Gigabyte X570S Aorus Master Motherboard

Major flaws - design failures in overpriced Gigabyte x570s range of mother boards – I have notified Gigabyte of 3 issues but their response really was one of did not seem to care that many of their customers potentially will have failures which will potentially result in damaged m.2 ssd and loss of data, etc! I am an electrician and electrical engineer with an interest in electronics so serious physical design flaws and… Read more

potential overheat issues are 2 things that stand out with me. This pc build is far from my first.

The thermal conductive tape on the m.2 heatsink covers does not make contact with the top of the ssd thus risk of overheating and drive failure. I am now having to replace the thermal conductive pads with high quality pads that are thicker and so make good contact with the 4 x m.2 ssd's when the heatsink covers are screwed down.

The stand offs for the m.2 heatsink covers are weak and may snap off as 1 did on mine so BE CAREFUL WHEN TIGHTENING THE SCREWS OF HEATSINK COVERS. There is no physical support at the far end of mother board for large GPU's such as Gigabytes RTX3070 resulting in extra strain on x16 connector and on GPU thus potential risk of GPU and / or mother board failure.

If you install m.2 ssd's in more than 1 of the m.2 slots, take a photo noting the s/n for each ssd and note the slot it is in otherwise when you go to bios, you will not be able to tell which m.2 ssd is which resulting in that you have no idea which drive you are installing your os on, etc. I recommend Installing crystaldiskinfo to see which ssd is in which slot. It will give you lots of info about each ssd. Great when using 4 ssd's installed. See pics I have attached.