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1.0 out of 5 starsReally bad QC
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 24 January 2023
I've had Gigabyte in the past a few times (x570 Master, I have 2 currently and one had to go back due to a fault with corruption to m.2 drives)
fast forward to now and I stupidly go, x670e can't be that bad.
I'm just going to bullet point the problems lol
* USB Dropouts with USB mic connected
* Slow USB input (keyboard) stickly keys
* Cold boot issues with not starting
* Overwrote DDR5 EXPO profile on corsair memory (profile reads 4.1 volts, and timings are all worse than previously, I tried this memory over the original ddr5 modules i got that were XMP, thinking it was a memory issue)
* M.2 slot closest to CPU (top), only ran at half speed, x2 instead of x4 for PCIE4.0 and x1 for PCIE3.0, one PCIE3.0 didn't even allow boot in this slot
* Pretty sure it killed a PCIE 10gig nic, as it no longer worked in the second pcie slot (though considering the above, maybe the slot just stopped working?)
I do have alot of M.2's a 4090 and alot of USB devices but - not more than the ports on the board.
all of the above remained the same regardless of Bios version installed.
I got a replacement same day once RMA/Refund was approved for the gigabyte with an MSI x670e Carbon and that was DOA (my luck), I started to think the problem was other hardware at this point, though still worked in the Gigabyte (with the above issues still)
Followed with a Asus 670e Crosshair Hero, installed all the same CPU/Memory/GPU/Storage/USB Devices and PSU) Worked right away with zero issues from what I can tell in the short time I've had it.
I certainly will not be buying any gigabyte motherboards, or PSU :D in the near future.