Review on GIGABYTE B450M DS3H V2: The Ultimate AMD Ryzen Motherboard with Micro ATX, HDMI, DVI, and USB 3.1 Support! by Stanislaw Komorowski ᠌

Name: GIGABYTE B450M DS3H V2: The Ultimate AMD Ryzen Motherboard with Micro ATX, HDMI, DVI, and USB 3.1 Support!
Item: GIGABYTE B450M DS3H V2: The Ultimate AMD Ryzen Motherboard with Micro ATX, HDMI, DVI, and USB 3.1 Support!
Rating: 3

May 03, 2023

There are deviations, generally tolerable.

The board visually seemed to have been reworked at the factory (it’s unlikely that they slipped me a repaired one, it just appeared): some additional soldering and soldering is clearly not a robot.
Due to the curvature of the BIOS, at first I thought that nothing was chasing: neither the processor nor the memory. It seems like a lot of settings, but nothing can be changed!?!? Then he accidentally pressed the inactive numbers and lo and behold, they change! :) Well, this is my first time dealing with motherboards from GIGABYTE, so I don't know if they have such a ridiculous feature?
This board is clearly not for overclocking. If you enter unsupported parameters, then it will beep and turn off, but almost immediately, for some reason, it tries to turn on again. After resetting the CMOS, the initialization is sooo long that in anticipation of a squeak, it sometimes seemed that some of the system components had burned out.
There is a mistake in the market - the specification on the official website says that the maximum memory frequency is 2933, well, maybe, of course, it means that officially modern Ryzen pull this maximum?
As for the problem with the case fan stopping at system startup: switching from AUTO to VOLTAGE seems to help, but this is not accurate, because. the decision to hand it back was already formed.

Pros

Price, pulls the 7th Ryzen 2700x, in fact, how else? There are heatsinks on both the power mosfets and the chipset. The chipset is always equally hot, but even under stress tests no more than 50 degrees.

Cons

1. All internal USB connectors do not work correctly: both 2.0 and 3.0 too. iPod Nano, which has always and everywhere been perfectly cut for 8 years, is not here! It is determined and immediately extracted, and so on endlessly. I tried to connect muzzles from different buildings. What is surprising: if you connect through the hub, then everything works fine. The rear ports are also OK, but why did I buy a case with 3 USB ports? 2. The control of the case fan does not work correctly: when Windows starts, for some reason it stops it, although the settings clearly state not to stop it. If the fan stop alarm is enabled, then each time the system is turned on, a nasty squeak is emitted for about 3 seconds. Sometimes this squeak can last for about 1-2 minutes, in general, until she wants to turn on this fan. 3. A very crooked, under-translated BIOS, reference information is missing almost everywhere. Why the hell did UEFI do it? It seemed that he returned to the 2022s or the manufacturer released his pilot board. ates of the first F1 firmware did not wait! 4. The memory voltage is written in two places: one displays the correct one, and the other does not, you can only change it in one. And now understand ka something has changed or not. 5. The manufacturer’s website states that there is support for XMP (Extreme Memory Profile) memory module profiles, but I didn’t find something like this here: you can’t select anything, while AIDA lists different memory configurations. 6. In stress tests, the mosfet radiator gets pretty hot, but not critical, but the capacitors located nearby heat up to 95 degrees, I don’t know how scary it is for them. Meryl laser pyrometer. Probably everything will be fine if the cooler is not a tower type. 7. Barely audible, but whistles under load, for example, when performing memory tests. The nitpick is only one M.2 port and there is no slot for an internal Wi-Fi whistle (like in laptops).