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Gigabyte rant - Don't buy their B550 motherboards

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Maybe just bad luck, but with three boards received DOA, you've got to wonder, I bought the Aorus B550i pro AX for my mini ITX build:

- First board had a broken Nvme standoff making it impossible to secure the PCIE 4 SSD

- Board 2 was completely DOA, couldn't even start the PSU

- Board 3 started but on board RGB was not working & the Q Flashback button wasn't working so couldn't flash BIOS with my 5600x (don't have another AM4 CPU)

All in all really disappointedf because it seems like the best ITX board in the B550 category, I bought the MSI MPG Gaming Edge wifi which will arrive today but between that & my Be Quiet SFX PSU being also DOA, I am really at loss for words on my bad luck 😞

Edited by canadiantree

MSFS. Hardware: AMD 5600X @4.0Ghz, Corsair H100i RGB Pro XT AIO, MSI MPG B550i Gaming Edge WiFi mobo, RTX 3080ti 12GB FE GPU , G.Skill TridentZ Royal 32GB (2x16) DDR4-3600 RAM CL16, PNY XLR8 3030 1 TB SSD (OS + SIM), Crucial P5 1TB M.2 pcie-3 NVMe SSD (data) . Corsair SF750 80+ Platinum PSU, NZXT H200i Mini ITX Tower.  38" LG UltraGear  38GN950-B display. 4x QL120 fans

Sorry to hear that. To be honest, Ive always had good luck with Asus boards. In fact I would have to go back years to recall a board that wasn't Asus. 

Did you speak to Gigabyte re board 2 and 3 issues? 

Edited by martin-w

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15 minutes ago, martin-w said:

Sorry to hear that. To be honest, Ive always had good luck with Asus boards. In fact I would have to go back years to recall a board that wasn't Asus. 

Did you speak to Gigabyte re board 2 and 3 issues? 

No, couldn't bother, I was still in the RMA window with Amazon so just shipping them all back, Amazon Customer Service truly is in a class of its own.

MSFS. Hardware: AMD 5600X @4.0Ghz, Corsair H100i RGB Pro XT AIO, MSI MPG B550i Gaming Edge WiFi mobo, RTX 3080ti 12GB FE GPU , G.Skill TridentZ Royal 32GB (2x16) DDR4-3600 RAM CL16, PNY XLR8 3030 1 TB SSD (OS + SIM), Crucial P5 1TB M.2 pcie-3 NVMe SSD (data) . Corsair SF750 80+ Platinum PSU, NZXT H200i Mini ITX Tower.  38" LG UltraGear  38GN950-B display. 4x QL120 fans

All my builds for more than ten years had been Gigabyte-based, so I naturally went with their z490 board for my last upgrade, but it turned out to be faulty, too. It took 3 minutes to POST, then the onboard LAN stopped working. I wasted way too much time trying to get it to work, finally returned it... Looks like I'm back to being an Asus guy... 😉

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Asus is a good brand. Their B550 ITX board is abit disappoining though. No built in rear I/O shield & too few USB ports.

MSFS. Hardware: AMD 5600X @4.0Ghz, Corsair H100i RGB Pro XT AIO, MSI MPG B550i Gaming Edge WiFi mobo, RTX 3080ti 12GB FE GPU , G.Skill TridentZ Royal 32GB (2x16) DDR4-3600 RAM CL16, PNY XLR8 3030 1 TB SSD (OS + SIM), Crucial P5 1TB M.2 pcie-3 NVMe SSD (data) . Corsair SF750 80+ Platinum PSU, NZXT H200i Mini ITX Tower.  38" LG UltraGear  38GN950-B display. 4x QL120 fans

Used to use gigabyte boards religiously. Last few years have moved onto msi, cracking boards especially their am4 ones

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For those interested. Received the MSI Gaming edge wifi B550i board yesterday. Absolutely flawless install. So happy. 

MSFS. Hardware: AMD 5600X @4.0Ghz, Corsair H100i RGB Pro XT AIO, MSI MPG B550i Gaming Edge WiFi mobo, RTX 3080ti 12GB FE GPU , G.Skill TridentZ Royal 32GB (2x16) DDR4-3600 RAM CL16, PNY XLR8 3030 1 TB SSD (OS + SIM), Crucial P5 1TB M.2 pcie-3 NVMe SSD (data) . Corsair SF750 80+ Platinum PSU, NZXT H200i Mini ITX Tower.  38" LG UltraGear  38GN950-B display. 4x QL120 fans

6 hours ago, canadiantree said:

For those interested. Received the MSI Gaming edge wifi B550i board yesterday. Absolutely flawless install. So happy. 

 

Good news, glad to hear it. And you are right about Amazon customer service. RMA is easy. 

Happy with my Gigabyte Aorus Elite z490 board and I7-10700.  Just saying....

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