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Ya, but 1) AM5 systems cost significantly more, and 2) AM4 systems are plenty fast even today, and will continue to be fast for a long while. The thought that you need to replace a PC every 3 years has been dead for years. I'm still using an ultrabook from 2018 and a desktop system from 2022 will be much faster/better.
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Any recommendations on this board? Good deal or stay away?
I just got this to replace a msi mobo that died.
Great board no issues. Definitely download and install all the drivers from Gigabyte, especially the WiFi and Bluetooth one. I had issues with my usb Bluetooth adapter when I first got the board, but once drivers are installed, the motherboard has BT built in and USB was unnecessary.
Also, enable XMP or similar for your RAM. Mine was dramatically under clocked until I did.
5 pcie slots seems pretty impressive at this price. Would make for a nice board for home NAS use with a lot of expandability I'd think. If it had 2.5 gb networking it would be even better
5 pcie slots seems pretty impressive at this price. Would make for a nice board for home NAS use with a lot of expandability I'd think. If it had 2.5 gb networking it would be even better
Sadly all of the slots beyond the first one are pcie 3.0 1x electrical. Fine for basic pcie cards but most things will saturate that quickly.
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Not worth it unless you are replacing a fried mobo or got a free AM4 cpu. AM5 is the new tech.
Ya, but 1) AM5 systems cost significantly more, and 2) AM4 systems are plenty fast even today, and will continue to be fast for a long while. The thought that you need to replace a PC every 3 years has been dead for years. I'm still using an ultrabook from 2018 and a desktop system from 2022 will be much faster/better.
Ya, but 1) AM5 systems cost significantly more, and 2) AM4 systems are plenty fast even today, and will continue to be fast for a long while. The thought that you need to replace a PC every 3 years has been dead for years. I'm still using an ultrabook from 2018 and a desktop system from 2022 will be much faster/better.
Not to mention my favorite feature of gigabyte is the ability to flash the bios via usb without ram cpu or an OS by using that button on back with the I/O. I currently have an AM4 MSI board thats lying around dead because the diagnostics LEDs say no video card, despite the video card, ram and cpu being good in a new board. clearing CMOS did nothing for that MSI board.
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Sadly all of the slots beyond the first one are pcie 3.0 1x electrical. Fine for basic pcie cards but most things will saturate that quickly.
Yeah. AM4 doesn't have enough PCI-E lanes for all of them to be 16x slots. It's not even close. They might have been able to do one as a 4x slot but that probably would have meant sharing lanes with some other slot(s) so you couldn't really use everything at the same time anyway. The other issue would be location of the slots. I'd assume that at least one of the other slots will be blocked by a GPU in the top slot. Probably two. All three of them between the top slot and the M2 slot could end up being block by bigger cards but you probably aren't as likely to run those huge triple slot+ cards on an AM4 platform now a days. That's where an M2 slot right below the GPU slot is nice. It's harder to access but at least is possible to use it and a typical graphics card at the same time.
Yeah. AM4 doesn't have enough PCI-E lanes for all of them to be 16x slots. It's not even close. They might have been able to do one as a 4x slot but that probably would have meant sharing lanes with some other slot(s) so you couldn't really use everything at the same time anyway. The other issue would be location of the slots. I'd assume that at least one of the other slots will be blocked by a GPU in the top slot. Probably two. All three of them between the top slot and the M2 slot could end up being block by bigger cards but you probably aren't as likely to run those huge triple slot+ cards on an AM4 platform now a days. That's where an M2 slot right below the GPU slot is nice. It's harder to access but at least is possible to use it and a typical graphics card at the same time.
Ya, but 1) AM5 systems cost significantly more, and 2) AM4 systems are plenty fast even today, and will continue to be fast for a long while. The thought that you need to replace a PC every 3 years has been dead for years. I'm still using an ultrabook from 2018 and a desktop system from 2022 will be much faster/better.
Let me guess, you're rocking a 5900xt?
Jk, this is the advice I'd give if I was building a new rig for my son or something. Future proof your system for a mere extra $100 in extra cost of AM5 components or so is well worth it in my opinion.
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Great board no issues. Definitely download and install all the drivers from Gigabyte, especially the WiFi and Bluetooth one. I had issues with my usb Bluetooth adapter when I first got the board, but once drivers are installed, the motherboard has BT built in and USB was unnecessary.
Also, enable XMP or similar for your RAM. Mine was dramatically under clocked until I did.
Sadly all of the slots beyond the first one are pcie 3.0 1x electrical. Fine for basic pcie cards but most things will saturate that quickly.
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Ya, but 1) AM5 systems cost significantly more, and 2) AM4 systems are plenty fast even today, and will continue to be fast for a long while. The thought that you need to replace a PC every 3 years has been dead for years. I'm still using an ultrabook from 2018 and a desktop system from 2022 will be much faster/better.
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Jk, this is the advice I'd give if I was building a new rig for my son or something. Future proof your system for a mere extra $100 in extra cost of AM5 components or so is well worth it in my opinion.
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