Review on GIGABYTE X570S AERO G: The Ultimate AMD Motherboard with PCIe 4.0 & SATA 20Gb/s by Chris Willis

Build an AMD Ryzen 9 5900X system for the first time. The previous one was an Intel i7-8700K on an ASUS ROG STRIX X390-E motherboard. My XFX MERC 319 RADEON RX 6800 GPU is throwing a VGA publish error for some reason. I had to use my old GTX 1080 graphics card to bypass the VGA post issue and install Windows 10 Pro OS. I ran into a BSOD on the first install, but everything was fine on the second try. Updated BIOS to F2 and installed all drivers before switching GPU back to RX 6800. It still didn't boot or reinstalled the card several times and then finally worked. BUT, I'm still encountering an intermittent VGA post error. I found that pressing the reset and power off/on button would work after a few tries. Opened an appeal to gigabyte support and waited for an answer. After overcoming the VGA mail problem, I proceeded to install games and applications. Here I noticed that the processor gets very hot, very, very hot. Until it turns off. I had to crank the Corsair H100i PRO AIO to extreme settings to keep it just under 170F (76C) with a simple game install (from Steam). See image. Generating CPU activity drastically increases the CPU temperature to 160F. The rest of the motherboard, NVMe slots, and DIMMs also run about 10F higher than my previous setup. I think this may be too new advice. I will be returning this board in favor of the Gigabyte AORUS Master X570 board hoping it doesn't have the same issue.