Review on GIGABYTE Z690 Gaming DDR4 Motherboard by Adam Nowak ᠌

Name: GIGABYTE Z690 Gaming DDR4 Motherboard
Item: GIGABYTE Z690 Gaming DDR4 Motherboard
Rating: 5

May 03, 2023

A great option for this money, I definitely recommend it!

So, this is my first purchase with an unlocked i7-12700kf processor and a Z chipset motherboard. Surprisingly, when installing an old SSD Samsung 970 EVO Plus MZ-V7S500BW with Win10 on board the PC started up. When you first turned it on and off 6 times. Installed Win11 from 0 after. I will describe the problems that I encountered and how I managed to solve them:
A squeak is heard from the mat. fees. In BIOS, in "Advanced CPU Settings", "State Control C-State" set to "Disabled";
Loading BIOS flew past, Windows loaded immediately. As a result, it was necessary to connect the monitor not via a DP cable, but via hdmi (there is a discrete 1080ti video card);
I immediately ated the BIOS to F6a (F3 was from the factory). The XMP profile did not want to be taken on 3200 (it's the only one there), Win11 crashed. Memory Crucial Ballistix Black [BL2K8G32C16U4B] 16 GB. As a result, it was necessary to insert the strips not into 1/3 slots, but into 2/4. After 3200 I just took 3600.

Pros

1. Price (very good equipment in its price category); 2. A large number of M.2 slots and their cooling (do not forget to remove the film from the thermal pad under the heatsink); 3. Very good heatsinks on M.2.

Cons