Gigabyte A620M Gaming X Review: Who Needs All the Bells and Whistles?

Affordable and (mostly) capable

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Gigabyte’s A620M Gaminx X uses its Ultra Durable BIOS, with a black and dark yellow theme. The black-on-white/yellow provides a nice contrast and is easy to read. Like most BIOSes, the Gaming X has an informational Easy Mode and an Advanced mode with headers across the top. Navigating the BIOS is eas,y as many frequently used options (including overclocking) are generally on the same page or one level down. My biggest complaint with the BIOS is that page-down doesn’t work in all sections, and you have to type in some values manually or bang on the down arrow to scroll and select a value. Aside from that minor annoyance, it’s a solid BIOS.

Joe Shields
Joe Shields
Staff Writer, Components

Joe Shields is a staff writer at Tom’s Hardware. He reviews motherboards and PC components.

11 Comments Comment from the forums
  • ravewulf
    At this point, I'm considering waiting until we get a chipset refresh. Just too much I/O being stripped away from even the mid-range boards (which are priced as high-end boards)
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  • gg83
    With all the features cut out, what makes this a "gaming" motherboard?
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  • -Fran-
    That backside panel gave me depression for $120. I hope these ODMs and AMD get their stuffs together and get better products out for AM5. At that same price point, almost all of the B550 lineup is a thousand times better vis-a-vis; not even A520.

    Regards.
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  • Giroro
    I'm surprised AMD allows its partners to put 'X' branding on their A-series motherboards.
    That's a bit misleading.
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  • ohio_buckeye
    The board prices are getting better but need to get a little closer. I may wait until 8000 series and see where I am.
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  • sitehostplus
    gg83 said:
    With all the features cut out, what makes this a "gaming" motherboard?
    At under $200, it's gaming for the poverty crowd. And it does well enough at that to satisfy.

    I have a sneaky suspicion AMD is about to roll out some x3d magic for the Ryzen 3 crowd, and that's what this is for.
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  • sitehostplus
    ohio_buckeye said:
    The board prices are getting better but need to get a little closer. I may wait until 8000 series and see where I am.
    Your money, your choice. 🤗
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  • Amdlova
    Now I see what amd want with this a620 chipset.
    First can't overclock or do whatever you think you can do.
    Second can't meltdown your cpu and not spectre your soul
    Third you can't use pci5 ssd and fry other things

    Thanks AMD you think in us ..
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  • lmcnabney
    Article is confusing. Why pay $120 for the A620M Gaming X board when you can spend a whole $5 more for the B650M DS3H and get the second X4 M.2 and 2.5gb ethernet?
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  • lmcnabney
    sitehostplus said:
    At under $200, it's gaming for the poverty crowd.
    A console is gaming for the the poverty crowd. Or maybe it is for people that realize that you can cut your costs by 75% to get effectively the same performance?
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