Gigabyte B450 I Aorus Pro Wifi Itx Review

Manufacturer: Gigabyte

United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland price (every bit reviewed): £129.99 (inc. VAT)

US price (as reviewed): $119.99 (exc. tax)

While mini-ITX back up on the X470 chipset is sorely defective, nearly every motherboard manufacturer has something to offer when it comes to the cheaper B450 chipset, and Gigabyte's endeavor hither is the B450 I Aorus Pro WiFi. Immediately we're struck by a much more premium looking lath than the AB350N-Gaming WiFi, and indeed it sits under the Aorus brand rather than the more than budget-focussed Gaming series.

The board features a fairly lowly 4+two phase power delivery, and with fewer heatsinks than the B450 Aorus Pro, we're likely looking at a board that will go pretty toasty with an overclocked eight-core Ryzen CPU - more on that later. In that location are a few other niggles with the specifications as well that mean this is likely just going to entreatment to low budgets.

At that place's no USB three.1 Type-C port, merely a unmarried M.2 port, and the pair of fan headers are going to go out you wanting if you have an all-in-one liquid cooler with a header-powered pump, fans, and several case fans. In fact, we can support that claim by our need to fish out a fan splitter cable in order to power our AIO cooler and examination bench fans at the same time. You look fewer features on a mini-ITX motherboard, but we experience iii headers is a minimum for a typical mod PC.

The lack of these features contrasts others on the board, oddly. For example, you lot go a very snazzy Yard.2 heatsink, which shaved 9°C off the load temperature of our Samsung 960 Evo - not the biggest driblet nosotros've seen, but on mini-ITX boards the meridian-mounted K.two port is always in a cramped infinite between the DIMM slots and GPU so is rarely able to make use of any local or example airflow and maximise the benefits of the heatsink. The exception here is Asus' recent ROG Strix boards that have a raised Yard.two port, which does let for meliorate cooling. You also get Realtek ALC1220 audio - something Gigabyte seems great to push button with its mini-ITX boards despite the low toll, as the AB350N-Gaming WiFi had it too, rather than dipping down to cheaper and worse codecs.

The Yard.ii port, thankfully, has the full range of back up for the variety of SSDs out there and dishes out either PCIe iii.0 x4 or x2 bandwidth every bit well every bit supporting SATA 6Gbps M.2 SSDs, and beneath it is the unmarried 16x PCIe slot that features Gigabyte'due south Ultra Durable armour. Layout is pretty proficient too with all of the SATA ports located on the right side of the PCB, so there's no need to thread them effectually or over the DIMM slots similar there is on some mini-ITX boards.

RGB lighting is fairly restrained with the AB350N-Gaming WiFi with a row of LEDs under the right side of the PCB just cypher upwards top except a 3-pivot addressable header for your own RGB LED strips. In that location are also no overclocking or testing tools - y'all're left with just the standard two pins to articulate the CMOS.

There does seem to be something unbalanced about the features on the lath overall - the lowly power circuitry and pair of fan headers are in contrast not simply to top-notch ALC1220-VB audio, Intel Gigabit LAN, and an G.2 heatsink, only also a trio of video outputs too as onboard 802.11ac Wi-Fi, but information technology'due south clear that paired with something similar AMD'southward Ryzen 5 2400G APU and its included air cooler, the B450 I Aorus Pro WiFi will feel much more at home than it would in a high-cease mini-ITX gaming rig. Y'all also get a reasonable six Blazon-A USB ports in full, with the iv in addition to the 2 red USB 3.1 ports all being USB 3.0. The but other gripe nosotros have is the gear up of audio outputs, which lack optical back up and will also crave the utilise of the onboard sound header to provide enough ports to power vii.1-channel speaker systems.

Specifications

• Chipset AMD B450
• Grade factor Mini-ITX
• CPU support AMD Socket AM4
• Retentiveness support Dual-channel, two slots, max 32GB
• Sound Viii-channel Realtek ALC 1220-VB
• Networking 1x Intel Gigabit Ethernet, 802.11ac Wi-Fi, Bluetooth v
• Ports 1x M.2 PCIe 3.0 x4 32Gbps/SATA 6Gbps (up to 2280), 4 10 SATA 6Gbps, 2 x USB 3.1 Type-A, 6 x USB 3.0 (2 via headers), 1 x LAN, audio out, line in, mic,
• Dimensions (mm)170 ten 170
• Extras Magnetic Wi-Fi aerial

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