X670 and B650E Aorus Motherboard Review

Another motherboard video that got lost in the sauce of am5 videos back in October! The video is still accurate though, so don't worry!

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Intro and Outro Music: "Earth Bound" by Slynk
Other Music: "Lively" & "FollowHer" by Zeeky Beats

Edited by Autumn

[kenzieduckmoo]

Its ok Editor Autumn, lots of things get mixed up in launch times.

[SpookySUI]

I'd love to see more specific VFIO passthrough and IOMMU Grupps stuff for AM5 since it seems to be somewhat different from the previous ones

[Strykenine]

My most recent build was on an Aorus board with a last-gen Ryzen 9. I've had really good luck with it and the price was right in the sweet spot for what I wanted to spend - about $250. Not sure when my next build will be but Aorus seems pretty solid so far.

[huplim]

I've been waiting for this!
Thank you from Malaysia! ❤❤❤

[marcuslagergren]

I see the diagram on the X670 Aorus Elite AX and you are saying that this motherboard are loosing 8x from the 16x slot when using the 4 M.2 slot. But the diagram, the info in the manual and the website does not say anytthing about any M.2 sharing bandwith with any other slots. I am interesting in this board, but only if i can use all 4 M.2 without sharing bandwith with the 16x slot!

[bmgjet]

Iv got the X670 AORUS ELITE AX.
Managed to get ram up to 6400mhz no issues at all. But settled on 6200mhz since it allowed me to keep a 1:1 ratio.

One big thing to note is Gigabyte has really been dropping the ball on the bios support on this board and F5 bios is still the only properly stable one.

F6f straight out bricked the board and you had to return it.
F6e caused instability when booting into windows which is what my RMA board came with but going back to F5 fixed that.
Took them 3 weeks to remove this bios from there website.

Then they released F7f which has C-State bug.
Then F7d which has core enabled bug which stops single CCX CPUs from working.
They removed these bios for 2 weeks then put them back on the website as F6d and F6c but they still have those issues.

[doublecinco]

I've seen you mention things you're going to cover on Level1 Linux at least a few times now in the last week. Hopefully soon! I'd like to delve into the whole Linux machine with Windows gaming VM thing for my next rig, so some more motherboard feature breakouts for that use case would be super useful. K thanks!

[rare]

I would LOVE a B650E Master but if you look online so many people are having problems with this board blacking out under CPU load. Unfortunately I’m not really prepared to play lottery with over £400…

[gglovato]

small correction on the audio: The X670 aorus elite ax does not have an ALC1220, it has the aging ALC897

[treyquattro]

so I went with the Wendell advice (before the fact admittedly) and went with the MSI PRO-X670 board and I've had a lot of problems getting it going. No POST codes and an inability to flash the BIOS didn't help. These Gigabyte boards look good. Maybe I shoulda gone with one of those.

[seanunderscorepry]

Whoa just learned of the level 1 Linux channel because of this video. Wish you mentioned it sooner!

[katzicael]

The pricing of AM5 boards in New Zealand - are *INSANE* Most X670E boards cost more than a 7950X! Even the MATX boards are STUPIDLY expensive.

[StaySicEver]

Rather interesting, yet quite fragmented specs and features wise between these chipsets and same name/tier board with each chipset. I'm still on X570 Aorus Elite since it's release and it's good. Waiting for X3D to upgrade, still not sure which to get. PCIe 5.0 for GPU doesn't seem to matter so really only need min 1 PCIe 5.0 for M.2 though. Lack of USB4 is odd strangely.

[davidmcken]

14:00 - "I'm the exception" - there are dozens of us!!!

[michaelthompson]

As a Gigabyte/ Aorus user for many years, the motherboards and bios have been great for me ….. I definitely agree to avoid their rgb software thou 🤦‍♀🤦‍♂🤦🙈 it’s a shocker! But I don’t really use rgb so no loss for me …. And if I do use it, it’s rainbow 🌈 puke 🤮 mode 😅😂🤣! I’m waiting for the X700 series chipset to come out and new x3D V-cache cpu to come out before I upgrade from my am4 setup.

[HoboVibingToMusic]

Curious about ASUS ProArt X670E-Creator. Only one from X670E i saw that has 10GbE and USB 4 Thunderbolt connections.

[joshhardin]

What we really need is for cpu manufacturers to give us more pci lanes so we don't have to do this dance of "if i connect peripheral x to slot y, how much bandwidth do I lose on my gpu or some other high bandwidth peripheral... it's sooo annoying. and if you're like me and have 3-4 m.2 drives, a gpu, and want to install a quad 4k video capture card, you're pretty much SOL... and we STILL don't have non-pro threadripper with zen4 or even a modern xeon-w... where's all the low end workstation gear?

[jong]

I like my PCIe flexibility for a GPU, 2+ NVMe drives, and 10G NICs. I like to cycle my gaming hardware down to home server systems after upgrades and having more PCIe there is a huge plus for NICs, HBAs, whatever.

[denverag]

I remember when i bought my 7950X at launch there were X670E boards for ~$220US now you'd be lucky to get a B650 with fewer features for $250

[monikaw]

I don't think you're right about the X670 AORUS ELITE AX dropping the main x16 slot down to x8 if the second CPU-fed M.2 slot is populated. The CPU provides x4 bandwidth to both M.2 slots separately of the x16 slot....don't forget Zen 4 has four more PCIE lanes than Zen 3 etc.