Gigabyte Z390 AORUS MASTER Gaming Motherboard review

Gigabyte Z390 AORUS MASTER Gaming Motherboard review

Gigabyte Z390 AORUS MASTER Gaming Motherboard review

FORGreat CPU overclocking
Good voltage regulator cooling and feature set
Comprehensive software suite

AGAINST
Mediocre memory overclocking
Price is a bit high.

GIGABYTE Z390 Aorus Master ATX Motherboard
Warranty Period	3 Years


Size	ATX
CPU Interface	LGA1151
Chipset	Intel Z390
Memory Slots (DDR4)	Four DDR4 Supporting 128 GB Dual Channel Up to DDR4-4400
Video Outputs	1 x HDMI 1.4
Network Connectivity	Intel I219-V Gigabit Intel 9560 802.11ac 2T2R
Onboard Audio	Realtek ALC1220-VB ESS 9118 DAC
PCIe Slots for Graphics (from CPU)	2 x PCIe 3.0 x16 (x16 or x8/x8)
PCIe Slots for Other (from PCH)	1 x PCIe 3.0 x4 3 x PCIe 3.0 x1
Onboard SATA	Six, RAID 0/1/5/10
Onboard M.2	2 x PCIe 3.0 x4/SATA 1 x PCIe 3.0 x4/x2
USB 3.1 (10 Gbps)	3 x Type-A Rear Panel 1 x Type-C Header
USB 3.0 (5 Gbps)	2 x Type-A Rear Panel 1 x Header (two ports)
USB 2.0	4 x Type-A Rear Panel 2 x Header (four ports)
Power Connectors	1 x 24-pin ATX 2 x 8pin CPU
Fan Headers	1 x CPU (4-pin) 2 x CPU/pump (4-pin) 4 x System (4-pin)
IO Panel	3 x USB 3.1 G2 Type-A 1 x USB 3.1 G2 Type-C 2 x USB 3.1 G1 Type-A (AMP-UP) 4 x USB 2.0 Type-A 1 x Network RJ45 (Intel) 5 x 3.5mm Audio Jacks (Realtek) 1 x S/PDIF Output (Realtek) 2 x Intel 9560 Antenna Ports 1 x Power/Reset button 1 x Clear CMOS button

Test Setup
Processor	Intel i7-8700K, 65W, 6 Cores, 12 Threads, 3.7 GHz (4.7 GHz Turbo)
Motherboard	GIGABYTE Z390 Aorus Master (BIOS F8e)
Cooling	be quiet! Silent Loop 240mm AIO
Power Supply	Thermaltake Toughpower Grand 1200W Gold PSU
Memory	2x16GB Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4-2400 Ran at DDR4-2666 CL16-18-18-35 2T
Video Card	ASUS GTX 980 STRIX (1178/1279 Boost)
Hard Drive	Crucial MX300 1TB
Case	Open Benchtable BC1.1 (Silver)
Operating System	Windows 10 RS3 inc. Spectre/Meltdown Patches

we're going to be taking a look at the gigabyte or Auris z3 90 horas master so this is one of the latest motherboards from gigabyte that features the z3 70 chipset which is going to support all your coffee and Kanyon like CPUs and it's filled with features going on to the back you can see the specifications and you can pause the video if you want to see that stuff more in-depth the rest of the back of the box is filled with all kinds of information regarding the other aspects of

the board like it has a fin grid design of heatsink and it supports the RGB control from gigabyte and it has updated sound DAC on it we're just gonna go ahead and open it up so we do have a pretty nice presentation here and with a fully black box it's quite thick to of cardboard here in the box as typical is the motherboard itself which looks pretty hefty we're going to set that aside real quick we do have a sticker set so you can really decorate your PC or whatever you want

with this full sticker set also included is a case badge a legacy driver disc and a comprehensive manual on the whole motherboard digging deeper inside we find that the accessories so they are nice enough to include a couple of velcro zip ties for the people management on the back of your case we do have a gigabyte high bandwidth SLI bridge that's pretty nice we also have the Quick Connect riser kit so you plug all your front panel into this and then plug this into your

motherboard all at one time instead of fumbling around with a bunch of little wires three nvme screws so you can potentially do a lot of RAID with this I Wi-Fi antenna three thumb screws which I assume might be for the nvme we have four SATA cables to RGB headers we have three separate RGB wires and two temperature probes and onto the gem I have to say starting off it is actually quite heavy some of that might have to do with it as a pretty much full coverage

heatsink on the backside of it Plus this vrm cooling is quite heavy as well gonna go ahead and pull this plastic off also contributing to the weight is the fact that everything is reinforced with metal from the eight pin CPU power to the PCI Express slots to the RAM slots to an on-board USB there is metal everywhere moving on to the i/o panel which features a built-in IO shield so no more forgiving we have a power button which is pretty nice a clear CMOS button the Wi-Fi

antenna connectors for USB 2.0 s 2 USB 3.0 with the amplified audio from the sound chip if you have a USB headset on board HDMI USB 3.1 type C one of them and three USB 3.1 type A's gigabit internet and your 7.1 channel surrounds them up in the top corner surrounded by the vrm heat sinks we have the two CPU eight pin power connectors also right next to it is a four pin fan connector which I will now show you all of them there are seven there's the one there

there's two here by the CPU socket one over here by the nvme slot and three down in the corner by the postcode in the top corner surrounded by the vrm heatsink there are two CPU eight pin power connectors there's also a four pin fan header which this board has eight or I will now show you the one we talked about two here by the CPU sockets one down by the 24 pin connector one down by the first and vme slots and three down at the bottom by the postcode

also at the top of the board there are contact points here that you can check the live voltages of the various components of the computer while it's on they also have your four ddr4 slots and you have a cutout here like a window almost in the PCB that says X and P so it'd be interesting to see if that lights up also at the top is where you will connect your headers for your RGB the top one says RGB 12 volt and the next one says ground down at the bottom of the RAM slots

you have your USB 3.0 header and you also have your USB C front panel connector down towards the bottom by the Southbridge heat sink which is RGB and addressable we have the header for the thermal probe and our six SATA three connectors below that we have our front panel connector our postcode our reset switch two USB 2.0 headers an additional pair of RGB headers and the bios switches before we move on I just wanted to take a moment to talk more

about the weight because I kept mentioning how heavy it is so we have an older motherboard here it's a really high-end one z77 FTW from EVGA this was one of the highest end motherboards you can get from that era and we're gonna go ahead and weigh it real quick so for this high-end motherboard we're reading a thousand at 32 grams and now we're compare it to the latest motherboard and we're getting a reading of 1617 grams so about 1.6 times the

weight that's quite a bit heavier and it's quite a bit smaller a footprint because that is an e ATX motherboard and this is not just kind of maybe keep that in mind that you do have to put all the screws in especially if you're gonna be running multiple graphics cards in this and loading up a bunch of nvme drives and maybe a big heat sink I can start to get quite heavy alright so we're here in the BIOS and as you can see it first takes you to this easy mode page it gives you

some of the information about your system here on the Left more of it and towards the center right here is where you can activate X and P really quick and easy and over here I like it because it tells you what you have installed in the system so you can see we have no status plugged in and then for PCI Express you can see we have just one card plugged in so that actually came in handy when I got an ebay card and it was DOA I'm told the guy I'm like hey

the BIOS doesn't even see any PCI Express it's just completely broken dude and then shows your M twos and the speed that they're running in so you can also just make sure there's nothing funky going on there down on the Left we have boot sequence so you can select your different drives if you had them here's smart fan it just takes you into this stuff written kind of control the temperature targets really that's all it really does and then over on the right up here

in the f4 BIOS this ez OC used to work but they disabled it with the newest bios for some reason not really sure why you can turn it until rapid or tech on here I don't know why you want that there's also a couple other of quick things here so if you go to F or press f2 or click that down there you can get the familiar looking BIOS quite classic from gigabyte at this point so MIT is where you're going to be controlling all of your functions so the story you can also

enable XMP and do some actual overclocking and you can see we're at 5 gigahertz here and there's there's a lot of settings these like your you're switching settings for your like your vrm and stuff like that I literally didn't have any luck changing anything other than just pressing 50 and go so I love the Volta auto is the best everything every other change it would make would either yeah I would be able to get higher overclock but it would be either too hot and start underclocking or it would be unstable so the best way to use this motherboard is to put your

CPU and press 50 gig or 5 gigahertz and just go and then the rest of the BIOS is pretty simple system date time and stuff like that more boot configuration stuff this is where you can turn off some a lot of the unboard controllers integrated graphics stuff like that power no I don't know anyone that's ever used a BIOS wake up and sleep in a warm and all that stuff ever it's pretty standard stuff that you come to expect from give your bite at this point and I noticed that they

have this 3d mark a1 enhancement I don't use 3d mark o1 so I don't know what it does alright so we have our motherboard installed here in a system we took the GPU out that way you can better see the four addressable RGB areas the first one which I like the best is this one on the top which is the i/o panel and the vrm heatsink I like the vrm heatsink LEDs because they're somewhere in between the heatsink it fins that itself that way you get some reflection so you can

see some bright zones and some a little bit less glowy zones I think that looks the best you also have one down here by the sound chip the DAC mostly gonna be covered by by your GPU and it's not really that big of a zone so that one's just kind of take it or leave it a self bridge down here is quite large and I do think it looks really well with the Eagle of their mascot or whatever that one's pretty good doesn't get covered all the way by your GPU so you still get to see some

RGB there and then up top is the XMP light that only turns on during XMP and it is also addressable by stock it is orange and I thought I had to stay orange but then I opened up the software and there's the for easily selectable zones and I just turned it on to the RGB spectrum like you have here the software isn't as in-depth as I would thought it was going to be so you have speed control and brightness control you can also put it on static I'll see ya pulse like you

see there and flash like you see there which that is the fastest speed and if you turn the speed down it's too slow actually that's that's that's just annoying at that point really so that concludes our coverage for the z3 90 horas master this board honestly packs way more features than we care to cover or that we even can cover here like the Android supported quick charge on the USB functions the built in Wi-Fi which is part of the xethru 90 chipset there's honestly

too many things here if that stuff interest you you're probably just gonna have to go ahead and buy it it's not a bad call the board does look really well and it does have a lot of features like the triple n twos and right there on the front and the RGB and stuff like that so it's quite solid board that has worked for everything that we needed it to although the software does seem to be maturing and it's pretty classic for gigabyte at this point so if you do buy this board maybe just stick on those the stock BIOS and stuff like that until an even better one comes out .

Gigabyte Z390 AORUS MASTER Gaming Motherboard review

the Auris master is meant to replace the gaming 7 and then the gaming nine I guess is something over that what's above Master Ultimates or something no idea um anyways so this one is a very very loaded motherboard you get a better audio you get 12 plus 2 digital power you get wave to Wi-Fi and that's Intel Wi-Fi and that's Intel's new Wi-Fi that's rated up to theoretically 1.73 3 gigabits per second that's faster than your wired LAN most in most cases

unless you have like 2 0.5 to 5 megabits per second land alright so let's take a look at the accessory package and do some unboxing people tend to like that so you know here we go and also um so they're talking about like obtained and that kind of stuff on the board too so this board probably supports opt-in oh and two times copper PCB so that's gigabytes way they use just called 2 ounce copper PCB some vendors also called 2 ounce but 2 times this kind of

accurate you should just be 1 ounce of the copper layer and extra ounce the doubling it up really helps with cooling and stuff like that so let's take a look motherboard much better packaging than what we saw through the the pro and that's mainly what you get with gigabytes more high-end motherboards you get better packaging because it's a more expensive board it's kind of like an insurance policy they take out I guess but it also makes people feel like it's a

more high quality this is heavy very heavy wow it's like five pounds anyways you get your stickers like you do at your other high-end stuff I guess you get a VIP card I guess you can take that out put it on your credit card or something passport on your passport cool things you got your cable labels here so you can actually like identify what the cable is before plugging it in so you just tag both ends and you plug it into like SATA 3 and then you write SATA 3 on it or you

write like this is this SSD yeah and then you got a case match here um about okay we'll pick this up soon son okay and now we have some manuals multilingual installation guide if you don't know how to build a computer and here you have a ZP Samuel horse master user's manual and it's actually a thick user's manual drop good girl alright so here we have the

beautiful DVD no one uses and no one uses it so everyone download so I guess you could for land but if you're in so long in Windows 10 if they use the Intel NIC the driver world to be there so you don't need it I like big Romanians like this did they put back the block diagrams no they did but I got in here so I got the block diagrams for the master in the pro so I can tell you

exactly what's up Doug I just kind of keep reminding myself which one is which because they're put side by side here we have a ton of accessories you know people like to unbox no it's just so much trash leftover afterwards alright so here we have temperature sensors this motherboard supports the addition of two external temperature sensor so you could like to stick it into your GPU like in the heatsink so you get more accurate temperature of your GPU so we got one

there another one what is this okay this is a RGB extension cable like a goodbye it's kind of backing away from RGB W it confuses people I get that's that would be my guess is that people are confuses make sure I'm recording audio for some reason that it's feeling it's not oh it is I love how these devices have lights on them so you don't do all the way over there all right and here we have a sad oh I guess we get four of them this is standard mm these mostly m dot you

know but most boards only have like two or three of those and if you want a lot of storage like hard drives and stuff I can see you not using these here we have a digital or addressable RGB extension cable um so it extends uh that's like weird for pin to a three pin I think a lot of Corsair accessories use a three pin what is this another another digital RGB such a table in digital can also be called addressable like on others and gigabyte has moved their spacing to be

more compatible with other brands aces and gigabyte came out with their digital's first and gigabytes was three-night next each other aces was two space one and so pink compatibility obviously they fight for it and then I guess rock took up a Seuss's and MSI shifted to a Seuss's so gigabyte decide you know what everyone else is going with it why make things harder for our customers I assume that's a lot of thinking they serve the adapters and there because like I said

of course there's is three some boards have a dedicated Corsair header which is just an addressable header that's three pins okay so we'll just leave this up here so what's on the other side now this has integrated i/o so I don't if you like accessories this motherboard's bastard alright so I'm not gonna take these out these are n dot two standoffs we got some cable velcro ties we have a high bandwidth SLI bridge it says SLI on it okay your Wi-Fi so you gotta have

your Wi-Fi antenna and you got your main D remaining m dot two screws and stuff okay the gigabyte antenna is magnetic it has a magnet at the bottom right here I think and you could just like put it on something metal like a case if your metal is made from something other than aluminum um so let's take a look at this motherboard let's see how we're doing a zoom and stuff okay alright um so there's a lot of boys you pull up from this end you pull them out a little portion goes underneath there so secure so basically first time pulling this board out to you

guys like that I like it I really like this heatsink I mean this is an actual heatsink with fins there was actually something cool about it um I have these marketing slides that give all the media call media kits and I had one that kind of detailed their changes to the fins alright here we go ok so a few things I want talking about we're taking this stuff off the heatsink wasn't that satisfying what's for me all right so this lights up and says ESS saber high five high fidelity

PCH be a nice mirror finish undoubtedly gonna pick up my fingerprints though and I can do about that touch it all right so you got some decent looking MDOT to heatsinks here they're all metal they seem to be a few millimeters thick so they're not whimsy wimpy okay so let's start with the heatsink let's see what's cool about oh I wouldn't want to mention the 2 ounce car PCB bigger BIOS has a slide in there saying that they increased the luck width of the power plane so in there that CPU is own dedicated power plane which these two eight pin headers right here

these sweet pin headers they dead this power is dedicated to the CPU basic isolates the CPU power plane from the rest and they also ensures the CPU is not pulling power from this which only as I wanted to 12-volt wires from the 24 pin so you don't burn out your 24 pin you know that's the last thing you want to do so that's why it's isolated and it's typically always isolated every brand pretty much does it I think on the server sides a little different but here yeah it's

always isolated and there's a power plant and it's amount of copper inside the PCB dedicated to the power of the CPU and in this case figure it has with wine didn't why didn't anyways so they made it bigger wider right more area so what else have they done okay thin cut heat sinks so this part of that heatsink that's cut and thicker it looks better right but it doesn't have the best thermal performance but it does take a thermal load and then we have a fins array they say is it increased 300% heat dissipation area compared traditional heatsinks direct touch heat pipe

meaning the copper from the heat pipes are directly touching the new heat pads which they actually picked out specifically for this design and they called a high thermal conductivity pad and it's by using a layer in 1.5 millimeter five watt per mill mill okay I'm Kelvin high thermal conductivity pad it can transfer to point times more heat compared to traditional thermal pads and we saw them use these same thermal pads in their X 399 motherboard a new one and a

thermal base plate so I guess this has a back plate and yeah seems like the back plate is actually touching the PCB something you don't typically see to be honest which is kind of sad okay so I guess we're going over this part of the motherboard I'd be the typical peek okay we got a fan header they're designed in Taipei right at the top we're very proud of that they should be okay and then we have RGB header here a digital RGB header here RGB right yeah RGB voltage

selection so by default it's on five volt and we switch this over it'll go to which we call it 12 volt now I've seen these headers on gigabyte motherboards before this labeled OC button so I guess there's a OC button right here I don't see and I guess it's a toggle or something because there's three pins so I don't know sell an accessory or something that we make use of that I'm making a note of that screw there I'm going to need I take the back plate off take the heatsinks off with

the back plate that makes my job harder but it's better for you because you actually get more features so two more fan headers here fan header here and you see sensor there's AC just means embedded controller it's a secondary controller that handles like fan control or like any other like basically whatever the super i/o should do but doesn't have enough pins to do they call it ec embedded controller so as a secondary controller I'll show you later but this is for

external temperature input it does seem we have power phases here and I honestly think they're for the USB they're like boosters that boost voltage for different types of charging I believe this motherboards front USB point O is quick-charge 3 compatible meaning that the voltage level is going to be different so I guess you need a boost regulator instead of a buck that's used here anyways so you turn this around maybe they're down there I see two down there so maybe this

is like VPP power I don't know dear Ann looks to be huh I gotta look it up I gotta take a closer look but it seems to be like a single phase or maybe these are memory phases um maybe they're books anyways I'm not concerned ddr4 isn't as much power so oh wow I'm almost missed it this right here these are voltage read points I don't know what these big pads next to Marv hopefully they're not solder points for something else because that would be kind of weird but

yeah these are voltage repoint s-- right here so you actually manual voltage read points on this motherboard something that we didn't really see on the gaming maybe it was on the game so I don't remember every mother comes through this is a USB 3 one type C so on the gaming pro it was a USB 3.0 type see this is USB 3.1 type C and of course coming for comment gonna come from the chipset and then we have a thunderbolt header a GPIO header burner book type C so

you can add in a card you get 6 y si SATA 6 gigabits per second you get dual BIOS and one of them actually comes in a little socket so down the line let's say you lose both BIOS is you don't to send the little board and gigabyte to just ship you a BIOS ROM and you can just toss it in there but if you do that make sure you keep track of what pins are going where you know you don't want to fry anything okay so we have a clear CMOS here and exit front panels this must

be the second embedded controller this is your debug port this must either be a power reset button three fan headers here USB 2.0 here trusted platform module mini right there another RGB header digital LED header which is also called addressable you got your dual BIOS and your single bounce mode switches they're both on number position one the dual BIOS which allows you to switch between the BIOS is the single BIOS switch allows you to cut the ties between the BIOS is it's an overclocking feature that's how useful when doing like liquid

nitrogen stuff because sometimes a dual BIOS check where the main BIOS tricks backup at the back of checksum eight or whatever it does can cause issues on boot but only under extreme conditions like liquid nitrogen so and also with like special biases that gigabytes overclockers use so they put the switch on just in case you want to do that and then we also have our typical like audio header as period of as yeah switch over here it seems like this illuminates in the pictures I've seen we got some electrolytic capacitors here we got some Wemo film capacitors

there we got some em top two heat sinks here so they see got three about three slots I believe on this board thing on this board this will share with this but they will not share with this so putting a card here won't affect the bandwidth of here however putting a card here will will I think take game away from this let me just make sure yeah okay yeah this will take bandwidth from this they're both by four right PCI 3.0 and yeah and let's see what else we got going and then I bet you this one takes two SATA ports just like on the pro but this one like The probe's to

share but the pro is to end dot two slots not three alright so let's take a I'm not twos actually okay we got a clear CMOS a power button your Wi-Fi headers for USB 2.0 ports USB 3.0 daca which means like better power delivery HDMI port USB 3.1 type C and four more USB 3.1 ports that's a lot of USB to buy one that right , now if they're calling those USB 3.0 and the other ones USB through them at one they're obviously gonna be taking a bit this block type oh yeah I know okay I see it now it's on the block diagram I just it's a big block diagram all

right and this is aureus what materials us it's plastic but it looks matte like it looks like rubber three of them they're decent thickness to match the other components them to the side okay so you basically seen all the macro features and now let's take a look at the chipset now the design so on these motherboards the way you do it is because it has a back shield the way you have to do it is basically unscrewed few screws that you'll find on the top side these are like the first

ones you do this I always tell myself I should just videotape myself doing these type of boards because there's so many different types of screws on these motherboards that it's very easy to forget which screws go to what okay now we flip her over and find a bunch of other screws you better move so this one now this one is standoffs we're gonna have to remove as well fun so this back shield is aluminum no thickness it's thick enough it's gonna be acting like a heatsink in these areas so yeah I highly recommend if you do end up taking apart you do not forget the

thermal pads here because if this metal make contact with those components probably not gonna be a good thing but that's my guess it's pretty good contact these are thick thermal pads but I guess that makes sense because in no universe would you want this metal touching the top of these little ml/cc they're basically metallic capacitors alright so this is an IR the are I am I can tell by little jugglers here they're really tiny you see one here here here what else can we see them the other ones on the other side of probably top side there's one here these are IR three

five nine nine there are doublers or quadruple ears I guess in this case of doubler cuz we're not for juggling anything here because they stand off staying to the fly off I could really nervous taking these off and doesn't help the last thing I'll do scratch the PCB I really wish they wouldn't make these screws as well these go into the plastic shields on a top side and they also keep the other thing up but I could use like a socket you know like something that fits this but I don't have that with the little tool kit I have here do you have some at home maybe she's up

bringing them if I'm gonna see more boards like this don't think you may see how my brain does like this but honestly you're not supposed to open this anyway it's really easy to kill the board in this manner I just doing working with motherboards for so long actually I know how to not to kill them there's a special way you can do things it does work I'm 20 minutes already 7 o'clock right now tomorrow I have to go to New York City there's some events a lot of Superboy

actually this video can't go live and so I'm a lot of stuff anything anyways we'll see everything has been unscrewed this looks to be for RGB yeah so this is RGB it probably lights up this entire thing you can even see that it lights up the entire thing it's quite nice I really want to know what it looks like it looks like that diffuses it so that's what I really like to see you like the fusion here we have this is that really screwed into the juice oh my god Wow hey this is not gonna be fun what's holding this in something here mrs. screw ya miss to see you never want to

force anything in these things and even I make mistakes I can't believe they fused the two together alright option is your interview I know shield here see it's more than just a piece of tin did you go or jeebies in there fun yeah I'm pretty sure you're not supposed to do this no should I keep everything just doesn't you found it no it'll do its job I'm not really good about it okay so it looks like they're making great contact these RI are three five five three I can just tell from here okay so for some random reason my camera stopped recording and I don't have time to

redo this so I'm just gonna go over this part again and try to cut in alright so here's a motherboard bear here is this heat sink this heat sink is very nice it has direct touch heat pipes see see that copper that copper is making direct contact with this high-end thermal pad and you got fins on there real fins you got 12 phase digital vrm powered by an IR 3/5 201 it's in six plus two phase modes I assume six phase is being doubled by some ir35 99 doublers on the backside and then here you know there's six of them those two here and form on the back they're really

tiny little chocolates then the power stages are 40 amp ir35 5-3 your GPU MOSFETs are right here they're just normal MOSFETs of power packs and there are two phases and no one really cares so much about the GPU on these motherboards because if you're gonna buy something high and white go like that going around here we do see some power stages probably from memory we also see some power here for the USB 3.0 internal headers and this is USB 3.1 and I

think that's a me driver so anyways you probably wanna use so close anyway so we've got your boss prompts here main super i/o here USB 2.0 hub there and I teach up here and so yeah you got this thing here that hub for these two IT this is an embedded controller this embedded controller is why these are labeled EC temperature inputs and you have an IT chip here it's probably a micro controller that controls digital addressable RGB headers we have an ESS es 9 1 1 8 back here with a ALC 1220 some high-end capacitors and that will give you 125 DB SNR

through the back and I guess the internal DAC in here is gonna be used for it this right here we have some Paracon pi/3 eqx rhe drivers for 4 USB 3.1 ports and then we have one type C switch because when they're not the same so when you flip it messes things up a little bit here we have another USB 2.0 hub so gonna get four of them right there you know and then we have notes to be out of here we a level shifter so we get the HDMI output on the back that is the only video output this motherboard has so what else what else what else okay we got some switches here

these four will move this 8x here to this these two will move by four from here to one of these I'm not two slots this switch will switch 2 by 2 this probably with this rose I don't know what this little switch is doing but it's a high-end NXP switch anything it allows multi-directional switching which is kind of cool so this is a high-end motherboard very very nice very nice um I like the vrm probably do really well especially with the expanded powertrain and the copper

and the PCB has been doubled which is great I don't think many of gigabytes have any z 370 motherboards had two ounces of copper in them but these do you guys call it two times copper because before everyone just uses one as the standard in the industry gigabytes using two so mix of motherboard not only stronger I can't bend this like and other boards but it also makes it better thermally and even like power conduction to the CPU the area has been widened so it's pretty good yeah they go sixteen eight and then always four unless one of these I'm top teams

I've taken the manual will tell you that oh I didn't go over the two BIOS roms are here 120 oh megabits and one of them is in a socket so you can switch it out if you like guys want to see me put it back together do this you know what I'll do when I get back from New York I'll leave this like this and if you guys and gals have any questions please leave them I try to answer them as I can from the menu manual performance of these motherboards is not public yet there's another

NDA for that so please like it and let me know if you have any questions but yeah very nice very nice vrm very nice power stages very nice heatsink the heatsink is really big really they upped their game with the heatsink it's quite nice very very nice so the direct copper and the heat pipe is pretty cool they shaved it down a little bit so that there's direct contracts poacher and it's a nice thing to have because I mean it's making direct contact with the heat pipe and it does seem to be with the with the thermal pads and does seem to be raised like a tiny bit over making that

possible and the fins are nice I'm sure the Capri the fins directly attach the heat pipe that would be good design so they basically the best of both worlds they got the design people liked the look of and it looks more futuristic and then they got the radiator design that's actually effective in one piece and one heat sink right so that's what it looks like usually there's going to be this over it so you can see it yeah it's a direct touch I'm not director active direct enough you gotta have some kind of thermal interface material there so yeah pretty cool if you have any questions in the comments once again please leave them .