Review on 💪 Powerful and Feature-Packed GIGABYTE Z490 AORUS PRO AX Gaming Motherboard - Intel LGA1200, Z490, ATX, Dual M.2, SATA 6Gb/s, USB 3.2 Gen 2, Intel WiFi 6, 2.5G LAN by Isaac Tutt

Name: 💪 Powerful and Feature-Packed GIGABYTE Z490 AORUS PRO AX Gaming Motherboard - Intel LGA1200, Z490, ATX, Dual M.2, SATA 6Gb/s, USB 3.2 Gen 2, Intel WiFi 6, 2.5G LAN
Item: 💪 Powerful and Feature-Packed GIGABYTE Z490 AORUS PRO AX Gaming Motherboard - Intel LGA1200, Z490, ATX, Dual M.2, SATA 6Gb/s, USB 3.2 Gen 2, Intel WiFi 6, 2.5G LAN
Rating: 5

October 31, 2022

Not great, but okay. The Z590 version also seems better, but I like Asus better.

Came with a bent pin that needed repairing to fix one of the stem channels. Runs cool and stable, but overclocking the 10700K requires higher than average voltage. There were glitches in the fan settings in the BIOS. All in all I didn't really like it. It was also difficult to install a plastic armored GPU next to the PCIe slots. The M.2 coolers didn't help, maybe they got hotter. Bluetooth turned off but WiFi was great. The integrated I/O shield was my favorite part of this motherboard.

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