Review on Motherboard GIGABYTE B450 AORUS ELITE (rev. 1.x) by Stanisaw Augustynowi ᠌

Name: Motherboard GIGABYTE B450 AORUS ELITE (rev. 1.x)
Item: Motherboard GIGABYTE B450 AORUS ELITE (rev. 1.x)
Rating: 4

April 21, 2023

A reliable product for all occasions, the quality is at the level.

If you plug in more than three USB 3.0 devices and apply any sort of load, the connections seem to break and then reconnect, and I have no idea why (smart people advising you to check the cable - go eat a lollipop). It's interesting that the ryzen 9 3900x doesn't have a built-in graphics core, and the front USB is through the chipset but it doesn't give more than 40 mb/sec, the rear ones up to 150 mb/sec. This is something I noticed after reading the characteristics of the mothers for a long time: the site indicates that the 4 usb 3.0 ports in this mother are wired via the APU (that is, all 4 ports through 1 bus). Even if a motherboard had 4 ports, Asus, Asrok, or MSI would never solder them in a 2 + 2 configuration. Whereas on products by competing manufacturers, Gen1 ports are typically soldered directly to the CPU, Gen2 ports are typically soldered to the chipset. There are mixed emotions, but ultimately it is vital to adapt and overtake Asus's nearest rival.

Pros

The mother is excellent in every way: she's cozy, straightforward to put together, well marked, and immaculately organized. The emblem and the area behind it in the bottom left are illuminated by a cool backlight. At first sight, it seems like everything is fine; there are many different types of connectors (but see the comments for a caveat). Everything appears to be in working order; XMP on corsair loaded instantly; percentage drives (r9-3900x);

Cons

Whoever said computers took too long to boot up was obviously never around a regular computer. Formerly, the mother was from a gigabyte, but on the i7-8700, it was loaded twice as fast—before Windows was even installed. Normally, upon powering on, a logo would appear and the system would begin loading instantly; however, on this mother, a black screen with a flashing cursor appears first, followed by the logo and then another black screen with the cursor. What's more, even if you figure out how to work around the bios, the software on Windows is likely to give you trouble. On the headphones, the front-panel volume is rather low.