Gigabyte Z790M AORUS ELITE

[no_1_dave]

Soo, my Gigabyte Z790M AORUS ELITE arrived from Israel over the Christmas break. Ordered on the 24th and it arrived on the 28th, pretty impressive.

Finally got around to installing it and I definitely prefer it over the Asus Prime Z790m I was using. I don't know if it's just something I was doing wrong but I was having stability issues with XMP profiles and it just felt as though the Asus just wasn't doing what it was supposed to be doing. Maybe it just takes more configuration than I have patience for but the Gigabyte is spot on.

Immediately after only setting XMP and nothing else I was able to run Cinebench without it pushing the temps over and throttling the CPU. It hovered around 290w and the boost clocks remained rock steady, not adjusting back & forth. Then I went into the bios and set a -0.05v offset and it's hitting 270w max now with no drop to the cinebench score, everything still remaining rock solid and temps staying below 82c.

I didn't think about taking any pics until I was about to make this post so here is the box and a pic of it in my machine. Wish I'd thought about it earlier so I could have got some shots of the board. I just gotta tone down all the RGB and it'll be sound. Couldn't be happier with it, not sure why it's not available in the UK/EU/US

Spoiler: Pics

 

[no_1_dave]

Looking good (apart from the RGB).

The micro-ATX format is really underrepresented in Z790 boards. I ended up going Z690 instead. It is odd Gigabyte haven’t given this a wider release given the gap in the market.

Yea, the RGB was a bit OTT at stock, I've made them either just white or off now

I was going to swap to Z690 until I saw this board. I was also surprised it wasn't available anywhere over here but took the plunge ordering from Israel and am just glad it all worked out. It seems mATX is dying, there is more ITX choice than mATX on all the latest chipsets

What memory SKU did you use? Any slow boots, etc?

I'm using Corsair VENGEANCE DDR5 32GB (2x16GB) 5600MHz C36
No slow boots and it's been absolutely rock solid. Not had a single crash in the 2 weeks since installing it. Makes me think I could probably push it over the XMP figures but tbh I'm happy with the current performance and stability so will just leave it as it is

 

[no_1_dave]

And conkers bad fur day? A man of taste I see!

Day of release for the N64

 

[no_1_dave]

Do you have the SKU code? CMK/CMH### etc.

This one from CPU-Z? CMK32GX5M2B5600C36

 

[no_1_dave]

Thanks for that as I'm currently looking at the MSI PRO Z790-A WIFI DDR5 model and those modules are on the compatibility listings. I found some Trident Z5 6000 CL36 modules but not sure if they will be compatible?

The compatibility lists are only a guide of the most popular modules, they don't have time to test all modules.
I'd be very surprised if any of the main brands had compatibility issues