Review on Motherboard GIGABYTE B550I AORUS PRO AX (rev. 1.0) by Stanisaw Socha ᠌

In my opinion the best Mini-ITX motherboard based on the B550 chipset. 8 power phases, great cooling. Pulls Ryzen 7 5800X without problems. The VRM zone heats up no higher than 60-65 degrees. And with the voltage lowered on the processor, it even stays around 50 degrees. I had to fiddle with running the RTX 3060 Ti through the riser in PCI-E 3.0 mode. On the previous motherboard from Biostar, with a video card connected via a riser, it was possible to enter the BIOS and change the bus version from 4.0 to 3.0. Gigabyte simply refuses to display the image. Therefore, before assembling a computer in a case, I recommend assembling it on an open stand, setting everything up, and then installing it in the case. Another disadvantage follows from this: if you suddenly screwed up with overclocking or for some other reason you need to reset the BIOS on the assembled computer, the image will disappear again. Ideally, you need to buy a riser with PCI-E 4.0 support. I was also a little confused by the application of liquid thermal pads. Taking the motherboard out of the box, I saw the squeezed out excess between the VRM heatsink and the power circuit chokes. I don't know if that's normal. I ordered it on the amazon at the NIKS store. Arrived in an open box, but I doubt that the store was somehow involved in the moment with thermal pads. I understand that the store just pasted its sticker on the motherboard. The order indicated that the revision was 1.0, but 1.1 arrived. Revisions are distinguished by a Wi-Fi module. In 1.0 there is Intel AX200, with which there were problems in earlier BIOS versions, and in 1.1 - AMD RZ608 (on the MT7921K chip). I wanted to install my Intel AX210, but I realized that for this I need to remove the entire cooling system, so I didn’t bother.