I am literally freaking out right now because I bought a Ryzen 5 5600X on sale yesterday and I thought that was the hard part but now I am looking at motherboards and I feel like I am reading a foreign language or something. I am trying to build my first ever PC for my birthday which is this Saturday so I am on a massive time crunch here and I have no idea what I am doing sorry if this is a really basic question but everything online is just confusing me more.

My logic was that I could just buy any board that said it works with AMD but then I started seeing stuff about B450 and B550 and X570 and my head is spinning. Do I need the expensive ones? I spent way more than I planned on the graphics card (got a 3060 from a guy locally) so my budget for the motherboard is like strictly under $120 maybe even $100 if that is even possible. I just want to play Valorant and maybe some Minecraft with shaders without the whole thing crashing.

I was looking at some cheap ones on Amazon like the Gigabyte B450M DS3H or something like that but then I read somewhere that I might need to update the bios which sounds terrifying because I dont even know what a bios is and I dont have another CPU to use for the update process if that makes sense? Is there a board that just works out of the box for the 5600X that wont break my bank account?

• must be under $120
• needs to be easy for a total beginner
• hopefully available at Micro Center or Amazon for fast shipping
• doesnt need fancy lights or anything just needs to work

I am in Chicago so I can drive to a store if I have to but I really need to get this ordered like tonight so I can build it before the weekend. Am I overthinking this? Like will a $90 board just blow up? I am so worried about picking the wrong thing and wasting my money...