GIGABYTE X570 AORUS PRO Wi-Fi ATX Motherboard for AMD Ryzen Processor with PCIe 4.0, DDR4, USB3.1, Realtek ALC1220-VB, RGB Fusion 2.0, and Thermal Guard

This is my first gigabyte board in years, the last being host to a fx 4300 I'm fairly sure and that board is still sitting in my garage from years ago. I went from that to nehelem CPU's and eventually to ryzen. Now I'm on my 3rd ryzen cpu and my 3900z is a monster.This board handles a 3900x pretty good. There is quite a bit of Vdroop when overclocking and there's some funny stuff like overclocks achieved and stable in gigabytes easytune OC program won't hold if set in the bios manually.But that's fine as long as the program's work.The actual bios is laid out very well and is easy to understand.Overclocking is simple and enabling settings is easy.My only gripe is actually to do with the software that works on these gigabyte boards. Easytune OC works great until it doesn't. After setting it to automatically enable a overclock after booting into windows the program crashed and got corupted. My only way to prevent it from crashing my PC every 2 minutes into launch was finding the file for the program and deleting it, unfortunately I'm unable to reinstall it now because everytime I do I get a message that I already have the newest version and it stops the install.Actually pretty peeved about that. Was able to get a 4.3ghz OC on my 3900x at 1.3V and I was able to verify it with a few benchmarks like cinebench and it's flavors and ran furmark for 12 hours to see how thermals went on it. ( Stock cooler maxed at 77C which was too hot for PBO to really be effective but otherwise it worked fine)Also the RGB software, RGB fusion oh god.When you start that program the program takes. A second to find every RGB enabled device it can connect to on the board. This honestly has taken my PC 10-25 minutes to do. Regardless of whether it's running off a nice solid state drive, or if it's in admin mode or something. If you interior the program before it finishes it might just crash file explorer and if you've ever seen file explorer crash it's a bit wonky.But when it works it works fine.

They didn't include screws. The instructions are very vague and I don't know what goes where.I can't rate it on performance yet, but hopefully this gets better.After I buy screws.Update: Guys, I am so stupid. The case I bought already had the screws I needed. It's not the motherboard supplier's job to provide screws!So, I ended up ordering screws, and a little box fell out of my PC case the very next day (in a place I already briefly looked!) It had everything I needed inside. So I have extra screws now.My Pc is all put together now. Everything is working well. I tried to be careful installing everything but couldn't help touching parts of the motherboard I thought were fragile. However, it withstood the manhandling my tiny lady hands made it endure.I wish it had just one more separate RGB port! Other than that, everything is fine. For some reason the RGB fusion software is causing two ports to do the same thing. It wasn't doing that originally. It comes with a disc but I didn't need it for anything. My BIOS also did not need to be updated, which I'm thankful for. PC part picker didn't give me any warning but I'm always a little wary about compatibility issues.I used a media creation tool to install Windows 10 pro onto a USB drive, and my computer took it perfectly. I didn't have to lift a finger in any BIOS menu.So there's a fan on the motherboard, right? I don't know if it's supposed to be always spinning but sometimes it just twitches. It makes me a little worried that maybe it should be on if it's trying to move at all, but I haven't gotten any warnings, so maybe I am okay.It's got this shark fin kind of Wi-Fi piece. It's magnetic. I just put it on top of my case. The WiFi hasn't had any problems. It kinda looks cool.

The Aorus Pro WIFI straddles the line between the more budget Aorus Elite WIFI and the much more expensive Aorus Master, which is really the stepping off point where you are paying for more than you are getting. I saw one other review suggesting that you don't get much extra for your money over the Aorus Elite WIFI or the ASUS TUF WIFI, and while I would have loved to have this magnificent board for less money, I feel it was worth it. You do get higher quality VRM and VRM heatsinks, and the selling point for me, fan headers. You get three more fan headers and they are on the ram side of the board, making an easy run for front case fans. Fit and finish are absolutely excellent. The board feels substantial and the layout is clean and well organized. The chipset fan is partially blocked by my average sized graphics card, which may get worse when I upgrade in a few months, but on silent or standard profiles in the smart fan section of the bios, I have not seen it run so the heat sink is sufficient for gaming and light work loads I have put on the machine thus far. I am only driving a Ryzen 5 3600 currently, but bought this board and its powerful 12 +2 phase VRM with eyes on the upcoming release of 4th gen Ryzen in the fall of the year. This board should easily handle whatever AMD throws out there in the 8 to 16 core space. The bios is easily understandable and my memory ran easily at the XMP overclock profile getting its advertised 3600mhz. For overclocking on the chip, I have so far only enabled PBO and am running a 280mm AIO for cooling so my chip basically runs at 4.2 all cores with an occasional core sneaking up on 4.3. Meanwhile, the board is running cool as a cucumber with great temps across its SEVEN temperature sensors. You simply can't go wrong with this board especially if you catch it anywhere under $259 with free shipping. I estimate this board will easily go 5 to 7 years or more without issue.