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Heatsink Design

Customers have mostly positive opinions about the heatsink design of the Gigabyte B550 AORUS ELITE AX V2, praising its ability to keep the system cool and quiet under load. Some users experienced stability issues initially but were satisfied with the board's performance and power handling capabilities. The heatsinks on M2 SSD chips and independent fan control are also noted as advantages. However, a few customers had trouble achieving stable overclocks with certain RAM configurations.

Easy Bios Setup

Customers have a generally positive sentiment towards the ease of setting up the BIOS on this Gigabyte AORUS ELITE AX V2 motherboard. Many users found it simple to navigate, update, and utilize features such as XMP profiles and custom fan speed curves. Some users appreciated the Q-Flash Plus feature for updating the BIOS without needing an older CPU. However, a few users noted the absence of BIOS LEDs and less than stellar RGB software as minor downsides.

Wifi Functionality

Customers generally have a positive opinion towards the Wi-Fi functionality of the Gigabyte B550 AORUS ELITE AX V2 motherboard. Many users reported that it works well and comes with magnetic antennas to boost the signal, resulting in good Wi-Fi speeds. However, some customers had issues with missing antennas or encountered bugs related to Bluetooth connectivity.

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Quality


The features are great, full 1200 audio codex, wifi works after a bit of fiddling with drivers, has great support for all hardware.


The mother board is amazing upgrading from ddr 3 too 4 it’s been a big change and it’s a pretty fast mobo the bios is easy to n...  Read More


Since i had everything installed already decided to keep the card but shut the bt completely.


I spent my morning trying to flash the bios and to no success, no lights appeared to show it was working.

Price


Really pleased with this board which i bought at around a 25% discount on original release price.


Has great price to performance for a b550 board.


If you want a reasonably priced board, get this.


Overall though i'm really pleased with this board especially at the discounted price.

Shipping


Came quickly no manual or driver cd.


Ordered saturday and it arrived monday morning.


Delivery was incredibly fast despite living in ireland and this shipping from the uk.

Packaging/appearance


This motherboard is worth the money it has bluetooth and wi-fi built inside it, for starter it's built very well and comes pack...  Read More


Looks amazing in my case and does exactly what you would expect it to do.


Received it and the box was pretty bashed up - more than any other part i received, the box also wasn’t sealed and first boot t...  Read More


Came with bios for 5000 series (i own 5600x for it) so i didn't need to update that, worked right out the box (apart from wifi ...  Read More

Competitiveness


0, the amd ryzen 5 5600x, wifi, bluetooth and is the cheapest one that does all this.


Based on previous amazon reviews, and research on google, i believed that this (and most) b550 motherboards required bios flash...  Read More


I would have preferred one of the msi boards such as the b550 tomahawk, but that didnt have wifi and was more expensive at time...  Read More

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  • How are reviewers describing this item?
    great, easy, good, new and flash.
  • Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
  • Our engine has discovered that over 90% high quality reviews are present.
  • This product had a total of 760 reviews as of our last analysis date on Sep 16 2024.

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    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Have it paired with a ryzen 5800x cpu 2x 16gb sticks of 3600 memory 2x nvme m


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Updated the bios firmware to the latest f13 version 13072021 available on gigabytes website


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    You can also easily disable pbo set cpu voltage and set all cores to a fixed speed if you so desire


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Based on previous amazon reviews and research on google i believed that this and most b550 motherboards required bios flashing to allow ryzen 5600x cpus to work on the motherboard


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    I spent my morning trying to flash the bios and to no success no lights appeared to show it was working


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    After many hours troubleshooting i decided to build the pc out of the case to see if i could get it to boot


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    I purchased this in july 2021 and i believe the board was manufactured in april 2021


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Therefore if you are purchasing after these dates i think you will not need to flash the bios anymore and ryzen 5600x will be compatible straight out of the box

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