GIGABYTE GA-A320M-S2H (AMD Ryzen AM4/MicroATX/2xDDR4/HDMI/Realtek ALC887/3xPCIe/USB3.1 Gen 1/LAN/Motherboard)

I've never built anything around a Gigabyte board, so, I thought I would pick up a cheap board to experiment with. What a nice surprise! I received a Version 3.0 board with BIOS version F1 installed, and I dropped in an AMD Athlon 200GE along with a couple of Corsair 8 GB 3200MHz DDR4. Everything fired up with no issues. I did update the BIOS to the latest version (F2). It was quite easy to bring the RAM speed up to 3200MHz, it was defaulted at 2133MHz.Updating the BIOS was a little bit of pain in the butt, because for some reason the build was seeing the board version as x.xx rather than 3.0. So, while trying to flash the BIOS using Q-Flash the new version was seen as being an "Invalid BIOS Image." I'm assuming that it was due the system not recognizing the the MOBO version. I was able to update the BIOS using @BIOS through the "Gigabyte APP Center." Wow, that's the first time I ever flashed a BIOS through Windows, but it worked!Over all it is a nice board for the price. It is a little on the thin side, but there really weren't any issues. The CPU is being water cooled, and the board is performing quite well. I'm not a Gamer, but do play Minecraft with my Grandson through a realm.On my next build I'm definitely going to go with a higher end Gigabyte board. This little board made me a believer! Sorry MSI, and ASUS...

Ryzen 2200G, Patriot 8BG ddr4 2666Great little HTPC setup. Also a good MB for a net box... and surprisingly.. casual gaming. Plays 4K Youtube just fine (4K @ 60 Hz through the onboard HDMI. Impressive) MB was easy to install, runs perfectly, and looks nice. Flashing BIOS to latest was super easy. Absolutely sips the power for 1080p mkvs (barely 5% CPU/GPU)Going to try it out as an emulation station as well. Super cheap Motherboard solution with a surprising abundance of features.Highly recommend if you need a cheap system or HTPC. Amazing specs for the price. I also like the parallel electrolitic caps they used... should help keep the system running for a long time.

This is an excellent board, but note that the information available in the box is very barebones. Definitely better for if you've installed motherboards before.For APUs, there is a VGA connector on the back panel, but there is no DisplayPort, only HDMI and DVI for digital connections.There is two (!) PS/2 ports for both a mouse and a keyboard, and 2 USB 2.0 ports on the back panel, this is really good for legacy input connections.The onboard analog audio is surprisingly good compared to other similar boards I've used.I was disappointed that there were only 4 SATA ports, I had to move one of my drives to M.2The BIOS that ships with the board is good for Ryzen 1 and 2 processors, and I didn't see a BIOS update for series 3 processors.

The GIGABYTE GA-A320M-S2H is a genuinely good motherboard for a cheaper but quality pc. Of course there are much better boards available to buy but this one is definitely worth the price. In my finished build with a ryzen 5 and a 2060, it runs all modern games perfectly fine. In addition to this it has enough usb slots for the average person. I can plug in my keyboard, mouse, headset, camera, and a few light strips with usb ports to spare. The bios isn't necessarily the best but it is enough to set up the pc and make a few software changes. The only real downsides to my unit was that one of my sata data connectors was faulty and that I was limited to two sticks of ram. There is also no usb type c front panel connector for a case which is kind of a bummer. Id also recommend buying a fan splitter because there is only one fan plug. Despite that it is a very solid component to use in a build and I'd recommend it to anyone who is trying to save some money.