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Review on GIGABYTE B550 AORUS Elite: Feature-Rich AM4 AMD B550 ATX Gaming Motherboard with Dual M.2 and USB 3.2 Gen2 by Bill Dooley

Revainrating 2 out of 5

Doesn't recognize NIC/Ethernet controller

Since building a PC, I've installed many, many gigabyte motherboards. Not just Gigabyte motherboards, but many others. This is the first time I've installed a fresh copy of Windows, installed network drivers and found that it couldn't see them. Luckily I had a spare network card from TP-Link. (PCIE) which I wanted to use for another project so I could connect to the network. After checking many forums and searching the internet for the issue, it seems to be a known issue with the board. Is this board revision 2 and is there a problem with the network controller? Otherwise the board was ok, but still disappointing. I don't play RMA because the network card is probably better and more trustworthy than the built-in network card. While reading the forum people lost connection when it was working anyway. A BIOS update should have fixed both of those issues, but I couldn't even see the network card. .to/397DpvW

Pros
  • Supports 3rd gen AMD Ryzen processors
Cons
  • Doesn't fit everything