GIGABYTE X870E AORUS Master AMD AM5 LGA 1718 Motherboard, ATX, DDR5, 4X M.2, PCIe 5.0, USB4, WIFI7, 5GbE LAN, EZ-Latch, 5-Year Warranty – For Sale – Price

8 reviews for GIGABYTE X870E AORUS Master AMD AM5 LGA 1718 Motherboard, ATX, DDR5, 4X M.2, PCIe 5.0, USB4, WIFI7, 5GbE LAN, EZ-Latch, 5-Year Warranty – For Sale – Price

1. 

   PH – 19 February 2025

   Decent Board – Get and flash to the latest BIOS
   This boards seems pretty decent. Using Linux.Hardware and performance…AM5 socket, DDR5, support for PCIE 5.0 card and two PCIE 5 nvme SSD drives (sticks) – supported by CPU. Other slots are PCIE 4/3. One slot is shared with onboard SATA port(s). The last 2 ports if I recall correctly.HDMI, DP 1.4 from integrated video from AMD CPU.WiFi 6E/Bluetooth 5.3, included an antenna, Ethernet 2.5 Gbps – Intel i255-V chip. That’s the one I got.2 Mini 3.5″ audio jacks, Line out and Mic In, SPDIF. Line out supports headphones 2 ch, front speakers: 4, 5.1, 7.1 channels. Mic In jack supports mic in (duh…lol) and supports rear speakers: 4, 5.1, 7.1 channels. There is front panel header on board for your case connections if you have that. Make sure your case supports front panel supports the board header. Uses a Realtek ALC1220 chip.Lots of USB support – 1.0/2.0 (black ports), 3.2 Gen 1 on board and back of board (the old name was 3.0…blue ports), 3.2 Gen 2 (red ports 10Gbps) with one that has DP 1.4 Alt-Mode (back of motherboard USBC), 3.2 gen 2×2…20Gbps..on header and usbc back of boardLED headers for CPU and strips, noise sensor header, voltage sensor header, temp sensors, plus the standard led connections for your LED case..power, reset, etc, fans, pumps…SATA ports, M.2 slots.Slow booting because it does a lot of checking on boot up (from what I can tell). I got board version 1.0 – lots of BIOS updates (DDR5 RAM seems very sensitive to overclocking). Can overclock well with the proper RAM. Get the latest BIOS (thank you AMD for the updates) and flash it to the motherboard for better hardware support and much better overclocking of memory. It’s a heavy board and size is E-ATX. Need a case that can support this size.Board does look good, many layers to this board (8 I think). As for durability, I don’t know yet as it’s a complicated board. However, the last motherboard I bought was a Gigabyte motherboard in 2013 (over 10 years old). It still works (except a USB chip/controller) is failing now. I still use it though because my operating systems that I use still work fine. And the USB seems to work ok – the O.S. tells me about the errors though in the system logs.Will support USB 4.0 with addon card from Gigabyte. Need to see about getting the card.There is a nice case that works well for this Aorus motherboard (Anidees ai-crystal xl pro). Expensive but it supports a lot of motherboards and is very versatile with new and old tech. You can get them from Amazon. Thanks Amazon!The price is too high compared to other motherboards, but I continue to buy Gigabyte motherboards based on my history of them making good boards. If their quality goes down I will find/recommend another motherboard manufacturer.

2. 

   Erick Jeffries – 19 February 2025

   Easy to install and configure
   I’m getting the performance I expect and everything was easy to install and configure. The memory testing bios code 15 took FOREVER! which had me worried, but after about 15-20 minutes everything progressed as normal. This was my first AMD board so that was new to me. Overall great board, great options.

3. 

   mlf149 – 19 February 2025

   Spend More Time on the Product, Less time on the Marketing Music Video
   Over $700 with tax buys you alot of motherboard. In the case of the Gigabyte X670E Extreme, you get a fancy glossy motherboard box, poor quality BIOS releases, and an ill concieved design which requires a complete tear-down of the board for a simple CMOS battery change. Did I mention the fancy box? What about that cool marketing video? Check out that video on the Gigabyte web site – top notch!I assembled my new PC only to find that everytime I unplugged the PC or turned off the PSU switch I would get a “CMOS cleared” error. All BIOS settings get wiped – clock, EXPO memory timings, fan curves… all of it. Normally, I would just swap a CMOS battery as part of a trouble shooting process…. You can’t with this board. Gigabyte decided to hide the battery under the chipset heat sink. To get to the battery you must…1. Remove motherboard from PC2. Flip motherboard over, and remove fancy (pointless) aluminum backplate covering the entire motherboard. Oh, toss those single use thermal pads – add new ones to your shopping list.3. WIth the back plate removed, you can access the screws holding on the battery cover, I mean chipset heatsink.4. Remove chipset heatsink, again, toss those single use themal pads and add new ones to your shopping list.5. Change battery. (See wasn’t that easy)6. Apply new thermal pads (hopefully you purchased the correct thickness and rating – but Gigabyte won’t help you with that)7. Re-assemble.In just 2 to 3 short hours, you’ve successfully changed your defective CMOS battery that shipped in your $700 motherboard. Thats right, according to REDDIT you are not alone, Gigabyte got a bad lot of batteries. It wouldn’t be a big deal except for the design flaws referenced above.Trying to reach support? Hahaha. No reply.How about those BIOS updates? Do you enjoy introducing new errors following an update? If so, this is your board.Before buying this board, watch the really cool marketing video they made just for this flagship AM5 board. Then, while you are really jazzed up to buy the board…. Re-read this review and buy a different board/brand/whatever…. save your money.

4. 

   Luis Enrique García – 19 February 2025

   Feliz con mi tarjeta madre.No hubo necesidad de actualizar driver para un 7800x3D.Sin embargo se actualizó después sin problemas.

5. 

   Jon – 19 February 2025

   I’m currently going through the RMA process with Gigabyte, and it is beyond frustrating and maddening. Please, save yourself the hassle. Buy your motherboards locally or avoid Gigabyte at all cost.

6. 

   Jon – 19 February 2025

   TLDR: If you have to buy online, don’t buy a Gigabyte board. Did everything they asked, they never tested my motherboard to replicate the issue accurately (used eng samples for cpu instead of the same CPU I has having issues on). Sent me a refurbished board instead of a replacement.Fair warning, as I guess with most if not all online purchases. You only have so long to return the product before you’re out of luck. I’m having issues with this motherboard currently, and by the time that Gigabyte support had run me through everything to test and change, it was too late to return it to Amazon.Upon learning that, I was directed to the warranty repair portal, which I apparently need to ship the motherboard and everything to them for them to look at it? I can’t just send back the motherboard for RMA… For the price I paid, I was hoping for a lot better…Save yourself the hassle, go find a local spot to buy or order from if you can.Update – RMA folks confirmed that I just need to send in the motherboard.Just don’t buy from Gigabyte. When you RMA it back, you have to pay for the shipping yourself. There’s no contact, they don’t ask to clarify. I provided a ton of details showing that sometimes the motherboard works okay for a day or two before it’ll start up. But I’ve been unable to contact or get feedback from them or to them.The last note they provided on the case is “Process Result: Product test ok, update firmware.”. It certainly does not test okay. I suspect they’ve just ignored all the notes and details provided and I just wasted 100$ trying to get a motherboard I spent a lot of money on to work.Update #2 – Didn’t hear back from them until I called the Canadian Office. BTW, it’s their office number, doesn’t show up as the RMA contact number. I was emailing the right place, I had emailed a few times during the week with no reply. They finally did when I called in.They said I can reply with tests I would like them to perform to replicate the issue.I told them it takes 1-2 days sometimes for the issue to occur. They replied that they tested for 20 hours and there was no issue.I told them the onboard video is wonky. They tested with a separate video card.I told them it happens more often with a 7950X CPU, and they haven’t gotten back to me. But the testing rig they showed had an air cooler, which is concerning for a 7950X…More and more, I’m either getting this POS back or they’re going to ship it, it’s going to get smashed in transit, and because they don’t accept responsibility for dmg, I’m screwed.Oh, and the customer complaint line? It’s the same # and extension you call for the RMA Support. That’s helpful!Update 3 – Just heard back, they’re not going to test with what I requested. Just found out they’re not testing with the same CPU I reported the issue with. It’s an engineering sample. They’re not willing to test for 2 days or with the onboard video.Update 4 – They tried with the onboard video, which seemed okay, but I couldn’t tell if they got it up to a proper disk resolution. They’ve shipped it back, noting that it tested out fine and there were no issues.I was welcome to send them a video of the issue, and they’d review.Update 5 – Sent a video showing the issue, they wouldn’t confirm if this time around it would be any different or not. The RMA page didn’t even update with the results. They just sent my original box back, with what looks like a refurbished board. Same m.2 slots were already used and dinged and the Serial Number sticker isn’t quite attached. I’m not going to be surprised if this refurbished board is my original board with a new sticker and a few new screws in it.

7. 

   SUDIPTA KAR – 19 February 2025

   Product has manufacturing defect from the day I received, motherboard has booting issue, display problem

8. 

   amazonレビュー – 19 February 2025

   ・起動が早い。・BIOS画面が簡潔で取っ掛かり易い。悪く言えばちょっと込み入った事をしたい場合に戸惑う。(例えば素のBIOS画面からEFIシェルに入る項目も無いとかそういうの。)・電池を抜くのに背面部カバーから上部ヒートシンクから全てを取り除かないとアクセス出来ないのが不便。・Hi-Fi オーディオ : ALC1220 搭載って謳い文句があるけど個人的には高音が抜けず曇った様な音をしているので、ディスプレイ出力の3.5mmジャックからイヤホン越しに聞くより聞き苦しい。・9万円台でPCIe 5.0の×16が1スロットしかないのでSASカード増設がし辛い。