GIGABYTE Z490 AORUS Xtreme (Intel LGA1200/Z490/E-ATX/3xM.2 Thermal Guard/SATA 6Gb/s/USB 3.2 Gen 2/Onboard AC WIFI 6/Dual Thunderbolt 3/ESSential USB DAC/Gaming Motherboards)

First off, I just wanna say this board is gorgeous. Easily the best looking mobo I have ever owned. The right-facing connector/port placement is brilliant and allows you to keep wires out of the way and make the case look clean with minimal effort. I haven't spent much time testing it but I can say that the VRMs on this thing are gaudy and the components have kept pretty cool during use. My only suggestion would be to add more USB ports to the IO panel. That being said, I am very content with this purchase thus far and would definitely recommend this board to any prospective owners.

bought this and it doesn't light up and doesn't show anything on the screen so i bought an msi z490 god like and and it does the same thing just to find out you have to go on your mother board web sight and download the updated mother board drive. now i have 2 motherboard and is curently using the other board even though this looks way better in my opinion.hope this was helpful. :)

Not able to get it to be Post so no idea how the hardware works. Seems like it would have been great.

This board was a dream to build in its simplified the process, you definitely get what you pay for!

this board was DOA

I paid over $ 800 on this card and it didn't work, very disappointed.

An overly expensive motherboard that barely works. Official drivers from Gigabyte are not stable and and the App center that comes with the drivers causes Windows to boot loop. I'm constantly having to fight my machine to recognize the ethernet ports and this motherboard causes my machine to never cleanly shutdown.The same thing happened to the GIGABYTE Z490 AORUS Master from a previous install.

PROSExtreme Power DesignThermal Reactive Armor10 GbE Networking & Thunderbolt 3Intel WiFi 6 & Bluetooth 5.0 2x2CONSA bit steep of a price. However you get what you pay for. QUALITY