mobo PCB Breakdown: X670 Aorus Elite AX 

Thank you for releasing these in-depth, informative videos like no one else while not selling out and even giving me motherboard advice a few years ago when I spontaneously wrote to you, KUTGW kind soul!

Turns out this is one of the best options. Some of the best ram speed results as per framechasers (although he hasn't released a full video yet)

I hope B650 Aorus Elite will live up to expectations. B550 one was quite a nice board considering its price.

I get a kick out of the dual 8pin power connectors too. It's like having a bigger fuel pump when the injectors are too small to use it. But yeah, it looks cool! It's rather nice they're putting overkill VRMs on the budget boards, but I don't like how they completely gut the overall feature set otherwise. Why not tame down the VRMs a little and give a better I/O setup and a modern audio codec? I totally agree on the cooling design for VRMs. I figure most people who are running a high end setup are going to be water cooling, which means there will be little airflow around the VRM sinks to extract the heat from the dense stacks. They'd be better off with the overkill VRM and extruded heatsinks like this than the fancy fin stacks. Tells me it all more for style than function, wasting money while passing the buck to us.

You'd get all of the bandwidth out of a 10G card on PCIe 3.0 2x link, that is still 2GB/s. Most stuff that has 4x lanes would probably be fine as long as they did also support PCIe 3.0 a lot of add-in cards use more PCIe lanes than necessary just due to an assumption that someone might want to install it on some really old system with PCIe 2.0 or something.

it might be $290 but it does seem really well engineered, thank you for this!

Pretty nice board... It may be double than what id pay for a new board but its really good. This amount of USB Ports should be standard on all boards! Makes me hope that B650 boards will also have some fancy upgrades and wont just be basically B550 PCBs with a B650 Chipset and an AM5 Socket slapped on.

These breakdowns are my favorite videos you do.

Onboard Wifi/Bluetooth can stop working, or you can break the antenna connectors. It happened to my B450 ITX this year outside of warranty. Having the option to use a Wifi PCIE card is still important even if you have one.

I just bought this board not too long ago and this review made me feel a lot better about my decision of buying it over other more expensive boards. Thank you!

I went ahead and placed an order for this board a few days ago after looking at your other video of the x670 aorus extreme. I looked at the pictures and they looked very similar. Thanks for the very informative videos.

1x PCI-E 4 is enough for 10Gbit ethernet at half duplex. 1 PCI-E 4 lane is 1.94 GB/s and 10Gbps is 1.25 GB/s. The remaining 0.69 accounts for all the communication slack. 2x can be for full duplex. Or x4 as you said if you are on PCI-E 3. So the 2x is for full duplex 10Gbit, but can be for half duplex if the card is PCI-E 3. It could also be for what you rejected initially. Capture cards are 4x PCI-E 3. If you make them PCI-E 4 then by 2 is enough for 4k/60 HDR or 4k/120, and if done well even for 8k/60 with >1:10 compression (7680x * 4320y * 40bpp * 60fps).

Hopefully someone sends you an ITX board to look at. Always love your motherboard breakdowns

The reduction in SATA ports is AMD not having CPU dedicated SATA ports, so now they all have to come from the chipset and 2 SATA ports pulls 2 PCI-E lanes, so more SATA is less M.2 and we all know how much MB makers love M.2 slots.

The last slot would be perfect for a sound card. I have a AE 9 and that slot would be perfect for it along with my 4090 GPU in the top slot.

gonna wait for the b650 motherboards, but doesn't seem like they're that much cheaper =(

With how many M.2 slots AM5 have now, you'd think that there'd be more stuff you can plug into the connector asides from SSDs and the odd wifi card...

Had no idea if this would be a good board when I bought it, looks like I lucked out.

a 10Gbe card would work just fine on the 3x2 slot, alternatively you could slot an additional usb g2 card in there, or just a big usb card in general, sometimes you need this for complex VR tracking setups. You could also just slot another m.2 drive in there if you want, or SATA/SAS, after all this board's definitely designed for big data users...

PCI-e x2 v3 would still give you 16 Gbps per direction, so it would be enough for a 10Gbps NIC - Though it would end up struggling if you used 2 ports...

no SPDIF port GTF gigabyte...

One of the whole reasons for X670 is more connectivity. Any mfgr that creates an X670 mobo with only 4 sata ports should be hung upside down in the town square. What a joke.

Any idea how many LEDs are on this board? OpenRGB thinks there are some, I guess around the VRMs and wants to know the number of LEDs to get them working....other than this, ya this board is just fine! Enjoying my new system, except my keyboard (K70) doesn't work until Windows is loaded...not sure how to fix that.

I usually get a basic board 75Us cheap memory, no overclocking here allocate all the money to the GPU game higher than 1440p strictly gaming and internet machine.

600 bucks in Australia

Sending mine back. It's a brick. Won't recognize my Vengeance or Dominator Corsair AM. Halts with a Red RAM error ligth and won't post, beep, or display video. WOrse, I tried to Qflash upgrade the bios on it using a USB stick and GIGABYTE.BIN file and pressing the Qflash button with PSU connect and powered on. Nothing. USBstick will light up brieflyt hen nothing, no reads or writes for 5 minutes. Either I got a dud or this was a bad recommendation.

I can tell you what that PCIe slot is for, is a sound card. Most people probably don't care, but I have 5.1 surround and most motherboards under $400 don't have the quality or audio jacks.

Are you planning on doing a PCB breakdown of the LE A770, they claim the 228w core max PL is set because of the vrm, interested in hearing your thoughts

thee whole gigabyte MB line up is appalling, and they not selling.... you cant make atx form factor without aa second pcie slot wired at x8.... you simply cant... and you cant pretend to sell it with a x670 or x670E sticker on them... these are below b550 standard motherboards.

The rear I/O of this Elite isn't too different from its X570 ancestor, 2 more 5gig usb ports and a rear type C port with a 2.5 Lan instead of 1gig Lan...and the Qflash has been moved from the bottom of the PCB to the rear I/O For what it was I thought the x570 aorus elite was a great board

Great Video Thank You! Just bought one, They think they are saving money by not including a manual, Now people have problems and just ship them back, They are stupid! I bet it changes soon! 219.00

Great video, but could I ask what to do if the PBO setting doesn't listen to me? If I set the PPT to 480W, the processor still takes 108W max and its temperature doesn't exceed 77 degrees. I don't understand why it does this. I have the max for temperature set at 85 degrees. Thank you all in advance for any help and answers.

7:48 I think most people use SAS HBA cards for hard drive expansion and those are generally, if not always, at least PCIe x4.

have a little troubleshoot question...maybe someone can help me... on startup all 4 LED turn on 1by1 for 1-2 seconds but the VGA LED stay on for like 10 seconds...after windows loads all LED are off and system works normaly... also i'm not sure if the CPU LED turns on or the cycle starts with DRAM LED followed by VGA and BOOT LED...also all fans go wild for few seconds and MB beeps twice before the windows loads

I'd imagine the bottom pci-e slot is for a sound card for audiophiles.

Has anyone gotten this MB to boot properly with DDR5 and memory training? They also have a lot of trouble doing "restarts" I've gone through 3 RAM kits and they all do the same thing so I"m pretty sure its MB thing.

Usb, sata controllers and other peripheral expansion cards in that bottom slot. Not much consumer demand for them but what I tend to use extra slots for. There are very good reason to have "known good" usb controller chips as cheap as media controllers are incompatible with quite a few high performance usb devices like oculus rift cameras etc.

To me there is no such thing as over kill on a motherboard because some person that designs M. B.s isn't overkill having redundancy is always great for me because it can come in quite handy if needed, I like having it just in case something goes wrong just my thoughts on that not a make it or break it just something could come in handy . break break it I

Lol I’d put my IDE card in that x2 3.0 slot

Upon setting this board up did you have any issues with the Bios? Did you need to flash the bios at all? Where there any quirks that you could see?

Does anybody have any friggin clue how to get that massive norhtbridge/southbridge heat sink off to get to the CMOS battery underneath ????The CMOS battery is in the bottom right corner, but there is a massive passive black heat sink over everything including hte CMOS battery holder.

Hello mate, i have x670 gaming X AX it;s almoust the same as the one you pressent here :D by any chanse do you know what size (dimmensions) of the thermal pads used on the chipset !? the stock one's are diving me crazy i have 70 degrees in idle temperatures while the rest of the parts are "feezeing" ...cpu 35 degrees ( 7800x3d ) gpu 40 also in idle ...airflow it;s more than decent and i just want to try to replace the thermal pads but I CAN'T FIND THE PROPER ONES NO WHERE ! they are like sand with sparkes in it :D and the size it;s just beyond me ! thx so much in advance !

Boards this gen have heartburn inducing prices.

i love seeing over kill vrm's

I have an RM9652 audio card that is PCI and I can plug that into a PCIe adapter and run it into that PCIe 3 slot. So that's one use for it

I have the Revised version of this board on my new build and it's horrible. Keeps rebooting no matter what bios version I use, all to no avail. Not sure if it's the MB itself or a conflict with memory or what. There is some kind of cover over the CMOS on my revision and I wanted to remove the battery itself since the clear CMOS but isn't helping despite clearing in theory....Frustrating.

Thanks

I bought this board, revision 1.0 and my MSi 40670 Ventus 3x comes wednesday. Going to build this saturday and put in a Ryzen 9 7950X3D. I'm not well versed in PC builds but can you tell me what is the drama surrounding this board and BIOS updates? I want to make sure I can fully utilize it but not sure what i should do concerning the BIOS

11:00 doesn't it reduce heat inside the cable by running two in parallel? Like yeah one cable can do up to 400W, but it will also dissipate some of that as heat, if you divide it into two cables, it's much better isn't it? Like even if it doesn't even come close to maximum operating parameters, it still can't be fully safe to have a cpu cable cycle up to god knows how many degrees of heat and then cool down

Today im getting a DDR4 Corsair kit 3600 CL16. Any ideas on how far i might be able to push it? Ill see what typhoon says but it might be Micron Rev.E

But the RAM speed decrease when using all 4 slots though, Buildzoid? How big of a decrease can we expect/can you see?

@Actually Hardcore Overclocking I have this board and the bios wont flash/update. Anyone updated a bios on one of the boards? the bios flash utility reads the bios on the thumb drive then says, bios ism protected by secure flash, it is going to reboot. it reboots and hangs up. I have to hold in the power button till it shuts down. No up date. I want to turn off secure flash.

Please , also ASRock x670e steel legend and the Asus x670e TUF gaming. Especially component quality and Design practicality. Not only VRM. Thanks 🙏🏾

Please stop making apologies for the motherboard manufacturers nickle-and-diming us for features like USB-C that should be eponymous. Considering that X370 boards shipped with a single USB-C rear port 3 generations and over half a decade ago, the fact that any AM5 boards ship with less than two is inexcusable levels of bullshit. But hey, I guess that completely unnecessary extra EPS12V 8-pin connectors and completely unnecessarily overbuilt VRMs eat into the BOM cost far too much for manufacturers to add basic connectivity that would be far more useful to users.

On board audio from this board is complete trash

Am I alone in thinking that I want PCIE 5.0 x16 for future GPUs? Only X670E and B650E support this. With MCM GPUs dawning and with Storage IO now supporting GPU decryption, I feel like PCIE 5.0 will be needed within the next 6yr. And, lower end cards may be only x8 PCIE lanes, like some of the RX 6000 cards where PCIE 3.0 x8 bottlenecks some of the PCIE 4.0 x8 cards. What if the 8600 XT is only PCIE 5.0 x8 and is bottlenecked by PCIE 4.0? I also want 2x USB-C 20Gbps. Only X670 and X670E provide this. Adding a second 20Gbps port via a PCIE x4 card will cost $55. So, if X670E is only $50-$60 more than a B650, you’d gain a PCIE slot and reduce hassle. IO is a big deal in the longevity of a system. Basically, I think X670E is the way to go.

Am I looking for 670 board, nope. Do I miss buildzoid rambling about things I barely understand, yup.

So how do you feel about AM5 board prices? Given what these boards offer/feature, do they seem somewhat reasonable?

I see that the X670E Aorus Master uses the same 16+2+2 VRM configuration. I wonder if the Master offers more in terms of electrical benefits.

Heatsink fin density, compare with hair/fur. This is why dogs shed in summer. =) Also, what do you think of the RX 4000 power connectors? I can't wait for the first RX 4000 autopsy. 😁

Apaq capacitors in a 300$ mobo now is ok... the overall quality of this is so poor for the price tag. Even the mosfets, 70A... again in a 300$ product when for this price last gen comes with 95-105A. And I think i have not seen a lower number of capacitors in total in a mobo in a long time.

GIGABYTE H510M S2H rev1.0 vs GIGABYTE H510M S2H v2 rev1.0 vs GIGABYTE H510M S2 rev1.0?

I have this board. Thanks 🙏

Can You make a 64 Gb ram overclocking on ASUS and 7000 series please?!..i would like very much to know performance benefits above 6000 Mhz and what limit u can reach stable..(if anywhere close to 7200Mhz)..it is not only for seeing Hinyx memory capabilities (eg corsair 5600Mhz kits), but frankly if worth skipping x670Eand 7000 series altogether and see ifZEN5 will bring more reasonable performance uplift bandwidth wise. Sorry to ask but to me DDR5 32 and 64 Gb is equivalent to DDR4 16 and 32 Gb and 16 Gb on these platforms is literally wasted money, one should rather grab some laptop and forget about memory overclocking altogether. Nothing to say if you wish to do extreme memory overlocking with 1 Gb for some whatever record you would like to go for. Anyhow long story short, nobody has said anything about memory overlocking limitations on AM5..... hope you do this soon and thanks for when you will.

Have you ever done a walk through like this of the Tuf gaming x570 plus wifi 6 mobo I wanna learn more about my current mobo

Surprised you knew so much about the caps. Usually when i watch these types of things its just rattling off keywords, but you talk about it like an actual engineer lol

So would you use two or four DDR5 sticks?

these x670e boards are loaded with USB ports. NICE. Would they overload the 24 pin atx connector though?

Digital Audio card for the 2x 3x slot artt the bottom, onboards doesnt have Optical.

Is it normal for PCH chips to run really hot? Enough that you can't put your finger on the heatsink for more than 15 seconds, it's what I experienced with Asus x670e.

bz have you ever done anything with the 980 Ti KPE that had a fucked core?

Jufes got one of these and his 7950x up to 5.5 ghz - 2133 on the fclock 55ns ram 6400mhz.

Hello, I'm looking to upgrade my PC sometime soon. Just wanted your opinion if I was to get a 13900k or a 7950x which motherboards would you recommend for either?

At gen3 x2 you can support a 10gbe link but practically you'd have to buy an x8 lane 2 or 4 x 10gbe card. To get ur one functional port. I doubt anyone's doing that. I still like having extra slots. Just in principle. They arent very useful.

Anyone know what a TWIN 16+2+1 mean on the z670 elite Ax?

I would fully expect for motherboard that expensive to have even more stuff. I get that you don't pay for that stuff, but some of us do.

This motherboard ok or not..?😅

Why always dollars if you live in the uk bro ?

Gigabyte X670 Aorus Elite AX or ROG STRIX B650E-F GAMING WIFI?

Looking to recommend a new mobo for my BF, gonna love when Buildzoid make a video on all x670 and x670e boards.

Thanks kermit :)

FINALLY 3 physical x16 slots! Hooray!

What kind of luck have you had with RAM speed with 4 DIMMs?

interesting, I thought it have only 1 chipset, but there I see 2 chips.

please review assus tuf x670e motherboard

Where is the x670 MSI Pro board review

I am between this and the ASUS Strix B650E-F Gaming WIFI. I would buy this one, but with only 2 SATA ports i don't know 🤔

Sold

will there be a x670 vrm roundup in the future?

Looking for a tower compatible with gigabyte x670 aorus elite ax

I just want a board that has two x8 slots (4.0 or 5.0) hardwired. Is there such a thing? It seems that anything going forward is going to require an expensive switch chip to get double x8.

What's up with the 7950x max RAM speed? 1x1R 5200 MT/s 1x2R 5200 MT/s 2x1R 3600 MT/s 2x2R 3600 MT/s That means if I buy a kit of 2x5200 MT/s I can't add another kit and run it at 5200 MT/s? Thanks

So, yeah, ehm xD

Should test asus x670e hero seems a really good bored

This board has some good deals going on it and it seems to be all the board anyone would want.

Unless Gigabyte will release a Rev 1.1 with the updated Intel I226-V LAN Chip I am afraid to buy a I225-V as people in different forums are posting about issues even with the latest B3 revision. Was looking forward to get the B650E Aorus Master but as I noticed that it also comes with the old I225-V (SLNMH - B3) chip I was kind of disappointed..

Very informative, thanks

Asus 670e Crosshair hero one day👀

You can use a Soundcard at the 2 Lanes Port

I dont remember if you ever talked about the ram slots being thru board compared to surface mount , is one better then another , or doesnt it matter ? tia