Joined on 02/14/03
Great board, but.....see cons
Pros: Has everything I wanted except built in WLAN.
Cons: No WLAN. NOTE! If you plan on installing Win 7 on an M.2 NVMe SSD you will have problems. I never got it to install on my Samsung M.2 950 Pro. I tried Gigabyte's program but it would not boot from my flash drive. Windows 10 Pro installed fine.
Overall Review: See Cons above. I had to install W7 to a SATA SSD, then upgrade to Win 10 to get my free version. Then I removed the SATA SSD and installed Win 1 Pro fresh onto the M.2 NVMe SSD. Long way around but it worked.
Not 4' long, only 40"
Pros: It works fine but is not 4 ft. long, only 40 inches. But it's longer than my original so will do. When I inquired about delay in receiving vino was quick to reply. The pandemic slowed things down.
Cons: Not as long as advertised. Took a little over two months to arrive even though shipped within a couple days after I ordered.
Overall Review: OK if 40 in. will do and you don't mind waiting.
Good board Except
Pros: Lots of features
Cons: Be aware if you are going to use all 4 RAM slots. I have problems where the MB won't boot with 4 sticks of RAM above BIOS F5. Both with QVL listed RAM and non QVL RAM. Memtest86 tests all the RAM as good. I RMA'd the MB which came back no trouble found. On one of the Gigabyte forums others report this problem also. Sometimes if yoy pull 2 sticks it will BOOT. Then if yoy shutdown and install the removed sitcks it will then BOOT and run ok. By BOOT, I mean the MB itself, not Windows. In a no BOOT situation you can't even get into the BIOS. I'd like to be able to actually talk to Gigabyte Support to discuss this but don't know whom to call.
Overall Review: A great board when it BOOTS ok.
Works well
Pros: Works well with my PC's, no problems noted.
Cons: Requires external power unlike my VGA KVM. Is fairly large and requires desk space. Brackets for under desk mounting would have been nice. I intend to make my own.
Overall Review: If you need a 4 port HDMI KVM this is the best I've seen.
Great board, many features
Pros: Easy to install and setup. Lots of nice features. Colorful if you're into RGB. Built two systems using this board. One for a friend and one for myself. With an i9-10900 both systems are in the top 200 systems in Passmark 10's worldwide scores of over 96000 systems. It has a PCIE 4.0 M.2 slot for use with FUTURE Intel CPU's.
Cons: On my friends system one of the USB ports went south causing his mouse to not work. Moving the mouse to another port fixed it. The board is still under warranty but having to take it apart to RMA it and wait several weeks to get it back is not worth it.
Overall Review: Great board that performs very well.
Super Fast
Pros: 16% faster than my i9-9900K. But runs a little hot. Had to add a second fan to my H60 AIO cooler to be able to OC it to 5.2Ghz.
Cons: Hot
Overall Review: Get one, if you can find one in stock. I wouldn't pay scalper prices.
They work well
A little too wide to use 2 or 3 if the Display Ports are close together such as on my RTX-4060Ti.
Works great
Works great and is very small compared to most. I wanted 4 for use with a VGA KVM switch, they only had 2. They can be ordered from China but I'm not willing to wait forever as I presently am waiting over 40 days for another item coming from Newegg via China.
Great for USB 3 and C front panel
Easy to mount and connect. Provides USB 3 and USB-C on the front of a PC where it belongs for easy access.