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ATL. One of the best B650M motherboards. It's with WiFi and BT but not mentioned in its name.
Highly recommended at this price
[Afterpay] Gigabyte B650M AORUS ELITE AX Motherboard $228.65 Delivered @ MetroCom ebay
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damn bro what a pickup for white builds
You guys are making me thinking of build my own PC instead of prebuilt. I have no experience at all, but willing to learn.
Watch a few YouTube videos, it’s pretty simple (when it goes right) but very rewarding! Good luck.
I reckon go for it! As long as you do your due diligence (read up on some articles, watch a few youtube videos, use pcpartpicker etc), and follow the instructions provided, it can be heaps of fun and save you a few hundred dollars.
It's easier than ever… just do it!
the motherboard manual will tell you everything you need to know aliexpress has some cheap 7800x3d
Save the dough, get a 7700! Real bargain around $200 on AliE frequently.
If you decide to build your own if you follow any of Christopher Flannigans guides if you buy a case that he has listed they are extremely easy to follow but will take you probably a good 3 hours as a first time.
He has really in depth videos of how and where to plug everything in: https://www.youtube.com/@ChristopherFlanniganAll the above comments are really encouraging. Now I am seriously considering this.
I've built 5 PCs, no special knowledge or skills. Piece of cake if you watch a video or two to understand the process first
i custom built 8x office pc's last month under strict budget to build a pc that is powerful and highly durable and mostly future proof.. i researched parts for about 5 weeks all saturday and sunday using excel spreadsheets to compare parts etc. only thing i didnt add was a dedicated GPU because at the office we dont game.
first question to ask is..
1. what will you be using the computer for? if for gaming what type of games?
2. what is your budget?
3. how long are you willing to wait for it to be built?
4. do you need to include a monitor, keyboard, mouse in your budget?
etc..
its really fun to build your own pc.. its like creating your own einstein monster. its fun like lego. and its an awesome feeling switching your computer on for first time etc.
I recommend using pc part picker .com or whatever to help you select your parts etc and watch pc building videos etc.
i could give you really good tips and stuff i could go on forever.. its really cool and fun
I built one earlier this year for the first time, took me maybe 4-5 hours in total? I took my time and was super careful, in the end I even had a faulty AIO and PSU which I had to replace so have plenty of practice and confidence now. My one tip - I used ChatGPT with a pro subscription to help build it, this let me upload photos from my camera and helped the whole way. A great use of AI in my opinion, helped save a lot of time and give personal tips
AX probably means wifi
It does. You're right. I found there is AORUS ELITE without AX which does not have WiFi
Yes AX as in 802.11ax meaning WiFi 6
Great value board
Wish I could put my 5800x3d on it. I honestly see no point in upgrading to AM5 anytime soon.
Unfortunately.. it appears that PCI-express 5.0 support on the GPU slot has been disabled by gigabyte
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/motherboards/giga…
Thanks for the heads up, saw the new firmware and luckily didn't update
I just updated to the latest bios yesterday… PCI 5.0 on the graphics slot is still enabled…
If you read that tomshardware website its talking about gigabyte Gaming and gigabyte eagle B650
gigabyte AORUS B650 boards still have PCI 5.0 with the latest bios. Could have something to do with not enough lanes on the cheaper B650 boards
I presume it would be across all the gigabyte B650 motherboards without official PCI-express 5.0 support..
Perhaps.. they forgot to do so on the aorus boards..maybe there will disable it with the next update.. still a bad prescedence..
@Kelvin: Unlikely. That bios and 2 others before it came out after that site listed it was happening on the B650 Gaming and Eagle boards..
They disabled it due to crashing/instability.. PCIe 5.0 is rock solid on the Auros board so no need to disable.
@vid_ghost: Ghost i just finished my build using this board. Are you sure you are on the F36 Bios? I noticed this doesnt appear on the gigabyte software just yet but you can download from the website.
With the F36 bios Gen 5 under PCIEX16 Slot Link Speed has been removed from the drop down menu. Went back to F34 and GEN5 showed back up.
@david6509: Yeah, that looks widely reported. Interesting they're still having PCIe stability issues - I remember having the Z690I Aorus Ultra on my shortlist a few years ago and then it was recalled for similar reasons (they must've already manufactured a ton of them as they were also rebranded as sold as a "lite" model that only supported PCIe 3.0).
EDIT: Noticing it's widely reported for various models but less so for the B650M AORUS ELITE AX specifically (one redditor with that model claims they lost PCIe 5.0 going from F34 to F35).
@Jabba the Hutt: there about 5-6 variants of this board in the micro ATX format
B650m aorus elite (revsion 1.0, 1.2, 1.3), B650m aorus pro (revision 1.0 and 1.1)
plus the B650M aorus elite AX ice (Rev 1.x)
and some of the bioses differ..Hard to know which eidtions aren't and are affected..
I supsect Gigabyte will eventually strip PCI-express 5.0 GPU support through all their boards that don't officially support it.
Easiset thing to do avoid all the support and RMA requests.I the past this was one of my goto boards.. but.. at pretty much the same price.. $239 or $231 with discount.
this board, the Asus tuf B650EM-E wifi
https://www.scorptec.com.au/product/motherboards/amd-socket-…is probably a much better choice, with a prorper B650E chipset and official Pceixpress support on the GPU and one m2, plus 3 M2 slot… only question marks is if the VRMs are as good as the earlier variants..
@Kelvin: From what I've observed, the different revisions most often relate to them swapping the WiFi adapter to a different brand, such that it's basically a lucky dip when buying a given Gigabyte model. ASUS can be annoying in this respect as well by just not specifying the WiFi brand/model (although it can be figured out by looking at driver downloads).
I just bought this 15 days ago for $259. I don't have many complaints, was a good motherboard to build in. Having the USB headers sideways against the board made it clean, its often one of those cables that stick out pretty ugly. The BIOS is easy to navigate, space for two M.2 drives under the heatsync is nice.
I do have a bit of a squeaky buzz noise though not sure its the motherboards fault. I haven't really dived into trying to fix it yet, might not be possible. There is talk of some of these boards having bad coil whine but I'm not certain that's what the noise is. Gets worse when I move the mouse.
Ice model