Gigabyte B450M DS3H (Socket AM4/B450/DDR4/S-ATA 600/Micro ATX)

This motherboard was for my mATX case. I used a Ryzen 5 2600 CPU, 16Gb 3000Mhz RAM and a RX580 GPU everything was recognised first time and even when installing Windows I didn't have to tell it to boot from the NVMe drive. The on board LED light strip is not very impressive but I didn't purchase it for that. I haven't over clocked the CPU yet but so far everything is working fine.I was going to buy the Asrock B450m board after reading some reviews, but this board is perfect and brings my build in budget. Also, upgraded the firmware without any problems. Connectivity is excellent as I only have a few USB devices plugged in, the monitor uses the graphics card so irrelevant here. I can't compare it to anything else of this generation as I haven't used anything else.

I bought the B450 I for use as a Ryzen based Hackintosh build and it works really well. I also use it with Windows 10 but that was not the main reason for purchase. Size-wise the ITX form factor is perfect. I have it installed in a large full tower case, obviously not intended for such a small board but it fits really well. For Windows, everything works straight out of the box. With a Hacktintosh built the Wi-Fi does not work but it rarely does for anything that does not use the Apple standard Broadcom chipset. However for now I use ethernet. Apart from that it is all good and running Catalina 10.15.7 no problem at all. Highly recommended.

This board looks good, with or without the RGBs, and the silver accents make it look professional, which is refreshing compared to all this horrific looking "gaming" branded stuff out there, looks as good as the asus STRIX stuff, which is in my opinion, the best looking, inoffensive component line out there.The bios is actually pretty nice as well.It has USB3, USB2, more than enough RGB headers, and a pretty decent layout overall. The wifi/bluetooth built in is solid, intel standard, and the processors/memory it supports are very high-end. The NVME heat sink actually cools my drive unexpectedly well, and isn't just an aesthetic choice.There are some annoying things about this board though:- Two fan headers; one CPU, one system fan. This is very poor, especially considering the ITX form factor is one that really needs decent airflow to maintain performance in general. But PWM fan splitters are like £3, so workarounds are doable and inexpensive.- HD audio is very far on the left of the board, and I've seen cases in which this causes issues or really ugly cables. YMMV, but just be aware, in some cases it might not even reach.- AORUS software looks horrible; their SIV for customising fan curves, RGB fusion, and app centre (the three things I've used), honestly look like something out of an early 90's flash game. The worst. They've already made the BIOs look nice, it'd be nice if the apps that I need installed on my actual OS didn't look terrible too.None of these negatives are dealbreakers though, and this board is really nicely priced, with a lot of really high-end feautres (Although it misses a couple basic ones). Ultimately though, it looks nice, and performs very well, and supports a lot of really high-end hardware. I don't know how this overclocks, as there's not much extra room I can get from my Ryzen 5 3600 in this budget build.Whilst I was reluctant buying this, as I've had to return a bunch of gigabyte products before due to faults/issues within warranty, this board seems solid and issue free for now, so if that's something putting you off buying this, then rest assured, this is a solid board.The biggest issue is honestly the Aorus logo; Is it a bird with a ripped arm? Its definitely not a lower jaw unless the bird has a horrendous underbite. Horrible. Nasty.

This is a great motherboard, especially now that it supports Zen 2/Ryzen 3000. No complaints at all so far as it's working flawlessly- and it was great value too, at just £81! As a relative beginner to pc building this was really easy to build on and everything is clearly labelled and easy to use.Only downside (and this is minor) is the slight inconsistency of some of the gigabyte software- e.g. sometimes rgb Fusion doesn't pick up all of my components.

Little odd that the star ratings are based on 'warmth' & 'thickness' maybe not the best of individual qualities to pick for a motherboard. And certainly not what comes to mind personally when thinking about buying a board; can only assume 'warmth' is its heat dissipation capabilities which were more than okay.Regardless, it's 5 stars from me, cracking little board with sufficient features given it's MITX form factor, others however maybe left wanting more options for internal drive expandability etc.As for the thickness of the board, it's of good quality, very sturdy; this is helped due to being such a small compact board, no signs of flex around the PCI-E slot with my RTX 2080, which isn't the lightest of cards, chuffed with this.

Bought this to use with Ryzen 5 3600; 16gb ddr4 3200ram; WD sn570 1tb nvme; RTX2060 6gb. Mostly used for photo editing and a bit of video editing as well as ususal internet browsing and home office tasks. Grandchildren also use it for online gaming when they visit. Mostly wanted the ability to have a second nvme drive (now using a second WD sn570 1 tb but eyeing the price of a 2tb)Installation was straightforward and I offset the, then reasonable cost, by passing on my existing MSI B450 motherboard to a friend at a very reasonable price. Will probably add another 16gb of ram in the future but so far I am very pleased with the problem free installation and performance.