GIGABYTE Z490 Vision G (Intel LGA1200/Z490/ATX/2xM.2/Realtek ALC1220-VB/Intel LAN/SATA 6Gb/s/USB 3.2 Gen 2/SLI Support/HDMI/Motherboard)

I just built my second computer and wanted a white themed build. This motherboard not only looks amazing but offers a lot for the price point. After building the computer and turning it on to get into windows, the gigabit ethernet wouldn't work. For a few hours I was troubleshooting (putting the drivers on a USB flash drive to manually install them, reinstalling windows, etc.). The next day I got a wireless USB wifi adapter to try downloading them that way. When I turned on the computer it wouldn't even boot into windows. I ended up buying an entirely new motherboard and sending the first one back. After rebuilding the entire computer and using the wifi adapter, I am pleased to say I got into windows and the gigabit drivers downloaded right away. I am gonna say I most likely just got a bad board. It took about a week to solve this whole issue and get my computer up and running but I am happy with my purchase.

This is one of the best motherboards for gaming and over clocking in the sub 200$ category. Ignore the issue of people complaining about the Ethernet not working. The Ethernet port works completely fine it just needs a driver update to recognized your Ethernet cord. You can do this simply by plugging in a wifi adapter into the computer, going to windows update and checking for updates. It will automatically install a lan driver for you that will recognize the Ethernet cord and allow you to use it. And if you don’t have a wifi adapter you can get a simple one for really cheap or just download the driver on another computer and transfer it to your new one for install. This has been a great piece of equipment paired with my new i7-10700k for overclocking without any crashes or overheating. The bios on the motherboard is also probably the best and easiest to use that I have come across so far.

Did you just reboot this motherboard to a brand new install of windows, yes?Did you just uodate the firmware, yes?Is it still not booting up, yes?Will it not accept your flash drive for another fresh reboot, yes?Well tough luck, buy another brand.

First one arrived defective. After receiving another one it worked just fine. Aesthetically the board looks nice, especially if your doing an all white build. There isn’t many options for white motherboards in Z490. It overclocked well (10900k 5.1ghz) ton of features, my only complaint is for the retail price of nearly $270 it should come WiFi ready, I had to purchase a PCIE WiFi card separately.

The media could not be loaded.  This vision g is 100% worth it. Overclocked my i7 10900k and my GPU and VRM isn't remotely close to overheating. The video speak for itself. The board itself has two large heating and has excellent quality as well. No matter how much I OC my i7 10700k(5.1mhz), the vision g never overheat or throttled. The audio alc 1220-vb is also legit. For any mid range mobo for $200, this is probably the best. Especially VRM if u intend to OC and audio for any audiophiles.The 2.5gbps ethernet requires drivers. So I used the cd the vision g came with, put the cd in my laptop and I copied the intel network drivers to my USB flash drive, then used the USB flash drive on my newly built pc to install the drivers. Its really that simple. No issues on internet after that.

I was looking and researching a new way to make a new all white pc when I noticed a video that included this motherboard and said I have to have it! I had to patiently wait for about a month and it was a great deal! Overall, totally worth it. I love that my Destiny 2, and Call of Duty games are in beautiful no lag resolution with this mb and my GEFORCE 2080 Super looks flawless!

It's a solid motherboard for the price and it looks cool.I had issues with my fans getting stuck at full speed. Since my whole build was new it took a while to figure out what part was causing the issue. Flashing the bios fixed it fortunately, but it took a while to diagnose and it's been a huge pain all because they shipped a product with a bugged bios. Now I need to re-do my ram and CPU overclocks.The RBG software also doesn't "play well with others" it works my fans, but it doesn't work with my RBG ram that is specifically marketed to work with Gigabytes RBG Fusion 2.0, so there is some sketchy marketing on what is actually compatible with what. In general the software just isn't good either. Not many options, less good ones, and it makes my fan's LED's duller than if I just use the controller/remote that came with them.I'd like to have an SPDIF output and WI-FI, but it's a cheaper board, so ehh, can't dock them for that. My bigger issue is the buggy software.It's okay, but I'm certainly not going gigabyte for a motherboard next time around.

Built my first gaming PC with this motherboard. What I have installed:Intel i9-10850k 10 Cores16GB 3200 RAM x 4 Corsair RGB (64GB Overkill, yes I know. Someone sold 32GB of the same kind for $100, so why not?)RTX 3080TI Gigabyte OC500GB M.2 SSD (Windows OS)2TB 2.5 SSD (Just a spare)2TB M.2 SSD (Video Games)4TB HDD (Movies, school work, etc)**GIGABYTE GC-WBAX210 (This is IMPORTANT. This motherboard does NOT have bluetooth or WIFI installed, so you must get this, unless you're planning on not using bluetooth and using the LAN cable.)

Built a hackintosh with this, running mojave. Works great, updated to the latest bios and it's just wonderful, the manual is a bit rubbish so mI had to do a bit of looking on line for some of the more compicated things like how to flush it as the instructions were a bit out of date.Looks great, works superb, well recommended for 10th and 11th gen.

La mb es muy bonita y practica, para ser mi primer ensamble me pareció muy fácil e intuitiva no tuve ningún problema en mi armado, lo único fue el famoso problema del puerto LAN, ya había leído que con instalar los driver en un USB para después instalarlos era suficiente, pero se me presentó otro problema, al momento de querer instalar el driver de LAN este se cerraba y no se instalaba como los demás drivers de la placa, después de unas horas y de casi darme por vencido y devolverla entre a la configuración de windows en el apartado de internet busque una parte de "solucionar errores" di click busco actualizaciones e inmediatamente tuve internet!!! Llevo 2 semanas usandola y no he tenido problema alguno ademas de que luce espectacular

Initially it would not VGA post if I had the EVGA 1080TI video card installed, but after I flashed the bios to the latest F7 everything worked fine after that.Anyone who complains about the Intel 2.5gbE driver not installing correctly, it has nothing to do with Gigabyte, but rather Intel cant seem to write proper drivers that auto-detect/install. You must manually install the driver. I've seen this happen with other Intel NIC drivers.Oh yeah, the infamous SLIVER had been corrected to SILVER on these newer batches.

The media could not be loaded.  Pros- looks good -wasn’t horribly pricedCons- lots of issues-pcie x16 slot doesn’t work for some reason.-Ethernet ports don’t work (even with patching and trying the troubleshooting that gigabyte support gave. Fixed by using a usb-c to Ethernet adapter. And I also bought a Bluetooth usb)Had some good hopes but was very disappointed with it overall . At some point I’ll prolly change it and sell it or build a pc for my kid.It’s not bad for performance one you fix or get past all the issues.

The ethernet port wasnt working and the included drivers on the CD has corrupted files for the ethernet controller (Intel i225 ethernet drivers). There are no customer support numbers for Canada and esupport was not helpful. This could have been a bad batch of motherboards but I was disappointed and will not be purchasing any gigabyte products in the near future.