GIGABYTE A620I AX (AM5/ LGA 1718/ AMD/ A620/ Mini-ITX/ 5-Year Warranty/ DDR5/ Single M.2/ PCIe 4.0/ USB 3.2 Gen1 Type-C/Realtek Wi-Fi 6E/ Realtek 2.5GbE/ Q-Flash Plus/PCIe EZ-Latch/Motherboard)

Bought this budget motherboard for sff build. So far the mobo works as intended. One thing to note if you purchase this board for your build. Make sure to q-flash a bios compatible with your cpu. Find your bios in the manufacturers website with the right mobo rev. number on your board. I had to flash the latest bios compatible with a ryzen 9000 series cpu. Mobo will not work right out the box. Your welcom in advance. So far satisfied with this budget mobo.

I bought this to pair with an AMD 8500g. I knew going in that I would have to update the bios before the processor would work, but the price was right. Got the motherboard and attempted to update the BIOS, the process is fairly straightforward but there is really no vendor documentation that I could find besides 3 steps listed on the marketing page of their website.Well followed the steps and nothing happened. Looked up Youtubes and they provided additional detail that the process is very dependent on the USB stick and how it is formatted. I was using an older USB 2.0 formatted as FAT32 which seemed to be the recommendation by all the YouTubes but still couldn't get any indication that the update process was working. As a final attempt I scraped around in my junk drawer and found a very old USB that would allow me to format to FAT16, loaded the software on the stick, plugged it in and pushed the button and suddenly lights started blinking. Once the process looked to have completed plugged everything else and everything seems to work well, with the exception of Bluetooth, which is really glitchy, hoping to find an updated driver that will fix that. The BIOS software is nice. No problems pairing DDR5 RAM that had the XMP stuff (Corsair Vengance). No issues enabling high bandwidth support. Benchmarking seemed to support that everything was working at the correct published speeds. Bios appears to support overclocking even though they say it isn't available on the chipset, I haven't tried it, and probably won't, but the option seems to be available.UPDATE: I was able to find a newer Bluetooth driver and now don't have issues with bluetooth. 1 month in and motherboard has been a champ, lots of use, no issues. Updating to 5 stars.

Seems to be of a high standard of manufacture. Easy to install and it booted and worked immediately. I used a Noctua NH-L9a-AM5 Low-Profile CPU Cooler and this fitted easily in the iStarUSA 1U chassis with enough clearance for airflow.However this mini-ITX board has overall poor airflow with the memory cards blocking air coming from the front of the chassis and the solid backpanel blocking airflow at the rear of the board. As a result it's not really possible to use the NVMe M.2 2280 slot on top of the chipset heatsink as the NVMe card runs very hot. 72C continuously. It's having to deal with the chipset heat plus the NVMe heat.I ended relocating the NVMe card to the sole PCIe slot to keep it well away from the heat sources on this motherboard. This reduced the NVMe temperature to 58C, a 14C degree improvement. I used the "MICRO CONNECTORS Low-Profile M.2 NVMe SSD to PCIe 4.0 Adapter with Heat Sink for 1U PCIE-M21U40HS".

Sadly, the A620 ASRock m-ITX board is still unavailable from Amazon. I hope they start carrying it soon because this Gigabyte board is a big disappointment.Pros:1. It's mini-ITX and says Gigabyte.Cons:1. Build quality - even though ITX boards cost a premium, that doesn't mean it should cost extra AND be cheaply built. This board feels cheap and looks cheap in person.2. Less features - compared to the ASRock A620 board that's similarly priced, the ASRock gives more features and options.3. Memory incompatibility - I tried two completely different sets of memory, both supporting AMD's EXPO feature. Firstly, the motherboard wouldn't even post with either set before doing a BIOS update. After the BIOS update, I was able to install Windows, but the system was not stable as soon as EXPO memory settings were enabled. It would freeze during stress tests or benchmarks. It would go to sleep and not wake up. It would freeze during simple web browsing. Since I've replaced the motherboard with the ASRock instead, all these problems have vanished. Runs EXPO memory settings fine. So far 100% solid and stable.There's no way I'd do another build with this motherboard. I hope Amazon will carry the competitors A620 board soon because their return and support policy is excellent if you have any issues. The ASRock A620 lightning m-ITX board completely outclasses this Gigabyte product. Shockingly so. It works better, it feels and looks much higher quality too.Gigabyte needs to either drop the price of this clearly budget motherboard, or start making it a little better.

Worked for what I needed it, was building a semi budget itx pc. I have no complaints about this Motherboard. But I do regret not spending a little extra to get a board with x2 m.2 slots, this one only has the one. Luckily i found a deal for a 4tb 990 pro. I am using the onboard wifi and it works well.