After installing drivers and upgrading windows 11 the system is so much faster and smoother than my 10th gen cpu z590 asus board that would turn on. The major pros is great price with cheapest 14th gen i5 cpu and runs all my old ram and has wifi for under $100.
Has everything needed for upgrade to windows 11 to be worth it since board features are mainly win 11 only. At first was just booting but not loading anything, turns out i needed to push both sides of ram down and put them in A2 and B2 slot. Got DDR5 6000 was worried cause intel i7 14700kf said 5600 max supported but the xmp for it to worked out and ram runs great with it. Also was worried was doing to much man handling of board cause i installed it then pulled it back out then back in. Anywho though just needed seat the ram snug down in dimm. Everything bought for it works great thank you
- Easy to install, particularly the RAM and CPU - BIOS mostly self-explanatory - MSI Center software is easy to understand - Well placed pinouts
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.
I am pretty sure this is a pretty amazing motherboard, just the fact that it has an error code reader for a sub $500 motherboard is a plus. I wish other manufacturers would take note as this use to be a normal thing even with the budget motherboards.
Very easy to install Instructions clean and understandable
Sale Ends in 7 Hours
Great motherboard for the price, I was surprised when I tested it with I9 14th gen K and i found out it work without needing to upgrade the Bios, over all it is great option for budget built however it is not fancy as you think but it do the job
- easy to set up lots of space
very easy to install, be careful installing cpu, line up corner marks.
* affordable * Good performance *Easy bios upgrades *Linux compatible *Does it's job *Two nvme ssd slots as well as a pcie 4.0 port. One of them has a heatsink called "thermal guard" as it's brand name to keep your SSD cool. But it's not the best thermal guard and you have to use it if you want to have two ssds. *Ethernet port * Very small, but not too small which means it fits extremely well with a micro ATX case.
Sale Ends in 7 Hours
Mother board was just what i expected, Great price nice connections and quality components used! paired with i9 13900kf no complaints!
Sale Ends in 7 Hours
Q-flash made updating the BIOS a snap Everything on the board is well labeled, making this great to build with for a first timer Good BIOS UI
7600mhz XMP working beautifully right out of the box. I am coming from the exact same mobo but Z490 10th gen. The old mobo had a sad I/O plate but this new rig is fully integrated and comparing the two makes me laugh, the old one looks so cheap. The wifi and Bluetooth are excellent, reaching across a big room to my DualShock controllers.
Wish all motherboards were like this one, ddr5, onboard wifi, bt, usb 3.2, type c ports, lga 1700, 3 m.2 ports and on board rgb for $200. What else would one want from a gaming motherboard. I Love it.
Sale Ends in 7 Hours
Runs cool Works well with supported products from Gigabytes supported hardware lists Good M.2 SSD install design Plenty of RGB device support Norton 360 Gamers included - 2 month trial Support up to 14th Gen Intel CPU
- Lots of USB ports - Lots of M.2 slots - Stunning Looks - Solid build - Fair price considering cost of everything has gone up
Easy to install booted up immediately with easy to follow bios settings. Board is basic but good power delivery
Sale Ends in 7 Hours
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.
New LGA 1851 Lots of room for PCI 5 expansion Onboard BT and WiFi Tons of space for M.2 memory (gen 4 at least)