Review on 🔧 Gigabyte W480M Vision W - LGA 1200 Intel W480 Micro-ATX Dual M.2 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.2 Gen 2 Dual Intel LAN Multi-GPU ECC Memory Support Motherboard by Chris Thrower

I bought this motherboard to build a new CAD workstation. The main advantage of this motherboard is that it supports ECC memory and Xeon processors, but I installed an i5-10600k and 16GB of non-ECC memory on it. My main goal when choosing this board is stability. This board has strict voltage regulation. My old system was an i5-4670k with an Az series board (not overclocked) but I had a few random crashes a day, I turn off graphics cards and hard drives hoping to stop the crashes but it was easy not stable enough. I haven't had any crashes with this new build so far, so that's good. This board is not for overclockers, but I only use the ak series processor because of the increased clock speed. I enabled XMP on my memory and it was able to overclock my RAM to rated speeds with one click (3200MHz CL 14, Gskill Z series). Overall this board is feature rich and great for what it is intended for. Workstation, not a gamer or overclocker. PCB is heavy, not easy to bend, no RGB connectors. Now for the cons: It's a brand new board that was only released a few months ago, but it already needs a BIOS flash for the GPU to work. I built the machine and it booted fine from the onboard GPU, but when I tried to run it with the GPU it didn't output any video. I tried a few things but what fixed it was flashing the bios. Mine comes with the "F1" bios version and I had to flash the "F2" version from the Gigabytes website to get my Nvidia GTX 1650 to work.