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Jorge L.

Jorge L.

Joined on 12/22/12

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Very happy with this motherboard! Here are all the pros! and cons!

GIGABYTE B850 AORUS ELITE WIFI7 AMD AM5 LGA 1718 Motherboard, ATX, DDR5, 3x M.2, PCIe 5.0, USB-C, WIFI7, 2.5GbE LAN, EZ-Latch 5-Year Warranty
GIGABYTE B850 AORUS ELITE WIFI7 AMD AM5 LGA 1718 Motherboard, ATX, DDR5, 3x M.2, PCIe 5.0, USB-C, WIFI7, 2.5GbE LAN, EZ-Latch 5-Year Warranty

Pros: - Supports THREE M2 SSDs and has a very slick heatsink that covers them and that has a thermal pad (note that if also comes with some foam cubes that you should put under the SSD to prevent bending, I didnt realize that at first and had to take stuff out to place them) - No screws needed to install the M2 SSDs! it has a little thing you slide to lock it in place. - Very easy to to update the BIOS. I downloaded the BIOS update to a USB then connected it to the USB port that says BIOS and selected Q-flash from the BIOS. - It comes with WIFI - It has a little additional button that makes it pretty easy to eject the GPU in case you can't reach the usual thing you press to eject it. - GIGABYTE has software called Gigabyte Control Center that let's you do stuff like control the fan speed curves for the CPU and GPU as well as overclock. - The black one without RGB looks very slick and cool!

Cons: - Wish it had more USB 3.0 ports. My previous MOBO had 1 more USB 3 port and it was the same price range. - Wish the BIOS USB port would use one of the UBS 2 ports that I dont use instead of the USB 3 ports that I reserve for my devices. GIGABYTE CONTROL CENTER: - The Gigabyte Control Center app is not good at detecting the versions of some of the drivers I have. Even after I install a driver through it, it still displays the currently installed driver version as either "0.0.0.0" or "N/A" for some like the Realtek Bluetooth driver. - Wish there were more descriptions of what each suggested driver/download is. For example, it suggests I install something called "cFosSpeed" but doesn't say what it is. - This is a small annoyance, but I wish the Gigabyte Control Center didn't try to get you to install Norton Antivirus. At least I want an option to hide that suggestion so it doesn't keep showing every time I check for updates.

Overall Review: Overall a solid MOBO, haven't encountered any issues with it. I'm very happy with it, just wish it had more USB 3 ports and that the Gigabyte driver software was better.