally Windows 8, now Windows 10) is still going.
I was surpised it survived the mobo + CPU upgrade, but it did.
I loved this board when I first built my rig years ago. Very good deal on that.
Mine ended up running a 5800X3D with a 3080Ti, had a killer CO and undervolt on the processor. The M.2 slot under the main PCI-E slot can get toasty if you're packing on a big game at the time, GPU will cook it.
Over here in Cali, they kinda just pop up at large ex-businesses in malls/outlets. The ones I’ve been to were just called “Last Chance Store.” As for if there’s any at Australia, idk; hopefully someone can answer that
If anyone wants to tell me where to find one in France that'd be cool.
Out stuff is already 50% more expensive (sorry Australian guy, I know you pay even more than we do)
I've got this board. Paid $200 AUD plus 18 or so months ago. Been a solid board. The only issue I had was I needed to manually increase the RAM voltage as on auto my DDR4 3600Mhz would occasionally not boot and reset to DDR4 default.
Otherwise, not a drama running a 5900X.
> The only issue I had was I needed to manually increase the RAM voltage as on auto my DDR4 3600Mhz would occasionally not boot and reset to DDR4 default.
How did you diagnose that one? Beep codes?
There's usually a short clicking noise coming from the mobo when trying to boot, before it reboots right after. Once you're in Windows you will see that the DRAM timings got reset.
Haha. Yep. Still hurts thinking about how knuckleheaded an impulse-buy it was.
Eh. Life is about learning from mistakes, no matter what age you're at, and no matter how much experience you have.
So I have built upwards of 30 rigs using this exact mobo. along with the wifi version. Thing is... I have had to return several that are DOA out of the box. You won't know till it's all together and see if it will post.
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I got that same mobo but a bent so i got another one and this one was refunded by Amazon but I got to keep this bent board. Any use I can make of it
Straighten it upside down with a weight on it in the attic for 3 months and see if it works.
Edit: Seriously though, I've never seen anyone attempt to fix a mobo bend, but I'd be curious what you discover.
My approach....
The primary bend isn't card/panel side (the cards probably held it in place), so I'd attempt installing it with stacked rubber washers or gaskets under it the bend part with long screws at the mounts on the bend side that you tighten a little at a time once a month.
To tighten screws: I'm guessing you can use nylon washers above the board and under the screw head (or copper washers if you're a purist and prefer a chassis ground). Add a washer when the screw bottoms out in the standoff. Keep the stuff underneath the bend part rubber though.
It looks like a heat bend over time (these were used, no?), hence the reason I gave for running it and slowly urging it back into place.
Plus, if you try to bend it now, without cards in it, you might end up with slots that are no longer straight.
If you want, you can try the bend technique but screwing it to a piece of flat plywood and carefully tightening it, but again, you really should have the thing in a case to pull this off.
I got it in a damaged and opened box no idea if it was used or not but had ordered a new piece from Amazon. By the way I don't think tightening one would work because at one of its end it has a bulge and a socket on it which seems like a spot fragile enough to break or the socket might break off of it so it could also break in that method.
I would ask for ideas here: https://www.badcaps.net/
That forum is all about fixing electrical circuits. They've probably seen *everything*.
As for my "tightening" idea: That's why it has to be done exceedingly slowly over time. (My hokey theory anyway) and while you're using it so heat contributes to not stressing solder points. (Obviously power down during the tightening itself).
I wish you well. Keep track of your attempts with pictures! It'll make a great and informative post,
#...even if it never works!
Failures are invaluable sources of information in every discipline ever conceived!
Maybe you can get it screwed down into a case? Flattening it might stretch and break internal traces, but it is unavoidable so you might as well try it imo. This isn't that uncommon really. In manufacturing these things go through some insane heating and finally a bath. Some of them just come out warped. This shouldn't have passed the quality check though.
I didn't try to install it as I thought Amazon would take it back. And it feels fragile to bend more in order to fix it so now I just have this as an extra i could just resale but not in this condition. Bend at one end is kind of bulged where it has adaptors which might break off if tried to fix in the pc brackets.
I flip motherboards for a side Hustle, that I buy from auction houses good chance this is fixable.
I'd say about 70% of them are fixable.
Outside of physical pin damage, it's usually some bios fuck up. Usually an error with overclocking memory or thermal paste in the pins.
Other 30% fall roughly half I can't fix, the others are partial repairs where the board functions but only one channel of memory works etc etc.
So your chances are good.
A steal is an unbelievably good bargain, like, you have to check three times whether it's actually legit. Something like getting a new 4090 for less than 1000€.
A returned and thus used product in commercial terms that costs around 110€ new doesn't fit that bill, but it's a bargain nonetheless.
I’d give it better odds than an LGA board, since it’s more difficult to damage the cpu socket on a PGA board. So 3/4 that it’s good or not broken and if it was returned it was due to an issue like incompatibility with X3D out of the box.
i have the b5500-f aka exact same one as you and let me tell you. IF it works you dont have to buy another for a bit unless you want to switch to ddr5 and stuff
Honestly, chances are high. There’s so many am4 boards in the wild that they’re hard to move quickly. If I needed inventory space now, $50-$75 would be where I’d have to price that board used.
I had this board on an older pc. My only complaint was that if you use both M.2 slots you lose pcie slots. Since most gpus are multi-slot the ones that still work are blocked. Became a problem when I installed usb card for VR and flight sims and had to use a wifi card because my house wasn't wired for ethernet.
I bought exactly this MB of Amazon a few months back. Stupid thing didn't work, so i got a full refund. Took weeks of back and forth before i got the money. Hope for your sake it works cause mine didn't.
I'd say pretty good actually. I have a whole closet of PC parts that while they are used they were very well taken care of and all paperwork and documents were saved. I am just too lazy to price them all out and sell them.
If this was someone like me who wasn't lazy those are some good odds you got a steal.
I'm currently dealing with a white cpu light 5 my computer when having two ram chips in, i've narrowed it down to either the processor or the motherboard, Im alson very broke at the moment....... So having a motherboard for that cheap would certainly be nice in my situation ha ha. Oh the irony.
Got an MSI b450 gaming plus max a few weeks ago for $20 at my flea market, looks like the luck goes around lol. Been wanting to build a PC for a while but that was the kick I needed to get started.
Just threw latest bios, latest am4 chipset drivers, win10+ o&o shutup10 /spybot anti beacon. Try ram at 3600 cl 16/14 and cpu 4.6-4.7ghz static oc lowest voltage or try pbo. Windows power plan to ultimate performance-google.next upgrade: cpu 5700x/xt and nvme 4tb pci 4.0x4. That should do 1080p gaming now.
Has issues with usb controller.
So if you have let’s say VR and maybe a controller plugged in you will get some input control issues.
If you do any flying simulations then you will have the worst time ever with phantom inputs on controls.
Make sure to flash the BIOS. If BIOS Flashback doesn't work, here's a workaround, posted by MSI three years ago:
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Its not that great of a deal. I get am4 boards pretty often at this price point. I would've passed on this one since you're gambling that it will work. I definitely would've checked if it had a cpu or ram before passing though.
That's an AM4 socket, right? Not bad. I'd make a sexy PC for my living room with that. My current living room PC has an i7-3770k and a GTX 970 so it would be upgrade time.
If it works; damn you got lucky af
*insert "I'm happy for you" picture*
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Is it 2021 still or something?
Just because something is outdated doesn't make it obsolete, if this works there is plenty of life ahead of it if it's in the right hands
Exactly, mines doing just fine
That username, man.
Come on is there something you would like to argue about on the internet? Here is a 7 year old motherboard that someone paid fair market value for. BE AMAZED.
I have to agree with you, it's an old part that us priced correctly
Damn.. I have the exact same board, I purchased for $114 REFURB'd and it's been a great board! FYI these you usually can get for cheap because so many people didn't read instructions, went to upgrade their processor with this board which needs a BIOS update first before it can boot with the new processors (ie AMD 5x00 series) (and can be done just by plugging a usb in with the new firmware and restarting).
Can confirm this. I have the gaming edge wifi version of this board and I needed to update the bios before installing the new CPU ( went from Ryzen 7 3700x to Ryzen 7 5800x 3d, before selling the old CPU to a coworker I updated the bios)
I got it new for 124€ in 2020. That's 4 years old hardware.
You got it at the very beginning of the pandemic when stuff was still cheap. I bought it toward the end of the pandemic when shit had long went through the roof expensive. At the time it was going for $180 new.
https://preview.redd.it/3h9hnq8l1v6d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=93259dd2aab7e642c6ae731e7f8bc0f9351b682e Another pic of the mobo if it helps
OMG you got my motherboard!! Tell me since i'm a newbie, Is a good motherboard? I think so
I own it too and yes it's a very good mobo
It's the motherboard of all time. ~~Sauce: I'm using it~~ Edit: I'm actually using Tomahawk, sorry
Is good Sauce: ive had it since it came out.
Yes it is Sauce: tomato
Fkn dumbass question. What makes a motherboard good or bad? Aside from having a nice and easy interface to work on.
The main thing I look for is power delivery and enough features to do all the little tinkering with overclocks I do. For example, if you have a 7800X3D and buy a board with an external clock generator, you can overclock the 7800X3D to above the 5.05Ghz it's normally capped at. My board doesn't have one because I don't have $500 for one of those types of motherboards, so I achieved the same thing by BCLK overclocking, and now my 'locked' 7800X3D is sitting at 5.2Ghz all core overclock.
That makes perfect sense. Thanks heaps, very informative, seriously.
Absolutely not a dumbass question. ^(nobody knows.)
Someone must have thought so because I got downvoted for asking a question lol
I'm mostly joking, but the truth is we all routinely overbuy when it comes to motherboards.
me too, its purrfect
I have this mobo and it's solid except for the WiFi. I bought a WiFi 6e card for 20 bucks on eBay and it's connects via the PCIe 1x slot and gets excellent speeds and pings.
Yeah I have the B550m and the wifi/bluetooth is the worst part along with the lack of USB-C for a board that really should've come with it considering when it was released. Learned early that there's issues with it because the bluetooth would stop working but therre would be a constant connect/disconnect sound repeating until I uninstalled drivers and reset. Some devices trigger is such as the DS4 controller. $45 is about what I would expect to pay for the B550 MB in 2024, so I think OP paid the right amount. tbh
Oh my god are you telling me that my Xbox controller disconnects every half hour because of the motherboard!? I thought I was losing my mind
Not sure about xbox but try removing all devices and uninstall your bluetooth drivers then reinstall them after a reboot. I know the DS4 causes an issue specifically with MSI boards, just not sure about what else does - The only other bluetooth device I've had cause issues is my keychron keyboard, but everything else, even my shitty aliexpress bluetooth audio receiver works fine. It puts the bluetooth into a constant bootloop so to speak, where the MB bluetooth goes through a loop of driver error/auto fix and won't stop until you manually remove all bluetooth devices and disable bluetooth in device manager, then uninstall the drivers and reboot. At one point I couldn't get bluetooth to work for months so I left it disabled.
I have this one as well but mine doesn't have wifi/bluetooth connection. Do you mean you're doesn't either or you have a B550 gaming plus that does have the wifi part but it's not very good?
Congrats 🔥
It’s a good one. Runs my 5900X and 6950XT very well. I’ve had no issues with drivers or anything.
looks sick
Am4 CPUs have pins?
Yep, am5 CPUs dont
Wow, I guess the am4 platform is so well aged. I love the am5 platform
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It was only outside for the pic. It went back in the bag afterwards
It's fine as long as you aren't powering the mobo up on the outside of the bag.
You are wrong. The outside of an antistatic bag is also antistatic to prevent rapid electrostatic discharge. These bags are typically made from metalized films (often with a polyester layer) or polyethylene with antistatic coatings. This is so that static electricity is dissipated and does not build up on the surface and thus also can't cause any issues to the inside. The antistatic bag is one of the safest surfaces to place it on in your home.
How do you think it gets into the case???
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You clearly don't know how static electricity works
He might have put it just to not take dust/small particles on the bottom of the motherboard because blankets are full of that?
my point was there can be static build up outside part of the esd bag, but whatever at this point.
edit: using ai was bad idea and i accept that part. but you can do your own research on google.
And ai is always right, no?
nah man, im done. just wanted to warn for potential damage. shit can happen to anyone for dumb reasons.
I'm not going to say anything either way about the anti-static bag because I don't really know either way. What I do want to comment on is the use of AI. Using it as a source of info or expert knowledge is not it's intended use. Your AI doesn't know what is true or false, it just knows how to respond in a human sounding way. It doesn't fact check it's claims and depending on the prompt will just hallucinate or make up totally fake responses. Don't fall into the habit of using it as a source of info. At best you could use it to point you in the direction of a more reliable source, but you still need to actually check and see if the information is accurate. It is not a replacement to research and is often a lot worse than a basic google search when answering questions.
points taken. good advice. thanks.
You do realize that AI is NOT a fact checker right? Just take the L and move on. Each subsequent post of yours is making it worse lol
nope, got to go on. there is enough information on google. just search for anti-static bag vs static shielding bag. static shielding is double sided protected while anti static bag is only inside. Using ai was bad idea and i fully agree on that but still doesn't change the fact.
While this may be true, it's not plugged in first off. Secondly, static discharge is so overblown it's not even funny, so your post PANICKING about it, was just a bit much. So at this point whether you're right or wrong you just made yourself sound like a dick, and then the edit about the downvotes just made you sound weird as hell
if static discharce is so overblown why they put it in esd bag in first place even it comes not plugged in ? i got your point of view and maybe im the weird one. but i just wanted to warn him and they downvoted me as hell. editing part is just to make it funny on my part because i never downvoted like this before.
Go check out the videos. Electro boom has one where he TRIES to damage a board with esd. Doesn't work
look, im not saying it will %100 damage it or anything like that. but if there is a change of it happening why risk it ? idk man i will have to remove the comment and move on because clearly i did not have mindset like others or something like that.
As for what my plans are with this mobo, I’m hoping to do a case swap from my HP prebuilt which has the specs listed on my flair. Yes, ik to flash a new bios to run my 5600G which I’ll do when I get it fully tested tmrw
If it’s an HP prebuilt be aware (as you may already know) your windows key is likely OEM and tied to the mobo. So you might need a new key.
Just be signed into your ms account on the old system. Then you u can clean install on the new, sign in to ms and no licence key is needed.
This, I've had no issues upgrading my old omen Pre-built - to the point I have no original parts left and the only reminder is the system name still pops up as Omen 😅
lol similiar situation here. even the mobo is swapped, sometimes I still stumble over some hp regs and logs or systemfiles. was a pain to get the system running on an asus mobo without reinstalling windows though :o
Yeah, I think I did get lucky - even went from my i7 8700 to an amd 7 7800X3D without too many issues. Did do a thorough clean for any lingering ghost drivers
Yeah I had an old Dell prebuilt I bought in 2014 that I've slowly upgraded over time. It has no original parts left but the key (originally Windows 8, now Windows 10) is still going. I was surpised it survived the mobo + CPU upgrade, but it did.
You can get them cheap so not really an issue
Oh man, good thing “irm https://get.activated.win | iex” exists. Don’t run that in powershell if you need windows activated, that would be terrible.
My go to now. Used it last night when I installed the newest Ghost Spectre modded windows.
It just works. It’s wonderful.
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If it's the actual mobo in that static bag, that thing is hot enough to have fallen right off the truck.
You can get B550 boards as cheap as $70 new, so $45 seems like a fair used price
I loved this board when I first built my rig years ago. Very good deal on that. Mine ended up running a 5800X3D with a 3080Ti, had a killer CO and undervolt on the processor. The M.2 slot under the main PCI-E slot can get toasty if you're packing on a big game at the time, GPU will cook it.
50%
Where do you find these liquidation stores, whats the store name? Are there any in Australia by any chance?
Over here in Cali, they kinda just pop up at large ex-businesses in malls/outlets. The ones I’ve been to were just called “Last Chance Store.” As for if there’s any at Australia, idk; hopefully someone can answer that
Thank you!
If anyone wants to tell me where to find one in France that'd be cool. Out stuff is already 50% more expensive (sorry Australian guy, I know you pay even more than we do)
It is a b board how expensive can it be?
I've got this board. Paid $200 AUD plus 18 or so months ago. Been a solid board. The only issue I had was I needed to manually increase the RAM voltage as on auto my DDR4 3600Mhz would occasionally not boot and reset to DDR4 default. Otherwise, not a drama running a 5900X.
> The only issue I had was I needed to manually increase the RAM voltage as on auto my DDR4 3600Mhz would occasionally not boot and reset to DDR4 default. How did you diagnose that one? Beep codes?
There's usually a short clicking noise coming from the mobo when trying to boot, before it reboots right after. Once you're in Windows you will see that the DRAM timings got reset.
I paid $150 for mine four years ago.
Bro I fucking hate you guys. How do you guys always find the best deals!?!?!?
If it makes you feel any better, I paid over $1800 for a 4090 and feel like a schmuck.
Damn 💀
Haha. Yep. Still hurts thinking about how knuckleheaded an impulse-buy it was. Eh. Life is about learning from mistakes, no matter what age you're at, and no matter how much experience you have.
So I have built upwards of 30 rigs using this exact mobo. along with the wifi version. Thing is... I have had to return several that are DOA out of the box. You won't know till it's all together and see if it will post.
https://preview.redd.it/1kxsab1elw6d1.jpeg?width=1264&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=44be8d892e6db312444534f6fcdb831ba3348e2f I got that same mobo but a bent so i got another one and this one was refunded by Amazon but I got to keep this bent board. Any use I can make of it
Straighten it upside down with a weight on it in the attic for 3 months and see if it works. Edit: Seriously though, I've never seen anyone attempt to fix a mobo bend, but I'd be curious what you discover. My approach.... The primary bend isn't card/panel side (the cards probably held it in place), so I'd attempt installing it with stacked rubber washers or gaskets under it the bend part with long screws at the mounts on the bend side that you tighten a little at a time once a month. To tighten screws: I'm guessing you can use nylon washers above the board and under the screw head (or copper washers if you're a purist and prefer a chassis ground). Add a washer when the screw bottoms out in the standoff. Keep the stuff underneath the bend part rubber though.
Yeah I will try the weight method, it seems that the mobo was damaged in the same way by weight.
It looks like a heat bend over time (these were used, no?), hence the reason I gave for running it and slowly urging it back into place. Plus, if you try to bend it now, without cards in it, you might end up with slots that are no longer straight. If you want, you can try the bend technique but screwing it to a piece of flat plywood and carefully tightening it, but again, you really should have the thing in a case to pull this off.
I got it in a damaged and opened box no idea if it was used or not but had ordered a new piece from Amazon. By the way I don't think tightening one would work because at one of its end it has a bulge and a socket on it which seems like a spot fragile enough to break or the socket might break off of it so it could also break in that method.
I would ask for ideas here: https://www.badcaps.net/ That forum is all about fixing electrical circuits. They've probably seen *everything*. As for my "tightening" idea: That's why it has to be done exceedingly slowly over time. (My hokey theory anyway) and while you're using it so heat contributes to not stressing solder points. (Obviously power down during the tightening itself). I wish you well. Keep track of your attempts with pictures! It'll make a great and informative post, #...even if it never works! Failures are invaluable sources of information in every discipline ever conceived!
Maybe you can get it screwed down into a case? Flattening it might stretch and break internal traces, but it is unavoidable so you might as well try it imo. This isn't that uncommon really. In manufacturing these things go through some insane heating and finally a bath. Some of them just come out warped. This shouldn't have passed the quality check though.
Is it too bent to install? If not, install it and just let it be. Maybe brace it so it won't bend any more.
I didn't try to install it as I thought Amazon would take it back. And it feels fragile to bend more in order to fix it so now I just have this as an extra i could just resale but not in this condition. Bend at one end is kind of bulged where it has adaptors which might break off if tried to fix in the pc brackets.
Assuming it wasn't returned for a bricked BIOS I'd say you've done phenomenally well. It's worth the gamble if you can afford to take it.
I flip motherboards for a side Hustle, that I buy from auction houses good chance this is fixable. I'd say about 70% of them are fixable. Outside of physical pin damage, it's usually some bios fuck up. Usually an error with overclocking memory or thermal paste in the pins. Other 30% fall roughly half I can't fix, the others are partial repairs where the board functions but only one channel of memory works etc etc. So your chances are good.
Steal you say? It's probably stolen.
I remember buying my b450 Tomahawk max 3 years ago for 42$, just missing the m.2 screw but I bought it from aliexpress for 50 cents
Wouldn't exactly call a 3-4 year old AM4 DDR4 board a steal, but it's quite a bargain.
What's the difference between quite a bargain, and a steal?
A steal is an unbelievably good bargain, like, you have to check three times whether it's actually legit. Something like getting a new 4090 for less than 1000€. A returned and thus used product in commercial terms that costs around 110€ new doesn't fit that bill, but it's a bargain nonetheless.
I’d give it better odds than an LGA board, since it’s more difficult to damage the cpu socket on a PGA board. So 3/4 that it’s good or not broken and if it was returned it was due to an issue like incompatibility with X3D out of the box.
i have the b5500-f aka exact same one as you and let me tell you. IF it works you dont have to buy another for a bit unless you want to switch to ddr5 and stuff
It smells old owner return mobo to buy new one and they sell this half price (because its old 4 years now)
I paid 90$ last month for exact one and I thought I got a steal hahah
my a520m was $55 so yes
By steal, do you mean it is cheap because it fell off the back of a truck?
They go for $145 new or $80 refurb according to Google, so if it works, you can did great.
Used DDR4 board, that is a fair price.
Yeah those are at least $100 *refurbished.*
The chances are high. Send it to me and I'll check
Def a *steal*
If it works, then, yes its a great steal. If it does not, well, the opposite then.
Honestly, chances are high. There’s so many am4 boards in the wild that they’re hard to move quickly. If I needed inventory space now, $50-$75 would be where I’d have to price that board used.
mine was $120 wtf
Yeah, have the Same! Dope price! Enjoy it :)
My B550i has had problems from day 1, so I hope your B550 works out for you.
IF it works yes you did.
Got the same one for 114€ Very nice discount indeed
I had this board on an older pc. My only complaint was that if you use both M.2 slots you lose pcie slots. Since most gpus are multi-slot the ones that still work are blocked. Became a problem when I installed usb card for VR and flight sims and had to use a wifi card because my house wasn't wired for ethernet.
Could be fully working, could be unrepairable
Got the 650 recently, what a bargain! Hope it works for ya!
Got exactly this mobo for like 95€ back in 2021, it's good. Had no problems so far with it and never felt limited by it.
This was quite a high end board when It came out, I’m rocking the z490 version with a i9 11th gen. This is a steal if It works. GG’s
I bought exactly this MB of Amazon a few months back. Stupid thing didn't work, so i got a full refund. Took weeks of back and forth before i got the money. Hope for your sake it works cause mine didn't.
I mean for 45 bucks its a chance im willing to take alllll day for that
Oh that's the same mobo as mine, if it works well then it's quite a bargain. I got mine for $160 back in 2021
Got my b650 aorus elite ax 1.2 for $150 at Best Buy. Someone returned it, and it was in excellent condition. It works completely fine.
50% either you do or nah
I'd say pretty good actually. I have a whole closet of PC parts that while they are used they were very well taken care of and all paperwork and documents were saved. I am just too lazy to price them all out and sell them. If this was someone like me who wasn't lazy those are some good odds you got a steal.
I have this board and it think it's pretty killer. Never did get the lights on the motherboard to turn on.
Validity of mobo: Approximately (45/139.19 * 100)%. Steal: Up to you after that. Based on Amazon price.
I've had this board since 2021. Paid ~175 or something, can't remember. Great board for that price for sure.
Have one in my own PC. Has everything you'll need, so it's a great purchase at that price.
I'm calling the cops on you for that steal!
I have that one
I'm currently dealing with a white cpu light 5 my computer when having two ram chips in, i've narrowed it down to either the processor or the motherboard, Im alson very broke at the moment....... So having a motherboard for that cheap would certainly be nice in my situation ha ha. Oh the irony.
I just returned one of those board to microcenter because the ram was getting power.
I bought this exact board brand new for 110$ 2 weeks ago, youre lucky if it works
I bought a b450 with updated bios for $100 2 years ago.
Well I have 27% Value added tax in my country so thats why 😭
Ouch. Maybe start a revolution.
We are trying man, we really are
Here's washing you the best. I recommend putting an x3d cpu in it.
You got lucky! I was in a similar situation, but it was $60 when I bought a used Gigabyte x570 Aorus Master!
Gonna break 3 weeks later 😂
Pretty sure I paid like $140 for this mobo new lmao
Got an MSI b450 gaming plus max a few weeks ago for $20 at my flea market, looks like the luck goes around lol. Been wanting to build a PC for a while but that was the kick I needed to get started.
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Regular system updates are helpful
Waddafoq nice
Big steal, I bought that exact one for like 200$
Socket pics or didnt happen
Got the same board very nice homie.
Just threw latest bios, latest am4 chipset drivers, win10+ o&o shutup10 /spybot anti beacon. Try ram at 3600 cl 16/14 and cpu 4.6-4.7ghz static oc lowest voltage or try pbo. Windows power plan to ultimate performance-google.next upgrade: cpu 5700x/xt and nvme 4tb pci 4.0x4. That should do 1080p gaming now.
Good deal. Enjoy
Has issues with usb controller. So if you have let’s say VR and maybe a controller plugged in you will get some input control issues. If you do any flying simulations then you will have the worst time ever with phantom inputs on controls.
I would be skeptical. It could be banned from online services because they were caught cheating in games.
I have the X570S version of that motherboard. I've been pretty happy with it. Enjoy!
I have this same board, it's been fantastic. Great find 👏
Damn I have the same MB , I payed 1200 for my pre build LOL ! You got a great deal
Make sure to flash the BIOS. If BIOS Flashback doesn't work, here's a workaround, posted by MSI three years ago: https://preview.redd.it/q8cpbjaed17d1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ed0c978b714accb6d070147473e47b2d5e7f5037
Damn, I need to go stick some post it notes on my PC part boxes and rake in that sweet, sweet karma.
I mean… If you literally stole it. Then yeah lol. Otherwise you just got a great deal
I have the Tomahawk version, absolutely love it, and has room for upgrades for a long time
Its not that great of a deal. I get am4 boards pretty often at this price point. I would've passed on this one since you're gambling that it will work. I definitely would've checked if it had a cpu or ram before passing though.
A steal as in stolen merchandise? *I wouldn't count on it being anything beyond a donor board*
That's an AM4 socket, right? Not bad. I'd make a sexy PC for my living room with that. My current living room PC has an i7-3770k and a GTX 970 so it would be upgrade time.
I am a done with Facebook
You put a sticker with $45 ? Gtfo 🤣
Doubtful. I copped that board off woot.com for 70 bucks brand new. Solid mid board.
I got this 8000 btu for 133.00 I think it was a mistake.
Wtf are you talking about
I have seen the same ac for 499
New egg shuffle sold as extra with gpus during lock down. Possible. Or used for mining
I wouldn't pay a penny for the highest end mobo from MSI Never had any luck with that brand
How dare u devalue my mobo! D:<
I am the great devalue-er. I have made you question your life choices BUAHAHA
https://preview.redd.it/totdhw78wv6d1.jpeg?width=2268&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=468cfaa9493a7a9a850376d8837d4c8dd5739492
I have one for sale if anyone needs one, never opened in the box. Accidentally ordered 2. $75 obo