GIGABYTEX870 Gaming X WIFI7 AMD AM5 LGA 1718 Motherboard, ATX, DDR5, 3X M.2, PCIe 5.0, USB4, WIFI7, 2.5GbE LAN, EZ-Latch, 5-Year Warranty

Got it, installed my new 9900X and G.skill flare Xs 96gb DDR5 with itSwapped over all my old drives. These new power connectors are kind of confusing and the manual doesn't help at all but I eventually figured it out.Didn't boot. RAM light.check online, says it wants B slots if only using two sticks of ram, not A1 and A2.Swap sticks, boots immediately. Set boot drive and RAM speed profile.Immediately boots to login like my old computer.Wifi isn't working.Update bios, use USB-C internet sharing with my phone to download wifi drivers.Wifi starts working.Decent number of IO, strong GPU pcie slot, plenty of space between CPU cooler and RAM, WIFI is working perfectly as my old one did at 250mbps.What more could you want? It works. Been video editing, 3D modeling, gaming, not a single issue in any of these. Motherboards don't get much attention because they don't do much, they ALLOW you to install other components that do much. This one works. Solid price for the chipset too.

Quite a nice board for AMD CPU's, particularly for the price. One gripe: the audio output offers sub-par connectivity - hdmi or 3.5mm cable only. And the driver is kind of clunky, crashing fairly often. Switching sound by devices and switching back will start it working again with no reboot or device manager action required.

Pro: easy for installation, build quality seems high, some quality of life designs, I like its looking, budget option for X870 chipsetFunctionality: built-in wifi and bluetooth, sufficient I/O ports for typical users, BIOS interface is OK-ish but take some effort to find and understand every settingsCon: wifi for some reason is very slow (< 80 Mbps compared to 350 Mbps tested on my phone from the same wifi), VRM modules get somewhat hot even when idle (50~60 C, although still in the OK range), some on board ports are difficult to find (i.e. USB 3.0 for case, and its difficult to plug in - I accidentally bent 2 pins trying to plug it. Took me a few hours to fix it), could use more fan headers (6 total, but I plan to build my computer with 8 fans and a pump), pump header for water cooling not clearly labeled on board (seems like fan 4 from BIOS), booting speed slower than my 8 year old MSI A170.

My experience was mostly positive. It was easy to install. No issues with CPU or GPU compatibility. The onboard wifi is twice as fast as my old PCI-e Wifi 6 when connected to the same 5Ghz network. Using this motherboard for 2 months, it's been rock solid.The bad: CFosSpeed. It's a "network traffic shaping" driver that's part of the driver suite with Gigabyte Control Center. I was having latency issues and inconsistent download speeds. Took me a while to pin down CFosSpeed as the culprit. After I uninstalled it, my network issues disappeared.Other observations: Only the primary m2 SSD slot has a heat sink and spiffy EZ-Latch attachment mechanism. The other 2 m2 slots are open-air with screw-holes to hold down the drives. Pretty old-school.Also, there are only 2 additional full length PCI-e slots other than the main slot for the GPU. Testing my old wifi card meant plugging a tiny x1 PCIe card into a full length x16 slot. I would have preferred if they provided one more x1 slot.

Worked great for my new 9800X3D build + 32GB of Corsair Vengeance CL30 6000MHz XMP profile. Didn't have to flash the BIOS to recognize anything, but I did flash it anyways. It also booted right into Windows 10 before I even had a chance to reformat my SSD and reinstall Windows (but I did anyway)Been running for a few weeks without any problems.Note: I put a Thermalright Phantom Spirit 120 SE and a XFX 6700 XT GPU, and there is less than 1/4" between the CPU fan and the GPU, so it just barely fits. If you have a CPU fan that has a larger base than mine, it may not fit.

Stable and fast. No trouble. I appreciate the multiple and protected nvme slots.

Every stick of RAM I put in this motherboard was reported as bad by the motherboard. I did have some bad RAM sticks in the bunch, but eventually I discovered that it was reporting all RAM as bad, and I never got to see this board post. It never once was able to boot so far as to get into the BIOS. Stop telling me to adjust BIOS settings when I can't even get to the BIOS! It's a bad board, and I returned it.Gigabyte used to be my favorite brand of motherboard, and to get a bad one made me extra sad.