GIGABYTE Z690 AORUS XTREME – Motherboard Review

GIGABYTE Z690 AORUS XTREME – Overclocking

January 22, 2022 by Stephen

As you can see, this AORUS Z690 Xtreme has a lot of charm and its design has not been left to chance by AORUS. We had decided to pay particular attention to the BIOS and it is clear that it is perfectly stable, proof of the improvement at this level. Even if the card is not intended for overclocking, it has proven to be perfectly effective both for the CPU and for the memory thanks to the different profiles available within the BIOS. It remains to be seen how the Tachyon model will behave, which we will tell you about shortly.

GIGABYTE Z690 AORUS XTREME – TweakTown

December 9, 2021 by Stephen

In testing, the AORUS and Hero were consistently at the top of our charts, with the Xtreme taking more of the CPU-designed testing like PCMark and CrossMark, where the Hero was a bit better in 3DMark. In real-world gaming, both of these boards performed identically. Storage performance was a bit lower, 10 MB/s for the Xtreme vs. the Hero, but USB 3.2, SATA, and the like were all on point.

GIGABYTE Z690 AORUS XTREME – GinjFo

December 8, 2021 by Stephen

It’s full Black dress consists of several heat sinks, one of which, equipped with two heat pipes, tackles the cooling of an M.2 SSD. We also have an imposing radiator with thin aluminum fins around the socket or a back plate occupying almost the entire surface of the PCB.
This Z690 Aorus XTREME is aimed at gamers, overclocking enthusiasts or enthusiasts looking to assemble an ultimate configuration. Through its Z690 Aorus Xtreme, Gigabyte offers all its know-how in terms of high-end motherboard. Its link with Aorus directs it to the gaming segment but it is armed with a whole arsenal to meet many other needs. We can mention overclocking or creation.

GIGABYTE Z690 AORUS XTREME – OC3D

November 29, 2021 by Stephen

The peak of the Gigabyte range is their Aorus Xtreme. A motherboard which causes our fingers no end of grief as we automatically type extreme. It does smack of the Monster energy world, but hey perhaps we’re just out of the loop of what counts as “hey fellow kids”. However, the important thing is what lays behind the name, and Gigabyte have thrown the kitchen sink at the Aorus Xtreme, from lighting to PCB design and connection format. We’ll let you peruse the specifications and show you the motherboard in our usual high detail on the next few pages.

GIGABYTE Z690 AORUS XTREME – GinjFo

November 23, 2021 by Stephen

The dress is worked through a minimized view on the PCB. The entire connection is placed at 90 ° to facilitate connections and storage of cables in a box. The card is capable of controlling many fans, water cooling, pump and more. It has RGB and aRGB header, temperature probes (external and internal) or even sound measurement. To all this are added Power and Reset buttons and a Debug LED display useful in the event of a problematic start-up.

GIGABYTE Z690 AORUS XTREME – eTeknix

November 16, 2021 by Stephen

If there’s a high-end feature you want, it’s likely on this motherboard. First up, there’s a powerful 20+1+2 Phase VRM design with 105A Power Stages and Tantalum Polymer Capacitors, which is great news for those wanting to push their CPU to max 24/7. Of course, with the Intel 12th Gen CPUs and Z690 combined, you’ll get DDR5 support, Intel Thunderbolt 4, PCIe Gen 5.0 lanes, and M.2 PCIe Gen 4. Add to that their flagship networking options, with the latest Intel WiFi 6E, as well as Aquantia 10 GbE LAN.

GIGABYTE Z690 AORUS XTREME – iXBT

November 11, 2021 by Stephen

So, before us is the Gigabyte Z690 Aorus Xtreme motherboard , the suffix of which Xtreme already indicates that this is the highest product based on Intel Z690 (only a complete analog can be more expensive, but complete with a water block for use with a custom liquid cooling system). Usually motherboards of this level come with a rich set of peripherals and a luxurious bundle.

GIGABYTE Z690 AORUS XTREME – Tech Critter

November 11, 2021 by Stephen

At first glance, we can see that the Z690 AORUS Xtreme gets a total makeover for the box design with an even fancier looking AORUS Eagle than the Z590 AORUS Xtreme and we can clearly see that they’re pushing hard on the PCIe 5.0 and DDR5 support on the Z690 chipset board. Information at the back of the box is still presented in a similar layout except that it’s now with the new features for the Z690 AORUS Xtreme.

GIGABYTE Z690 AORUS XTREME – HKEPC

November 6, 2021 by Stephen

With the release of the NDA of Intel Alder Lake’s 12th generation Core to processor and Z690 chipset, GIGABYTEZ690AORUS XTREME flagship motherboard is also on the scene!! Inherited from the ARORUS XTREME series motherboard’s consistent luxury-grade VRM design, equipped with straight-out 21-phase 105A ultra-luxury power module, while the full board provides an extremely complete cooling solution, from the VRM, chipset and M.2 SSD parts are all covered by the weight of the metal Heatsink, plus up to DDR5-5600 plus memory overclocking capacity, absolutely qualified to ask Z690 board throne.