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this lead card cannot support a ryzen 7 5700x because the vrms are not of sufficient quality, which leads to voltage drops and therefore major instability.
Detailed instructions to avoid making mistakes in the various connections would be useful (not found on the site).
Not suitable for all ventirads... Take a good look at the dimensions as the capacitors sometimes block. But otherwise superb motherboard, fast, solid, I've had it for 24 hours, at first a lot of crash bugs but after 24 hours with an update of the BIOS of windows 11 also, drivers!.. I recommend this motherboard.
Second time I've bought the combo with the amd and the fox spirit is not disappointed with the performance. It keeps a nice and friendly sign
I recommend this motherboard which is very well equipped for less than 100 €: 2 NVMe ports, 4 RAM slots, 4 USB2 & 4 USB3 sockets at the back, 3 fan sockets... Nice to mount, no problem to install the Wraith Stealth of a Ryzen 5 5500 and the 2 Corsair Vengeance low profile RAM slots. BIOS correct but not more, no SMART management and only 4 presets for fan speed control (I miss my previous MSI :(. I'm not sure if it's a good motherboard, but it has all the essentials and can be upgraded (2 NVMe & 4 RAM bars :). At this price, buy it with your eyes closed!
Great motherboard with lots of USB connections.
I was able to plug in everything, even my extra fan that I bought, in short it is perfect for your pc
And I don't regret it. I don't do gaming, so I don't overclock. I ask a graphics card to be reliable, we'll see in 10 years. I ask above all that it lasts over time and that it has a USB port.
No problem overall. I put a beQuiet! Shadow Rock Slim fan on the CPU.
However, be careful if you need the SATA connectors: if your graphics card is long and on 2 slots, you may not be able to access all the SATA sockets :( It would have been better if Gigabytes had made SATA connectors coming out to the right than to the top.
Nothing to report, Ryzen 5 3600, 16GB HyperX 3200, SSD M.2 Sabrent 1TB PCIe 3.0, +4 SATA drives, GTX 1660. All this works with both Linux and Windows 10 Pro.
Contrary to what I read in the other comment, I had no problem with the mounting of my ventirad, a Be Quiet Shadow Rock Slim which mounts naturally in the direction of airflow (front to back).
After that I chose this card with a medium term upgrade in mind. Ryzen 4000 (or 5000) series, RTX 3000 series in PCIE 4.0 to come, and I also have an M.2 PCIE 4.0 slot that remains free. I'll see when the time comes for the BIOS update and installation, but for the moment it's doing the job.
The main criticism I would make is the PCIE 1x slot which is unusable with a dual slot graphics card, as well as the PCIE 16x 3.0 slot (but which works in 4x) and which I'm not convinced is useful. I would also have appreciated an extra case fan connector, it would have saved me a splitter, especially as I don't use the LED connectors.
Paid less than £100 with a discount, a bargain.
I have nothing to say about the functioning of this card, it does the job, coupled with a Ryzen 3 3300X, it works well.
As for the assembly, I took it with full knowledge of the facts but there are some details that bother me.
The original ventirad mounting base would have benefited from being rotated by 90°, the ventirads that use this original system end up with the fan on the power supply side or on the graphics card side......resulting in poor cooling with a bequiet pure rock slim.
It's a micro ATX, sure, but once the graphics card is in place, it's impossible to put an M.2 SSD on the port managed by the chipset except to reassemble the CG......there are only 4 sata ports.....Gigabyte is lagging behind on this side.
The 24 pin power connector is very badly located, top right, I have an old case, and the 3.5 bays make it impossible to plug in once the CM is in place.... you have to plug the connector in first and then put the card in...
Why put the connector so high? especially on a card with the maximum width (24cm)
I'm not sure if this is a good idea or not, but I'm sure it's a good idea.
