GIGABYTE A620I AX (AM5/ LGA 1718/ AMD/ A620/ Mini-ITX/ 5-Year Warranty/ DDR5/ Single M.2/ PCIe 4.0/ USB 3.2 Gen1 Type-C/Realtek Wi-Fi 6E/ Realtek 2.5GbE/ Q-Flash Plus/PCIe EZ-Latch/Motherboard)

Seems to be of a high standard of manufacture. Easy to install and it booted and worked immediately. I used a Noctua NH-L9a-AM5 Low-Profile CPU Cooler and this fitted easily in the iStarUSA 1U chassis with enough clearance for airflow. However this mini-ITX board has overall poor airflow with the memory cards blocking air coming from the front of the chassis and the solid backpanel blocking airflow at the rear of the board. As a result it's not really possible to use the NVMe M.2 2280 slot on top of the chipset heatsink as the NVMe card runs very hot. 72C continuously. It's having to deal with the chipset heat plus the NVMe heat. I ended relocating the NVMe card to the sole PCIe slot to keep it well away from the heat sources on this motherboard. This reduced the NVMe temperature to 58C, a 14C degree improvement. I used the "MICRO CONNECTORS Low-Profile M.2 NVMe SSD to PCIe 4.0 Adapter with Heat Sink for 1U PCIE-M21U40HS".

Systemically tested each component to diagnose why my machine wouldn't POST, concluded that the mother oard is faulty. Two M ITX builds in two days with two Gigabyte motherboards. One A520I am4, and one a620i am5. A520i build was okay, but case USB cable bracket pulled out of both motherboards. It can be re-attached... but I shouldn't HAVE to re-attach them. A620i would POST about 5% of the time. I wanted to appreciate this board.. but I have to RMA it. I'm going to give Gigabyte another chance before giving up on their products entirely by purchasing the GIGABYTE B650I AORUS ULTRA. Really hoping I can have a functional PC again soon. I will change this review to 5 stars if Gigabyte can make this worth my wasted time.

The media could not be loaded. It works but connectors are have broken twice without much effort while using proper technique. They need to glue they’re connectors better or usb headers will not work. The wifi speed is extremely good and handles ryzen 5 7600 well just please be careful with it.