GigaByte Z390 Aorus Xtreme Waterforce - Reviews
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12.8.2019
I bought this board for an i9-9900k (Specs below if you care) and I'm very happy with it. The board is well designed with plenty of fan controllers which are insanely useful if you have a large fan cooled case as I do. In fact the fan controllers keep the case so cool that unless I am gaming the CPU fan doesn't turn, at all making the PC remarkably quiet.It has full RGB lighting and will control external RGB strips if you can be bothered to set it up, which I didn't beyond the basic of making it the same colour as my case lights.It will take two M.2 NVMe drives as well as three other drives due to the combination of channels. I'm running 2 m.2 drives, plus an ssd, storage hdd and a CD-Rom drive because,
21.3.2019
I use Linux, specifically Ubuntu, as my only operating system. I recently built a new i9 9900K workstation and chose the Designare Z390 for the motherboard. I couldn't be happier with it!First of all, everything (I care about) on the motherboard works with Ubuntu 18.04.2 and 18.10 which are the current LTS and interim releases at the time of writing. WiFi, both Ethernet ports, Bluetooth, Thunderbolt, Audio and the rest all work. No messing about required, and what we expect from modern Linux these days. What you are not able to do is configure the RGB on the motherboard, those tools do not exist for Linux (yet). Thankfully, I am not a fan of RGB and deliberately chose a motherboard that didn't light up like a Christmas tree ;-)
2.3.2019
Brilliant well made board everything you could need Gigabyte have done themselves proud with the Aorus Master.Onboard audio has improved dramatically in the last couple of years and that is what the focus of my review is about.I had a usb dac bypassing the onboard audio on my previous board and delivering direct to my amplifier and on to my speakers. The usb dac stopped working and i had to connect the amp up to the onboard audio via a single jack plug to rca splitter cable. I was impressed how good the sound was using the just the onboard ALC1200 Realtek on my Z370 board, so much so that when i spotted the Gigabyte Z390 Aorus Master and read the reviews and specs and found out that it had not
9.4.2019
I have Windows 10 Pro, 32 and 64 bit, Windows Server 2019, and Red Hat linux 7 installed to this system. It was a painful experience.It doesn't tell you here, but 32 bit OSs are not supported. For some reason, even with the on-board graphics wound down to low resolution, only 948 Mb memory is available to Windows, and a bare-bones OS will use 700Mb of that. Where's the other 3GB? Gigabyte aren't saying. If you ask, they'll tell you it only supports Windows 10/64 bit.The Intel Ethernet driver installer universally insists that there is no Intel Ethernet hardware on the board. If you get the latest driver direct from Intel (easily found, but Windows 10 only), it will install to Pro editions,
28.4.2020
Having built a fair few PC's in my time, they seem to get easier as the years progress. My latest one was a breeze, partly due to the ease of connecting this motherboard.The connectors are fairly well laid out around the board, so it's easy to get things looking neat. There's a nice header for the case connectors (which I found after I'd installed everything).Memory is 2 x CORSAIR VENGEANCE RGB PRO 32GB which works great. The multi-colour rippling LED colouring is nice (if you're into that sort of thing) but can't be replicated once you use the RGB Fusion software. You can only cycle through colours, not have lots on the same chip at the same time.I installed a 1TB M.2 drive which works great.
20.8.2019
I am a long time fan of Gigabyte and this board does not disappoint. It has everything I need and more.I think my only criticism of Gigabyte is the rather crazy M.2 heat shields. These seem to preform pretty much no function at all and don't even contact the NVMe drives. I find it much better to just buy a separate heatsink for an M.2 and use those instead, throwing the shields in the bin. The positioning of the M.2's is bad too, since one is in a fan draft dead-spot under the CPU ( not so bad if you use a traditional fan heatsink on the CPU ), one of them is under the graphics card ( hot ), and the third, well, that one is the socket of choice.
4.10.2019
Bought this Gigabyte Z390 Gaming X board to upgrade to 9th gen, fitted an i7 9700K, 16GB HyperX Fury 3200 RAM & EVGA RTX2070.It was very easy to build, mainly because the board layout is of a standard design. The manual is good, but the standard location of sockets definitely helped me too. It matched my old Asus board in it's design, which meant I could remove my old board and plug cables in without too much re-routing and without too much head-scratching.I haven't tweaked bios settings yet, I just set the boot order to install Windows from a usb and left the rest at default. On first power up it restarted itself a couple of times,
24.9.2019
I took time looking for a well equipped Z390 Motherboard at a reasonable mid range price and this appears to tick all the boxes.Having upgraded the guts of my PC from an ageing Z97 board, Installation was be a little tricky in my case as some of the onboard ports and connections on this full size board were fiddly to get at, but once all together it was satisfying that it booted through POST first time and then I went straight in to BIOS. Nice addition in BIOS to switch from the graphical interface to a more text based "classic" layout.A little head scratcher after the fitting of my first ever M2 drive and subsequently filling up all 6 SATA connections, I found that last two SATA ports didn't appear to be working!?
12.5.2019
awesome board and really like the layout of the fan headers and the amount available - makes working with the board very easy. the bios is very detailed and easy to work with. all the lights can be easily controlled from the software. packaged with some additional connectors including strip lighting and an adaptor for your case buttons which is supposed to make attaching the pins into your board easier, but its pretty useless so i didn't bother with it. the wifi/bluetooth is also very fast and the antenna has a decent length but you don't actually need it, works fine without.i think the sound quality is not as good as expected from the board (coming from a creative xfi),
21.6.2019
Bought an i9 9900k and was using it in a z370 ASUS board, but it had issues with apps closing randomly and causing blue screen errors during high demand, particularly games. As someone with a bit of experience with PCs, I quickly suspected the CPU was not getting the proper juice it needed to remain stable. After some research, this was confirmed.I bought this motherboard with a better VRM to supply better voltage regulation to the CPU, and all the issues went away. It’s a solid, well made board which is much better constructed compared to most standard boards, as the PCB contains a copper layer.I would highly recommend this board to anyone wanting to build a work station level PC without the budget to splash out for the really high end stuff.
2.7.2019
Bought this for a new PC build for my son - amazing. Paired with an I7 9700K processor, a Gigabyte RTX 2060 OC, a Samsung Evo 970 Pro M2 ssd and 32Gb memory. Fab for his first gaming PC !! Auto clocked itself to 4.9 mhz upon first boot up and now running at 5.1 mhz with no issues ! Aparrently he is happy with his 380+ FPS playing most games at full resolution and epic settings whatever that means :)Just one this was the CPU power socket(s)... was expecting only one 8 pin CPU power socket so bought a PSU with that oprion - but it has 2 CPU power sockets and so upgraded the PSU to a Seasonic 750w Prime Gold Pro which came with the right dual power connectors etc.
21.7.2019
I honestly wasn't impressed with Gigabyte back in the AMD FX days having to RMA boards constantly but the last straw was when i sold a board online and it failed in 1 week causing me one of the biggest headaches i have had.....saying this though, i thought i would give them a try on my recent 9900K upgrade and i was not disappointed!The RGB the board has compliments my 2080Ti Seahawk & EK Coolant perfectly!The bios is easy to follow and was running 5 GHz after a few clicks and types!It's one of the best made board i have had and is extremely sturdy!Comes with loads of accessories & if you like stickers (i don't), it has loads!Even though i run a separate sound card i was impressed with how well it drove my headphones!All in all,
23.10.2018
A great little high end board - perfect for the i5/7/ 9xxx range of CPU’s.It’s unreal just how good this board is - fantastic quality. The engineering quality is second to none.This board can absolutely handle a heavily overclocked 9900K from a power supply/heat point of view - although the VRM’s will need superior airflow at that level.A highly overclocked i5 9600K or i7 9700K at 5.2 GHz will be no problem at all though and would be the most sensible for the form factor - without the need for additional VRM airflow.Still, it’s amazing that this tiny little board CAN actually feed all the CPU’s it claims to without the VRM’s throttling the i7 or i9.
22.2.2019
I have bought this motherboard for my first build. From the moment I took this mother board out the box, it seemed evident that the build will be easy as everything was perfectly marked on it and had easy access. ATX board, with plenty of room and quality. The design is likeable, I do like the layout and the colours. The LED light on it seems perfect in the dark, you can set it to be still, flashing, pulsating, and you can set different colours as well. Good compliment. It has 8 USB3 ports in the back, absolutely amazing, for the money it is a well put together an dgreat motherboard. The onboard audio sounds much better than my previous H87 motherboard!
5.9.2019
The motherboard looks great, stable. If try to fit RTX2070 grafic card onto the PCI16 SLOT , you will have to fiddle a bit as the back of the grafic card, touches the clips of the ddr memories. Therefore if you want to change or upgrade DDR memories, then you will need to remove the grafic card first. Next, there is only one usb type 2 slot, on the motherboard wich is a bit of a pain, if you want to add some extra usb type 2 sockets in the furure. I used mine for corsair water cooler. Another anoying thing is that to make usage of usb3.1 need a different adapter for extra frontal usb3.