Given the cooling demands of the new generation of CPUs, I doubt many low profile coolers will be sufficient unless there is some major undervolting going on. I feel you pain though, especially with the in built GPU.

@@donaldwindland you can power limit the new zen 4 chips and still get 95%+ of the performance with much less power draw and heat output.

Also a looooong time itx pc builder ……. The lack of rear USB ports is getting ridiculous considering the price and what these newer chipsets are capable of!

@@michaelthompson9798 damn not wrong… usb keyboard mouse headphones and bam how many left??

​@@michaelthompson9798 And most cases offer one if that.

If you're going to build in the nr200 it will also fit some smaller micro atx motherboards, I just but a gigabyte b365m ds3h in mine last night, power supply will have to be front mounted though

Hi, coincidentally I am also building in the nr200 with this board. I was looking for some videos on this because for the life of me I cant find the hd audio connector on the board. Is there any chance you remember where/how to connect hd audio? totally understand if not

Yeah, I want a raid 0 gaming drive

How many of the three m.2 are pci 5.0 ? .. I think it is just the first slot .. I just spent $500 on a 4tb Crucial nvme gen 5 drive

@@samm928 just one is 5.0. I'm finding that to be the case with most boards that have 5.0 m.2 slots.

As long as there are PC marks that are stupid enough to pay for it, they will continue. Even Nvidia or AMD see how regardless of their overpriced GPU's, most of which are horribly priced, there are enough framerate queens/framerate simps, who have more money than sense that will pay it regardless. Same reasons why Car dealerships can charge 100% over sticker for cars. Honda Civic Type-R is $100,000 USD over here. $60,000 above sticker and they sell them. for a CIVIC. If you have the money to waste, then what difference does it make to them?

@@Snafu2346 anyone who spends $100k on a Civic is a effin moron.

@@Snafu2346 I make enough money not to care. Even if videocards were $10,000 or $20,000 I wouldn't care. I don't care that it drives up the cost of the videocards for everyone else either. I care about me, and I could care less about everyone else. If Motherboards were $10,000 and the average custom PC cost $100,000 I still wouldn't care. Screw the peasants, go back to mobile gaming. Though I will say consoles give you the best bang for your buck if you only care about gaming. I spent an extra $50,000 for my EV6 Kia, and it means nothing to me on top of the base $60k Though I will say that $100k for a Honda Civic couldn't care what variant, Type R, Type C, Type S, Type who gives a shit, is stupid. Probably just some ricer. Sorry it effects everyone that their prices increase, but honestly, I actually don't care.

I agree i got lucky on a deal yesterday on eBay, but PC Partpicker was giving me essentially resale prices only and the market is crazy for AM4 boards. I am definitely waiting until next year, market hopefully will correct itself.

I dont mind ITX cases with ATX power supply compatibility though

@@zombl337og I’m rocking the opposite right now with an O11D-Mini

@@inmypaants I don't have a small build myself as I like tons of cooling, lighting, etc. I have a Corsair 750D Full Tower w/ 420mm air for cpu and aorus rtx 2080 👌 I have built ITX and MicroATX though. ITX is perfect for a HTPC or LAN Box but for me my Desktop and Future Steam Deck are all I need

@@zombl337og totally agree. I have an O11D-Mini with mATX. It’s a great case which accommodates 2x 360mm radiators so tons of cooling.

I'd say a fan swap is possible, but not ideal, since you would have to peel off the cover to even get to it I think. As far as I can tell the fan is made to not be removed. Also you don't even need the fan, it's almost pointless. Not because it's soo tiny that it'll do basically nothing (your system fans provide more passive airflow than it ever could), but also because the heatsink is beefy enough that everything will run cool anyways even without the fan running anyways.

I sure hope there are no rev1 left! This is such a classic letdown on mb manufacturers with a defunct network adapter. All these should be replaced no questions asked.

The pump header is on the board by the RAM. It looks like a sysfan header but it's a tiny bit smaller than a normal sysfan plugin, to the point you can't actually accidentally plug in a regular sysfan into it because it won't fit.

Did it have the bios already installed or did you have to flash it ?

But there is a USB-C port with Displayport-Alt Mode. Would prefer if I could have it output the signal from the GPU instead of the iGPU though.

asus and msi high end boards are just as expensive

Asus are even more expensive than gigabyte. The two am5 asus itx boards that are available are $630 and $850 aud.

Size, features and price. You could probably add 4 more usb3 ports on this motherboard by: shrinking and optimizing the VRM more, smaller/more efficient heatsinks, usb3 parts, more R&D. And now this motherboard is probably $50 more expensive.

honestly that would be worth an extra 50 bucks

@@InfinetlyOmega You might value those extra usb ports that much, I forgot the price of the motherboard while guessing the price, and I still think the price makes sense. But gigabyte probably decided to make the motherboard this way/price for some reasons, one might be it's the second cheapest am5 itx board and it's the only one to have 3 m.2 slots. (I only currently use 3 usb ports)

you dont need it but you'll miss out on a fan header and front panel connections without it.

@@fricktion01 thanks, I can do without, so that's why I was wondering. Oddly, the board appears to be completely unavailable here in Europe, seems like it was pulled by Gigabyte? Perhaps some defect?

@@kasimirdenhertog3516 It's just a really popular board, especially because it's basically the cheapest ITX board you can get for AM5, even though it isn't cheap. I'd still put in the breakout board, because the sideways nature of the connectors allows for more tidy cabling. You also don't just lose the sysfan and front panel connectors, you lose power LED's by not using it too. The board only has just a power button connector on it. Since it doesn't take up much space, and it will take up space that would be empty anyways, it's not really helpful to not use the breakout board. It's worth putting in even if you don't intend on using it. It does come out kinda easy though, so you wouldn't want to try to yank out a SATA cable, as it would pull the whole breakout board with it. I think that's by design because if it was too hard to remove the breakout board, it would likely break. The board could have definitely been done better, but it might also be one of the better boards, as it basically has the best VRM's of any ITX AM5 board, it's a little over engineered, while also being a little wonky in the port layout. I don't think there's any defect, although I did have a heck of a time trying to get a Noctua heatsink mounted to it, because every time I screwed one screw in a little bit, the other side of the heatsink would raise up a bit and unlatch the other screw before I could screw it in, like there was an offset. Could have just been that it was a reused heatsink that was slightly distorted after being mounted to an intel system for soo long, or could have been an issue with the AM5 mounting kit or the board itself being misaligned slightly, but I eventually got it secured properly after some very gentle and slow tinkering. I am thinking it was just because the heatsink could have been slightly distorted though, because it was mounted to an intel socket for several years in a vertical orientation, so there was probably an ever so slight distortion in the bracket on the heatsink and I didn't want to force it. Since the screws are kind of free floating with a spring, there is slack for slight misalignments without causing any undue stress, but I'm used to the screw down process being much smoother, without any tinkering. But Noctua's AM5 mounting kit is also less robust than their Intel mounting kits. The free AM5 mounting kit I got from them was really just not polished, engineered in the cheapest way possible, while the Intel mounting hardware I had been using was just much more precision engineered, with a more pristine finish and better looking screws. They really cheaped out on the AM5 mounting kits for some reason. You can tell it's like a stamped steel instead of a machined steel, with all kinds of surface and edge imperfections and the text stamped into it being not so smooth and clean. The Intel kit on the other hand looks like it was designed with laser precision in comparison. But when you've got a super beefy Noctua heatsink, it's worth the trouble to save $100 and reuse it between builds, instead of buying a new heatsink. This Noctua heatsink is about 10 years old and still going strong.

@@peoplez129 seems like the perfect board for the formd t1

@@seankillar123 It's not a great board, it has a flawed ethernet adapter, well known that its flawed, cuts out all the time, like 3 times a day at least, sometimes every 5 minutes. It's actually criminal that they even sell it since its been known to have issues for years. Avoid it. It's not a software issue either, it's completely a hardware design issue on the ethernet chip. Just look up "Intel i225-v" and you'll find thousands of posts about people having issues with it. There is no software fix because it's not a software issue, so it literally can't be fixed with any settings or driver.

It's $270 on Newegg right now.

I’m glad it’s not just me

It's not a review or sponsored 🤦‍♂️. You clearly didn't watch the video. Sad!

This video is CLEARLY and overview as mentioned at the start of the video. I wish this was a paid commercial because then at least I'd get paid for your stupid comments.

So its a free commercial, even worse. Why even take it out of the box? Just take their marketing pictures and put a script over it would have the same value. An overview would at least put a cooler on there to see fitment.