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)

My build Ryzen 2700, DDR4 3200MHz, NVME 4X M.2 SSD (boot drive), Nvidia GTX 1070. Installed Neon Linux (Ubuntu based) very graphic intense awesome Desktop and after installing no drivers needed. Wifi worked during live install and after with absolutely no connection drop or slowness. Bluetooth keyboard worked with no problem. Thunderbolt 3 works fine with my Dell Dock. Sound and Ethernet worked excellent. The DD4 RAM did show up in bios as 3200MHz after enabling XMP. The computer boots up from off to login screen in 5 seconds. To install Linux you don't have to change any settings in BIOS just boot from USB to install. I didn't install Nvidia driver for my GTX 1070 because Neon Linux comes with Nvidia drivers. Its cool to see the entire system runs smoothly, run cool, and very stable thanks to how Linux fully understands this motherboard and can utilize it. I only with I could control the RGB light on the motherboard on Linux like the software they have on Windows. I purchased 2 more of this motherboard for my friend's build and they are happy.IMPORTANT!! A decade ago ALL motherboards that had video output connectors had a GPU sodered to the motherboard on the south bridge. So regardless of what processor you install the motherboard video output will always work. But now all manufactures has this bad practice where they no longer puts a GPU in the south bridge and relyes on you to purchase a special CPU that has GPU embedded in it which cost a lot more, sacrifices 2 CPU cores (4 threads), requires more power and heats up a lot more. It would appear that we are going backwords. These days even a very small AMD GPU can output 4K easy. If the consumer need more graphical power then he or she can just buy a dedicated video card instead of buying another expensive CPU and the old CPU goes to waste. Only very small motherboards like intel Nuc can do stuff like this because they don't have space. Mothers like these is just wasting ports confusing and pissing off people.

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!

It’s flawless, good looking, with WiFi and Bluetooth, and great RGB.Had no issues for over 5 years

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.