GIGABYTE Z490 AORUS LGA1200 Motherboard Computer Components Review

Decent motherboard and you get the feel of superior quality for the money you spend on it. But the feeling is where "premium" ends. The mainboard, like all high-end gigabyte boards, whines like crazy. This is caused by Gigabyte using vrms to power the CPU. This was also an issue with previous generation masterboards. I have this one and it whines at an uncomfortable rate. Replaced it with a Gigabyte Ultra and the problem got worse. As with all other mainboard manufacturers, the RGB software is…

First things first. This motherboard is a premium motherboard. My son originally leaned towards the ROG Strix Z490 so we bought it. However, I convinced him to try Gigabyte and he did not disappoint. This was his first build and it ran flawlessly. So let's dive into the pros and cons. Pros: * Compatible with 10th and 11th generation Intel processors. * High quality materials including heatsink, connectors and I/O shield. * PCIe4 support. This will change the data transfer rate to higher speed…

Video speaks for itself. No coil squeaking. If you notice coil whine, all you have to do is go to the advanced settings (under Setup) in the BIOS. Then go to CPU settings and disable C-states control. (This will surely eliminate any coil whine as far as the motherboard is concerned, this board is 14 phase, 1 phase for the GPU, 90 AMP. It has a strong VRM and this motherboard doesn't sweat when you overclock it (pics say Unlike the MSI MEG Unify (which I had before) the transient response and…

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…

Everything worked fine for the first few days until I decided to upgrade the memory. I've been running my PC with a single chip in slot B1 for some time without any problems. When I set the memory to 2x16GB the mobo refused to recognize the memory (error code C1). I've been trying to figure out why a single RAM chip works fine on B1 or B2 but not on A1 or A2. There seems to be an issue with the slots, so now I have to contact support. Both slots A1 and A2 work separately or even together, but…

On my second z490 Aorus Master the first board had issues with the Intel i-225 onboard network regardless of driver or firmware updates it just stayed idle, no activity lights. . It will be active for very short periods of time, but mostly not. So I gave up and swapped for another one and this one worked out smoothly. I haven't built a PC in at least 16 years, hence the fact that everything went so well, including BIOS update, then BIOS setup, component installation, then Windows 10 and…

If you buy this motherboard and plan to install a new Windows system on it, please note that you need to backup Windows update to USB drive or CD. After cleaning the system, I inserted the CD that came with the motherboard to install the drivers. They won't install because I haven't installed updated Windows. So I didn't have a network driver to access the internet. (No Internet = No Windows Update) (No Windows Update = Network drivers cannot be installed). Even when I used USB to transfer…