I'm each time surprised of how much Gigabyte boards are very often (to not say always) a combination of great features, build quality and aesthetics. Wide range of options too, from budget friendly to super premium. Great review as always, a pleasure to watch!
I know this is a old review but I just got this board a couple weeks ago along with a 7800X3D and 64 gigs of G.Skill 6000 (CL-30) RAM, I setup a curve optimization of -30 all cores. I have a Seasonic Vertex 1200 watt PSU and a Gigabyte 4090 Gaming OC. My main use for this system is playing sims (Racing and flight) in high res VR (Reverb G2v2) (3160 x 3092 per eye), this system has been rock solid, MSFS-2020 runs like a dream on this thing and some of my racing sims now have more eye candy turned up. My previous board was a Aorus X570 Elite Wifi, a 5900x with 32 gigs of Corsair 3200 (CL-16), for my sims in VR, the 7800X3d blows my 5900x out of the water, this thing is a beast! :) So far, I can honestly say..... I love this motherboard! LOL
Thinking about it does the 4.0 pcie bother you not sure how advanced 5.0 is amd if it becomes a must I know now there isn't much out there but the transfer rate for 4.0 is still very fast. Hoe much faster do we need
@@magictracks I am using a 1 TB Samsung 980 pro (with heatsink) NVME (PCIe-4) as my boot drive, it's plenty fast. I also have a PCIe-3 NVME 1TB Kingston, even that's fairly fast as well on my system, along with a few SATA based SSDs. The crucial stuff like some racing sims and MSFS are on the NVME drives. Very happy with it's performance. :) The PCIe-4 needs it's heatsink, so I can imagine any PCIe-5 NVME drives would run pretty hot.
Man your comment bring me peace of mind. I just ordered very similar pc than yours, same processor, 32GB DDR5-6000 CL36 DIMM Corsair Vengeance so I was reading this motherboard was causing issues
@@strobelightstrobelight Regarding the motherboard (Aorus X670 Elite AX), I left mine on the old Bios (F9), seems to actually be faster than newer bios'es, I haven't tried the lest bios though. I have a -30 all cores set for Curve Optimizer and another small tweak I can't remember the setting right now, but I am very pleased with this motherboard. Mine is the original revision too (v 1.0). Been running it for roughly 3 months now with no issues. :) Chances are those that had issues didn't know what they were doing, just because it's on CZcams doesn't mean it's good! LOL
@@jackr.749 Thanks a lot for your comment and knowledge. Im a lil overwhelmed and stress right now haha because I spent some money on it. I don't know which revision is mine tbh. This are the specs: Form factor ATX Chipset AMD X670 RAM compatibility 4x DDR5 DIMM, DDR4-6400 (OC), max. 128GB (UDIMM) Expansion slots 2x PCIe 4.0 x16 (1x x16, 1x x4), 1x PCIe 3.0 x16 (x2), 1x M.2/M-Key (PCIe 5.0 x4, 25110), 3x M.2/M-Key (PCIe 4.0 x4) External connections 1x HDMI 2.0 (iGPU), 1x USB-C 3.2 (20Gb/s), 2x USB-A 3.1 (10Gb/s), 6x USB-A 3.0 (5Gb/s), 4x USB-A 2.0 (480Mb/s), 1x 2.5GBase-T, 3x jack Internal connections 1x USB-C 3.2 Gen 2x2 header, 2x USB 3.2 Gen 1 header, 2x USB 2.0 header WLAN Wi-Fi 6E (WLAN 802.11a/b/g/n/ac/ax, 2x2, AMD RZ616 [MT7922A]), Bluetooth 5.2 Header cooling 2x CPU fan 4-pin, 4x fan 4-pin, 1x AIO pump 4-pin, 1x pump 4-pin, 1x thermal sensor Header lighting TBA Audio 7.1 (Realtek ALC1220/ASUS SupremeFX) RAID level 0/1/10 Power connections 1x 24-pin ATX, 2x 8-pin EPS12V Graphic IGP (via CPU/APU) Lighting RGB, 2 zones (chipset cooler, I/O cover) Should be a problem ram trademark? or this does not matter at all? Thank you man, you giving me some light right now lol
My dear baguette fella, cheers for your review and long live the chocolatine :). It looks like this board packs all I need and more. The legacy USB-2 ports are great when you have some older devices. And that Thunderbolt 4 port you showed us is a beauty ! The TB4 and the ATX form factor convinced me.
Thanks / Merci for the review pleine d'enthousiasme 😊 I chose this X670 board as it had the second PCI slot slightly away from the bottom edge of the board, leaving room for my SoundBlaster-Z soundcard and the lower intake fans in my Lian-Li O11D case. Every other model in the low to mid range only had a slot right at the bottom. The onboard sound even on the high end boards is still not as good as a dedicated soundcard, even the Asus ones with Xonar tech. I am very happy to hear that the rest of the board quality is good though
Funny to see that you considered this board for the same reason as I am doing right now. The Fractal Torrent Compact with bottom fans also block the lowest PCIe slot, so having a decent slot at position 6 is great. The spacing between the GPU slot and this slot is perfect for those 3,5+ slot GPUs (looking at you 4090). A different board with this layout is the Asus Prime X670-P, which appears to be a step down in quality from this Aorus Elite while being about the same price.
I feel reassured due to the fact that I ordered this yesterday with zero research just cause it looked like a quality board in the pictures and now I know I did a good thing.
I use a simulator and wheel/gear stick/pedals setup that prefers usb gen 2 so they still have their uses. A simulator and VR setup uses many usb sockets, so the quantity of usb sockets in general on offer here is welcome. The mobo is perfect apart from the lower class audio. Great review!
I have my keyboard, mouse, game controller, flight stick, headphones all plugged into USB, and none of them need to be USB 3.0+ so yep, I'm fine with the USB 2.0 ports. If I need more, I can use a hub.
I'm not concerned about the audio that much because it should be good enough for what gamers need. We might as well not even notice the differences between this mobo and what audiophiles expect.
Ive never watched a video on a motherboard before.. but I just bought this one and decided to learn more about it. Im really glad that it has so many m.2 slots for storage! I was just pondering on getting more nvme SSD's, but my current board only has 2. NOW I CAN HAVE 4!!!!! + my sata SSD's too. Thank you!
Running four of these now and three of the b650 versions. The last one I snagged for $100 plus tax. Three have 7800x3D and one with a 7600x. Best bang for the buck boards and in many cases only cost me a tiny bit out of pocket after selling x570 boards for about $100 each. Enabling Memory Context Restore after setting EXPO has been a must and makes the occasional very slow posts become far less frequent.
Great video. You got yourself a new sub. Thanks for this. Quick question: If I populate all M.2 slots with SSDs, will any of them reduce the 1st PCIe slot to 8x?
Thank you for the awesome review again, I had the B650 one on order then canceled because this one X670 became available again after only one day being listed 🤣.
I love your enthusiasm it's so infectious. Can't wait to pick up my board later! I was debating between this adn the x670 from Asrock because it's white but man I'll just get this instead because you've conviced me.
Let me tell you about that 8 layer PCB and the copper plates. After building computers since 1989 I made a grave mistake. When I was screwing the CPU AIO cooler head down to the CPU bracket I didnt notice that the top left screw was drilling into the PCB rather than the threads of the backplate. It drilled a nice little hole into the PCB, but this board works beautifully. Not an issue. Nothing wrong with the way this PC runs. Temps are perfect. Voltages are perfect. I really could have screwed up a nice and expensive board, but I got lucky. I shielded the hole with PCB masking material.
@@terrytibbs951 Hey Terry! I wish I could post pics here to show. I was too excited when I was building this PC and I went too fast. I have a 360mm AIO. I didn't make sure that the screws of the cooler were threading into the housing. I just started to screw them in and it turned out that instead of the screws going into the threads, they were drilling into the motherboard. The pump head was a little crooked. I also couldn't see well because I installed the motherboard into the case before I screwed on the cooler pump head. I wanted to size things up with the motherboard installed. Like I said, I used PCB masking material and it is all fixed and runs perfect. This is a very thick motherboard.
Thanks for the review... as a part-time content-creator I couldn't agree more, that this "Elite" version checks all the boxes for connection (esp. 2x Front USB3.2 USB-A connectors) - as I seem to be one of the few people left, who prefers an internal card-reader which needs that 2nd connector. Competition provides this amount of connections only on the highend gaming-boards for twice the price - forcing you to pay for high-end onboard-sound and overclocking-capabilities you may never need.
Thanks for the review, very well done Laurent! The internal sound processor seems not great, and there is no Spdif out… that was definitely the weakest aspect of my x570 elite and the spdif saved me.
it's likely caused from the mic cause directionals change as you move around the mic, so assume you have a mic that can pick up directions@@Laurentschoice
The first thing I look for is a more subdued design, which this has. It looks like it is for grownups. I don't even want good audio because I have an external DAC (as anyone how cares about audio should get) so no point in putting a fancy one on a MOBO. Only thing this is missing for me is a post code display. I don't think I can buy a board without that. Love your video.
I have all the troubles in world trying to even pass windows installer. First thing I did was to update to F7a bios, maybe it was a mistake. Rolling back to F4 as of now. To everyone, save your hard earn money and go with an ASUS or a MSI. If the Aorus works it works, but when it does not even the simple things are a nightmare. Too bad because it was perfect for me on paper. Edit : As of now downgrading to F4 Bios does the job. What's going on at Gigabyte ? Since 2016 their boards gave me nothing but a hard time. Their X58 and X79 were fantastic and so were the Socket A and 939 … What bios did you use Laurent?
In the end I pretty much liked this motherboard. Like Han Solo says, it's got it where it counts. Not everything is perfect, though. Where it's very weak,however, is in audio out jacks, and SATA 3.0 jacks. It has only 3 audio out jacks, not 5, and no SPDIF out. If there is a way to get it to do 5.1 / 7.1 surround sound, I have not figured it out. Jack sense don't seem to work. It has only 4 SATA jacks, not 6, and they are in a terrible place right under the monster GPU you installed. Be sure to plug in ALL your SATA cables cables before you install your GPU. I bent the USB-C pin on the right F_USB320G motherboard header cable and port, which is the worst connector imaginable. FOrtunately there was a second one at the bottom I could plug into. But my pin is still bent, so the USB-C don't work on it. This is onboard USB32 combo motherboard connector absolutely the worst connector the industry has ever made. The motherboard manual was acutally pretty good. It is very sad there were not WIndows 7 drivers for the motherboard. Upgrading the UEFI BIOS at first gave me fits, until I realized I could not install mismatched pairs of DIMMs.
Also DAC / Audio Interface. I've got nothing but problems when trying to run many them on 3.0+... Motu M2, Topping D10B, Fiio K7 to name a few. They all run perfectly fine on 2.0 but acted up in one way or another on faster USB standards.
New viewer here, was considering buying this and your review made me certain that i am going to do it! thanks for taking the time to go over the features! I do have one question through; Why do you remind me so much of Boris Grishenko from Goldeneye?
@@SirWolf2018 you may be correct, just something to point out. Regardless its a fantastic board. I had one and it ran my 7950X @ 2133fclk/6400C30 flawlessly
Those negative can be solved by PCI-E Sound Blaster AE-7 I have it and I don't think I will go back to use Realtek stuff anymore. Next thing is Intel X550-T2 to replace the integrated Realtek NIC
Hello Laurent Does this motherboard has the baility of splitting PCIE slot correctly as Gigabyte usualyy did ? I mean x8/x8 x4/x4/x4 on most port possible ? I got all these features on my Aorus Master/Pro X570 and being owner of an ASUS X670-P I am am so disappointed on this point ... Tons of useless settings with VRM that can do nothing with 940A, but only PCIE1X_1 twekable ... nothing on 2 and 3, a shame I need to put many GPUs, and don't need tons of bandwidth (around 3/5 GBs)
thanks for the review! I was considering going for a 5800x3d, but I might opt for this board with a 7600x. do you think I would be able to drop in a x3d variant of some of the future generations with this board? I read many people did that with AM4 and the 5800x3d and saw great performance uplifts. do you have any recommendation for RAM speeds I should get with this plan in mind? thanks a lot!
started watching your channel recently when I started reviewing x670e boards. Do you do that thing that tony stark does from avangers 1 when he snapped his fingers in front the ship crew in all your videos?
I have no need for a new motherboard, but it's good to hear a lower end model has good hardware, and some future proofing for the power requirements of CPUs yet to come.
@@Laurentschoice Yeah, prices seemed rough for the new motherboards coming out when I looked a few weeks ago. Btw it sounded like the one weak point of this board is the audio solution. I've been very happy with the audio from my MSI MAG X570S Tomahawk MAX WiFi, which your review helped me decide on, and I didn't even need to use the optical out for good audio. I did have to switch the "Audio Enhancements" setting in Windows 11 for my headphones/speakers from the default setting of "Device Default Effects", to "Off". Before that in certain games I couldn't hear anything behind me. Thanks for the videos Laurent.
I got the x 570S aorus elite 1.0 for $ 169.99 at Amazon. Will pair with r 7 5700x, XFX. MERC rx 6650 xt and Patriot 3600htz 14-16 cl ( 4x8 ) gb. of rams. Air cooled. Any suggestion Laurent's.? Like always doung a goid job on yours reviews.
Just picked this board up today from Microcenter. Open Box $62.96 marked “incomplete” cause it only came with the board and antenna. I don’t even have a cpu for it, but at this price, I had to get it.
Very nice, my cheapest one was $100 plus tax but came with everything from box to all accessories still in plastic. Just upgraded my media pc / file sharing pc with it and a 7600x. Update the bios and after memory training is complete with expo enabled turn on Memory Context Restore to allow it to post faster and more regularly. It’s a nice board and best bang for the buck.
The USB 2.0 is a way to save money on the build for peripherals that don't get anything out of the updates, wouldn't it be? Like mouse/keyboard, etc? Maybe Im dumb. It's an amazing pricepoint for what they backing, I don't begrudge that particular corner cut. I also have a LOT of usb peripherals, so.
I just got it for Black Friday for 259USD. I hope it is as good as it was presented. Still waiting on water cooler and case to come. My biggest condition was at least 3 M2s (as I am already using that much on present build). No need for RGB. And this seemed so cheap compared to other, so I went for it. Without planning, I went for Gigabyte Aorus series again (have x399 one for the present build). Not sure, should I go and update BIOS with Q-Flash (so no CPU, memory or GPU). Just MB and power supply.
i think my only gripe with this board is the 1 hdmi slot and no dpi slots. i feel they could have gotten rid of the 2nd gen usb ports entirely and given another hdmi and dpi port.
Hey Laurent I love your videos! I'm building my first pc right now and I am getting a rtx 3080 or 3090 to pair with a 12900k, What would you think is a better motherboard option for it the Gigabyte Z690 AORUS ELITE AX or the Gigabyte Z690 AERO G?
so I have this board in the dark base pro 901 case and .... I'm a bit of a pc build noob.... I hooked the only cable that would fit from the case into that erp ready connector that you said "thunderbolt" to.... it wouldnt boot so I finally unplugged only that connector. what do you suppose it was, and what is thunderbolt for? thanks
So far I am absolutely HAT1NG this motherobard. I've bougth two fo them so far, and both times, they halt on the RAM LED, even though my 4 sticks of 32gb are in the supported memory list. I tried Qflashing the BIOS on both of them but that will not even start when I press the Qflash button with a USB stick in the port with GIGABYTE.BIN file on it. This motherobard is CRRP. I've cleared the CMOS with the button, but can't get under the heatsink to replce the CMOS on either one of them.
Whoever decided to put the battery under the chipset heatsink on this board should be punished severely! I have had this board for almost 2 years now and the battery has run flat. This has never happened to me before with a new board in the past 30 years or so with any of my previous boards. Now I have to completely dismantle the whole computer, take out the board, remove the heatsink, and replace the thermal compound on the chipsets as well, just to put in a new battery. Besides this nuisance, it's a solid board.
I came here to see what was wrong with these boards as there's so many on the used market, but it seems it's probably because so many were bought, great review thank you. I already have Aorus elite for my am4 and I'm looking for advice on whether to get this or the x670-e for my new workstation build ... I do game but usually I'm producing music or rendering animations, multiple gpus will be installed, a 7950x, corsair dominator platinum (xmp version) has already been bought .. do I really need the x670-e... I'm not sure I need the extra pci lanes as the second or 3rd gpu don't really need the big throughput of fast pci lanes... If anyone can help me decide, I'm going around in circles
Great review as always Laurent! I have one question though - are you sure that the fan headers are all hybrid? I ask bc usually Gigabyte board spec sheets mention which headers are hybrids. For this one, it only says the following: 1 x CPU fan header 1 x water cooling CPU fan header 3 x system fan headers For the X670E AORUS Master it says: 1 x CPU fan header 1 x water cooling CPU fan header 4 x system fan headers 4 x system fan/water cooling pump headers So that one has four hybrids if I'm reading this correctly.
Good point. Indeed, I had the same question, but after digging deeper I found all the Elite connectors to be compatible with flow sensors. Therefore, they are undoubtably all hybrid connectors. If you read the Elite description, on the official general info page you will find the following (in the Key features ection) : Smart Fan 6：Features Multiple Temperature Sensors, Hybrid Fan Headers with FAN STOP. Thanks again for your precious contribution Outmind01. Always very welcomed!!! :)
I'm getting conflicting info on this one. Can you run up to 4 nvme, or is the M.2A CPU only for SATA M.2. I'd like to put at least 3 NVME drives in this, including my OS.
Can someone help me, my RTX 4080 is not working with this board. As soon as I install nvidia drivers screen goes black and nothing happens, but internal graphics are working.
Does anybody know how to get those big heatsinks or facia plates off to get to the clock battery slot and the 3 extra M.2 slots??? It says nothing in the motherboard manual online. As far as I can tell. I am mystified.
This is a good board but I can't see a near $300 price tag for it. There isn't anything particularly special here that warrants a price like that. This is a comment about more about motherboards overall as opposed to one board or one brand
I'm each time surprised of how much Gigabyte boards are very often (to not say always) a combination of great features, build quality and aesthetics. Wide range of options too, from budget friendly to super premium.
Great review as always, a pleasure to watch!
I know this is a old review but I just got this board a couple weeks ago along with a 7800X3D and 64 gigs of G.Skill 6000 (CL-30) RAM, I setup a curve optimization of -30 all cores. I have a Seasonic Vertex 1200 watt PSU and a Gigabyte 4090 Gaming OC.
My main use for this system is playing sims (Racing and flight) in high res VR (Reverb G2v2) (3160 x 3092 per eye), this system has been rock solid, MSFS-2020 runs like a dream on this thing and some of my racing sims now have more eye candy turned up.
My previous board was a Aorus X570 Elite Wifi, a 5900x with 32 gigs of Corsair 3200 (CL-16), for my sims in VR, the 7800X3d blows my 5900x out of the water, this thing is a beast! :)
So far, I can honestly say..... I love this motherboard! LOL
Thinking about it does the 4.0 pcie bother you not sure how advanced 5.0 is amd if it becomes a must I know now there isn't much out there but the transfer rate for 4.0 is still very fast. Hoe much faster do we need
@@magictracks I am using a 1 TB Samsung 980 pro (with heatsink) NVME (PCIe-4) as my boot drive, it's plenty fast. I also have a PCIe-3 NVME 1TB Kingston, even that's fairly fast as well on my system, along with a few SATA based SSDs. The crucial stuff like some racing sims and MSFS are on the NVME drives. Very happy with it's performance. :)
The PCIe-4 needs it's heatsink, so I can imagine any PCIe-5 NVME drives would run pretty hot.
Man your comment bring me peace of mind. I just ordered very similar pc than yours, same processor, 32GB DDR5-6000 CL36 DIMM Corsair Vengeance so I was reading this motherboard was causing issues
@@strobelightstrobelight Regarding the motherboard (Aorus X670 Elite AX), I left mine on the old Bios (F9), seems to actually be faster than newer bios'es, I haven't tried the lest bios though. I have a -30 all cores set for Curve Optimizer and another small tweak I can't remember the setting right now, but I am very pleased with this motherboard. Mine is the original revision too (v 1.0). Been running it for roughly 3 months now with no issues. :)
Chances are those that had issues didn't know what they were doing, just because it's on CZcams doesn't mean it's good! LOL
@@jackr.749 Thanks a lot for your comment and knowledge. Im a lil overwhelmed and stress right now haha because I spent some money on it.
I don't know which revision is mine tbh. This are the specs:
Form factor ATX
Chipset AMD X670
RAM compatibility 4x DDR5 DIMM, DDR4-6400 (OC), max. 128GB (UDIMM)
Expansion slots 2x PCIe 4.0 x16 (1x x16, 1x x4), 1x PCIe 3.0 x16 (x2), 1x M.2/M-Key (PCIe 5.0 x4, 25110), 3x M.2/M-Key (PCIe 4.0 x4)
External connections 1x HDMI 2.0 (iGPU), 1x USB-C 3.2 (20Gb/s), 2x USB-A 3.1 (10Gb/s), 6x USB-A 3.0 (5Gb/s), 4x USB-A 2.0 (480Mb/s), 1x 2.5GBase-T, 3x jack
Internal connections 1x USB-C 3.2 Gen 2x2 header, 2x USB 3.2 Gen 1 header, 2x USB 2.0 header
WLAN Wi-Fi 6E (WLAN 802.11a/b/g/n/ac/ax, 2x2, AMD RZ616 [MT7922A]), Bluetooth 5.2
Header cooling 2x CPU fan 4-pin, 4x fan 4-pin, 1x AIO pump 4-pin, 1x pump 4-pin, 1x thermal sensor
Header lighting TBA
Audio 7.1 (Realtek ALC1220/ASUS SupremeFX)
RAID level 0/1/10
Power connections 1x 24-pin ATX, 2x 8-pin EPS12V
Graphic IGP (via CPU/APU)
Lighting RGB, 2 zones (chipset cooler, I/O cover)
Should be a problem ram trademark? or this does not matter at all?
Thank you man, you giving me some light right now lol
I just got this motherboard and let me tell you its really good, and I love its minimalist look
I see a lot of comments saying it is slow to boot and slow to wake up from sleep. Have you had this issue? This would annoy the hell out of me.
hows the audio on this? i notice they went with the older codec on this board.
i have this board and my pc boots fast!
@@Cruor34
hit and miss depending which ram/cpu even which revision of ram... shame as it good hw wise, software is garbage @@Cruor34
Very happy I chose this motherboard, and your glowing review made me feel better about my choice!
Glad to hear this !
Very good choice ! Really!
Thank you for the clear and descriptive video. We need more reviewers like you.
The Tom Cruise of tech tips in terms of similar look and enthusiasm :D
My dear baguette fella, cheers for your review and long live the chocolatine :). It looks like this board packs all I need and more. The legacy USB-2 ports are great when you have some older devices. And that Thunderbolt 4 port you showed us is a beauty ! The TB4 and the ATX form factor convinced me.
Thanks / Merci for the review pleine d'enthousiasme 😊
I chose this X670 board as it had the second PCI slot slightly away from the bottom edge of the board, leaving room for my SoundBlaster-Z soundcard and the lower intake fans in my Lian-Li O11D case. Every other model in the low to mid range only had a slot right at the bottom. The onboard sound even on the high end boards is still not as good as a dedicated soundcard, even the Asus ones with Xonar tech. I am very happy to hear that the rest of the board quality is good though
Funny to see that you considered this board for the same reason as I am doing right now. The Fractal Torrent Compact with bottom fans also block the lowest PCIe slot, so having a decent slot at position 6 is great. The spacing between the GPU slot and this slot is perfect for those 3,5+ slot GPUs (looking at you 4090).
A different board with this layout is the Asus Prime X670-P, which appears to be a step down in quality from this Aorus Elite while being about the same price.
I feel reassured due to the fact that I ordered this yesterday with zero research just cause it looked like a quality board in the pictures and now I know I did a good thing.
I use a simulator and wheel/gear stick/pedals setup that prefers usb gen 2 so they still have their uses. A simulator and VR setup uses many usb sockets, so the quantity of usb sockets in general on offer here is welcome. The mobo is perfect apart from the lower class audio. Great review!
Yeah.. makes sense ! Should have thought of that !
I have my keyboard, mouse, game controller, flight stick, headphones all plugged into USB, and none of them need to be USB 3.0+ so yep, I'm fine with the USB 2.0 ports. If I need more, I can use a hub.
I'm not concerned about the audio that much because it should be good enough for what gamers need. We might as well not even notice the differences between this mobo and what audiophiles expect.
Yes, another reasonably priced motherboard with everything I would need, 365€ available right now. Thank you for the review.
@Stein Mauer Value is somewhat subjective, I myself would be using my Xonar Essence STX soundcard for audio.
I just got it for Black Friday for 259. I hope it is as good as it was presented. Still waiting on water cooler and case to come.
@@DS-pk4eh That was a superb deal, congratulations.
Ive never watched a video on a motherboard before.. but I just bought this one and decided to learn more about it. Im really glad that it has so many m.2 slots for storage! I was just pondering on getting more nvme SSD's, but my current board only has 2. NOW I CAN HAVE 4!!!!! + my sata SSD's too. Thank you!
Insanely good motherboard reviews, you should have a 100k subs in no time :)
thanks! while you were reviewing i went true my whole shopping list and now i know... my life is going to be Epic
Running four of these now and three of the b650 versions. The last one I snagged for $100 plus tax. Three have 7800x3D and one with a 7600x. Best bang for the buck boards and in many cases only cost me a tiny bit out of pocket after selling x570 boards for about $100 each.
Enabling Memory Context Restore after setting EXPO has been a must and makes the occasional very slow posts become far less frequent.
I had the X570 elite and it was great.
Great video. You got yourself a new sub. Thanks for this. Quick question: If I populate all M.2 slots with SSDs, will any of them reduce the 1st PCIe slot to 8x?
Thank you for the awesome review again, I had the B650 one on order then canceled because this one X670 became available again after only one day being listed 🤣.
Yeah.
Gigabyte makes great motherboards!
My Z390 Aorus Master, which I bought in 2019, is still amazing today!
I love your narration and good vibe, you’ve earned yourself a sub!
love Gigabyte was my first build board still build with them for clients and personal use
I just bought it, greetings from Poland
I love your enthusiasm it's so infectious. Can't wait to pick up my board later! I was debating between this adn the x670 from Asrock because it's white but man I'll just get this instead because you've conviced me.
Great summary, but no downsides? o_o
A subscription was recommended for a reliable and quick answer. Thank you
Ahaha ... Good man :)))))))
Let me tell you about that 8 layer PCB and the copper plates. After building computers since 1989 I made a grave mistake. When I was screwing the CPU AIO cooler head down to the CPU bracket I didnt notice that the top left screw was drilling into the PCB rather than the threads of the backplate. It drilled a nice little hole into the PCB, but this board works beautifully. Not an issue. Nothing wrong with the way this PC runs. Temps are perfect. Voltages are perfect. I really could have screwed up a nice and expensive board, but I got lucky. I shielded the hole with PCB masking material.
What caused this mistake?
@@terrytibbs951 Hey Terry! I wish I could post pics here to show. I was too excited when I was building this PC and I went too fast. I have a 360mm AIO. I didn't make sure that the screws of the cooler were threading into the housing. I just started to screw them in and it turned out that instead of the screws going into the threads, they were drilling into the motherboard. The pump head was a little crooked. I also couldn't see well because I installed the motherboard into the case before I screwed on the cooler pump head. I wanted to size things up with the motherboard installed. Like I said, I used PCB masking material and it is all fixed and runs perfect. This is a very thick motherboard.
Thanks for the review... as a part-time content-creator I couldn't agree more, that this "Elite" version checks all the boxes for connection (esp. 2x Front USB3.2 USB-A connectors) - as I seem to be one of the few people left, who prefers an internal card-reader which needs that 2nd connector.
Competition provides this amount of connections only on the highend gaming-boards for twice the price - forcing you to pay for high-end onboard-sound and overclocking-capabilities you may never need.
I think that this board was made for you ... no doubt!
Thank you so much for this in-depth video. It made my purchasing decision much easier.
Thanks for the review, very well done Laurent! The internal sound processor seems not great, and there is no Spdif out… that was definitely the weakest aspect of my x570 elite and the spdif saved me.
Thx Laurent. Hope you review the other Aorus boards, really curious on the higher end boards.
Now I realised I need PCIE X1 for my premium sound card… yes I still use them! Dang… I really like Aorus..
first video of yours I've seen. Really awesome content
Whoever mixes the audio should put a headset on while doing it. Our Left ear is getting 70% of the volume.
I'll keep an ear on it :)
it's likely caused from the mic cause directionals change as you move around the mic, so assume you have a mic that can pick up directions@@Laurentschoice
Just to let you know I balanced my mics this morning based on your feedback (pun intended;) )
Thanks again !!!
@@Laurentschoice Good stuff, you welcome.
It doesn't have PCIE Gen 5 on the graphics card slot
Enjoyed the review. Thanks!
This is a great video! I like the detail provided for all the board features. I'm subscribing to see more of your content.
Awesome review. What's the difference between this and the V2 one?
The first thing I look for is a more subdued design, which this has. It looks like it is for grownups. I don't even want good audio because I have an external DAC (as anyone how cares about audio should get) so no point in putting a fancy one on a MOBO. Only thing this is missing for me is a post code display. I don't think I can buy a board without that. Love your video.
Agreed
I have all the troubles in world trying to even pass windows installer. First thing I did was to update to F7a bios, maybe it was a mistake. Rolling back to F4 as of now.
To everyone, save your hard earn money and go with an ASUS or a MSI. If the Aorus works it works, but when it does not even the simple things are a nightmare.
Too bad because it was perfect for me on paper.
Edit : As of now downgrading to F4 Bios does the job. What's going on at Gigabyte ? Since 2016 their boards gave me nothing but a hard time. Their X58 and X79 were fantastic and so were the Socket A and 939 …
What bios did you use Laurent?
@Bieber Ozinga it terms of issues it is way ahead of its competition.
In the end I pretty much liked this motherboard. Like Han Solo says, it's got it where it counts.
Not everything is perfect, though. Where it's very weak,however, is in audio out jacks, and SATA 3.0 jacks.
It has only 3 audio out jacks, not 5, and no SPDIF out. If there is a way to get it to do 5.1 / 7.1 surround sound, I have not figured it out. Jack sense don't seem to work.
It has only 4 SATA jacks, not 6, and they are in a terrible place right under the monster GPU you installed. Be sure to plug in ALL your SATA cables cables before you install your GPU.
I bent the USB-C pin on the right F_USB320G motherboard header cable and port, which is the worst connector imaginable. FOrtunately there was a second one at the bottom I could plug into. But my pin is still bent, so the USB-C don't work on it. This is onboard USB32 combo motherboard connector absolutely the worst connector the industry has ever made.
The motherboard manual was acutally pretty good.
It is very sad there were not WIndows 7 drivers for the motherboard. Upgrading the UEFI BIOS at first gave me fits, until I realized I could not install mismatched pairs of DIMMs.
Great review as always, a pleasure to watch!
Hey Michal... ur sooo kind @ thanks for dropping by :)))
Awesome review, as always; looking forward to the Aorus X670E Master review...!!! =)
Coming !
Support ram ddr5 6400mhz xmp? And logo rgb mothorboard ? And suppo ryzen 7800x3d?
Why 4x USB 2.0? Mouse + keyboard + mic + Streamdeck. Lots of stuff uses USB 2.0
Also DAC / Audio Interface. I've got nothing but problems when trying to run many them on 3.0+... Motu M2, Topping D10B, Fiio K7 to name a few. They all run perfectly fine on 2.0 but acted up in one way or another on faster USB standards.
Is there anything better today I should be looking at? CPU 78000x3d with a 4090?
No
New viewer here, was considering buying this and your review made me certain that i am going to do it! thanks for taking the time to go over the features! I do have one question through; Why do you remind me so much of Boris Grishenko from Goldeneye?
Ahaha .... 007...is that you ?
Good morning ♥ great review as usual
Thank you for all the information ❤
Ur welcome dear :)
Solid review, i have this board it runs 6400C30 solid all day, the only real negative of this board is the old alc880 audio codec.
How come? Multiple sources say the this motherboard uses Realtek ALC897 audio codec. Dunno what the difference between the two is though.
@@SirWolf2018 you may be correct, just something to point out. Regardless its a fantastic board. I had one and it ran my 7950X @ 2133fclk/6400C30 flawlessly
Those negative can be solved by PCI-E Sound Blaster AE-7 I have it and I don't think I will go back to use Realtek stuff anymore. Next thing is Intel X550-T2 to replace the integrated Realtek NIC
just got this motherboard and im having issue with bios and the dram , cpu, vga ligt keep flashin
Flashing how ?? In the same time or in a certain order (loop )
Good luck
rev 1.1 changes?
Hello Laurent
Does this motherboard has the baility of splitting PCIE slot correctly as Gigabyte usualyy did ? I mean x8/x8 x4/x4/x4 on most port possible ?
I got all these features on my Aorus Master/Pro X570 and being owner of an ASUS X670-P I am am so disappointed on this point ...
Tons of useless settings with VRM that can do nothing with 940A, but only PCIE1X_1 twekable ... nothing on 2 and 3, a shame
I need to put many GPUs, and don't need tons of bandwidth (around 3/5 GBs)
Thank you ... Just ordered this ...
It arrived today ...
must say its a hefty fellow !!
Very well built .
Just got this for 190 chf! Same price as the b650
thanks for the review! I was considering going for a 5800x3d, but I might opt for this board with a 7600x. do you think I would be able to drop in a x3d variant of some of the future generations with this board? I read many people did that with AM4 and the 5800x3d and saw great performance uplifts.
do you have any recommendation for RAM speeds I should get with this plan in mind? thanks a lot!
AMD claims am5 support through 2025. 6000 speed ddr5 RAM is supposedly the sweet spot for am5.
I'm excited for their itx variants.
started watching your channel recently when I started reviewing x670e boards. Do you do that thing that tony stark does from avangers 1 when he snapped his fingers in front the ship crew in all your videos?
I think they added the 4 USB gen2 slots for people like me who just put USB powered items into those.
I have no need for a new motherboard, but it's good to hear a lower end model has good hardware, and some future proofing for the power requirements of CPUs yet to come.
and not sold at 500 bucks!
@@Laurentschoice Yeah, prices seemed rough for the new motherboards coming out when I looked a few weeks ago. Btw it sounded like the one weak point of this board is the audio solution. I've been very happy with the audio from my MSI MAG X570S Tomahawk MAX WiFi, which your review helped me decide on, and I didn't even need to use the optical out for good audio. I did have to switch the "Audio Enhancements" setting in Windows 11 for my headphones/speakers from the default setting of "Device Default Effects", to "Off". Before that in certain games I couldn't hear anything behind me. Thanks for the videos Laurent.
I got the x 570S aorus elite 1.0 for $ 169.99 at Amazon. Will pair with r 7 5700x, XFX. MERC rx 6650 xt and Patriot 3600htz 14-16 cl ( 4x8 ) gb. of rams. Air cooled. Any suggestion Laurent's.? Like always doung a goid job on yours reviews.
Great Review!!!!!!
I need to clarify something. This motherboard is good or bad? People seems like black or white topic with it, I don’t understand
Just picked this board up today from Microcenter. Open Box $62.96 marked “incomplete” cause it only came with the board and antenna. I don’t even have a cpu for it, but at this price, I had to get it.
Very nice, my cheapest one was $100 plus tax but came with everything from box to all accessories still in plastic. Just upgraded my media pc / file sharing pc with it and a 7600x.
Update the bios and after memory training is complete with expo enabled turn on Memory Context Restore to allow it to post faster and more regularly. It’s a nice board and best bang for the buck.
I watched both your reviews and would you settle on the Gigabyte X670 AORUS ELITE AX or the Asust tuf x670e-plus ?
Elite... sans hésitation quelqu'une
Oui :) j ai la tomahawk que j'ai revue l année dernière :)
The USB 2.0 is a way to save money on the build for peripherals that don't get anything out of the updates, wouldn't it be? Like mouse/keyboard, etc? Maybe Im dumb. It's an amazing pricepoint for what they backing, I don't begrudge that particular corner cut. I also have a LOT of usb peripherals, so.
I just got it for Black Friday for 259USD. I hope it is as good as it was presented. Still waiting on water cooler and case to come.
My biggest condition was at least 3 M2s (as I am already using that much on present build). No need for RGB. And this seemed so cheap compared to other, so I went for it.
Without planning, I went for Gigabyte Aorus series again (have x399 one for the present build).
Not sure, should I go and update BIOS with Q-Flash (so no CPU, memory or GPU). Just MB and power supply.
i think my only gripe with this board is the 1 hdmi slot and no dpi slots. i feel they could have gotten rid of the 2nd gen usb ports entirely and given another hdmi and dpi port.
Hey Laurent I love your videos! I'm building my first pc right now and I am getting a rtx 3080 or 3090 to pair with a 12900k, What would you think is a better motherboard option for it the Gigabyte Z690 AORUS ELITE AX or the Gigabyte Z690 AERO G?
x670 is an AMD CPU motherboard...12900k is intel!
I d go with aero G
For sure
I reviewed it. Take a look
@@ofon2000 I said z690 but I appreciate the help!
so I have this board in the dark base pro 901 case and .... I'm a bit of a pc build noob.... I hooked the only cable that would fit from the case into that erp ready connector that you said "thunderbolt" to.... it wouldnt boot so I finally unplugged only that connector. what do you suppose it was, and what is thunderbolt for? thanks
So far I am absolutely HAT1NG this motherobard.
I've bougth two fo them so far, and both times, they halt on the RAM LED, even though my 4 sticks of 32gb are in the supported memory list. I tried Qflashing the BIOS on both of them but that will not even start when I press the Qflash button with a USB stick in the port with GIGABYTE.BIN file on it. This motherobard is CRRP. I've cleared the CMOS with the button, but can't get under the heatsink to replce the CMOS on either one of them.
Whoever decided to put the battery under the chipset heatsink on this board should be punished severely! I have had this board for almost 2 years now and the battery has run flat. This has never happened to me before with a new board in the past 30 years or so with any of my previous boards. Now I have to completely dismantle the whole computer, take out the board, remove the heatsink, and replace the thermal compound on the chipsets as well, just to put in a new battery. Besides this nuisance, it's a solid board.
I came here to see what was wrong with these boards as there's so many on the used market, but it seems it's probably because so many were bought, great review thank you. I already have Aorus elite for my am4 and I'm looking for advice on whether to get this or the x670-e for my new workstation build
... I do game but usually I'm producing music or rendering animations, multiple gpus will be installed, a 7950x, corsair dominator platinum (xmp version) has already been bought
.. do I really need the x670-e... I'm not sure I need the extra pci lanes as the second or 3rd gpu don't really need the big throughput of fast pci lanes... If anyone can help me decide, I'm going around in circles
this video is so good
Great review as always Laurent!
I have one question though - are you sure that the fan headers are all hybrid? I ask bc usually Gigabyte board spec sheets mention which headers are hybrids. For this one, it only says the following:
1 x CPU fan header
1 x water cooling CPU fan header
3 x system fan headers
For the X670E AORUS Master it says:
1 x CPU fan header
1 x water cooling CPU fan header
4 x system fan headers
4 x system fan/water cooling pump headers
So that one has four hybrids if I'm reading this correctly.
Good point. Indeed, I had the same question, but after digging deeper I found all the Elite connectors to be compatible with flow sensors. Therefore, they are undoubtably all hybrid connectors.
If you read the Elite description, on the official general info page you will find the following (in the Key features ection) :
Smart Fan 6：Features Multiple Temperature Sensors, Hybrid Fan Headers with FAN STOP.
Thanks again for your precious contribution Outmind01. Always very welcomed!!! :)
@@Laurentschoice Ah, so that's how it is. They could have said so in the tech specs. Thanks for the explanation.
I got this board recently. I was a bit worried I went to cheap. I am missing 1 feature I wanted which was optical audio out.
hi laurent's choice. i need your help on a question. this mobo support m.2 sata ssd? or just support m.2 nvme ssd? thanks alot.
Hello ,, do you know if this MB goes with wifi antennas included ?? Thnx
I'm getting conflicting info on this one. Can you run up to 4 nvme, or is the M.2A CPU only for SATA M.2. I'd like to put at least 3 NVME drives in this, including my OS.
5 ot of 10 gigabyte boards are very famous for its coil whine. what about this specific model? anyone experienced?
Can someone help me, my RTX 4080 is not working with this board. As soon as I install nvidia drivers screen goes black and nothing happens, but internal graphics are working.
Does anybody know how to get those big heatsinks or facia plates off to get to the clock battery slot and the 3 extra M.2 slots???
It says nothing in the motherboard manual online. As far as I can tell. I am mystified.
pls review the b650m aorus. its the best selling am5 board so far.
Hi Laurent! After you reviewed both Gigabyte X670 Aorus elite and Asus TUF gaming X670E plus, which one would you recommend?
had answered on a foul,elite x670
I’m having some big troubles and would appreciate some help, I want to access the cmos battery to reset it but how do I remove the plate ?
Holy shit! They are slapping all other motherboards in the bum!
MOARDARRRBOARD sub because of that
Which is better the aorus pro ax b650 or aorus elite b650 ax? 40$ price difference between the two
It looks the same as the Gaming X AX. How are they different?
This is a good board but I can't see a near $300 price tag for it. There isn't anything particularly special here that warrants a price like that. This is a comment about more about motherboards overall as opposed to one board or one brand
its 1120 amps for cpu (8x140=1120)
Is the z790 aorus elite ax the same as the amd version?? Or is their any differences?
I got this board for a first build. Is there any building guide for it?
If the price is same would you prefer Aorus elite ax (atx) over MSI b650 mortar (Matx)? Anyone?
How is this compared to the Gigabyte B650 Aorus Master? Ignore the price difference.
Do people occupy that pcie 5 ssd slot with 970/980 pro or just save it for later?
Bought this board in a bundle with the 7900x for $680 ($730 with taxes) which I feel like I struck gold
Does this work out the box ? I don’t want to have to do any bios update
Which one would be better to use, that motherboard thermal pad for ssds or ssds which have their own heat sinks?
They are both identical in quality (usually). But I'd go with the pads preinstalled on the m.2 ssd.
Bro, which memory do you recommend for this mother? thanks
Does anyone know if any of the NVME slots will effect the x16 pcie slot
so anyone else had any issues with the audio not working on this board/