Pros: -affordable -excellent high quality power delivery (more than sufficient for 8 core systems) -2 m.2 NVME slots -great aesthetic -dual channel memory

Cons: -BIOS usability -limited IO -limited amount and awkwardly placed fan headers

Overall Review: Would definitely recommend this for anyone doing a Ryzen build on a budget! At first I was skeptical of the board being so cheap, especially after seeing how bad the BIOS GUI was compared to my 8 year old Asus board. Everything you need is in there but it just takes some digging through the settings. However, after seeing a breakdown of this board's components on Youtube I feel much better knowing that Gigabyte cheaped out on "non-essential" components of the board such as fan pin headers and IO ports instead of essential systems such as power delivery and proper cooling for the chipsets. If you plan on using this board for a build, I highly recommend buying some sort of fan hub to go along with it, because there are only two CPU fan headers and two chassis fan headers. I ended up using a splitter to power a total of five fans in my case. I would also be aware of the limited amount of inputs for USB and other IO. I wish they could have cheaped out more on audio and included more USB ports because you can always add a cheap USB sound card. In summary, given that this motherboard is budget oriented, excellent product! Egg deducted for lack of fan headers and poor BIOS GUI.

Pros: -excellent first word latency -TIGHT out-of-the-box timing -moderately fast speeds -higher base and boost clockspeeds (Ryzen) -works out of the box without having to mess with bios (aside from enabling EXPO) -stable -competitively priced -no RGB (debatable)

Cons: -no RGB (debatable)

Overall Review: I bought the 6000MHz CL 30 2x16gb RAM kit. With over a dozen builds under my belt now across multiple generations of CPUs and motherboards, I can wholeheartedly say Team Group has won me as a customer for life (as long as they keep offering competitively priced RAM). I have very specific criteria for my RAM and that usually is first word latency which is one of the more important parameters for gaming. Sure I could spend twice as much for RAM from a "more reputable" company with higher MHz and mandatory RGB but its always at the cost of timing. Team Group RAM always hits that sweet spot in pricing where you moderately "fast" RAM but with AWESOME, tight timing that will outperform RAM that might cost twice as much and come with mandatory RGB. I consistently see higher base and boost clocks on my CPUs (Ryzen), and never have issues with out of the box performance. If you need no nonsense, high quality RAM; then you're on Team Group (pun intended). No RGB, no fancy heatspreader, no excessive messing with bios settings, just high quality chips and tight timing.