🎮 GIGABYTE B550 AORUS Master: Feature-packed Gaming Motherboard with WiFi 6, Triple M.2, USB 3.2 Gen 2, and RGB Fusion 2.0 Review

This motherboard was a pleasure to work with and I appreciate that Gigabyte went for a relatively unobtrusive design in terms of "gaming" features on the Board has decided. I picked this board mainly for its I/O layout, which was fine for my light gaming, heavier code/workstation compilation case. I also need Thunderbolt support to use this with an LG UltraFine 5K display (the display only works with 4K resolution on Windows 🙄). Too bad that after 3 days of light use the board didn't turn on…

Bought for my new build. Unfortunately I didn't do any research. There is a cold boot issue on Aorus boards that won't boot up randomly. Apparently it has to do with the two bios running on the board. If they are not updated properly, they will cause the board to hang and not load properly. On mine I tried removing the battery and clearing the CMOS and nothing worked (fixed this solution on some forums that said the problem was fixed but only temporarily). It booted up once after all that, but…

great for overclocking, but I've had some serious issues with the gigabyte BIOS. I've updated, returned, and updated my BIOS probably five times since purchase. I strongly recommend updating the BIOS to F11n (I warn you, this is a beta version), otherwise you will probably have problems with the USB controller randomly turning off or not turning on at all after POST. The F11n seems to have solved this problem, but I also had some issues with the screen flashing pink initially but flashing red…

I got this motherboard for my first PC. I really liked all the features and it looked good. Unfortunately it broke after about a week. It took me a while to troubleshoot, but I concluded it was the motherboard. I bought the same one and the PC worked for another week. Then it broke again. Both times I didn't do anything to her that could break her. I realized that this motherboard is not very good, so I bought an ASUS ROG Strix B-550. I've had this motherboard for a few months now and it works…

The motherboard has been working great for about 3 weeks. I wanted to turn on the computer in the morning and it just shut down completely. At first I thought it was my old power supply so I replaced it but found that this mobo refused to accept power from the new power supply. Extremely disappointing.

I really liked this motherboard when it arrived. Gigabyte definitely takes the time to look professional. I installed it and immediately encountered a problem which I ignored but turned out to be Problem turned out. LAN needed to be refreshed constantly. I thought it was just a spike and ignored it, but the problem persisted until this happened every few hours. XMP profile. No matter what I did, the RAM didn't go above 2166 Mhz. Then random errors and crashes started.I returned it as it was on…

I spent 2 hours of excitement loading this thing into my system and using the rest of the parts to get ready for my new build. As someone who built computers often and knew what to do, hitting the power button after the board failed to catch fire when the power supply clicked was a disappointing but not surprising sight. As you can see in the video, as soon as the power is turned on, the RGB lighting on the board flickers faintly and then immediately goes out. The problem isn't with the PSU as…

Bought as an emergency replacement when my Asus itx B450-I broke. This has been the only ar RRP board with 1 day shipping and so far so good. I like the fanout options in the BIOS so I can run 2 GPUs from 1 slot as this board only had 1 PCI-E 4.0 slot. It has plenty of M.2 slots, which is nice. Be sure to know that there is only 1 PCI-E 4.0 x 4 slot, which is normal. The rest of the slots are standard 3.0 but they are perfect for what I do. The board has received 4 BIOS updates since its…

Bought based on cooling performance from Nexus gamer tests, I want to like this board but it was a bad experience trying to get one Output signal to the monitor . This is a brand new build with all brand new parts (G Skill RAM, Gigabyte 5700xt OC GPU, Samsung m.2 SSD, Seasonal PSU) all installed clean and tidy. Everything turns on except no signal on the monitor and a solid red VGA status light, indicating a graphics card error. I've cleared the CMOS, removed the GPU, updated the BIOS to the…