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Gigabyte X570S AERO G Next GEN Stylish Gaming & Content Creation ATX Motherboard
$399.00
Scorptec, JW and eBay selling for $499
Gigabyte X570S AERO G AM4 ATX Motherboard $399 Delivered (Excludes Rural & Remote Areas) @ OnLine Computer
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Agree, for this price you'd want a DDR5 board.
Double agree. The only reason you'd go AM4 these days over AM5 or LGA1700 is if you're doing a budget build.
Triple agree. Something about this board would have to be very necessary for my use case to pay 399 for an am4 board
It's pricey for X570S. However, it is probably only suitable for people who have a need to run a large number of PCIe gen 4 x4 NVMe m.2 SSDs (still won't be as good as top notch X670E).
You get 1 PCIe gen 4 x4 m.2 to the CPU + 3 PCIe gen 4 x4 m.2 wired to the chipset (*assuming you use a AM4 CPU that supports PCIe gen 4 x4). The pricey bit of this board is that it appears to support the more preferred PCIe Bifurcation mode (i.e. x8, x8). I suspect the second x8 can be further split to x4 x4. If that's the case, that's 2 more PCIe gen 4 x4 m.2 SSDs (with the appropriate PCIe expansion card) wired to CPU lanes, though you do need to drop the GPU to run in PCIe gen 4 x8 mode.
I don't know whether the motherboard also supports x4 x4 x4 x4 split, if so, that could technically means additional 2 m.2 PCIe gen 4 x4 SSDs, but the GPU gets crippled too much in that mode.
In short, it is not the top notch class X570S where the motherboard maker either throw in the necessary card to do the PCIe bifurcation for m.2 NVMe SSDs or simply wired them to the CPU lanes for you. However, it is a board that if you don't intend to run at least 4 PCIe gen 4 x4 SSDs, you shouldn't waste money on this. I reckon this is really more for people who want to run 6 NVMe SSDs and willing to fork out extra for a PCIe gen 4 x4 expansion card for that additional 2 SSDs (won't be cheap though).
Really need to do your research on this board before you buy. I am making a big assumption that Gigabyte really made the PCIe Bifurcation very flexible on this board, but that's actually a big question mark. If you are not a geeky person or don't have a tech savvy friend to help you out, then this motherboard is not worth it.
Also, bear in mind that 3 m.2 PCIe gen 4 x4 slots is fairly standard for current gen platforms, and 4 are probably fairly common. The current gen platform also supports PCIe gen 5 x4 SSD(s). X570 and B550 platforms do require hacking through PCI bifurcation and M/B maker willing to wire more m.2 slots to the chipset.
Not a deal sorry. This is 3 year old platform.
But this one has Intel® 2.5GbE LAN chip
If you are building VMware platform, this board is good.2.5Gb intel cards are 25 bucks brand new and is still slow imo for any serious video editing off a nas where 10 gigabit is the (minimum) standard.
The Intel i225-V 2.5Gb LAN appears to have major issues when actually running at 2.5Gb, so better avoid it.
There's very little that's 'creator' focused on this board besides…an extra m.2 slot? 2.5Gb intel lan cards are only 25 bucks brand new and certainly not fast for its target audience. Also a dead end platform.
old platform, not worth it.