ASRock B550M HDV
mATX B550 board for AM4 CPUs, DDR4 memory, no BIOS Flashback - watch for BIOS update needs.
The ASRock B550M-HDV is the cheapest B550 board I've found in active Indian retail at ₹6,499 from PrimeABGB. It's a stripped-down mATX board, two DIMM slots instead of four, one M.
Official India stock. Full warranty through the brand's India service network, standard RMA if anything goes wrong.
Full specs
Compatible CPUs
DDR4 memory kits
Where to buy ASRock B550M HDV in India
Expect to pay roughly ₹6,200-6,900 for the ASRock B550M HDV in India right now, depending on offers and seller. I always recommend buying from retailers that give a proper GST invoice - it's what makes your India warranty claim smooth later.
In my years running a PC store, PrimeABGB (Mumbai) and Vedant Computers (Kolkata) have also been consistently reliable for verified stock - compare before buying.
ASRock B550M-HDV Price in India: The Cheapest B550 Board at ₹6,499
The Budget Floor of B550
Every chipset generation has a board like this, the one that exists purely to hit a price point. For B550 in India, that's the B550M-HDV. At ₹6,499 it undercuts every other B550 board in this batch by a wide margin, including its closest sibling, the B550M Pro4 at ₹9,000.
The trade-offs are real. You get two DDR4 DIMM slots instead of the usual four, capping you at 64GB of RAM across two sticks, fine for gaming, tight if you also do heavy multitasking or content work. There's a single M.2 slot instead of two, so no easy room for a second NVMe drive down the line. VRM is basic, no fancy heatsinking on the power stages, which matters if you're pairing it with anything above a Ryzen 5 5600.
What You're Not Giving Up
Here's the part that matters: it's still a real B550 chipset. The PCIe 4.0 x16 slot for your GPU is unchanged from every other board in this lineup, so your RTX 4060 or RX 7600 gets full bandwidth regardless. Realtek Gigabit LAN and basic HD audio are present and functional. This isn't a crippled board, it's a trimmed one.
Who Should Buy / Who Should Skip
Buy this if you're building the absolute cheapest PCIe 4.0 Ryzen 5000 rig possible, pairing with a Ryzen 5 5600, and running a single stick or two of RAM without upgrade plans.
Skip this if you want room to grow, more RAM capacity, a second M.2 drive, or you're running anything above a 5600/5700X. Spend the extra ₹2,500 on the B550M Pro4 instead, it's a meaningfully better board for not much more money.
Questions
No, it only has two DIMM slots. Maximum supported is 64GB across two sticks.
For a single-drive budget build, yes. If you want a fast boot drive plus a fast secondary storage drive, you'll need to use SATA for the second drive instead of NVMe.
It'll boot and run it, but I'd keep it at stock clocks. The VRM here isn't built for sustained high-load performance on the bigger Ryzen 5000 chips.