Used this board to build a white themed SFF build. Practicality the only white X870 itx motherboard out right now. Have had it for around a month running a 9800X3D with 32GB of ram at 6400mhz. Everything is great so far. My system runs great, and looks amazing. But it needed multiple bios updates, as it looked like my board came with a pre-release bios of some sort. I do have some minor complaints though. -No onboard RGB lighting, only RGB headers for other products. Though some people would consider this a win. -VRMs run pretty warm without dedicated airflow over the heatsink. You would think that for $300 Gigabyte would engineer a better solution for the VRMs and chipset. I bought a cooper M.2 heatsink and plunked it on the side of the flat part of the heatsink above the VRMs (next to the CPU) with some thermal tape, just for some peace of mind. Makes it look prettier at least, lol. -The SSD fan runs at max speed by default, and is loud by nature. Definitely tune it down in BIOS when setting up. -No optical out audio, a standard audio port that has been included in virtually any other device for decades. Not really a big deal in the real world, but I don't get why they didn't include it. There is clearly room on the back of the board, and cost-savings on this board shouldn't be a concern for Gigabyte. -No built-in temperature probe headers for adding thermal sensors around your system. This means that if you decide to watercool your system, like I did, you'll have to rely on traditional thermal sensors on the board instead to control pumps and fans. Which means you are gonna need to take some extra time and patience to tune your cooling setup for your noise to performance preference. On my other water-cooled builds, I used fittings with embedded thermal sensors monitoring coolant temperature to control all my fans/pumps. Every one of them was dead silent for that reason. Again for $300, I would expect for Gigabyte to spare the extra few cents in manufacturing for a two-pin header that literally exists on their other boards from previous generations. Why they forgot to include at least one, in an expensive enthusiast motherboard, is beyond me. I got around this in my build by controlling everything with the VRM's temperature. Solid and stable motherboard overall. It's pricey though, and there is not much to differentiate it from B850 boards to justify a $300 price tag, in my opinion. Read more

This is a fantastic MB for a small build. I am using a 7950X with 64GB and a 240mm Rad in a small box as a media server, and spare pc. Lots of connectors for fans, but I still added a couple of 2 to 1 connectors for additional fans. I had a spare 3090 kicking around, and this was the obvious choice. It's all a bit overkill for the main purpose of this machine, but handy for running a couple of VMs for media, and gaming when I get kicked out of the living room. Read more

Excellent motherboard. No gymnastics to get it to work. Nice layout for my Fractal Terra. Good temps. Read more

I haven't run into any issues with the motherboard. I must be lucky because I haven't heard any whine or unpleasant noise from the SSD fan. My previous motherboard was an ASRock B850I Lightning on BIOS 3.25 and it killed my Ryzen 9 9900X within a week. I've had this motherboard for almost a month and no issues at all. The installation is a little wonky. It's pretty straightforward if you've ever put a PC together, but they use a long screw to mount to the PC case on one of the corners. They also use a different method to connect either the CPU or chassis fan to the motherboard, it uses some small pin connectors that then turn into the standard 4-pin connector. The WiFi connector kind of sucks, but I don't use WiFi anyway so it's no big deal to me. If you could spend more money, consider an Asus motherboard, but if you can't spend the extra hundred or so then this is a very nice motherboard. Boot times do seem kind of slow, however. I had quicker boot times with the ASRock motherboard, but it's still fine. Read more

Pretty good board but not competitively priced. Also for a mini ITX build, the wifi antenna with cable is pretty annoying especially considering this antenna's base angle isn't adjustable, and you can't buy a small third party antenna for it, as the Ez-Plug mechanism is custom made from Gigabyte and doesn't use a standardized interface. Read more