GIGABYTE B450 AORUS PRO Wi-Fi (AMD Ryzen AM4/ATX/M.2 Thermal Guard with Onboard Wi-Fi/HDMI/DVI/USB 3.1 Gen 2/DDR4/Motherboard)

This thing is a BEAST. After my previous motherboard fried itself, it was a perfect replacement with my RAM and GPU. I had to get a new battery for the CPU, but it was worth it. Highly recommend.

Gigabyte motherboards in my opinion, are the best bang for your buck. They also have a nice Bios thats user friendly whether you're a beginner or advanced user. Can't beat the prices and this board is perfect for a budget friendly system. Next step up is the X570 which I am running daily.Let me start by saying I'm a huge fan of Gigabyte MB and have purchased them for years on builds when my customers ask me to surprise them. Obviously there's a budget or I'd get carried away lol. Unfortunately I was sent a different mb which I'm sure is a simple mistake. They say, everything happens for a reason because I purchased one from a local seller who built the pc and ended up needing to sell for personal reasons. Never got to enjoy it. Tested great and I paid $50. Good board and I have nothing negative to say about seller since everyone makes mistakes. If it wasn't for the mistake I'd never have saved $50. Only dislike was it not being the wifi version. Oh well! I recommend this board for a budget friendly gaming pc. Make sure you look at the mb when shipped. Mine was packaged with the correct box but wrong pc. I only noticed because there wasn't wifi spots to hook into and my employee installed it. Happy gaming everyone!** I have a Liquid Cooled Gigabyte X570 Elite Wifi with 128gb RAM fully loaded with Ryzen 9 3100X CPU and FTW3 3070TI Ultra GPU. All with a Phantek Pro 2 Case (dual case)AMD Athlon Quad mb and 3060 ti GPU. Best setup ever for gaming and streaming using a different pc for recording. Not to mention virtual pc! Highly recommend the B450 and if the budget can stretch slightly more, get X570 which won't take all your money!

I bought this to build my first starter gaming pc :D this was very easy to use and understand where to plug everything. This bios is also easy to get to and to use to change any settings you would like or to just see what your PC is doing. Overall I am happy with this purchase, Ive had it for 3 years now, getting ready to finally upgrade my build to newer parts

Update to the original review based on experience after replacement to 4 starsTurns out I just got a bunk board the first time. So after Amazon politely replaced it and having used it for several months now. I have to say it works really well. The wifi works very well. Bluetooth as well. Everything I have plugged into it has just worked.My two cons and why I still knocked a star off.Con One - It has a crap ton of sata ports. However if you use the on the motherboard NVME slots (There are two) it has to disable some of those same numerous sata ports to allow for the bandwidth needed for NVME performance.Con Two - The fact that I got a bad board in the first place. I know they can't QA everything but this is the second time dealing with Gigabyte that I have gotten a bunk MB from the beginning.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Previous Review~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~I really wanted to like this Motherboard. It has an awesome selection of supported items and flexible options like wifi/bluetooth.But this thing has been an non-stop pain in the rear from the get go. First install get prompted for a restart and then all of the sudden it stops seeing one of my drives and takes forever to load. I restarted again after another round of updates and then... it won't load Windows at all and stops seeing another one of my connected sata drives.So I figure okay maybe bad cabling. Replace that and still not working.Try to reinstall windows on the MB socketed NVME drive. MB sees the drive but says windows can't be installed to that device. Even though it can see it. Throws an error about not being able to install. (Yes folks it's the MBR device)Try another drive a 480 Gig and this one it reports is a 2 TB drive that I can't do anything with. Says 2 TB of space 0 Available and won't allow me to change anything or try to delete/clear the drive.Try to use a sata drive to boot up won't let even let me run the windows installer at this point because it says it can't find any drives.Tried switching the BIOS's a few times rolling forward and back to differing versions and ... nada. So within a few hours of having this put together with components it appears that the HD controller failed.Because no matter what I do it gives me bad info about the size and available storage of the HD's connected or doesn't see them or won't let me boot off of them.Amazon support was also less than helpful when I contacted them. I was transferred to 3 people over the course of 1 and a half hours. Till the final person took some ownership and stopped asking me the same questions over and over again and got me a replacement.However it will be the same Motherboard. Not sure I really like that but... I'll give it a try and see how this one works. If it goes well I'll update my review. If it goes wrong... well this is the second time I've bought a computer related item from Amazon and had it turn into a sheet show. I may have to go back to getting my electronics at Best Buy and NewEgg.