Which Motherboard would you recommend from this two?

[Antera]

Gigabyte X670 AORUS ELITE AX (rev. 1.0)

Or

Asus ROG STRIX X670E-E GAMING WIFI ?

I am open to other suggestions.
Here is what I am building [pcpartpicker.com]

[Antera]

Messaggio originale di Wynters:

Never Gigabyte.

Why?

[Jamebonds1]

Messaggio originale di Antera:

Messaggio originale di Wynters:

Never Gigabyte.

Why?

There is nothing wrong. I have three motherboards and they are all reliable.

[Azza ☠]

Both are fine...

I personally like ASUS ROG motherboards better, but with the later models you need to be aware of the BIOS injection forcing software into your Windows OS, called ASUS Armoury Crate, ASUS AI Suite, and it's AI auto-overclocking.

Under it's BIOS, you can set both to disabled. Then I would also suggest setting the RAM to it's optimized XMP profile, rather than AUTO.

If you don't disable ASUS Armoury Crate, etc, under the BIOS, when you load into Windows each time, it will try to install that software and automatically run it. Even if you uninstall it from Windows, the BIOS when enabled, will reinstall it next time. It's quite annoying for those unaware of that. Then it goes about doing a bunch of AI features, some can be helpful, like clearing up your microphone audio to voice only via AI, no background noise... yet most of it is overclocking your CPU, RAM, etc, and figuring out that by itself.

I personally like my own stable manual settings, which don't just change on you each time you boot up the PC.

Anyone hating upon newer ASUS ROG motherboards is likely encountering this annoyance.

[Drystoner]

Remember to update the BIOS. I've been reading comments about people being unable to boot because it's not updated out the box.

[Jamebonds1]

Messaggio originale di Drystoner:

Remember to update the BIOS. I've been reading comments about people being unable to boot because it's not updated out the box.

Highly unlikely an issue will occur out of the box.

[r.linder]

Depends on manufacturing date of the motherboard.

For AM4, most of the boards on the shelf by now will be updated for the majority of CPUs, could realistically only be out of date for X3D CPUs.

[Viking2121]

I hate both Gigabye and Asus, and I've delt with both their RMA's, Asus probably worse than Gigabyte, they will actively try to find a way out of an RMA service.

If I only had to choose between them 2, I'd probably go Asus only because Gigabyte has always felt cheap to me, and my past experience was, they are cheap even on their high end stuff, een their recent GPU's use a crappy PCB materiel's such as their 4090's, and the attitude they threw when their PUS where garbage, idk man... I don't like companies who do stuff like that, no matter how long ago it was, they just taint their brand, Asus is guilty of this as well, just look up Asus x99 OC sockets boards killing haswell and boardwell chips and how Asus went about the entire thing.

[r.linder]

These days MSI is probably the best bet for motherboards

[Viking2121]

Messaggio originale di 尺．し工几ᗪヨ尺:

These days MSI is probably the best bet for motherboards

Yeah I got a MSI b550 MAG Gaming Plus for a spare when my Asus x570 board PCIE lever was stuck, a known flaw with the x570 Tuff, go figure, thought there my be a day where I got to get really aggressive with it to remove a GPU so yeah lol.

Played around with my MSI board, pretty decent little board honestly, It even worked with the R5 1600 out of the box despite it not being on the CPU support page which is cool.

[r.linder]

Messaggio originale di Viking2121:

Messaggio originale di 尺．し工几ᗪヨ尺:

These days MSI is probably the best bet for motherboards

Yeah I got a MSI b550 MAG Gaming Plus for a spare when my Asus x570 board PCIE lever was stuck, a known flaw with the x570 Tuff, go figure, thought there my be a day where I got to get really aggressive with it to remove a GPU so yeah lol.

Played around with my MSI board, pretty decent little board honestly, It even worked with the R5 1600 out of the box despite it not being on the CPU support page which is cool.

Z490 Tomahawk is nice as well

[Drystoner]

Messaggio originale di Jamebonds1:

Messaggio originale di Drystoner:

Remember to update the BIOS. I've been reading comments about people being unable to boot because it's not updated out the box.

Highly unlikely an issue will occur out of the box.

It was reviews from x3D chip owners. I bought a 7800x3D so I'll be putting a flash on USB to be safe.

[Ralf]

Messaggio originale di Drystoner:

Remember to update the BIOS. I've been reading comments about people being unable to boot because it's not updated out the box.

Be careful about updating the Bios to the latest.

I've been reading comments about people being unable to boot because latest bios doesn't recognize the m.2 drives anymore. MSI mod advises to wait for new Bios and avoid WD and Samsung drives if the problem persists, Asrock has the same problem.