I cannot use it with the Thermaltake case because the backplate of the board interferes with the mini-ITX brackets.
Bought this to go with my 3900X and works great. Rear I/O is fine (although not sure why we need HDMI & DP ports on this sort of board) and headers on the board itself are all in sane places (actually pretty much matched my previous ASUS board which made using my custom cables easy!). Feels nice and sturdy too with the backplate.
I have had this board for nearly 5 weeks and have only just got it working properly. I have been in contact with Gigabyte support regarding overvoltage of the memory supply, which they have confirmed affects their board too, so its pretty safe to assume it affects all boards of this model/revision. This board sets vTT to 1/2 of expected vDDR value, not 1/2 of its reported vDDR value. This means vTT gets pushed more and more out of spec the higher you adjust vDDR when using "Auto" for vTT. the solution is simple, set it in the first instance manually to half the reported value of vDDR, and tune it down slightly from there. This will get your memory stability back and sorted out my no post issues with (stable) high memory speeds. The problem is Gigabyte support take 5 to 7 days to reply to questions. This simple solution, requiring only 2 responses from Gigabyte for me to figure out took almost 3 weeks and had me pulling my hair out in frustration at random no posts and cmos resets the whole time.Now the board is running well, its super stable and the VRM runs cool. Chipset temps are not good, neither are ssd temps, but they're within acceptable ranges. Ultimately what this board offers over the MSI B450i is BIOS Flashback, PCIE4, a second m.2, aRGB and the ability to run a 12 or 16 core with the VRM a bit cooler. I personally think that's worth 100 extra over the best of the B450 ITX boards as long as it doesn't take 5 weeks to get it running with the same components at matching speed. They really need to speed up response times for support as no matter how good the board is this really hurts the end user experience. Would've been 9/10 if not for this.
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