Megadeth00

So I have a Seagate 2TB 3.5inch SSHD and did a performance benchmark on it using Samsung Magician and was pretty disappointed with the result. Surely it should be faster right? Did I install it incorrectly(maybe used the wrong SATA port on the Motherboard)? Or is this the general speed of this SSHD. I know SSHD's work better the more they are used as they cache frequently used files and store them in the flash memory so maybe a benchmark test isn't the best way to gauge their performance but 119mb/s read seems very low?

I have the same motherboard paired with a Ryzen 3700x. Natively that motherboard does not support the Ryzen 3000 CPU line so you need to update the bios so it can support it. There are multiple steps required to bring the BIOS up to date in this regard. You cannot just download that latest one and be done with it unfortunately. You have to start off with update F31, then F40 and so on. There are some steps in between. It is all listed here:

https://www.gigabyte.com/au/Motherboard/X470-AORUS-GAMING-5-WIFI-rev-10/support#support-dl-bios

It would help if you have a laptop or spare computer so you can download this updates. Follow the instructions very carefully and use a USB for the updates rather than an internet connection through the BIOS because if the connection fails half way whilst updating, you will brick your motherboard. 

Thanks so much for the fast and detailed reply.

On further inspection I found out the my Samsung 970 EVO SSD is running as half speed. Is it possible I used the wrong PCI port for the SSD?
Thanks again for the help, this is all very foreign to me at the moment!  
 

Very interesting. On further review I see that the Cougar RGB SPB fans also support Gigabyte RGB Fusion so I may just go with that instead of Corsair. The Cougar Core box V2 supports 8 fans so I'm assuming I can simply plug the fans and Cooler Master ML240R fans into that and control them all.