**The Gigabyte B450 Elite Motherboard: A Surprisingly Impressive Find**

As I began my search for a motherboard to pair with my Tesla graphics card, I stumbled upon the Gigabyte B450 Elite. This ATX motherboard may not seem like an exciting choice, but at under $100, it was an affordable option that caught my attention. The first thing I noticed about this motherboard was its lack of superlatives or impressive features. It's not a high-end board by any means, but for the price, it offered more than I expected.

The B450 Elite boasts two PCIe slots, thermal guards with heat spreaders, and RGB lighting, which are all nice touches that add to the overall aesthetic of the motherboard. The VRM cooling is decent, and the built-in IO plate and RAM slots are standard fare for a mid-range motherboard. However, it's the BIOS that truly left me underwhelmed. With its Spartan UEFI interface, I was expecting more features and maybe even some live update capabilities. Unfortunately, there wasn't much to see here, aside from the option to enable 4GB decoding, which proved useful in getting my Tesla up and running.

Despite my initial reservations about the BIOS, I was pleased to find that the B450 Elite worked seamlessly with my Rison 3000 APU and 3200G. The installation process was straightforward, and the drivers installed without issue. But, as it turns out, this motherboard has its quirks. When I booted up the system with the Tesla, it didn't show up in Task Manager or OBS, despite being detected by the Nvidia control panel. It seems that the driver is indeed working, but there's an issue with the operating system recognizing it as a valid graphics card.

To get around this issue, I've been experimenting with different configurations and drivers. I've tried updating the MB chipset drivers and installing the Tesla drivers again, but nothing seems to be working. The frustrating part is that, in theory, everything should work out of the box. The BIOS does support the Rison 3000 APU and 3200G, and the driver installation was smooth. However, there's a disconnect between the hardware detection and the operating system's ability to recognize it.

**The Experience So Far**

In terms of overall experience, I've been pleasantly surprised by the B450 Elite. Despite its Spartan BIOS, it's proven itself to be a reliable partner for my Tesla graphics card. The thermal guards have kept temperatures under control, and the RGB lighting has added a touch of personality to the system. While there are some quirks with the driver recognition, I've been able to get everything working, albeit with some tweaking.

One thing that's struck me is how well this motherboard handles stress testing. When I ran an ffmpeg test using OBS, it was able to handle the workload without issue. However, when trying to stream from Plex, the CPU usage spikes alarmingly high, claiming to use hardware transcoding but failing to deliver on its promises. This has left me stumped, and I'm eager to get some help from friends and online forums to resolve this issue.

**Conclusion for Now**

For now, I'll leave the B450 Elite motherboard as is, hoping that my next steps will bring an end to the frustration. While it's not a perfect board, its performance has exceeded expectations in many ways. The price point of around $100 makes it an attractive option for those looking for a reliable mid-range motherboard without breaking the bank.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enso I don't usually share a whole lot of the projects that I have going on that don't go well usually I present everything in a formalized video where I figured it all out but this video is going to be a precursor to another video where hopefully I already have this figured out because I'm just like swimming and hardware that I can't get working at this point and it is driving me nuts so this particular test bench that I've been working with here has a beautiful like $7000 graphics card on it that I'd never thought I would have in house and I'm very nervous actually touching it that is the Tesla V 100 from Nvidia it is a graphics card meant for the enterprise kind of situation where it's meant to run a bunch of virtual machines and things like that and on the side here it doesn't even have a video output jack which of course makes it a little difficult to use in a non server setup but what it has is really ridiculous envy or video encoding capabilities which I thought would be kind of useful to test for Plex which is a recurring monthly sponsor on my channel and if you're not sure what Plex is it is a media streaming kind of media organization service where you can take all of your ripped movies and TV shows and things like that organize them stream them to other places like your friends or family is apparently a thing a lot of people are doing now your phone your computer things like that I use it to watch movies on my TV on my computer I don't usually do a whole lot of phone viewing and a lot of channels recently that cover Plex have been buying quad ropey 4000 graphics cards which are like 600 bucks for the purposes of this which kind of blew my mind because I've always done direct play I run my plex server on a Synology nest which has no horsepower whatsoever for encoding but I direct play it's just like playing it over the network no problem well there was recently a article that came out I'll forget the website I'll have it shown on screen and linked below showing that there is this whole ecosystem of people who have these complex Plex libraries that they share with their friends and family and getting in on someone's really big Plex library is like this really cool thing it's kind of replaced and a lot of the piracy scene and while I obviously can't endorse or suggest anyone do that myself here on the channel from a video incurred at coding nerds point of view it is a really interesting use case to look at and I wanted to see if this could do it but holy hell has it been difficult trying to get to work so for contacts I have two different motherboards here that I've tried I have the asrock x57 a Taichi motherboard which came with my AMD press kit and on it I have the AMD Rison 3200 G which is an APU and that was set here to take advantage of its built-in video output capability since it is an APU it has a built in integrated graphics card and that meant that I could just slap in the Tesla and ideally be fine but for whatever reason so this Tesla has 32 gigs of VRAM which is a lot and there's actually a special setting within motherboard bios's called above 4 gig or 4G video decoding that is required for these kinds of cards to work and that seems to be broken in this motherboard it's not it wasn't working on the x4 70 version either so then I switched over to x5 70 board I was borrowing from him which is the msi meg ace motherboard the problem is it doesn't have any video out on it so I have the 3600 in here but then I need another graphics card to run alongside it currently I have in here the quadrille P 400 I was also trying my little tiny baby GT 1030 here because I don't even need any power from them I just need them to provide me video outputs the problem is the GeForce and the Quadro drivers are refusing to cooperate whatsoever with the Tesla drivers which are their own driver stock I'm either getting blue screens every time Windows starts up and then just nothing works or literally I will have it show up in task manager for a second with both graphics cards and before I know it they're completely gone and the drivers have completely killed themselves and the little warning for it is driver ended unable to not enough resources to perform the API function or something like that and so I can't for the life of me I cannot get a driver combination of two different Nvidia cards to work with the Tesla drivers now the next step originally was going to be to slot in this is my 1080 which is barely functional at this point but it is as Wendell said he had some good experiences getting the NVIDIA Studio drivers for geforce cards to work with the tesla however of course both of the power supplies I had available for my test bench I don't have enough actual PCI power to power two power-hungry graphics cards on so then I was stuck so we got some new hardware today and we're going to trying to fix this on top of these boxes I already had went ahead and open this because I got sent in this box with no other boxes so thanks Amazon I've got a new power supply case I need to power both graphics cards at once in case we get that desperate this is a display port cable that's probably DisplayPort cable this is a B 450 motherboard which is designed to be kind of the budget last gen AMD motherboards but are really great for the cases use cases of AP use because again they're cheaper the AP use are the cheaper of the processors and they have a video output so this is the gigabyte or SP 450 elite nothing super special or important what camera persons laughing at me here show her what's she doing okay stealing my boxes so nothing special about this motherboard it was the only one I could find that was a cheap be 450 with vrm cooling it does have an integrated IO play IO shield that was interesting full ATX ID not a mini one or whatever but we do have full DVI and HDMI output which means I can slap this 3200 G in here and my goal is that the driver for the APU is going to work fine and cooperate with this Tesla but this was supposed to be last month's Plex video it's taken a week of frustration trying to get a combination of hardware to work here so hopefully from five different graphics cards and three different motherboards and like 6 different processors will get something working so I was quite impressed with this gigabyte be 450 or s elite motherboard because for the price I mean it's it's a little expensive it's close to 100 bucks but for the price you're getting quite a lot you get em two slots you get em to thermal they're called thermal guards but the heat sinks heat spreaders those are you know built into the accent of the motherboard you get some nice RGB lighting for your case and for your build which is pretty cool it's got some decent looking VRM cooling it's got a built-in i/o plate all the RAM slots it's got like most of the features you would expect and admittedly the BIOS the UEFI BIOS was quite Spartan there was really not much to it including there didn't seem to be a live update for the BIOS but thankfully it worked with the Rison 3000 apu right out of the box the 3200 G but it right up I had no issues with that and right up front in the peripheral settings it has an enable 4g decoding option which meant that i could enable for the tesla and it worked right away so of all of the different you know more modern x5 70 motherboards I was testing this B 450 was by far a much better experience to get up and running and so far it's been running without a hitch so overall installation went well the problem is once I booted it up got the Tesla set up and such the Tesla still didn't show up in task manager and apparently this is actually a specific driver based thing that you know the driver has to allow it to show up in task manager and I guess the Tesla which isn't designed to be run on bare metal it's designed to run as a virtual GPU in a lot of different virtual machines I guess it's just not expecting that use case and doesn't set it up and there's hardly any controls in the Nvidia control panel and then I opened up OBS and tried to record and it doesn't register any in Vinc graphics cards from what I can tell Plex seems to think that it can use it and I ran an ffmpeg test an ffmpeg was able to use the in on it so it knows that it's there the driver is working I'm not getting any of the errors I was getting before but trying to do a stream from Plex it's using my CPU a hell of a lot it claims to be using Hardware transcoding but it doesn't seem to be doing much so this is definitely going to be a two-parter so I'm at a bit of an impasse with what to do with this at the moment because I was able to the BIOS does in other words actually a pretty good motherboard for the practice again it's like 70 bucks I think and you get a full ATX motherboard it doesn't have onboard power and reset switches so for test benches it's kind of annoying it has to nvme slots to full sized PCIe physical slots and 1 1 X slot it's got some sort of erm cooling it's not too bad the BIOS is super Spartan though there's no live update or anything like that and I was worried I realized after I was building it that I may not have an updated BIOS to run the rise in 3000 APU but a booted right off the bat and there was an option right in the front for 4gb coding got it to work graphics card was detected and as far as I could tell I DD you at the öland Nvidia drivers and then updated the MB chipset drivers again just to make sure that if you use working fine installed the Tesla drivers restarted and it's not it's showing up in device manager as working properly but in task manager and stuff it's not showing up at all and thus OBS doesn't detect it so I'm gonna have to call in some backup with wendyl and see what the hell's going on I'm frustrated this was supposed to be my fixso I don't usually share a whole lot of the projects that I have going on that don't go well usually I present everything in a formalized video where I figured it all out but this video is going to be a precursor to another video where hopefully I already have this figured out because I'm just like swimming and hardware that I can't get working at this point and it is driving me nuts so this particular test bench that I've been working with here has a beautiful like $7000 graphics card on it that I'd never thought I would have in house and I'm very nervous actually touching it that is the Tesla V 100 from Nvidia it is a graphics card meant for the enterprise kind of situation where it's meant to run a bunch of virtual machines and things like that and on the side here it doesn't even have a video output jack which of course makes it a little difficult to use in a non server setup but what it has is really ridiculous envy or video encoding capabilities which I thought would be kind of useful to test for Plex which is a recurring monthly sponsor on my channel and if you're not sure what Plex is it is a media streaming kind of media organization service where you can take all of your ripped movies and TV shows and things like that organize them stream them to other places like your friends or family is apparently a thing a lot of people are doing now your phone your computer things like that I use it to watch movies on my TV on my computer I don't usually do a whole lot of phone viewing and a lot of channels recently that cover Plex have been buying quad ropey 4000 graphics cards which are like 600 bucks for the purposes of this which kind of blew my mind because I've always done direct play I run my plex server on a Synology nest which has no horsepower whatsoever for encoding but I direct play it's just like playing it over the network no problem well there was recently a article that came out I'll forget the website I'll have it shown on screen and linked below showing that there is this whole ecosystem of people who have these complex Plex libraries that they share with their friends and family and getting in on someone's really big Plex library is like this really cool thing it's kind of replaced and a lot of the piracy scene and while I obviously can't endorse or suggest anyone do that myself here on the channel from a video incurred at coding nerds point of view it is a really interesting use case to look at and I wanted to see if this could do it but holy hell has it been difficult trying to get to work so for contacts I have two different motherboards here that I've tried I have the asrock x57 a Taichi motherboard which came with my AMD press kit and on it I have the AMD Rison 3200 G which is an APU and that was set here to take advantage of its built-in video output capability since it is an APU it has a built in integrated graphics card and that meant that I could just slap in the Tesla and ideally be fine but for whatever reason so this Tesla has 32 gigs of VRAM which is a lot and there's actually a special setting within motherboard bios's called above 4 gig or 4G video decoding that is required for these kinds of cards to work and that seems to be broken in this motherboard it's not it wasn't working on the x4 70 version either so then I switched over to x5 70 board I was borrowing from him which is the msi meg ace motherboard the problem is it doesn't have any video out on it so I have the 3600 in here but then I need another graphics card to run alongside it currently I have in here the quadrille P 400 I was also trying my little tiny baby GT 1030 here because I don't even need any power from them I just need them to provide me video outputs the problem is the GeForce and the Quadro drivers are refusing to cooperate whatsoever with the Tesla drivers which are their own driver stock I'm either getting blue screens every time Windows starts up and then just nothing works or literally I will have it show up in task manager for a second with both graphics cards and before I know it they're completely gone and the drivers have completely killed themselves and the little warning for it is driver ended unable to not enough resources to perform the API function or something like that and so I can't for the life of me I cannot get a driver combination of two different Nvidia cards to work with the Tesla drivers now the next step originally was going to be to slot in this is my 1080 which is barely functional at this point but it is as Wendell said he had some good experiences getting the NVIDIA Studio drivers for geforce cards to work with the tesla however of course both of the power supplies I had available for my test bench I don't have enough actual PCI power to power two power-hungry graphics cards on so then I was stuck so we got some new hardware today and we're going to trying to fix this on top of these boxes I already had went ahead and open this because I got sent in this box with no other boxes so thanks Amazon I've got a new power supply case I need to power both graphics cards at once in case we get that desperate this is a display port cable that's probably DisplayPort cable this is a B 450 motherboard which is designed to be kind of the budget last gen AMD motherboards but are really great for the cases use cases of AP use because again they're cheaper the AP use are the cheaper of the processors and they have a video output so this is the gigabyte or SP 450 elite nothing super special or important what camera persons laughing at me here show her what's she doing okay stealing my boxes so nothing special about this motherboard it was the only one I could find that was a cheap be 450 with vrm cooling it does have an integrated IO play IO shield that was interesting full ATX ID not a mini one or whatever but we do have full DVI and HDMI output which means I can slap this 3200 G in here and my goal is that the driver for the APU is going to work fine and cooperate with this Tesla but this was supposed to be last month's Plex video it's taken a week of frustration trying to get a combination of hardware to work here so hopefully from five different graphics cards and three different motherboards and like 6 different processors will get something working so I was quite impressed with this gigabyte be 450 or s elite motherboard because for the price I mean it's it's a little expensive it's close to 100 bucks but for the price you're getting quite a lot you get em two slots you get em to thermal they're called thermal guards but the heat sinks heat spreaders those are you know built into the accent of the motherboard you get some nice RGB lighting for your case and for your build which is pretty cool it's got some decent looking VRM cooling it's got a built-in i/o plate all the RAM slots it's got like most of the features you would expect and admittedly the BIOS the UEFI BIOS was quite Spartan there was really not much to it including there didn't seem to be a live update for the BIOS but thankfully it worked with the Rison 3000 apu right out of the box the 3200 G but it right up I had no issues with that and right up front in the peripheral settings it has an enable 4g decoding option which meant that i could enable for the tesla and it worked right away so of all of the different you know more modern x5 70 motherboards I was testing this B 450 was by far a much better experience to get up and running and so far it's been running without a hitch so overall installation went well the problem is once I booted it up got the Tesla set up and such the Tesla still didn't show up in task manager and apparently this is actually a specific driver based thing that you know the driver has to allow it to show up in task manager and I guess the Tesla which isn't designed to be run on bare metal it's designed to run as a virtual GPU in a lot of different virtual machines I guess it's just not expecting that use case and doesn't set it up and there's hardly any controls in the Nvidia control panel and then I opened up OBS and tried to record and it doesn't register any in Vinc graphics cards from what I can tell Plex seems to think that it can use it and I ran an ffmpeg test an ffmpeg was able to use the in on it so it knows that it's there the driver is working I'm not getting any of the errors I was getting before but trying to do a stream from Plex it's using my CPU a hell of a lot it claims to be using Hardware transcoding but it doesn't seem to be doing much so this is definitely going to be a two-parter so I'm at a bit of an impasse with what to do with this at the moment because I was able to the BIOS does in other words actually a pretty good motherboard for the practice again it's like 70 bucks I think and you get a full ATX motherboard it doesn't have onboard power and reset switches so for test benches it's kind of annoying it has to nvme slots to full sized PCIe physical slots and 1 1 X slot it's got some sort of erm cooling it's not too bad the BIOS is super Spartan though there's no live update or anything like that and I was worried I realized after I was building it that I may not have an updated BIOS to run the rise in 3000 APU but a booted right off the bat and there was an option right in the front for 4gb coding got it to work graphics card was detected and as far as I could tell I DD you at the öland Nvidia drivers and then updated the MB chipset drivers again just to make sure that if you use working fine installed the Tesla drivers restarted and it's not it's showing up in device manager as working properly but in task manager and stuff it's not showing up at all and thus OBS doesn't detect it so I'm gonna have to call in some backup with wendyl and see what the hell's going on I'm frustrated this was supposed to be my fix\n"