**Gigabyte A520I AC ITX Motherboard Review**

There's two HDMIs on this one which I haven't seen in a long time. Your USB 3.1 is a motherboard quick flash button that would be your flash USB or standard USB, normal but when you plug it in click this with a bias, flash on it you will quick flash your motherboard without having to even basically even have a CPU in it.

There's your display port, two more 2.0, gigabit LAN AC Wi-Fi which is really nice. Your audio pretty simple audio, this is not in Aurora's board where you have the other step in the fiber optic which is kind of missing but this is what it is um it's a good thing for my VR box so it's not going to be needed anyway.

Um the BRM is nice I do like the Gigabyte way of doing decent work on their boards with their nice caps very nicely done. And that must be the other header piece here for the other fan thing we're talking about that could be audio and HD audio, and then over here is USB, USB 3 even though yeah 3.2 of course.

Your digital or well that's just your regular RGB, another RGB here, another USB here you got four SATAs on the board. Your 24-pin DDR4 slots, eight-pin for the uh power of the board, your CPU fan header is going to be right here it's pretty simple small laid out board that's going to do a job that is just absolutely perfect for what's needed.

On this board I mean it's just a mini ITX board that you don't spend a lot of money on. I want one thing to be kept in mind here though remembering that this board will not use a 3200 or 3400G in it as this is a moving forward board so it is three thousand and five thousand CPUs only in this board.

Which means at this point you have to have a video card until some new APUs come out so this is something to remember when purchasing. You can see it is a very nice little board it does everything you'd like it to do in an ITX build now I put it in my daughter's build as it was in my VR box but I'm not using VR right now so decided to rip it out as I wasn't happy with that build anyway.

And it had nothing to do with the board or the parts, had a lot to do with the case I hate the case so I pulled everything out of there used the board and weirdly the 3400G that wasn't supposed to work in it again that was an accident as in the video link that will be up here somewhere.

Um it does run in it I'm not 100% that you will go out and buy this exact same board and a 32 or 3400G is going to work as we don't know what bias revision has been done or what changes have been done since the next manufacturing of this board but mine works perfectly with the 3400G it's in my daughter's build, and her Carers World Pink PC custom water cooled I'm very proud of.

And I gotta say overall this board has been performing quite well we have no issues with it whatsoever if you're looking to have an ITX build not spend a ton of money and all your lighting is and really is going to come from everything around I mean the Aurora's board only has a back light along the edge of the board so it's not like it's got to be the board to have to do it.

And this actually has three headers where that board only has two for your fan, so in the end I would choose this board over that one overall other than the chipset this board like I said is moving forward to your worst board that I'm using in my water cool custom on the wall is the B450I ITX so again thank you for watching I hope this helps you out if you're looking for the A520I AC ITX board from Gigabyte as it is a very nice board until next time game over.

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwelcome back to another episode of last game hunter i'm your host paul and today we're going to talk about the opening box of the gigabyte a 520i ac itx motherboard now the cool part about this it's actually in use right now in my daughter's build so i can actually show a little bit of it running but there's nothing really fancy about this so there's nothing to show lighting and stuff like that with this board this is a about 130 canadian board that can get the job done very nicely so let's open it up take a look at it that's what this is all about letting you know what you get in the box and what to expect okay so this is just a open box like a pressure box you know like that weird everything seems to be going this way now so we'll take out the motherboard then there's the tray you have your standard back plate now with the auroras of course you're used to having the back plates built in but with just a gigabyte stuff uh they normally don't have that i think even the gamer they'll have like a nice shroud or whatever but you still have to add the backplate you have your sata cables l bracket to straight through and you'll see that they lock as well and that it's nice to have the l bracket of course because you don't want you know anything near the side panel if you're actually using a that type of drive then you have your ac wired antenna wire into the back of the board here's something interesting so this is a connector to go from uh a new header on the board which is tiny to a a standard size fan header now i don't know if this is something coming out in the future i don't know if you can see that proper but if it is okay interesting and it's cool that they include a standard fan header because this type of thing would definitely not be standard for a very long time if that's what's happening which i got my doubts fans have been this way forever and they're probably going to be this way for a very long time but we'll have to see moving forward maybe gigabyte has something special who knows and your cd just your driver disc that usually in windows 10 you don't need to use anymore but not least of course your manual you will notice this manual is a little bit it's going to stay better but it isn't so you usually scan this go straight to the website and take a look at the board thing for your header layouts and stuff your pins your hard drive light all that kind of stuff you'll find that with the ace with the gigabyte stuff now i don't know other brands if you're doing it or not but with the auroras you do get a manual that actually does show you everything but with the gigabyte non-aurors you tend to get a piece of paper now i've done enough builds to know that it is different boards as well and they don't tell you your pins so you need to go online and look that up if you can't read what's on the board but let's look at the board itself okay so right off the hop it's pretty sweet for a non-aurora's board you still have a good heat sink so it's pretty decently thick it is covering the vrm so it is kind of touching it but leaving them open for any airflow that might happen you do have a cooler pad here for your m.2 not sure how well that is or how well that's used or is it cooling something that's underneath which is more than likely the case um as far as fan headers there's one here one here so this looks like it's laid out pretty much the same as the aurora's board except for there is one of them funny fan header connectors where you can get a third one out of it so that's kind of cool looking at the main piece here just for a quick overview there's two hdmis on this one which i haven't seen in a long time your usb 3.1 a motherboard quick flash button that would be your flash usb or standard usb normal but when you plug it in click this with a bias flash on it you will quick flash your motherboard without having to even basically even have a cpu in it there's your display port two more 2.0 gigabit lan ac wi-fi which is really nice your audio pretty simple audio this is not in aurora's board where you have the the other step in the fiber optic which is kind of missing but this is what it is um it's a bore it's going to be used for my vr box so it's not going to be needed anyway um the brm is nice i do like the gigabyte way of doing decent work on their boards with their nice caps very nicely done and that must be the other header piece here for the other fan thing we're talking about that could be audio and hd audio and then over here is usb usb 3. even though yeah 3.2 of course your digital or well that's just your regular rgb another rgb here another usb here you got four satas on the board your 24 pin ddr4 slots eight pin for the uh power of the board your cpu fan header is going to be right here it's pretty simple small laid out board that's going to do a job that is just absolutely perfect for what's needed on there is a digital rgb right there it just avoided me but now i see it so guys that's just a quick overview of this board i mean it's just a mini itx board that you don't spend a lot of money on i want one thing to be kept in mind here though remembering that this board will not use a 3200 or 3400 g in it as this is a moving forward board so it is three thousand and five thousand cpus only in this board which means at this point you have to have a video card until some new apu's come out so this is something to uh remember when purchasing you can see it is a very nice little board it does everything you'd like it to do in an itx build now i put it in my daughter's build as it was in my vr box but i'm not using vr right now so decided to rip it out as i wasn't happy with that build anyway and it had nothing to do with the board or the parts had a lot to do with the case i hate the case so i pulled everything out of there used the board and weirdly the 3400 g that wasn't supposed to work in it again that was an accident as in the video link that will be up here somewhere um it does run in it i'm not 100 that you will go out and buy this exact same board and a 32 or 3400 g is going to work as we don't know what bias revision has been done or what changes have been done since the next manufacturing of this board but mine works perfectly with the 3400g it's in my daughter's build and her carers world pink pc custom water cooled i'm very proud of and i gotta say overall this board has been performing quite well we have no issues with it whatsoever if you're looking to have an itx build not spend a ton of money and all your lighting is and really is going to come from everything around i mean the aurora's board only has a back light along the edge of the board so it's not like it's got to be the board to have to do it and this actually has three headers where that board only has two for your fan so in the end i would choose this board over that one overall other than the chipset this board like i said is moving forward to your worst board that i'm using in my water cool custom on the wall is the b450i itx so again thank you for watching i hope this helps you out if you're looking for the a520i ac itx board from gigabyte as it is a very nice board until next time game over youwelcome back to another episode of last game hunter i'm your host paul and today we're going to talk about the opening box of the gigabyte a 520i ac itx motherboard now the cool part about this it's actually in use right now in my daughter's build so i can actually show a little bit of it running but there's nothing really fancy about this so there's nothing to show lighting and stuff like that with this board this is a about 130 canadian board that can get the job done very nicely so let's open it up take a look at it that's what this is all about letting you know what you get in the box and what to expect okay so this is just a open box like a pressure box you know like that weird everything seems to be going this way now so we'll take out the motherboard then there's the tray you have your standard back plate now with the auroras of course you're used to having the back plates built in but with just a gigabyte stuff uh they normally don't have that i think even the gamer they'll have like a nice shroud or whatever but you still have to add the backplate you have your sata cables l bracket to straight through and you'll see that they lock as well and that it's nice to have the l bracket of course because you don't want you know anything near the side panel if you're actually using a that type of drive then you have your ac wired antenna wire into the back of the board here's something interesting so this is a connector to go from uh a new header on the board which is tiny to a a standard size fan header now i don't know if this is something coming out in the future i don't know if you can see that proper but if it is okay interesting and it's cool that they include a standard fan header because this type of thing would definitely not be standard for a very long time if that's what's happening which i got my doubts fans have been this way forever and they're probably going to be this way for a very long time but we'll have to see moving forward maybe gigabyte has something special who knows and your cd just your driver disc that usually in windows 10 you don't need to use anymore but not least of course your manual you will notice this manual is a little bit it's going to stay better but it isn't so you usually scan this go straight to the website and take a look at the board thing for your header layouts and stuff your pins your hard drive light all that kind of stuff you'll find that with the ace with the gigabyte stuff now i don't know other brands if you're doing it or not but with the auroras you do get a manual that actually does show you everything but with the gigabyte non-aurors you tend to get a piece of paper now i've done enough builds to know that it is different boards as well and they don't tell you your pins so you need to go online and look that up if you can't read what's on the board but let's look at the board itself okay so right off the hop it's pretty sweet for a non-aurora's board you still have a good heat sink so it's pretty decently thick it is covering the vrm so it is kind of touching it but leaving them open for any airflow that might happen you do have a cooler pad here for your m.2 not sure how well that is or how well that's used or is it cooling something that's underneath which is more than likely the case um as far as fan headers there's one here one here so this looks like it's laid out pretty much the same as the aurora's board except for there is one of them funny fan header connectors where you can get a third one out of it so that's kind of cool looking at the main piece here just for a quick overview there's two hdmis on this one which i haven't seen in a long time your usb 3.1 a motherboard quick flash button that would be your flash usb or standard usb normal but when you plug it in click this with a bias flash on it you will quick flash your motherboard without having to even basically even have a cpu in it there's your display port two more 2.0 gigabit lan ac wi-fi which is really nice your audio pretty simple audio this is not in aurora's board where you have the the other step in the fiber optic which is kind of missing but this is what it is um it's a bore it's going to be used for my vr box so it's not going to be needed anyway um the brm is nice i do like the gigabyte way of doing decent work on their boards with their nice caps very nicely done and that must be the other header piece here for the other fan thing we're talking about that could be audio and hd audio and then over here is usb usb 3. even though yeah 3.2 of course your digital or well that's just your regular rgb another rgb here another usb here you got four satas on the board your 24 pin ddr4 slots eight pin for the uh power of the board your cpu fan header is going to be right here it's pretty simple small laid out board that's going to do a job that is just absolutely perfect for what's needed on there is a digital rgb right there it just avoided me but now i see it so guys that's just a quick overview of this board i mean it's just a mini itx board that you don't spend a lot of money on i want one thing to be kept in mind here though remembering that this board will not use a 3200 or 3400 g in it as this is a moving forward board so it is three thousand and five thousand cpus only in this board which means at this point you have to have a video card until some new apu's come out so this is something to uh remember when purchasing you can see it is a very nice little board it does everything you'd like it to do in an itx build now i put it in my daughter's build as it was in my vr box but i'm not using vr right now so decided to rip it out as i wasn't happy with that build anyway and it had nothing to do with the board or the parts had a lot to do with the case i hate the case so i pulled everything out of there used the board and weirdly the 3400 g that wasn't supposed to work in it again that was an accident as in the video link that will be up here somewhere um it does run in it i'm not 100 that you will go out and buy this exact same board and a 32 or 3400 g is going to work as we don't know what bias revision has been done or what changes have been done since the next manufacturing of this board but mine works perfectly with the 3400g it's in my daughter's build and her carers world pink pc custom water cooled i'm very proud of and i gotta say overall this board has been performing quite well we have no issues with it whatsoever if you're looking to have an itx build not spend a ton of money and all your lighting is and really is going to come from everything around i mean the aurora's board only has a back light along the edge of the board so it's not like it's got to be the board to have to do it and this actually has three headers where that board only has two for your fan so in the end i would choose this board over that one overall other than the chipset this board like i said is moving forward to your worst board that i'm using in my water cool custom on the wall is the b450i itx so again thank you for watching i hope this helps you out if you're looking for the a520i ac itx board from gigabyte as it is a very nice board until next time game over you