GIGABYTE B450 AORUS Elite (AMD Ryzen AM4/ATX/M.2 Thermal Guard/Hmdi/DVI/USB 3.1/DDR4/Motherboard)

My young son built his own pc and is very happy with this item. My gaming mad son is less grumpy now as a result. He's happy so it must be good. Arrived in great time.

I bought this motherboard (v2) as it's forward planning for 3000 series AMD CPU's. So far, this motherboard has been perfect, with zero issues. Just a tip though, if you intend to use M2 SSD(s), by doing so, you will knock out a couple of the 6 Sata Ports, which is frustrating but not ideal.

This is a great motherboard, I cannot really fault it, so, truly a five-star product all day long. However, the bloatware that comes on the install disc, and the unethical way that they try to sneak it upon you, as well as the ramifications of this when things go wrong, is why I've knocked four stars off. Let me explain... I replaced my hard drive and was re-installing everything - without any issue I might add - until I came to Launch App Center. When you install it from the disc, you think you have to go to a hidden page and deselect a whole bunch of bloatware, then you realise that you don't actually have to. This lulls you into a false sense of security when trying to update LAC because when you attempt it, all the garbage you thought you didn't install is on another hidden page and this time you have to untick everything otherwise it will install it all without your permission. Sneaky scumbags! I actually knew about this, remembering it from the first installation, so I was ready. However, this time I must've missed one of the gazillion tickboxes and it started installing some unwanted bloatware driver. So, I cancelled the installation, but something went wrong and it didn't cancel properly. I then rebooted my PC and that's when the trouble really started. My PC was malfunctioning and nothing would fix it, not a system restore, not even an attempt to reinstall Windows again. I have never in all my 20 years of using, refurbing, and building PCs come across a software failure this bad. I had to put my old boot drive back in, it's the only thing that worked. I have not tried to put the new drive back in, but have erased everything on it, and will reformat it and try again soon. But goodness knows if this incident has made my hard drive fubar. Why on earth a cool tech-producing company like Gigabyte would want to sully their reputation by sneakily forcing bloatware on their paying customers is beyond me. You expect some amount of garbageware to be forced on you with certain free downloads from unreputable websites, but not when buying high-end hardware from a supposedly reputable manufacturer. Shame on you Gigabyte, shame on you!

Feature rich motherboard in such a small form factor 2 m.2 slots is a great convenience Just a touch of RGB which is nice Only qualm is the fact that it only has 2 fan headers Nothing a splitter can't fix

Gigabyteは以前から安定して使っていたので安心感があります。 箱を開けるとIntelの注意事項の紙が入っていたのはドキッとしましたがちゃんとAMDでした。

I can't tell you enough how much I'm impressed by the In Win Chopin case. I just love it! I'm building several computers to use in my dental practice and I wanted something compact yet powerful for running dental imaging software, web browsing, YouTube and practice management software. My goal was not to build a high-end gaming rig. This computer is not for overclocking either. If you want a gaming rig go build one. If you need something that runs everyday work continue reading. Also, I'm AMD fan. BUILD SETUP: 1. AMD Ryzen 3 3200G with Radeon Graphics APU (4 core CPU with Radeon Graphics). 65 W TDP and max temp 95 C. ($91.95). 2. Gigabyte B450 I AORUS PRO WIFI (AMD Ryzen AM4/M.2 Thermal Guard with Onboard Wifi/HDMI/DP/USB 3.1 Gen 2/Mini ITX/Motherboard) ($141.12). 3. Sabrent 256GB Rocket NVMe PCIe M.2 2280 Internal SSD High Performance Solid State Drive (SB-ROCKET-256) ($46.99) 4. Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 DRAM 3200MHz C16 Desktop Memory Kit - Black (CMK16GX4M2B3200C16),Vengeance LPX Black ($73.99) 5. Logitech MK270 Wireless Keyboard and Mouse Combo - Keyboard and Mouse Included, 2.4GHz Dropout-Free Connection, Long Battery Life (Frustration-Free Packaging) ($20.99) 6. InWin Chopin SECC Mini-ITX Tower Case 150W Power Supply with 4 colors stickers inside, Black Aluminum ($90.34) 7. 24" Display PROS: 1. The case has an amazing build quality. It feels premium with the black aluminum material. High quality finish and sturdy. 2. Small form factor. Quite portable. 3. AMD Ryzen 3 3200G is quite powerful for everything you throw at it. The nice part is that it has a built-in Radeon GPU so you can use the motherboard display out to power your displays. It supports 4K. It has 2 HDMI and 1 Display Port! 4. Sabrent NVME is incredible. Windows 10 boots in 10-12 sec! Price is unbeivable. 5. Built-in WiFi AC with antenna and Bluetooth 5.0. I love motherboards that have those! 6. The case comes with 150 PSU. AMD with Radeon is max at 65 W so you wont be running the PSU at max. No noise from PSU and the CPU cooler fan is silent under normal operation. CONS: The case wont fit the AMD Wraith Silent cooler, without a slight modification. SOLUTION: It won't fit unless you remove the top bracket. Yes, it can fit!! It took me some time to figure it out and I wanted to share this with everyone. The stock AMD Wraith Silent cooler fits this case after you remove the top bracket from the fan. See pictures and video attached. The benefit is that you don't have to buy a separate cooler. I found that Noctua $39.90 is way too much to spend so that pushed me to figure out a solution. Plus the AMD cooler is bigger and since the fan is so close to the side panel. It will force air out of the case through the mesh. EXPERIENCE: Motherboard: The Gigabyte motherboard is incredible. The UEFI BIOS is graphics with mouse support. It came with latest BIOS revision 50 out of the box. Good job Gigabyte! (Hint: if you want to upgrade your BIOS do not do it from Windows. Always do it from the BIOS menu so no bricks). Windows 10 had no issues installing or running. All drivers installed without a problem. Radeon drivers worked out of the box. Also Miracast works on this APU with drivers 20.xx. I was able to wireless cast HDMI to a Anycast dongle and mirror my desktop. Boot time is 10-12 seconds! If your display is on standby and you push the power button by the time the monitor wakes up your at Windows login screen. Unbelievable speed! WiFi and BT are great and coupled with 16 GB of RAM the GPU takes 2 GB and the rest is dedicated to Windows. Performance is great. It also supports Windows secure boot and other gems. Everything is so smooth. CPU Heat: Under idle conditions, the CPU temperature is around 28 C. With load you probably hit 40-50 C. I did not do extensive testing. Remember this is APU based on Zen+ architecture so it's not a 7nm APU. Hopefully, we get newer Zen 2 APUs from AMD. I love AMD ! Overclocking: I do not do overclocking. My goal is usually to reduce power consumption if possible and have a quite system. The default AMD boost is way more than enough for my needs. I hate when people trash companies and motherboard because of VRM and such. If you want to overclock get a higher end and more expensive motherboard but let us enjoy those gems like the Gigabyte B450 I AORUS PRO WIFI. NOISE: Not so much. See the video. PSU does not make sound either. I tested it by unplugging the CPU fan to see. In fact that this case comes with PSU at this price is so cool. I wish more companies offer that. PERFORMANCE: If you need a computer that does everyday work you wont be disappointed. This setup is quite light and has AMD technologies. Thank you In Win Chopin for this wonderful case!

I bought the Gigabyte B450 Aorus Pro WiFi to replace the ASRock X470 Taichi that was in my daughters PC. Long story short, the ASRock board was awesome with Ryzen 2000, but terrible with Ryzen 3000. As my son already had a Gigabyte B450 Aorus Pro WiFi in his PC I knew it was a solid choice. I wasn't wrong, I threw the board in and installed her Ryzen 5 3600X and her PC booted right up and hasn't missed a beat since. All the cold boot issues, the resume from standby issues she was having with the ASRock board are gone. Her PC is now rock stable and she's very happy. I know the VRM's maybe aren't the best on the Gigabyte (compared to my wife's MSI B450 Tomahawk for instance), but since there's really not much point in overclocking the Ryzen chips it hasn't been a problem in any way, shape, or form. The board looks great too. The RGB software controls her Trident Z RGB ram and works well. It's not the most fancy but it get's the job done. Historically Gigabyte has solid BIOS support (the area ASRock has failed miserably), with speedy updates to the latest AGESA versions etc... 1004 was out quickly whereas for the Taichi I waited 3 months for that support only to get another Ryzen 3000 BIOS full of bugs. Pros: - Great support from Gigabyte - Decent price in Canada even with our poor exchange rate - Solid feature set - my kids love the RGB lighting - Works great with their 3600X processors - Strong performance Cons: - Pricey compared to the US - Not the best VRMs in the B450 range but good enough The bottom line is I wish I would have bought this one in the first place instead of the ASRock Taichi X470. We have 2 of these in our house, both have been fantastic, easy to work with and well supported. Also great to know they'll have support for Zen 3. Highly recommended if you need a board today.

Excellent mini itx board, it has got LEDs one one side and has 1 m. 2 slot. We use it for htpc build with amd 2400g and it's a perfect match and does the job very well.