Review on GIGABYTE Z490 AORUS LGA1200 Motherboard Computer Components by Ron Houston

It's $600 so yeah I had high expectations. Pros: build quality, aesthetics, features, bios fallback settings, days of I/O Cons: RGB FUSION, it's terrible and necessary to control the lighting on a mobo and an included aio cooler. It's temperamental, doesn't save settings after reboot, and overrides other independent RGB settings. Also, HE keeps spinning HARD DISKS and doing something with the heads at launch. Check online, this is a known issue, and why the heck is RGB software spinning up and spinning down hard drives? Additionally, plugging or unplugging USB devices will cause RAM RGB to be solid red for 6 seconds. I could go on, but I'll stop here. Aside from that, I'm constantly getting super high-pitched squeaks from the mobile device behind the processor, whether it's under load or idle, it doesn't matter. Overall I still like Gigabyte as this will be my third build with a Gigabyte mobile device. But it's overpriced for what it is and the main feature is limited by the terrible RGB software.