Gigabyte AMD B650M AORUS Elite AX Ice ATX AM5 Motherboard

Great motherboard for AM5 socket Only problem I had is as the U_32 connection is at 90 deg to the board it was difficult to get the USB adapter to fit without hitting the fan at the front. If I had a larger chassis this wouldn't have been problematic. Better placement of this adaptor would have been ideal but I guess motherboards are not made for each case. Perhaps the connection could have come straight out from the board. Different ARGB brightness levels from the two 3-pin connectors that are both controlled by the aorus motherboard - brightness levels should be the same but unsure if I can adjust these in BIOS. Lots of available sockets, wireless is good. Works just fine otherwise and very pleased with the purchase.

This motherboard has been almost non-functional for me.It will only accept RAM in 2 of the slots and won't boot if using the other two. It frequent fails to boot for no apparent reason and shows either a DRAM or VGA light despite the fact that I know the RAM and graphics card are completely fine.I've spent multiple days trying to debug boot issues and often can't even get to the bios.I did manage to update the bios to the latest version but even that did not solve any of the issues I've been having.I seriously do not recommend purchasing this motherboard at all, you're just going to have a terrible time and it's likely to be non-functional.

Excellent mid tier Motherboard with great features and solid VRM

Impressive mid Tier board for mATX builds. Solid VRM allowing plenty of headroom for overclocking or larger cpu. possibly leading to future savings with future upgrading with expected CPU price drops and releases . future proof as of mid 2024 . Impressive brushed metal finish - . Feature set is Abundant and covers bases cheaper boards do not. Hard to pass this board up if you do the math on your future needs when comparing to cheaper mATX boards

Excellent price/features

One of the only AM5 B650M boards that has both optical and line outs. Has plenty of other I/O as well. Shipped version was 1.2, not the latest 1.3. BIOS as shipped was FB. Installed easily into Thermaltake Tower T200 case. My first gigabyte board in years, been ASUS for past 10y. The gigabyte BIOS was easy to navigate and understand. Updated to latest BIOS, changed to EXPO settings on my RAM, everything just works.

GIGABYTE B650M AORUS Elite AX

A quality motherboard for new 7000 gen AMD Ryzen processors. Model GIGABYTE B650M AORUS Elite AX is quality, has a M-Atx form-factor, b650 chipset supoort a overclocking of ram and cpu. Has a good character, efficiency cooling system and 4 slots of ram ddr5. Support a wi-fi and Bluetooth connection. Price is normal. Quality for gaming building

Solid server board, but needs a firmware release that supports hyper-threading,

I ordered this board as a replacement for a failed Gigabyte GA-9SISL in a system running Proxmox with some very complicated raid and network configurations. This board is a really nice update featue and performance update over the 9SISL. There were no negative suprises during the installation and first power up. I am using the Supermicro CBL-SAST-0933 cable with the on board OCuLink connector to run four SATA drives in a RAID 5 configuration. For those wondering about this, there is a BIOS configuration that tells the MB to use the OCuLink for either SATA or PCI-e. The board was either configured for SATA to begin with or recognized SATA on powerup as these drives were available immediately. The board is powered via two connectors, a standard 6 lead connector and an ... MoreI ordered this board as a replacement for a failed Gigabyte GA-9SISL in a system running Proxmox with some very complicated raid and network configurations. This board is a really nice update featue and performance update over the 9SISL. There were no negative suprises during the installation and first power up. I am using the Supermicro CBL-SAST-0933 cable with the on board OCuLink connector to run four SATA drives in a RAID 5 configuration. For those wondering about this, there is a BIOS configuration that tells the MB to use the OCuLink for either SATA or PCI-e. The board was either configured for SATA to begin with or recognized SATA on powerup as these drives were available immediately. The board is powered via two connectors, a standard 6 lead connector and an additional 4 lead connector (labeled ATX12V2) with an included adapter that you can plug into the normal 24 lead PS cable. A second, identical 4 lead connector (labeled ATX12V3) is meant to provide power to SATA devices and a special 6 SATA power cable is included. There are ample warnings in the documentation about mixing up these two connectors, and my board actually had a sticker over the ATX12V3 with a warning on it. The system I have installed this board into has one PCI-e host bus adapter with 16 drives attached that were running various combinations of disk configuration including RAID 10 and ceph, all created and managed by the OS. While all drives are physically visible and have even enumerated with their original order and labels, re-assembling the arrays has not worked, and LVM's fail to attach. I'm including it here because there are some very suspicious errors in the boot log that lead me to suspect a driver issue. I don't think this is an actual problem with the board, but if you are rescuing a failed system like I am, be prepared for this level of surgery. This board generates a lot more heat than the board it replaced, but the single 80mm fan in my system has been perfectly adequate to keep it cool. The CPU temp is typically between 40 and 60C, well within the 95C operating parameter. This board should be fine in most commercial mini-itx enclosures. One final note: I have future plans to update to a rack enclosure for this system. I went back and forth for a while between this board and the SuperMicro M11SDV-8C+-LN4F. The "+" in that model number means the back panel will fit in a 2u rackmount enclosure that SM makes. The SM enclosure is proprietary because the Mini-ITX spec for a regular back plate is too tall for a 2u enclosure. This board has clustered all the back-panel IO at the bottom of the board, as if they were anticipating a rack enclosure application. Once I determined that it would fit in a 2u enclosure if a back plate could be found or fabricated, it was the several hundred dollar difference in the price that finally motivated my purchase.

actually quality mobo

Not going to lie. Its been a minute since I bought an Aorus mother board. however my opinions have changed. This is a quality MOBO. and to my surprise the audio on this unit is fantastic. after an Bios update. the gen five Nvme worked faultlessly. bios is faily clean also. Highly recommend