GIGABYTEX870I AORUS PRO ICE AMD AM5 LGA 1718 Motherboard, Mini-ITX, DDR5, 2X M.2, PCIe 5.0, USB-C, WIFI7, 2.5GbE LAN, EZ-Latch, 5-Year Warranty

I haven't run into any issues with the motherboard. I must be lucky because I haven't heard any whine or unpleasant noise from the SSD fan. My previous motherboard was an ASRock B850I Lightning on BIOS 3.25 and it killed my Ryzen 9 9900X within a week. I've had this motherboard for almost a month and no issues at all.The installation is a little wonky. It's pretty straightforward if you've ever put a PC together, but they use a long screw to mount to the PC case on one of the corners. They also use a different method to connect either the CPU or chassis fan to the motherboard, it uses some small pin connectors that then turn into the standard 4-pin connector.The WiFi connector kind of sucks, but I don't use WiFi anyway so it's no big deal to me.If you could spend more money, consider an Asus motherboard, but if you can't spend the extra hundred or so then this is a very nice motherboard.Boot times do seem kind of slow, however. I had quicker boot times with the ASRock motherboard, but it's still fine.

Used this board to build a white themed SFF build. Practicality the only white X870 itx motherboard out right now. Have had it for around a month running a 9800X3D with 32GB of ram at 6400mhz.Everything is great so far. My system runs great, and looks amazing. But it needed multiple bios updates, as it looked like my board came with a pre-release bios of some sort. I do have some minor complaints though.-No onboard RGB lighting, only RGB headers for other products. Though some people would consider this a win.-VRMs run pretty warm without dedicated airflow over the heatsink. You would think that for $300 Gigabyte would engineer a better solution for the VRMs and chipset. I bought a cooper M.2 heatsink and plunked it on the side of the flat part of the heatsink above the VRMs (next to the CPU) with some thermal tape, just for some peace of mind. Makes it look prettier at least, lol.-The SSD fan runs at max speed by default, and is loud by nature. Definitely tune it down in BIOS when setting up.-No optical out audio, a standard audio port that has been included in virtually any other device for decades. Not really a big deal in the real world, but I don't get why they didn't include it. There is clearly room on the back of the board, and cost-savings on this board shouldn't be a concern for Gigabyte.-No built-in temperature probe headers for adding thermal sensors around your system. This means that if you decide to watercool your system, like I did, you'll have to rely on traditional thermal sensors on the board instead to control pumps and fans. Which means you are gonna need to take some extra time and patience to tune your cooling setup for your noise to performance preference. On my other water-cooled builds, I used fittings with embedded thermal sensors monitoring coolant temperature to control all my fans/pumps. Every one of them was dead silent for that reason.Again for $300, I would expect for Gigabyte to spare the extra few cents in manufacturing for a two-pin header that literally exists on their other boards from previous generations. Why they forgot to include at least one, in an expensive enthusiast motherboard, is beyond me. I got around this in my build by controlling everything with the VRM's temperature.Solid and stable motherboard overall. It's pricey though, and there is not much to differentiate it from B850 boards to justify a $300 price tag, in my opinion.

I bought this Pro Ice Mini ITX board because it was the only option I could find with USB 4 support.I weighed it against the ROG boards, and I would have to have a weird daughter board with a external connector, which I found super unappealing, so I settled on this one. I have no regrets at all with my decision.My computer build went very smooth and my EXPO memory settings were correctly detected and applied (G.Skill Flare X5 6000MT/s (DDR5-6000 CL30-36-36-96 1.35V, Matte White, 96GB (2X 48GB)). I'm running this board with a 9950X3D and 7900XTX and living the team red dream in June of 2025.The UEFI is fine. Stability seems great, no issues I can think of. I do have however one big complaint with this board: No driver support for the WiFi 7 chipset for Windows 10. I'm very tempted to drop a star for this, but I won't. I wish GIGABYTE would release Windows 10 compatible drivers for the WiFi chipset, but other than that, everything is excellent. I could of course use some kind of external antenna and keep using Windows 10, but I decided to just jump to 11 and not tie up any of my USB ports. I will cope with Windows 11 until SteamOS has broader compatibility and then jump ship from the atrocity that is Windows 11. Overall, this motherboard has been great, and I would recommend it to anyone looking for a AM5 motherboard with WiFi 7 and USB4.

Pros:- Feature packed with plenty of USB ports- WiFi 7- Well made- Support website has the usual details- Plenty of accessories- Seems fast and passes memtest86 with 128 GiBCons:- No ECC support- Odd, proprietary WiFi antenna connector- Difficult to see where/if WiFi is a module and if it's an NGFF swappable one- Flashing process could be made step-by-step and clearer because the regular one didn't work, and I had to use the "recovery" method for ordinary flashing

tried 3 gens of nvme in the primary slot of 2 of these boards now and they eventually fail to detect and start to get very hot. Fully updated drivers, chipset, bios, etc and still failing to detect primary nvme

This is a great motherboard—well-designed and easy to build in. The quick-release PCIe latch is especially convenient, making GPU installation and removal a breeze. The quick-release NVMe heatsink, however, feels a bit cramped and can be tricky to operate in tight spaces. The onboard sound card is functional, but its surround sound feature doesn’t seem to work properly, and overall driver support could be improved for a better audio experience.