GIGABYTE B550M AORUS Elite AX (rev 1.3) Motherboard, Supports AMD AM4 Ryzen 5000 Processors, Micro-ATX, DDR4, Single M.2, SATA 6Gb/s, Realtek GbE LAN, PCIe 4.0

This board has worked perfectly for a budget Ryzen 5 5600GT build. The board arrived in brand-new condition (Some reviews expressed otherwise) and worked the first time without any issues. The VRM's are very high quality and have no problem with thermals because of the large heatsink. The wifi is very fast and I had no issues installing all the necessary drivers needed for this new build. The BIOS is probably my favorite part of this board. I have never used a gigabyte motherboard before (Always ASUS or MSI in the past) but this is making me reconsider those choices. It is so much easier to adjust the fan curves and update the bios on this board compared to the competition it makes my head spin. You can even save fan curves so they won't just vanish when you update BIOS which is something I've never had the luxury of doing on MSI boards. The fan stop feature is also another no-brainer feature that MSI and ASUS just don't seem to have on the boards I've used for some reason. It allows you to make a fan completely stop under a certain temperature even if it isn't a zero RPM fan which is AMAZING. I strongly recommend this board!

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I'm more used to MSI boards but this gigabyte turned out to be really good too. The BIOS options are a bit cluncky compated to MSI but they mostly get the job done. I like to undervolt for better heat control and the manual settings and PBO work good, not sure why the same settings show up all over the BIOS.I like that there are 3 x16 PCIe slots that are spaced apart, most boards have smaller slots and/or they are spaced at 1 slot spacing.

I've never been to finicky with the visual presentation of my board, whether it be more stylish and sleek or conventional and industrial looking. Performance and ease of use are above all else. This board succeeds with the former, but can be lackluster with some of the latter.Physical installation was a breeze, but the same cannot be said about Gigabyte's proprietary software application. While the BIOS is inoffensive and easy to use, the Control Center app is an absolute nightmare. GCC tries at every opportunity to override every other first-party software dedicated to hardware control. I removed Gigabyte Fusion entirely because custom color selection from the software wasn't remotely accurate to what displayed on hardware ARGB. Even after removing everything related to Fusion in my system registry, just running GCC in the background caused hardware ARGB to flicker, and would break my PWM settings even though I don't have any other fan control software installed. I eventually just disabled GCC altogether, and even still, the Update Service will sometimes self-launch in the background randomly and inconsistently upon startup every now and then.The real pain, however, was the onboard wireless adapter. Every single component got the necessary firmware and drivers they required via LAN upon my first boot...EXCEPT the wireless adapter. I tried over and over to manually install the latest drivers listed on Gigabyte's own website, and it still would not function. It took reinstalling a wireless card for Windows to even bother retrieving the driver automatically. The adapter was now functional, but wouldn't detect 5G networks. It took hours of browsing tech forums before being directed to an off-site forum hosting Realtek drivers, then trial-and-error through downloading and attempting to manually install a few compressed packages from there before finally getting the device manager to recognize one of them and successfully install it.My last gripe would be the front-panel USB 3.0 hub location. I have no idea why Gigabyte thought it'd be great placing it right where most people would install their card in the lower PCIE port to give their storage devices some breathing room. All PC cases I've owned had beefy 3.0 plugs that need additional space lest you bend and damage either the pins, board or cable. Thankfully I'm not entirely dependent on having the front panel USB ports, but it would be nice to have them working for my leisure.All that being said, I can't complain too much or really dissuade anybody from getting this board. So as long as you avoid GCC like the plague and configure your preferred performance settings in the BIOS, it gets the job done. CPU and air cooler are snug and firmly sit, RAM runs well, all my temps are read correctly and my SSD has room to breathe. I only wish Gigabyte tech support was more helpful and informative than some obscure tech forum sites.

no wifi have to use ethernet to get drivers for wifi other then that board is easy to build with. just download gigabyte control center for drivers, and you can also use that to change you rgb.

Item was used. Came in an unsealed box, no CPU cover plate, no product guide. WiFi antenna packed inside static shield with motherboard.