Customer Ratings & Reviews

I recently got my hands on the GIGABYTE X870 and let me tell you, if you're thinking about building a new AMD Ryzen rig, this board absolutely deserves your attention. It's built around the new AMD X870 chipset, which means it's ready for the latest Ryzen 7000, 8000, and even the upcoming 9000 series processors. Out of the box, it's got this clean, premium look that really tells you it means business. What truly impressed me is the robust power delivery system. This is crucial for keeping those high-core-count Ryzens boosting to their full potential, whether I'm gaming or rendering. For memory, those four DDR5 DIMM slots gobble up RAM at blazing speeds with AMD EXPO support, which is fantastic for multitasking. And for storage? Multiple PCIe 5.0 M.2 slots mean my NVMe SSDs are ridiculously fast, cutting down game load times and file transfers significantly. Now, where this board really shines for me is the connectivity. The 2.5 Gigabit Ethernet is great, but the Wi-Fi 7 is a game-changer. With a compatible router, my wireless speeds are incredibly fast and stable, which is perfect for online gaming and streaming without a hitch. Plus, it's loaded with USB ports, including USB4 Type-C, which are super versatile. I did notice that most of the fan headers are clustered at the bottom of the PCB, which can make cable management a bit of a puzzle depending on your case. For me, the performance difference is negligible, but extreme enthusiasts should be aware. I also ran into a couple of minor BIOS kinks and Wi-Fi driver hiccups initially, though a quick update resolved them.. It's a seriously capable, future-proof foundation for a powerful AMD PC that I genuinely feel was worth every penny, and I'd absolutely recommend it to anyone building a high-end Ryzen system.

I was recently able to acquire the Gigabyte X870 Aorus Elite WIFI7 Ice motherboard and use it in a build that is an upgrade for one of my sons to have a better gaming desktop PC. For him, coming from a 9th gen Intel i5 with DDR4, specifically a pre-built gaming PC as it was during a time that the systems were pretty cheap if I recall correctly, to now a pretty decently specced, near top of the line, system was a drastic jump up; especially because we went with the Ryzen 9900X CPU paired with this motherboard & an Nvidia RTX 5070 Founders Edition (which I got at MSRP from our local Best Buy!) along with 64GB of DDR5 RAM. Unboxing When unboxing the motherboard you find all the normal things you'd find in a motherboard box, but I haven't ran a white motherboard in a long time & so I wanted to take a look at this one. This one is more silver/gray and white than it is truly white. It is like the slushy snow on the side of the road after it has been run over by everyone's car. So not snow white, but more roadway after traffic white or ice, I guess. Which for our build for him will be perfect because we wanted the motherboard to stand out some but not a huge amount like a pure white board would. But just know that going in that it is more silver/gray tinged than a pure white board. Rating: 5/5 Physical Installation So next onto the installation, which, since I am 40 now and built my first PC when I was 12 years old it was a breeze (back then we didn't have YouTube so I had to read Maximum PC and saw how they did a build via the photos to figure it out all back then). I had the motherboard in the chassis in no time. I snapped in the DDR5, the CPU, the AIO cooler, each of the SSDs and HDDs, and away we went. The system POST'd without any issues and we were on our way to a Windows reinstallation (because we wanted to do a fresh install) before we knew it. Rating: 5/5 Software & Driver Installation This was super easy too, I hopped on the web via our ethernet cable & downloaded all the relevant drivers directly from the Gigabyte website (I always avoid using the manufacturer's "control center" software as it is usually bloated & just slows everything down if not downright breaking stuff along the way). A firmware update later, along with many driver installs, and we were sitting with a fresh install of windows, with a fresh built, with fresh drivers and BIOS. We were sitting pretty. Rating: 5/5 Daily Usage (Including Gaming) This thing is blazingly fast in everything that we throw at it. Everything from gaming, to video editing, to surfing the web, there are no stutters, or slowdowns at all. 1440p gaming is phenomenal. Sure, if he wants to do 4K he can, but he'll have to back things down a bit. (the RTX drivers are buggy as all hell, NVIDIA really needs to get their crap together or I'll be talking him into going AMD next time like I did with my 7900 XTX Hellhound GPU). Rating: 5/5 (RTX drivers are not the motherboard's issues, it's NVIDIA doing what NVIDIA does!) Things To Be Aware Of If you run all 4 NVME SSD slots then your PCI-E bus speeds will either be cut in half (for the X16) or completely disabled. So make sure to read the manual & decide your NVME setup. Luckily he only has 1 NVME drive right now, 1 SATA SSD, and then 1 large SATA HDD. We'll be migrating him to all SATA SSDs and NVMEs as the drives get cheaper but for now he is making do and has no issues with his setup, I just want others to be aware. If you need full speed PCIE lanes, and have 4x NVMEs then you need to look at another board. Conclusion This board fits the bill for us, it may not for everyone (see Things To Be Aware Of & the manual to be specific) and so it was a win for us. I cannot say enough how happy my son is to be gaming in 1440P and also trying out some 4K on his TV in his room. Overall Rating 20/20

This thing is a beast. I dubbed it the Yetti out of the box for all intents and purposes of playing on the name, X870 AORUS ELITE WIFI7 ICE. It’s super clean. The name definitely does it justice. I’m upgrading from an old R7 I’ve upgraded and maxed out completely but it’s time to retire old faithful. Albeit I don’t have all three parts yet for my build, I chose this mainly because of the look and WiFi 7 along with . I run a NAS setup for video and photo editing, 24 TB of storage and 4 TB of scratch. I use this to share files with my clients and do edits but lately I’ve been finding myself throttled by my old unit in terms of moving large projects around. I love that this future proofs my editing setup for the next 10 to 15 years with what I’m juicing it up. I don’t want to run Ethernet cables all over my home. I also am an AVID gamer on my downtime when I do have it so having something that can handle both large workloads and mid to high end gaming was a big factor for me too. I don’t like bottlenecking. I learned my lesson with some companies that love to keep you there on their systems with their very unique power supplies etc. and this is such a huge difference in terms of being limited. This motherboard is the foundation for your nest best friend in the game room, editing room, or both.

Wanted to upgrade. Kept with the gigabyte brand. Everything is good on it. But, if you need more than 2 USB 2.0 headers. Dont go this route. But other than that. Looks good with white builds 100 percent

Has always have a high standard on GBT MB but it never fail me. Love the produce especially ICE version.