GIGABYTE Z790 AORUS Elite AX DDR4 ATX Motherboard with Intel Z790, Quad M.2, PCIe 5.0, Wi-Fi 6E, 2.5GbE LAN

This is a solid motherboard for 12th to 14th gen Intel cpus, especially for retrofitting an older system to run Win 11. I paired mine with an i7 12700KF, RTX 3060, added two Samsung NVME drives (1 TB 980 Pro and 2TB 990 EVO Plus), two existing SATA drives (4TB each), two existing SATA optical drives (DVD-RW and BD-RW), and 32GB of DDR4 3200 RAM. Everything works as it should. My only complaint is that the Gigabyte software could be better. It is just okay and not as smooth as could be. I've been building PCs for over 25 years and this was easy enough. I am cooling the cpu with a Thermalright PA120. As for overclocking, It does it, but the headroom on air cooling just isn't worth it in my opinion. 5.0 GHz is not that impressive when stock turbo is already 4.9 GHz. I also like my cpus to run under 70 C under full load. This is also using an old Antec 900 case with USB 3.0 and a 620W Antec PSU. I am upgrading from an older Gigabyte Z77X-UD3H that had an i5-3570K that was OC'd to 4.5 GHz on air cooling (CM Hyper212). That was nice headroom to OC back then.

I installed this motherboard a few days ago, and so far everything has been working perfectly. The installation process was smooth, all components were detected right away, and the system booted up without any issues. The build quality feels solid and reliable. Although it’s only been a short time, I’m very happy with the performance so far. It looks like a great purchase, and I’d definitely recommend it based on my initial experience.

He estado utilizando la GIGABYTE Z790 S WiFi DDR4 durante las últimas 2 a 3 semanas en mi PC, y la experiencia ha sido excelente.​La instalación fue sencilla, y la compatibilidad con mi memoria DDR4 y el procesador Intel de 13ª generación fue inmediata. La placa ofrece un rendimiento estable tanto en sesiones de gaming como en tareas de programación intensivas.​Destaco la presencia de múltiples conectores M.2 PCIe 4.0, que facilitan la expansión del almacenamiento de alta velocidad. Además, cuenta con conectividad Wi-Fi integrada y un puerto Ethernet de 2.5GbE, lo que garantiza conexiones rápidas y estables.​En resumen, una placa base confiable y con características modernas que se adapta perfectamente a mis necesidades.​

This board was on the more affordable end for a Z790 chip. But it has everything and more than I need. 1 thing, when attaching the MOBO USB 3 socket to the front tower connector cable, I had to remove the USB 3 cable to re-do some wire routing, and the plastic clip that locks the motherboard pins to the front adapter pulled off of the board. It did just snap right back on and into place over the pins on the board, and the front USB 3 works fine. But that was a little alarming. I have built a couple dozen computers and have never seen that happen. But nothing really came of it so I'm fine with that right now. Really nice heatsinks integrated on VRMs also. Another thing is that if running an M.2 on the CPU pcie lanes, the board will not be able to run a GPU at the same time. So, the M.2s will need to be installed on the chip lane sockets that it has if you run a discrete GPU. And, there are no built in heatsinks for the M.2s installed on the chip lanes, only for the CPU pcie lane M.2. So, get an M.2 with built-on heatsinks if running M.2 on the 2 chip sockets.The WIFI runs almost as fast as my other system that is using an ethernet port on a MSI tomahawk max wifi gaming board. Saw the wifi speed hit over 500mbs, but a lot of that is your internet provider and distance to your wifi router etc. But the potential is there.Actually, very happy with the MOBO. Just a couple of those small details make it miss a 5 star.The BIOS is a very nice set up also. With advanced or simplified UI option, and all of the overclocking TWEAKER options that I like Gigabyte for. Not perfect, but I would buy it again at that price and if you are not rich person, but you need the 790 chip, I would very much recommend it to anyone.

Está muy buena. Solo tuve problemas con la BIOS porque es mi primera vez pero lo pude arreglar y va fino, recomendadisimo 😎🤙🏼

My son is cranking 90s on Fortnite and im getting slaughtered on Call of duty, easy to install. It was my first PC build