GIGABYTE B850 GAMING WIFI6 AMD AM5 LGA 1718 Motherboard, ATX, DDR5, 3x M.2, PCIe 5.0, USB-C, WIFI6E, 1GbE LAN, EZ-Latch

Looks great and works even better

I ordered this to save some money and it had all the features I needed. Turns out this is a high quality product at a very competitive price. Installation was a breeze and the driver setup was easy as well

Good, with some overcome-able issues

I used this board with a ryzen 7 7800x3d processor, and it failed to boot when i first tried. Resetting the CMOS and also updating the BIOS using Q flash fixed the issue. Other than that scare, its a good board.

Basically eWaste

Hard crashed when cpu load got heavy. No bsod, no errors, just sudden power down. Diagnosed the behavior to the motherboard after weeks of troubleshooting and replacing parts Get MSI instead. Works like a charm

Pros: Cheap, integrated WiFi, plenty of m2 slots

Cons: Requires bios update to even function with am5 x3d chips, then crashes randomly after sudden cpu spikes. Gigabyte software that comes along with everything feels like malware with how in your face it is

Good Enough

Pretty good, easy to work with. Wish there was a little more to it to justify the price.

Pros: - The latch for the M.2 drive was easy to use, but wasn't on every slot. - The ez-latch system for the PCIE was easy.

Cons: - No heatsink for the M.2 drives.

Wouldn't POST an X3D chip

Part of a combo with a GPU. PCB is thin compared to most B850 boards and feels flimsy. No M.2 heatsink and the PCIe slot is mounted high on the board. This is good if you have a chunky 3-slot GPU but a smaller GPU will look off-balanced" in the case. With these shortcomings and the fact that I couldn't get it to POST, I would not recommend this board.

Pros: It's a B850 board

Cons: Tried this board with a few working chips; Two different 7800X3D chips and a 9800X3D and couldn't get any of them to POST. Red "CPU" diagnosis light was on. Most likely a BIOS issue with X3D chips but without the ability to enter bios, I will never know. Part of a combo with a GPU so I can't return without returning the GPU too.

Simple design but BIOS was inoperable

If you really need a motherboard, then buy a different model

Cons: - BIOS was unable to be accessed - There was no reset button and no jumpers - Had to replace motherboard due to inoperability

Fantastic price to features included

Extremely satisfied coming from a strict asrock mobo user for four of my past builds, excluding my fifth build that had an asus that had constant issues, never used Gigabyte didnt like Asrocks price and little to no features, asrock also is having issues as of late with AM5 as well. My ram speed works great no instability at all when using expo.

Pros: Three NVME slots PCIE 5.0 for the latest GPUS PCIE 5.0 for the latest NVME down the road Lots of fan and argb headers Great thermal design Great easy to use Bios

Cons: None yet