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Review on ๐Ÿ’ป GIGABYTE B450 AORUS M Motherboard - Enhanced Performance with AMD Ryzen AM4, Micro ATX Design, M.2 Thermal Guard, HDMI/DVI, USB 3.1 Gen 2, DDR4 by John Hill

Revainrating 2 out of 5

RECOMMENDED Motherboard for Ryzen Micro Atx Build

Update: 05/30/2019 Motherboard lost a star due to the following: dual gpus + nvme x4 ssd did not boot into Windows on the latest BIOS update F40 + ec which was after the upgrade from GPU to Vega 56, RAM to 32GB 16x2 3200MHz and PSU to 1050W 80 Gold plus 2nd GPU Quadro K4000 it worked great. After installing the NVME hard drive I had this problem as my system wouldn't finish booting into Windows so I contacted Gigabyte Tech Support and they wanted me to downgrade the BIOS back to F5 which is not acceptable as they have my had to simulate the problem on their rigs and have already found a solution. First review: This was my first pre-order and I was very excited when my order arrived (although it arrived 2 days late but the Amazon team kept updating me until I received the package, thanks Amazon) that the switch from Sandy Laptop Bridge to Ryzen is really helpful ng: the increase in speed has exceeded my expectations. Motherboard came with aorus I/O shield, m2 screw and m2 thermal cooler, aorus badge, 2 black SATA cables and DVD with drivers (chipset, LAN, audio) and gigabyte apps for BIOS update, overclocking and system monitoring even offer automatic overclocking based on your temperatures (which works by speeding up the CPU and slowing down the RAM's speed, which is weird but at least it works). DVD drive or other computer with DVD drive as the DVD is FULL with 4GB of data plus Xpress installer to help you set up the system easily. To add heatsinks after buying from easycargo on amazon I will post some pics with my current rig which has 3 exhaust fans (rear, top) + PSU fan in exhaust mode. VRM temperature hardly reaches 70-75 ยฐC during ga temperature of about 28cc was automatically set to 3.6GHz and RAM speed lowered from 2400 to 2250. Maybe Gigabyte can do better with updates? Update: Disabled auto overclocking and manual bios clocking to 3.8GHz at 1.38 revs, there is also an RGB meter next to the audio codec, if you install a big GPU you may not notice it, with more RGB -Support, the control also lights up The fan header fan is programmed after installing the apps from the DVD, so it's been on my system for 3 days and everything is working fine. Audio is clear when using a Logitech 5.1 system connected with three cables as usual. Originally . So many options in this bios but no clear option to set CPU voltage. This is just a opt-out setting, just like vcore soc.

Pros
  • Excellent Design
Cons
  • Approximately