I bought this in a bundle with 32 gb of DDR4 in order to upgrade my current i5 7600k. Install went well, and everything is running great. The price was right to update to windows 11 on the cheap and leave some room for a future cpu/gpu upgrade.
Reasonably priced. Arrived on time. Paper manual so it was simple figuring out the connections. Booted once to BIOS and then Windows on the second boot.
* Two M.2 full speed Gen4x4 *Wi-Fi built in *Front USB-C connector (rare at this price) *Good color for a white build like mine. *4 RAM slots *Q-flash BIOS update capable
Recu , rapidement , fonctionne a merveille
Easy GPU eject button which is useful considering how big GPUs have gotten making a GPU swap way easier than having to reach a switch buried underneath the GPU. 4 M.2 slots for hard drives all with on board heat sinks and 3/4 having an easy no screw install making it easy to swap drives. Has a PCIe 5.0 slot with 20 PCIe lanes meaning you can actually run a PCIe 5.0 M.2 and a GPU at the same time with dedicated lanes. On board WIFI which I won't use regularly but in a pinch can be useful. Includes plenty of USB-A and C including USB 3.
As usual, at least in my experience, ASUS products have been solid performers. I use ASUS motherboards in all my computer builds, never had one mal-function.
I got this and some ddr5 8000, cranked it up. "everything" clocked faster than the averages on passmark benchmarks. 300$ cpu ultra 265 by 60,200 points or so... right between 1,300$ AND 1,500$ CPUS 600$ gtx 5070 plain jane d3d'd between $2500 4090 and 5090 plain janes at around 89,000 whatevers. got liquid cooling on cpu and haven't seen over 42c on chip so far. made me happy I saved 1000 dollars on a video card. What I saved in graphics and faster processor speeds this mobo paid for itself 10x over already not even mentioning the electrical savings down the road.
-Worked well, seems to handle all the motherboarding tasks well -6GHz WIFI is really nice to have, my kids devices can't even see that this network exists, so they don't know I'm hiding a bunch of bandwidth from them.
I was upgrading two PCs to run Windows 11. Inexpensive with plenty of USB 2 and 3 ports. Meets my needs - I am not a gamer
Simple setup, worked and updated itself on first power up zero issues thus far. Massive heat sinks everywhere running benchmarks so far everything has been optimal. Nothing over 70c at 100% on processor,board, or video card. Wish I had known before hand they had heat sinks installed on the M.2 sockets for M1 M3 and M4. Wouldnt have had to buy memory with heat sinks. This is more positive than negative hence the pros column.
It came with the F3 bios, which is what I was hoping for, so no need to flash this bios. Everything worked out of the box with no issues, for example, the WiFi, the LAN, the audio (which is a very modest audio setup but it works well; more to that later). Bluetooth works very well, and NOTE, the antenna they include is not just for WiFi, but for Bluetooth as well. Gigabyte says little about the antenna, but it does affect Bluetooth performance for distant devices. All external connections work fine, as do internal connections. There are 3 screws built into the plate that covers the M2 drives, this is a nice feature (the built-in screws), makes it easy to remove and replace. The little connectors that hold the end of M2 drives in place is a really nice feature. Nice touch. This mobo says it is compatible with 6000Mt 16G x 2 sticks of Corsair Vengeance, Indeed, with XMP set, I am running two such sticks at 6000 (40-40-40-77-117) with Cmd Rate of 1T. That's a little fast for the i5-13600k chip, but is holding steady under stress testing at stock settings. So I''m pleased. With faster memory settings under stress, ,however, the system crashes but that is without any tweaking of the memory settings. I will be exploring more. The bios is pretty straightforward, though I wish Gigabyte had more documentation. There are so many settings, it is a bit overwhelming. There are some good "how-to" guides on YT, such as the following: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPxosArjVVw&t=548s Overall, working with this motherboard has been pretty painless; it's well built and of high quality.
-easy to use bios with a simple mode
- easy to set up lots of space
Plenty of ports and options for any build. Alot of fan plugs and rbg plugs. I love how the pci express is reinforced for the heavy video cards. and the heatsinks are tool less with their own thermal pads. This board is made for cool temps. The led's are nice to. GCC software is excellent with the bios updates and the rgb. Very impressive that they now have GCC. Their software has come a long way from the older style control center.
Well built with quality parts.
- Lots of USB ports - Lots of M.2 slots - Stunning Looks - Solid build - Fair price considering cost of everything has gone up
Easy setup All drivers were available
Flash Bios USB Port + Button, Instant Driver Support via MSI after OS Install, Solid All Around IMO
-beautiful board -plenty of high speed connections (TB5, TB4, 10G LAN, etc)
Tons of m.2 slots fast great board love it