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GIGABYTE H410M H (rev. 1.0)?
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I have used Gigabyte MOBO's on my last 14 PC builds and this is the 1st DOA. After reading reading reviews I noticed I'm not the only one that has had this issue... Do NOT buy this one!

Update 1: Someone should write in huge letters this mobo requires windows 10. wasted an entire weekend. Never heard back from tech support. Finally got it set up after building an entirely new system around it. Finally heard back from tech support a week later and they were clueless.
So, PSA. This motherboard requires windows 10.
Windows 7 = no.
Windows 10 = yes.
7, no.
10, yes.
10, not 7. 7 won't work.
Historical:
Short version. Got it all installed. Windows 7 boots, USB promptly quits. Can't get any further. Wasted 9 hours trying every combination. None of the bios tweaks for USB helped. Using windows 7 Pro. Does this motherboard require windows 10? Wish there was more readily available tech support available. Says wait is 4 days from manufacturer.

The Aorus Elite, according to a lot of tech reviewers, has the best VRM you're going to find sub $200. It can handle a 3950X with ease while still remaining pretty cool while doing it. So that was a big selling point for me.
So, instead of rambling, I'll just list pros and cons now.
Pros:
1) Top notch VRM (at least for the $200 price range).
2) Good Audio codec
3) Intel LAN (considered higher quality than RealTek)
4) USB Type C support (if you have a type C port on front of your case, you're good to go).
5) Two M.2 slots
6) Comes with "G Connector". I believe Gigabyte invented this and others have copied. It is a massive time saver when building the system.
7) Has addressable RGB headers.
Cons:
1) Only 4 total fan headers (including CPU). So this means 1 CPU fan, and 3 case fans. If you're running more than 3 case fans, you're going to have to daisy chain them yourself or buy a case with its own fan controller. You have been warned.
2) Only one of the M.2 slots has a heatsink. For the other one, you'll have to bring your own or just run it naked.
3) The board doesn't have much RGB bling going on. (It has RGB headers, but very little RGB on the board itself).
4) While it has Intel LAN, it is only 1 GiB. These days 2.5 should be the minimum, although to be fair, it's rare you'll find it on any board in this price range.
5) No debugging LED's whatsoever. IF you have a problem booting, you're flying blind.
6) No Clear CMOS button. If your OC fails to POST, you're going to have to short the jumpers 1990's style.
In the past, you could get a lot more features than this for $200. I don't know what happened in the past several years, but all motherboard manufacturers have begun gating basic features (like POST code LED's) to $300+ boards. It is BS, but it's what we have to deal with now.
But as for this board, I have no complaints. Between this and the MSI Tomahawk or the ASRock Steel Legend, it's a toss up. They are all 3 good and have different feature sets (this board has features those don't, while those have features this doesn't). Just compare them all and see which features suit your use case scenario best. But at least for VRM's you won't find a better board for $200.

On to the product itself, it looks nice, runs nice - has an easy BIOS Flash method. and is running the AMD 3900X at full capacity right now. Features are great for a low-end priced X570 board. Audio sounds great through this. Everything went pretty smooth.
A few issues are that either the Bios setting in memory or the APP program itself is not holding the proper memory speed settings or is being reported incorrectly. I am hoping another new Bios will fix this...
...and one of the mounts where the M.2 drive goes snapped right off the board when I was unscrewing it. Obvious factory defect. So I had to move my M.2 drive to the secondary location further down...
Looking forward to this hopefully running for many years to come....

I contacted amazon and got a new board for free, which was generous...but wouldnβt you believe... THE SAME ISSUE.




Pros:
This was my first time full-build. The motherboard comes with a great set of instructions, and i was able to build my PC following the manual. No issues with plugs, or arrangement, everything fit just fine.
Its a very good looking board, there's plenty of options to go ham with RGB, but i chose to do an all black no RGB build, and it still looks very sharp with this board.
The uEFI interface is easy to use, comes with a easy mode for newbies like me, as well as an advanced mode that lets you customize pretty much everything.
Cons
I had a compatibility issue with my SSD. Its a brand new SSD, but I installed windows on this SSD using my old computer (a circa 2014 Dell). Apparently there is an issue that if you set up a drive using an older BIOS computer it is not compatible with uEFI systems, such as this motherboard (MBR format vs GPT format). My research told me that it should be as simple as just telling my motherboard to boot in legacy mode, however i tried every possible setting on this board and nothing let me boot up the MBR formatted drive. I had to wipe the drive clean, delete the partition, and format it as GPT and reinstall windows. Wasn't a big deal since all i ended up wiping was a fresh install of windows 10. But if you plan on running windows from an old drive, or a new drive setup using an older computer, do your homework.

Drives all work in my other computer, or in a USB enclosure with my laptop so its clearly the motherboard causing the issues.
Thankfully Amazon is great about returns but I'm not trusting Gigabyte again, I've read too many similar issues online about DOA boards and BIOS issues with these .

This motherboard is simply laid out, well labeled, stable, and has everything you could need. RGB's are PLENTY on this board. You could light up the entire block with RGB's on this thing.
The BIOS is beyond simple and the setup was painless. GET IT.

I had not built a PC in years and it took some time to find and identify what some things were for. The instructions are very informative and helped out. I thought at first I was missing the second support and screw for the second m.2 but I found it, The MB has a nice clip for your front panel audio and switched to clip into before connecting to the MB to make things easier.
I placed the order on 12-1-2019 and on 9-9-2020 the computer died. A quick Google search has led me to think its either the Power Supply or the MB. My screen went black and I lost sound while watching a video on Youtube. The MB LED lights stayed on and the fans kept spinning. I reset using the reset switch and the power switch but got no result so I pulled the plug for a few minutes. Now when I turn it on I get a white flash behind the I/O area, Had that when I first turned it on and thought that it was a LED flashing, and the fans spin but no image and the mouse and keyboard have no power. I'm waitin to hear back from Gigabyte Tech Support but fear I may have to buy a new MB and Power Supply.
Update 11-17-2020
Gigabyte says it tests ok and will be sending it back. I'll see if I did something wrong when it gets to me. I had to call customer service because I was afraid I had missed a E-Mail, the Customer Support web site has a "Ask a question feature" Even with covid my total phone call time was only 9 minutes and the answer from teh support question gave me the option on the phone tree. Very helpful.
Update 12-15-2020
I received the other RMA parts and the MB is fine. As it turns out the Power Supply had gone bad. I could only test it on PCs with 4 pin CPU connectors and they booted fine. I Very much thank Gigabyte for testing the MB.
I do wish the MB had 1 or 2 more fan headers.

There are some caveats...
- Boot time is slower than my older ASRock Z97 board even in Ultra Fast boot mode (next step in going to turn off the splash/logo screen...may also try putting windows boot drive first to see if BIOS is holding on the BluRay drive and taking extra time there).
- As some others have mentioned, spamming DEL key to get into BIOS will clear your settings... definitely save a profile with your settings just in case.
- Only 2 USB 2.0 headers in 2020 seems a bit light considering all of the RGB fans with USB connection support.
- Only 2 sys fan headers is a bummer, but the cpu_opt header can also be used as a 3rd without issue from what I can tell.
Haven't used M.2 or NVMe features...or PCIe4.0 (just 3.0 graphics card)...so can't comment on that.
All of that in mind, it is really a solid, stable, and good looking board. Boards with similar features and less of the caveats are often $100 more, so for the value minded (like me) the sacrifice is often worth it.

On top of all of that, I found a small glob of thermal paste on the CPU mount, which shows that someone already installed a CPU, and used this motherboard.
I had great hopes for this motherboard, and would really like to have tried it out, but I am sending back this obviously used product.
Other than that, it looks like it would be a great motherboard at a good price. The build quality looks good, and felt solid. The heat sinks look beefy, and great for helping to keep the chipset and CPU cool. It has all of the connectors I need, and a nice looking design. I especially like the industrial design, and printing of the M2 heat sink. I do not know how it works as I didn't hook it up, or turn it on.
I wish it had been a new, and unused motherboard, as now my entire build is in jeopardy, and I don't have a way of testing the other parts for the build, as I am switching over from Intel to an AMD CPU.

Good luck trying to use NVMe drives and Sata drives at the same time without the Sata drives completely disappearing and becoming inrecognizable by the entire system.
If you use just an NVME drive, though, and only get and install your drivers individually without trying to use their "App Center" software, the board is decent.

I'm not looking to overclock, just for stability, and reliability.
I did take off one Star, for SATA plugs that stick out the side. I spent forever trying to get them (5) all in. So install your SATA cables before you screw down your board. Other than that, everything was labeled and straight forward. Nice, now that most things are more standardized. Plenty of USB options, too. CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X My first AMD in 20 years.

a slot for a tv tuner card i am a big gigabyte fan have been since my f2a885x-d3h motherboard with my a series 6600k dual core board worked good there tough it was struck when lightning hit our house and it still worked after i jumped it after taking out the battery only thing wrong with the pc was a burnt port on power supply. nothing i used it for still ran gigabyte boards are rugged and tough i used to be an asus fan boy but lost trust in them i will continue to support gigabyte my next laptop will be a gigabyte when i get the money soon can't go wrong with a gigabyte product. i have gigabyte almost everything in my new build power supply and board tried to get a video card but will buy again.

The only reason I'm not giving this 5 star is because it doesn't actually have a headphone amp, I spent some time trying to figure out why my realtek audio controls didn't have the smart amp configuration option and eventually discovered that it didn't have an amp, I think this is only for pro+ versions (I'm not 100% on that). before I ordered it, I'd been comparing all the aorus x570 motherboards and had read about the headphone amp on one of the others and seen the elite also had the amp-up chip on it and just took that to mean it also had the headphone amp. Not a huge issue but I feel like that should've been made a little more clear.

- The Dual Channel feature is half faulty (A1 and B1) - XMP does not work in these slots, but it does with the other 2 slots (A2 and B2).
- I have compatible ram according to the RAM manufacturers site: G.Skill RAM Configurator
G.Skill Trident Z F4-3600C18D-64GTZR (2x32GB 3600MHz 18-22-22-42)
- I troubleshot this issue with 4 separate sticks of RAM tested one at a time in each ram slot to rule out the RAM being the problem. XMP worked on all ram sticks when placed in slots A2 and B2, while the XMP didn't work for any of them in slots A1 and B1.
- This board appears to have a lot of RAM issues even for those that don't have faulty channels. I found this out when trying to troubleshoot XMP problems. Even people who tried the latest beta bios (F31l) did not find any resolution to their RAM issues.
Problem 2
- It is nice that the board has a stylish m.2 heatsink, but mine arrived with a broken screw with the shaft stuck in the mounting post and the head broken off from the post but still connected to the heatsink (see photo).


the refund is swift So I Think You Can Trust This Seller



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