GIGABYTE GA-AB350M-Gaming 3 AMD Ryzen CPU AM4 Socket DDR4 PCIe Gen3 USB 3.1 GB LAN Micro ATX Motherboard,Black

Very good motherboard, selected over other brands for gigabtye reputation and can actually turn the LED lighting off in the bios!Installation was easy and upon going to F4 bios and a little tweak with voltage was able to run RAM at 3200mhz no problem.Cable management was again easy with this motherboard with ports in good locations and SATA cables horizontally angled.The speedfan bios curves are excellent and really keep the system cool and quiet. There is 1 cpu header and 2 fan headers, so you may need a splitter if you have more fans that you want to control.Overall this is a excellent motherboard and now that RAM is able to run at full speed I would recommend as the top choice for mATX ryzen builds.Good luck finding stock at an affordable price!

I bought this for longevity and for high-quality parts (and because there weren't any ITX offerings at time of release!), but if I were to purchase again I'd probably go with my most-trusted brand - Asrock - their recent ITX announcement has an Intel Gigabit ethernet controller which is much more widely used than Realtek, and they have built-in wifi.I don't care for RGB, but I wanted a board that would last with good quality components and receive regular BIOS updates as AMD tweaks microcode to optimise for Ryzen. So far, Gigabyte has been forthcoming with updates, but naturally ATX comes first, then M-ATX.The board itself is sturdy, the I/O shield is fancy, the BIOS is great but at present needs a few tweaks. I can overclock my Ryzen 1600 to 3.7 at 1.23v without issue. If you want some tips for overclocking with this board, look for Paul's Hardware Overclocking Ryzen 5 guide, as he uses a Gigabyte BIOS for demonstration.Aside from those points there's not much I can comment on. The I/O options are great and as future-proof as you can get. The only downsides? Lack of in-built wifi and the not-so-great ethernet controller.Note that there are only 2 fan headers aside from the CPU fan header, so if you have 3+ case fans, you're going to need a splitter.

I recently purchased a Ryzen 7 1800x at a staggeringly low £290 from Amazon. I was on the fence with all sorts of AM4 motherboards. It appears that most motherboards have POST problems and other compatibility issues. The reviews for this particular motherboard weren't great from users, however I took the chance and purchased it. My RAM, although 2800MHz, gets detected as 2333MHz which is slightly annoying. I haven't had any issues and haven't really delved into the BIOS settings to try to figure out the correct setting for RAM. Overall my system is stable and blazingly fast. I would recommend this board to anyone looking to upgrade to Ryzen. Well worth the money.

I chose the AB350M as I wanted to remain with mATX format that had 6 SATA ports, 4 RAM slots and also as I was planning to go from single slot to dual slot GPU I wanted the layout on this board where there was space around the PCIe16x slot for this without blocking out any other PCIe slots that I needed for tuner cards. This was also one of the limited few motherboards where manufacturers download page still provided Win 7/8/8.1 driver support unlike most new motherboards that seem to all be exclusively aimed towards Windows 10 only. This seemed to tick all boxes.For those looking to use this with newer Ryzen CPUs and concerned about bios version, I bought this at the beginning of January 2019 and out of the box I can confirm the board I received had version F23 bios.Sadly after much testing and messages to and from Gigabyte Support, the board was returned due to several issues that became more and more protracted and I was spending more and more time troubleshooting than using. Not ideal when its purpose is a media centre! This isn't my first build so I'm not inexperienced when it comes to installing and troubleshooting, this is the first time I've ever had anything negative to say about a motherboard, it feels so odd!- Despite Gigabyte download page having downloads for Win 7/8/8.1/10, this board does not support AHCI hotswap support for Win 8/8.1. Gigabyte Technical Support told me this motherboard only supports AHCI hotswap functionality on Win 7/10 and to install one of those to test. As a trial, I installed Windows 10 x64 and tried Gigabyte drivers - no AHCI hotswap. Tried AMD drivers - still no AHCI hotswap. Yes AHCI mode was enabled in bios at all times.Granted, not everyone needs SATA hotswap functionality so don't let that put you off, hence why I've titled this review as OK for day to day. I know there are third party hotswap utilities but as I already get AHCI hotswap built in with Win 8/8.1 and Z77M I don't really want a workaround. Hard drives even felt sluggish and slow to access and folders seemed to take a while longer to populate. I went back to my previous Z77M and straight away AHCI functionality worked as designed and much faster drives again.- Slight audible electrical fizz sound from one of the components. Everything installed correctly and nothing shorting anywhere, all standoffs cabling and components checked but still audible and annoying. Back in Z77M and all is silent.- Tuner cards kept having erratic signals, freezes and dropouts with this motherboard compared to strong signal levels and signal quality on Z77M. Tried the various PCIe slots and PCIe bios modes Auto/Gen1/2/3 and again mixed and erratic results. I even thought perhaps maybe just unluckily maintenance on transmitter but sadly not. Back in Z77M and both signal level and quality all high and stable again.As I say, probably fine for day to day and gaming, a nice board if you're not SATA hotswapping or using tuner cards (although disclaimer that this issue might vary between tuner manufacturers which I had also checked, but strangely fine on another board).Perhaps just a one off bad board but I didn't want to spend any more time, downtime and messaging manufacturer.