Pros: Runs like an absolute champion. I got better than average benchmark scores for my CPU, RAM, and GPU on this board. Maybe I won the silicon lottery, or maybe this board is just awesome.

Cons: I took off an egg because of linux support. I know that linux is not very popular for a desktop operating system. But these days, steam can run almost any windows game on linux. There is no gigabyte control center for ubuntu 25.10. There probably never will be. You can't control the RGB leds, the fan speeds, or read the temperatures from within the operating system. That being said, the newest kernel 6.17 supports everything else on this board including the wifi and sound. You can set the little LED thing on the board to show the CPU temp in the BIOS, which is really nice. The bios interface is hard to use and it comes up in a really low resolution on my 4K TV. I read a review that said this board is trash becuase it only has six PCB layers. I honestly don't think I could tell you the difference. The system seems extremely stable.

Overall Review: I hate the way things are going with computer builds these days. Maybe I'm old school, but give me a motherboard that has the best chipsets without all these extra features adding to the price. I don't need RGB leds, but I paid for them and they don't operate. I don't need an onboard internal hdmi port, maybe someday ill make use of it. Who knows if that's even compatible with linux. They took out all my PCI slots and gave me all these m.2 slots. OK cool. It's a laptop part. They should be making PCI card SSDs for desktop computers. Heatsink fan and everything already on them. You should be able to buy a sound card, LAN card, wifi card, USB card, thunderbolt card, whatever you plan on using in your machine. When all the I/O is part of the board, you are stuck. You can't upgrade and if there's no driver for your OS, it's game over. The only time I appreciate all this onboard I/O and stuff is if it's a mini-ITX board. You need it all onboard. You need a laptop SSD and maybe even laptop RAM. The point of building your own computer is you can build it how you want. With a motherboard like this, you might as well go buy a prebuilt machine. Building you own computer these days doesn't mean you chose every single component. It means you put an LCD screen inside your case and so many RGB glowing water lines that your friends mistook it for an aquarium tank. I also hate that CPUs basically come overclocked right out of the box and pretty much require a water cooler by default now.

Pros: Works good. Really fast. Heatsink from my motherboard goes on top of it.

Cons: It seems to have a green LED with no way of turning it off. Unless that's on my motherboard. I doubt it. I don't feel like disassembling it to look at where that LED is. I prefer the darkness. I don't use RGB but if you did it might throw off your vibes if you have certain colors going on. I run ubuntu 25.10. Workstation/Gaming computer.

Overall Review: It says UP to 14000 MB/s. I know there are different configurations with PCI-e bifurcation, but I have a feeling that's not why it's a little slower.