Aorus B450 AORUS M (Socket AM4/B450/DDR4/S-ATA 600/Micro ATX)

I'm running this with a Ryzen 5 2600, 2x16GB sticks, an NVMe drive, a couple of SATA SSDs and a RX580 and performance and stability are absolutely rock solid.My choice of case limits me to mATX boards, and although there are quite a few out there, this was easily the best of the bunch for me. Having a board that's part of the Gigabyte family is worth the small premium above some others, and the quality of the board is great.I've not used the stock heatsink and have fitted a Noctua AM4 specific model, which requires removing the AM4 retention brackets (leaving the backplate in place), which was incredibly easy to do.The board layout is very easy to work with, and the additional heatsink covering the NVMe slot is great for cooling down toasty/fast drives.A cracking board all told and you'd be daft to pass this one as a choice.

I have only bought this motherboard because it was one of the cheap motherboards that I could purchase with a bundled M.2 heatsink on the motherboard. All I can say is that I am very happy with the motherboard!The heatsink helps a lot, dropping the usual 80°C temps to 50°C (temps may vary depending on case airflow).It was a bit wider than my old motherboard, albeit being still on a mATX platform, so people may have some spacing issues on certain cases, but it is truly a feature-packed motherboard for its price range.Paired with a Ryzen 7 2700X with a stock cooler, I think this won't be struggling under my usage anytime soon.

Needed a board to drive the 2700 however even for a matx board it is lacking advanced features to overclock the cpu. And I'm not talking about 5Ghz overclocking, just pushing it to just below the 2700x. However its not too big of a deal RGB fusion is okay, but is very limited, kind of disappointed with that too, more configuration with digital LED's is needed rather than just a small handful of presets.

Very easy to install and works great for my first build but the rgb sync software is terrible and I can barely customise the rgb but still a great product for the price

If you go for a smaller neater case as I did you need a smaller neater motherboard. This one was perfect and installed easily in my thermal micro case.

I bought this board to replace a faulty MSI board to use along with a RYZEN 5 2600, have to say everything works perfectly out of the box, this board has excellent overclocking options (if that's your thing) and the lighting looks cool, my only critique about the board is the lighting software is a bit of a pain to configure, but that's not a real problem.Has plenty of conveniently placed connections on the motherboard for USB, FANS, HDD ETC, which seem to have cable tidying in mind.

This is a great MB, It is only used with a 1600x but is compatible with Ryzen up to the 3950x. it has the RGB connector i needed where my husbands X470 doesn't and that's meant to be a gaming MB.

It doesn't have many rgb ports, except one 4pin rgb that inst compatible anywhere and is a aurous based problem, maybe get a corsair commander pro