GIGABYTE X870E AORUS Master AMD AM5 LGA 1718 Motherboard, ATX, DDR5, 4X M.2, PCIe 5.0, USB4, WIFI7, 5GbE LAN, EZ-Latch, 5-Year Warranty

I’ve used many Gigabyte motherboards over the years, but this one is hands-down the best. The build quality is phenomenal...this thing feels like a tank, and it’s continued to impress me the longer I’ve used it. It looks premium in person too, without the cheesy design choices you see on a lot of high-end boards.The onboard NIC is next-level. It’s easily the best networking experience I’ve ever had on a mobo: fast, stable, and rock solid. My Gen 5 SSDs stay surprisingly cool thanks to the built-in heatsinks, and thermal performance across the board is excellent.Gigabyte didn’t cut any corners here. From high-end components to a stacked feature set, this board comes with everything you could possibly need, and then some. I could keep going, but the bottom line is: this board is fantastic. Gigabyte absolutely nailed it.The only downside? Some system stability issues when enabling PBO or EXPO, but that’s more a result of the platform being new. I’m running a 9950X3D, and these issues are happening across brands. As BIOS updates roll out, I fully expect this to smooth out.

The motherboard is great and comes with everything you need. This was my first PC build and the design of most things when installing is fool-proof. The black/gunmetal finish matches my build perfectly.The package comes with everything you would need. I was usied 1-sided m2 SSDs and of course they have extra thermal tape to lift the level of it.The documentation that comes with the package is not sufficient unless you know what you are doing. Refer to the PDF manual on the gigabyte/aorus website.My first boot was seamless with no errors, and for my first build that was a sigh of relief. I also like the control panel app they provide, super intuitive.The lighting is a nice touch as well and of course everything is customizable.Using this with an AMD 9950x3d and nvidia 5080. I did have to switch things multiple times before i figured out all the connections so I'll say its a pretty rugged design too, good for beginners. If they could cut out an installation step they did, no tools necessary for installing most things as they have sort of ez-lock connections.All in all the new PC is very fast and I'm glad I chose this board.

I've been a Gigabyte customer for a long time, but this motherboard has been a pain. By way of background, I have a 7950X3D, 96GB of DDR5 6400, a Gigabyte 4090, an EVGA 2080, and a 1600 Watt Platinum PSU in this machine. I have a liquid cooling loop on this machine, so removing both graphics cards to troubleshoot problems was a nightmare.Firstly, the onboard ethernet sometimes fails and won't work until I fully turn off the PC for at least a minute.Secondly, the motherboard's M2C_CPU NVMe slot is essentially nonfunctional. I tried three different NVMe drives. On a cold boot, the motherboard detects them in the bios and windows. After running the PC for ~20-60 minutes, the drive will just disappear. Windows event log provides this information: "An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk2\DR2 during a paging operation." After restart, the drive will not reappear. Instead, you'd need to do a cold boot where you can only get another 20-60 minutes of use. I'm currently testing the drive in the M2D_SB NVMe slot, but unfortunately that slot just has slower performance and I bought a GEN5 NVMe. Not ideal, even if it works.Thirdly, the new fan connectors off the side of the motherboard can be easily bent. Be very careful. Very poor design choice. In my case, I realized I needed to plug in a fan after building most of the PC. When I tried to plug it in without removing my graphics cards, I accidentally bent one of the fan pins.Fourth, the rigid metal backing on the bottom of the motherboard, (which the x670E Master had), is now gone, so don't count on that being there. This isn't a big deal, but I'm listing my complaints.