GIGABYTE X870 Eagle WIFI7 AMD AM5 LGA 1718 Motherboard, ATX, DDR5, 4X M.2, PCIe 5.0, USB4, WIFI7, 2.5GbE LAN, EZ-Latch, 5-Year Warranty

It was an easy install, no issues with the ram I picked out, booted up fine the first try. Paired it with a 7900X and some g-skill Flare X5 DDR5-6000 CL30 ram. The board has some heft which is a nice sign. A decent amount of USB ports. The quick connect for the wifi antennae is a nice idea, but I prefer to use an external antennae that I can position separately. That said the wifi overall works much better than the last board I was using so its hard to complain.I ignored much of the software that Gigabyte provides for it as others recommended. I do think the non primary m2 slots just sitting there between pci-e slots with no heat sink is kinda outdated, but not really a worry for my particular use. Good budget X870 board overall.

Works well in my new computer

Out of the box ready to go, not hard to enable profiles for RAM. Haven't had any issues since I put it in last month.

Works as advertised in a hybrid workstation/gaming PC. Even with the USB3 header (FU3A) port bent at ~13° because the case I bought insets the motherboard into a panel, it's going strong. Thermals are cool and stable, even when the system is under load. This board only seems to bifurcate the two secondary M.2 slots, with everything else running at full. PCIe x16 supports x8x8 and x8x4x4 bifurcation. Not sure about x4x4x4x4; I forgot to check the BIOS for it. Would be hilarious to run four eGPUs out of that slot, but I'm not made of money.Knocking a star for the two PCIe 3.0 x1 lanes. I'd knock more stars if the x1 lanes were actual x1 length. Thankfully, they're x16 length. The lanes themselves are fine and work as intended, but they're not very useful; this is definitely a budget board. This Gigabyte board does not take full advantage of the Ryzen 9000 series'—admittedly limited—PCIe lanes. If you need more PCIe lanes, particularly PCIe x4, I would recommend the AORUS Elite X870E over this model since it has one 4.0 x4 and one 3.0 x4.I would honestly prefer more PCIe expansion slots on motherboards versus the modern trend of five billion M.2 slots, but I don't think that's Gigabyte's fault; every other manufacturer is also doing this, and AMD and Intel are not exactly making their "consumer" CPUs with enough PCIe lanes to actually justify more slots. I am admittedly in the minority since I run multi-GPU rigs for Blender, so I guess take my opinion with a grain of salt.

Was excited to build my new pc with this motherboard but then come to find out that it was damaged. No matter what I did even looking up guides to help solve my issue nothing worked. Not until I was finally checking my cpu that I come to find out that some of the pins on the cpu were bent. Damaged my cpu in the process and the motherboard just refused to give any power. Disappointed and returned without hesitation.

Great quality, works perfect

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.

My husband couldn't get his new computer to work, and I tried fixing it. It was my first time dealing with a built computer. The issue was BIOS updating, apparently via google it's common with this item, but at the same time maybe it's every new computer. So, it could be a normal thing to do each time; however, it was a pain in the butt to do when you have zero idea of what you need to do.