Intel Z390 Motherboard Overview: 50+ Motherboards Analyzed
by Ian Cutress & Gavin Bonshor on October 8, 2018 10:53 AM EST- Posted in
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GIGABYTE Z390 Aorus Xtreme
Although the existence of the Z390 Aorus Xtreme has been confirmed to me that it does in fact exist, it's not one of the motherboards that are going to be launched alongside the Z390 chipset on the 8th of October. This was announced on the AORUS official Facebook page through a video they released on September 29th and then highlighted again by VideoCardz. Now while the motherboard in the visuals isn't quite clear, it certainly isn't any other board that's already been documented in this overview from GIGABYTE.
Link to Video on AORUS Official Facebook Page
The most notable features on the board thought to be the new Z390 Aorus Xtreme are three full-length PCIe 3.0 slots which will most likely operate at x16, x8 and x4 respectively and the board also looks to include a trio of M.2 slots each with their own individual heatsink. The heatsinks are awash with RGB LEDs with lighting coming from both ends of the chipset heatsink, from the rear panel cover and from the audio PCB cover. On the bottom of the board the board, it looks to have dual BIOS (most Z390 GIGABYTE boards do) as two dip switches can be seen and also featured is an LED debug.
There's currently no information available including what's on the rear panel, the expected pricing, but we do know that the board is likely to be released either towards the end of October or in early November with the board's theme on being XTREME. It yet remains to be seen if GIGABYTE will be running a batch of extreme overclocking targeted motherboards or all their experience and chips have been placed into this particular model.
We will update this section once more details have been revealed.
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di4b0liko - Tuesday, November 20, 2018 - link
Asus ROG STRIX Z390-F or asrock taichi ?pradeep.ramalingam - Friday, November 23, 2018 - link
Hi,I was wondering whether "MSI MPG Z390M Gaming Edge AC" with processor "Intel i5-9600K" will it work with onboard graphics (Intel® UHD Graphics 630) without a GPU from nvidia/amd?
Tigrou - Tuesday, January 15, 2019 - link
"Z390 Motherboard Audio" panel in conclusion is incorrect. For example the MSI Z-390 A PRO has ALC892 but it is not in the list.Faslane - Wednesday, February 27, 2019 - link
Can you do a more in-depth overclocking guide for this board or is there one? if so may I please have a link to just a basic overclocking guide for this board? I have the board and loved it and I know I can go into the phantom gaming 4 app of course but I would rather do it at the BIOS level and save various profiles for testing but I'm a little new to some of the overclocking stuff but I do have a water cooled system with an 8th gen i5 9706 core so I know I can push it quite a bit :-)lb1966 - Thursday, April 11, 2019 - link
Just bought an IBuyPower with this MB init.Anybody able to hook it up to a home theater receiver?
7.1 sounds great on the headphones but I gotta take them off every once in while. Can I use the rear audio panel?
electricjedi - Thursday, January 9, 2020 - link
re: Asrock z390 gaming 4I know this does have a thunderbolt 5 pin header on the board, is this for thunderbolt 3?
Will the Asrock Thunderbolt 3 AIC R2.0 pci-e card work with this board?
or would I be smarter to get the GIGABYTE GC-ALPINE RIDGE (Rev 2.0) Thunderbolt3 Certified PCI-E Expansion card (since I know the z390 is "alpine ridge").
catminister - Saturday, November 28, 2020 - link
Also keep in mind that this board has no support for PCIe 4.0 or WIFI 6 802.11 AX in fact, it seems that Gigabyte abandons this board once purchased. If you want PCIe 4.0 to get the most out of the new Gen 4 NVMe M.2 drives or 802.11 AX support you are going to have to spend up and buy the X570 and a new CPU because socket 1151 is finished. A huge disappointment after recently upgrading to an Gigabyte Aorus Pro Wifi only this year...Turon - Saturday, December 25, 2021 - link
i can’t find the second ssd slot for the life of me, plz help.