GIGABYTE B650M AORUS Elite AX (AM5/ LGA 1718/ AMD B650/ Micro-ATX/ 5-Year Warranty/ DDR5/ 2* M.2/ PCIe 5.0/ USB 3.2 Gen2X2 Type-C/Intel 2.5GbE LAN/Q-Flash Plus/EZ-Latch/Gaming Motherboard)

Good value
This is a solid entry for a b650 board. The biggest con to it is that it doesn’t take Sata SSDs, so plan accordingly (had to get an enclosure for mine). But it takes plenty of regular sata drives, and it’s held up well for me. The IO in the back is fine, usb-c is nice to see on a more budget board. Bios is fairly easy and intuitive to operate. It’s had zero problems for the months I’ve owned it. It’s got a decent amount of overclocking options, but I’m not into that enough to really say whether it’s good for that or not. But b650 is a great architecture to get into, since AMD has promised support for it for ages.

I’ve changed my mind on this board.
I’m not just reviewing this board all Gigabyte motherboards in general. I’ve had 6 different Gigabyte boards from a Z390 on a 9700k to this board I just bought last week. I’ve myself never had a serious problem with any board from Gigabyte before. The worst problem I’ve seen was forced to use PCIE 3.0 on the videocard that used 4.0 on a board that had 4.0, that was fixed later on in a BIOS update. Other than that they’ve been stable, higher than usual amp ratings even on there lower tier boards Elites, Pro’s. Better than normal thermals, never had to worry about thermal throttling even when over clocking.Just great all around.And, I can’t say this about any other brand. ASUS nothing but trouble I’ve had three of there boards none lasted over a year if it worked at all. MSI is 50/50 with 2 of there boards I’ve used. The only other brand I’ll recommend but still don’t have the same confidence, is ASRock been really surprised with them lately. Packed with features, and been good but only had two different boards with them. So gigabyte has my vote when it comes to motherboards hands down. Hope this helps your purchase.############. New thoughts on this boardYa I’ve changed my mind about this board. I’ve given everything I could to make it act right. It just does not…. I’m relatively good at figuring out what’s what. What’s causing whatever issue I may be having. I know how to test the boards I buy. I’ve always been able to figure out what’s going on and fixing it and never have another issue with said board until it just it’s time to die maybe years later usually. But this board hasn’t been right since I purchased it. It’s never acted right, BIOS issues RAM issues. I even bought a code reader just so I knew it was unfixable. Even though I already suspected it was. I’ve tried 4 different PSU, 3 different DDR5 RAM sets. All supported by this board. Hell I even tried a set for Intel no difference. It’s never been able to qflash correctly, trust me I’ve tried every slot and made sure I got the right build for this board. And I’ve used qflash before I know how it works. I’ve tried onboard graphics and 4 different GPUs. I just wanted to be sure it was this board. It maybe worked for 2 months and this was very light use… But it never restarted right, it would always hang up. Then finally it just loops. Will never boot up. And yes I’ve tried every trick in the book. Even stuff I’ve seen on different msg boards just to be thorough. And like I said the code reader. It tells me everything is great as it restarts over and over. So I’ve given up. I would not suggest this board. The money you save isn’t Worth it. Like I’m said gigabyte has never done me wrong but this board is just wrong. It’s the worst thing I’ve had to put up with since I bought it. Stay away IMO. Any other gigabyte board might be ok just not this one. And no I don’t go around making bad post on everything I buy. Actually this is probably the one time I’ve made a neg post on Amazon. That just should tell you how much this piece has bothered me.

Many features for the price, but eh
This board is packed with features, and even has wifi which is nice so I can test connections when needed. The board seems well-built. The m.2 quick latches should become standard on all boards, they are nice! Having that extra pcie slot on an M board is also a great nice-to-have.Sometimes there is a red light that just stays on sometimes, it’s some bios reset option I assume, but it’s a tad annoying, but also it’s not on right now so heh. I’m not a big fan of rgb but this does it nicely.My biggest gripes are the software and updating the bios. The software at first seems really nice, it checked for new drivers, and allowed me to download them all at once, however, they packaged Norton with it (though you can uncheck that box it was still offputting and I didn’t see it until it was almost too late) and updated by firmware but not to the latest firmware. When I tried doing a manual bios update myself I ran into some frustrating issues of the bios updater not being able to read the file, I had to click on the file instead of hit next even though it was the only file, otherwise it would keep saying file not found. But, after that issue was resolved by clicking, it then said invalid image file. I still haven’t been able to update my bios, and my version doesn’t fix the voltage issue with the 7800x3d, so that’s a bit concerning. The documentation from Gigabyte was not any help at all.For the price, this board is unmatched. I even saw it have some solid recommendations from some techs on youtube after I bought it. Everything works great, though I wish it had better onboard audio, a way to change the color of that red led on the bios button, better documentation, and not throwing unneeded or bad (norton) software in the list of driver downloads.

Ótima opção de placa para montar um M5, já montei meu Pc e recomendo

Funciona a la perfección, fácil instalación, excelente tarjeta madre calidad precio ademas venia con un delicioso pulparindo.

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