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Build Quality
Customers generally have positive opinions about the build quality of this motherboard, praising its solid construction and reliability for budget builds. Some customers specifically appreciate its feature set, including fan headers, USB 3.2, Q-Flash, RGB Fusion 2.0, and M.2 slots. However, a small number of customers have experienced issues with the board not powering on.
Ram Slots
Customers have generally positive opinions about the Gigabyte A520M S2H's RAM slots, with some expressing satisfaction in its compatibility with various types of RAM and Ryzen processors. Others appreciate the motherboard's ability to support up to 64GB of DDR4 memory, making it suitable for multitasking. However, a few customers have wished for an additional two RAM slots.
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Compatibility
Customers have mixed opinions regarding the compatibility of this motherboard with older Ryzen CPUs. While some were able to update the BIOS and use it successfully, others encountered issues and frustration due to lack of support for backwards compatibility.
Highlights
Quality
Easy to install and setup as well as flash the bios to the most recent version.
This is lightening fast boots, bios is a breeze with clear categorized menus, raw board bios flash/update capability, clean lay... Read More
I was getting frustrated and loosing sleep for work because none of the motherboards would boot and come to find out, they are ... Read More
Even tho this mother is gen 3 ready it does not support previous generations without updating the bios first go with version f1... Read More
Price
Got it for low cost-high performance, reliability!
I bought 4 of these to do a budget vr build and have a gathering among friends using this motherboard since it was inexpensive,... Read More
I got this mobo for $50 prime on sale and i slapped in a 3200g ryzen cpu apu integrated graphics.
Great board for the price i paid, like 45 bucks on sale.
Packaging/appearance
It says on box does not support 3200g or 3400g because thwse are technically zen2
Competitiveness
Awesome performance, even compared to my ryzen 7 2700x running on an x470.
The biggest selling point for me was the "out of the box" compatibility with my new ryzen 5 3600 cpu.
I was looking for something affordable for my new amd setup as i previously had an intel set up but the opportunity arose for m... Read More
Overview
- Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is high deception involved.
- Our engine has analyzed and discovered that 52.4% of the reviews are reliable.
- This product had a total of 793 reviews as of our last analysis date on Oct 23 2024.
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
No because the am5 platform exists
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Keep in mind that am4 stock coolers will collide with the ram sticks if they are too beefy
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Other than that its an amazing motherboard pretty cheap pretty cool looking both bios and appearance wise and doesnt slow down any of my components
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I bought this board after finding out the one i initially bought did not have argb
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
My case has 3 argb fans and 2 corsair rgb ram sticks so i wanted to be able to coordinate the lighting
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For this price point it is next to impossible to find a board with argb
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I was lucky enough to stumble upon a forum that listed this as a possible option
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Board didnt come with mounting screws
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