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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,unlike my pc, I am too cheap to upgrade my car stereo :DA couple of things before you build/buy:1: If you put an i9 in here, or any processor with an aftermarket cooler (I used the Dark Rock 4) you will absolutely NEED low clearance RAM, I put Corsair Vengeance in it and whilst it clears the cooler with a couple mm space, any higher profile stick would have been a problem. This most likely won't be a problem if you're water cooling but do check.2: The BIOS on the board I received was not updated for the i9-9900k, which basically meant it wouldn't post until I flashed the BIOS with the latest from the website using a USB drive. This was actually ridiculously easy but if you have any doubts or haven't a clue what I am writing about you should probably seek the aid of a professional.I've owned it for a month now (August 2019). It's built into a system with and i9-9900kk, 32GB DDR4 and a BE QUIET Dark Rock 4, running off two M.2 NVME SSD's and with a GTX 1080ti into an ASUS ROG SWIFT PG279Q with two 24inch 1080p side screens. I use this for work and play, it's not just a toy and it was a solid investment.I tend to upgrade every 4 years, and I always agonise over the hardware as I always pass it on to family members when I am done with it and I expect not to have to upgrade until 4-5 years have passed. I alternate this with my GFX card which I upgrade every 2-3 years. I am more than happy with the longevity inherent in this build.Conclusion: This is a solid motherboard and does everything I want smoothly and will also support in game RGB which I will likely never use..Credentials: Professional games reviewer and journalist, former game dev.
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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 ;-)The default lighting for the Designare Z390 is a subtle blue glow. About as tasteful as it gets.I am a developer and routinely build large applications inside virtual machines and containers. So I/O and CPU performance are important to me. I love that both M.2 NVME slots are connected to CPU PCIe lanes and the GPU still has 16 CPU connected PCIe lanes available. This configuration does reduce the usable SATA ports on the motherboard to 3 from 6 however. I appreciate the inclusion of decent heat shields for both the M.2 slots.The Designare Z390 does offer some overclocking features in the BIOS but not everything that something like the Z390 Aorus Master offers. That said, I have managed to achieve a permanent all core CPU overclock of 5.1Ghz thanks to the excellent VRMs (power delivery) on this motherboard. I have Thunderbolt enclosures, so being able to use those with this motherboard is also great.I've currently got 64GB RAM (16GB DDR43200 x4) installed. The XMP profile was correctly picked up, after selecting it in the BIOS, and I even have the memory on a permanent DDR4 3600 overclock, I couldn't go higher than that though. Since buying the motherboard in January a BIOS update has been released that adds support for 32GB DIMMS, meaning it is now possible to support 128GB RAM on this motherboard.The Designare Z390 is at the heart of an all-round performance workstation which meets my demands as a developer, content creator and sometime gamer.
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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 notonly a Realtek ALC1200 dac but also a ESS Sabre 9118 dac as well as other improved audio components i just had to see and hear if it was any good, i took a gamble and made a purchase. Really glad i did.I don't know the technicalities of how the two dacs work together, but it works and boy does it ever deliver . The sounds are much more cleaner and clearer i think the audio is of a high quality, high enough certainly to be classed real HI-Fi. I have it connected via the jack plug rca splitter to my Yamaha S301 amp using pure direct coupled to a pair of Q Acoustics 3020 speakers and a Q Acoustic 2070s subwoofer. The sound is in my opinion way better than the very expensive standalone usb dac that i owned previously and better than the Z370 Realtek ALC1200 on it's own.My headphones are Sennheiser hd 650 and these i plug into my amp. Listening to music on my headphones is heavenly crystal clear best ever i've heard.I'm using mp3 files most at 320 bit but also a fair few Flac files which play superbly and i am using JRivers as the music player with playback set to (Realtek (R) Audio) [ WASAPI ]Hope this review helps anyone looking for a good audio using onboard rather than paying inflated prices for standalone dacs, the board may seem expensive but it is cheaper than a paying hundreds of pounds for overpriced audio dacs
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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,but not to Server 2019. A cheap LAN card just worked, right out of the box. Red Hat 7.6 was happy to use all the on-board hardware, once updated, but again, the cheap (TP-Link PCIe) add-on Ethernet card was needed at first.Get a photo of the serial number on the 24 pin power connector before you put it in a case, because otherwise you'll struggle to read it if you need to contact their support desk. I didn't like the answer I got, but it was very prompt.Oh, and leave that bit of black plastic in the CPU cage until after you've installed the CPU. It has instructions embossed on it, but it's not very prominent.OK, it's sold as a gaming system, and my requirements were for a stable machine giving decent performance without overclocking. Those are actually hard to source online. All those grumbles aside, I'm not disappointed.
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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.Be sure to read the manual to see what support it has, as two M.2 chips are only supported in certain circumstances. It does boot up rather quick though! I'm also using all 6 SATA ports without issue.BIOS seems fine to me. You set it up, play with it a bit then leave it. Fan control is pretty good, as most turn off when it's ticking over. My i9 is running at 21C and it's only when you push it extra fans start up. Depending on your setup this is where any fan noise may spring in, but you can set it to not turn them off and keep them ticking over, which is nice.It's a solid motherboard and coming from a military electronics background, appears to be well made. Lots of pretty lights if that's your thing.
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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.I just use a PCIe M.2 riser board though and ignore the M.2 sockets completely.The BIOS is undoubtedly unfriendly but it's no big deal really. You only need to understand it once then you can forget about it!The onboard display is useful if the board doesn't power up.One thing I found unnerving is for me the board powered up on the internal GPU so plug your monitor in to the hdmi socket on the back first. I then needed to setup the BIOS and disable the internal GPU before it powered up on the graphics card. I have no idea whether this is normal but just be aware that it might do that! If you are plugged in to the wrong thing it scares the heck out of you when it powers up with a black screen!!
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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,then booted into my new Windows 10 usb.Installation of both board and Win OS were both very quick and trouble free.It ran perfectly well without using the supplied driver disk, but I have since installed latest chipset, audio & usb drivers to make sure it's fully up to date. (BIOS flash was not needed as it arrived with F8, the latest version).It's not one of the more expensive boards, but I don't plan on overclocking in any big way, if at all.Over the Moon with the result, it's all running quietly, cool, and unbelievably fast.
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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!?However once I read the relevant section in the manual all becomes clear that M2 drives share bandwidth with SATA and therefore 2 SATA ports will be unusable when the M2 slots are occupied. Not a major issue unless you still really need six SATA ports and an M2.The addition of both Bluetooth 5.0 and WIFI on this board as standard is great as I had previously been using add in cards and USB dongles so this is much neater.
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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),the bass and clarity is not what i hoped for. gigabyte website is loaded with software and drivers. some of the screws are a bit fiddly as they are surrounded by the aorus cooler and lights, but otherwise a great product.if you want to use this to charge things like phones when the computer is off, make sure you install the software to let you do this.
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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.And of course it’s also a great choice for gamers who want high end performance.
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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!

22.8.2019

The master is great, well built and good looking motherboard.The build quality is excellent from the power delivery to just the physical construction of the board.The RGB is tastefully implemented without looking tacky or to gamer-ishTye on-board audio is also excellent when paired with a solid pair of headphones.Gigabyte had come a long way in terms of motherboard design and construction but one places they always fall sort is the bios. The new upgraded has helped get another easier but is still lagging behind companies like Asus and msi, however I don't spend a lot of time the bios so it's not a huge negative.

13.2.2020

This motherboard offers everything for middle class to gaming fanatic. As shown in the Picture there is a USB 3.1 port, B- size and a C-size, HDMI output and 2.0 , 2 Dual Channel DDR4 slots, Okay in short 6 USB 3.1 ports + 2 USB front connectors, Supports GbE Lan , Wifi 2x2 801 11ac which also supports Bluetooth, ALC1200 Audio chip. with front headphone and microphone 3.5" jack Line in and out , optical rin/out , no stone is left unturned to Find Optimal cooling as there are also 2 MM2 for SSD/ 4x Sata 3/ 1 M2 for wifi. Last but least great compatible LGA 1151 CPU connector. I am happy I didn't buy another board..

21.1.2020

Easy to install and OC. Very good MOBO so far.My only issue is the placement of the M.2 Connectors. The lower one sits very close to PCIe slot, if you have a bulky GPU such as my Zotac 1080 Extreme AMP then you will find it to be a very close fit. The other M.2 slot sits very close to the CPU. I could not connect my ARCTIC Liquid Freezer II 240 in my preferred vertical position as the M.2 slot totally blocked it, so I installed it horizontally. Not the end of the world to be fair.I have provided to pics to show both of the M.2 slots. The GPU almost blocks the M.2 from sight.

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