Review on 🎮 GIGABYTE Z490 AORUS Xtreme WF Gaming Motherboard - Intel LGA1200, Z490, E-ATX, All-In-One Monoblock, 3xM.2 Thermal Guard, SATA 6Gb/s, USB 3.2 Gen 2, Intel WiFi 6, Dual Thunderbolt 3, ESS9218 DAC, Aquantia 10GbE by Yung Kitamura

THE BEST LOOKERS and footboard I've ever used. but damaged by terrible quality control and issues that don't match its quality. Scandinavia is absolutely gorgeous. The fully coated water block has a phenomenal design while the rest of the plating on the board leaves no visible part of the board itself. The board is incredibly strong and durable; You don't have to worry about the back panel bending due to too much pressure. The placement of all built-in peripherals is good. The LEDs and their control are phenomenal. This board has a solid height for overclocking and supports not only the CPU but EVERYTHING perfectly. I am currently running a 10900KF and am able to hit a stable 5.5GHz on all cores. Probably one of the best I've seen in a long time. Peripheral and RAM support is top-notch with an extensive list. Much better than the Z390 generation. Bad and ugly: - Quality control. This board has PROBLEMS that SHOULD NOT HAVE. First of all I had to send the first board back as it was DOA. Yes, sometimes. Luckily, Revane rushed to replace me with a new one. After everything was installed and running, I realized that the LEAK DETECTION CIRCUIT literally makes no sense - if you screw the fitting too tight (HOW IT SHOULD) the machine will not turn on. Apparently he recognizes the metal as a leak. I tried loosening them just enough to get the machine to power up and voila, there was a leak. :D So you're stuck trying to redesign a way to make it work. And there are ways. (Check Reddit). This is hot QA garbage. The valve must never trigger the leak detection circuit. The fittings are also too close together so some of you with larger fittings won't be able to get it to work. Instead, you need to use angle fittings. More quality control. The built-in LAN is questionable at best. BOTH controllers. In my case, my Aquantia 10GB doesn't work at all, but 2.5GB does. But it turns off randomly and I have to disable it and then enable it again. If I didn't have 5G WiFi I would be fucked as the only way to get it is to download the latest drivers and update the firmware. These issues were more than enough for 2nd star docking. I know Gigabyte is trying and they're slowly improving from "Hyundai among computer motherboards," but their tech support is 193 degrees Fahrenheit, hot junk, too. While I will say after much work and debugging, this board is phenomenal. I just rolled up my sleeves.