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 Aaron Johnson

Let's start with the fact that the board is physically solid and its quality is beyond reproach. The VRM heatsinks surrounding the base do an incredible job, fully aided by the heat pipes running from one heatsink to the next. All VRMs also have thermal pads, and while you might not notice them, you'll absolutely feel the effect if you're putting a lot of power into your CPU. The BIOS is the best in the business, there are no errors in the descriptions, 8 overclocking profiles, a favorites page where I save things that I play regularly, and I've never had a boot error when overclocking my memory and CPU . Every time I tried an unstable OC, the board reverted 100% to the default or last known working profile. Maybe I'm lucky but after 2-3 reboots it keeps coming back and I never had to clear the CMOS to boot. It's a mid-high range in terms of connectivity, you get more USB ports than you know what to do with, as well as PWM fan headers and RGB (2x RGB, 2X ARGB) headers. With this board I was able to consistently boost the 10600K to 5.1GHz, which I couldn't achieve without blue screens on my MSI MPG Z490 Gaming Edge Wifi. If you want to spend your money elsewhere, there are certainly better boards out there, but if you like overclocking and value a comprehensive BIOS, you can't go wrong with the Aorus.