GIGABYTE B450 AORUS ELITE (AMD Ryzen AM4/ATX/M.2 Thermal Guard/Hmdi/DVI/USB 3.1/DDR4/Motherboard)

I think I made a great choice with this Aorus Elite B450. I added the Ryzen 3 2200G. This board has 6 temperature sensors which I think is nice feature. 4 RGB headers (2 are addressable) plus 2 rgb zones built onto the MB (one of those is the Falcon's Head) You can program them all differently with the RGB Fusion. i got 3 green fans 4 pins for $10.00. The fans do not change color but the 4 pins allows the speed to be adjusted.I like the placement of the 4 Drams. i put in 2 Patriot Vipers 3000mhz Red, they look awesome glowing off the RGB strip I installed. I am getting the 3000mhz without any overclocking. This MB holds 2 NVME M.2 SSD's which are so much faster than the 2.5 SSD's. 1 is PCIE Gen 3x4 and 1 is PCIE Gen 3x2. I bought the X2 before realizing the X4 was twice as fast as the X2 and 5 X faster than the 2.5 SSD's . Both are 256GB, one was $41.00 the other $45.00. Ended up using both but could have saved a chunk on this budget PC here. But this gives me 500 GB hard drive space all Solid State. I am using the StoreMI to combine the 2 drives. I may add my old 1TB HDD but I want to try to stick to all solid if I can.The Ryzen has a pretty good built in graphics card but i have to have 3 monitors so i put in my old 1050i. My old Dell had DDR3, Intel I7 4th gen (so not up gradable). DVD players are now old school. I do not know if it is mainly the NVME's but this new PC is so much faster and responsive. My windows 10 has done a couple of upgrades and done in like 30 seconds. The BIOS is awesome too, you can see the temperatures, what speed each fan is running at, what mhz your dram is doing, you can use f2 to toggle from easy mode to full mode. It is even easy to to overclock the system.I am an old fart so not that into gaming but I do a lot of graphics design. I am glad I made the switch to AMD from Intel. I am glad I went with the bigger mother board, I may need the extra PCI slots and DDRs later, I am sure I will use all 4 LED headers, I am thinking of hanging a LED clock on the wall and putting a small infinity mirror inside the case.So for $400.00 plus monitors you can build a nice up gradable gaming system.

This has replaced the tough series as our go to boards. This has better VRM than the Asus Toff boards, even the x470 Tuff boards. In-fact the only difference between the Tuff B450 and X470 boards is the chipset and USB I/O, both have same VRM that is inferior compared to the Aorus series. I have about a dozen systems of each out in the wild now, and the only one I've had to repair under warranty is the Tuff series. The Gigabyte Aorus ones are just a better board. The feel more robust, heavier PCB, better VRM, integrated I/O shield (which the TUFF lacks), and none have died on us yet (compared to 2 of the ASUS boards that died in the first 5 months). Unless the customer request an x470/570 board this will be the center of most of our builds going forward.

562/5000This motherboard is excellent! It fulfills everything the B450 chip promises. BIOS updates are still relatively constant. Current use with an R7 2700X, 16GB of RAM corsair 3000mhz (overclocked to 3200mhz), an RX 5700 XT, an M.2 of 256GB and a hard disk. It is perfect if the use that is going to be given is not going to be specifically for overclock, because although it has a very good overclock capacity and a very good amount of VRMs, it lacks some functions that are not necessary at all and that makes it very cheap.

All indications are this is a solid mobo, m.2 performance is great and installation was easy/quick. However, despite what other reviewers say, I was NOT able to us this to run windows 7, which was my intention. I was able to install win7 on a SATA drive (windows 7 install cannot recognize m.2), and after about a week of searching for drivers and installing them (the motherboard driver disc immediately crashed the computer, but not before disabling the USB ports so the mouse/keyboard didn't work) the computer finally booted into windows 7, but performance was sluggish, LAN speeds were unnacceptable, and the system was very unstable.good mobo for the money, but do NOT buy this to run windows 7.

Great product. I've had it about 5 years and no complaints.

awesome motherboard. still working as I upgraded my pc components through the years. i first bought this motherboard year 2019. september. with ddr 4 corsair vengeance 16gb ddr 4 ram. ryzen 5 2600 cpu. 128gb of pny nvme drive 500 watt power supply with gtx 1050. I recently upgraded to rtx 3060 8gb oc msi brand and replaced the power supply to 800 watts evga power supply. and added 16 gb ddr4 more ram. total system memory of 32 gb. and western digital 1tb nvme with heatsink. works well the temperature 34 celsius idle . still going good without any malfunctions using windows 11 upgraded from 10 few months ago. no complaints. happy with this buy. still using it year 2025

I'm not a gamer and don't overclock but I chose this board based on other reviews. My build went smooth with no problems. The only hiccup was the video card that I was going to install would not fit because of the M.2 drive heat sink being in the way. I could have moved the drive to the alternate spot on the board but chose not to and just used a different video card. The board is stable and everything is light speed compared to my old system.