mobo PCB Breakdown: Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Elite AX

[@WarmVoice]

Your tip at 9:20 saved me from a boot loop that had taken up hours and hours of my time, after I'd flashed this board to F6d, which was a completely broken release meant to quickly patch the backdoor exploits that Gamer's Nexus just reported for this and a bunch of other Gigabyte boards. They JUST uploaded bios F6 (the stable release). Even though it's dated many days ago, the upload just happened, one day after I'd flashed to F6d and my memory reset and boot loop troubles started. Thanks man!

[@xBINARYGODx]

well that comments about 1700 and 14th gen didnt age that well

[@godnamedtay]

Bruh shut up. Go use ur AMDip bs…foh

[@Geniusinside2023]

Finally someone talks about something most of us do not know and love to learn. That is very informative. Finally someone different than any other influencer. I'm so excited to see what else he have videos about. Thank you sir for your amazing video🙏

[@poorNOOB]

There were high wattage PSUs from Enermax Platimax lineup that came with a 4pin EPS cable (for a grand total of 3 EPS cables or 8+8+4).

[@yannis7815]

let's gooo another pcb breakdown :D

[@triplef3v3r]

12:52 i f love you bro I laughed, learned, liked and subscribed. You help me a lot! I was having too much trouble with this motherboard

[@triplef3v3r]

what memory 2x32gb would you recommend and frequency with a i9 13900k?

[@Savigo.]

33:50 - also dropping temperature by 10C should increase the rating roughly 2 times. At least this is how it used to be for electrolitic caps. So if caps operate at 75C instead of 105C the rating should increase to 80k hours.

[@jaydeepmohile]

Thanks to you I finally know as a layman what that 16+1+2 VRM configuration means.

[@AmitChaudhry27]

Intel do released 14th gen on z790 :)

[@djsnowpdx]

Thanks for helping HUB with that memory tuning video. Super impressive how your timings make such a difference to performance. Would you recommend larger Trident Z5 heatsinks over Ripjaws S5 low profile heatsinks for 1.4V stock 6000 CL30/32? What about your custom, "low-effort" timings at 1.35V?

[@ActuallyHardcoreOverclocking]

text version: www.patreon.com/posts/79145965

[@L233233]

I bought this board for the Realtek NIC, since the intel 2.5Gb NIC appears to cause problem for a lot of people. It's pretty hard to find something decent that doesn't use the intel NIC.

[@Wasmachineman]

Not first. BZ I can't thank you enough for recommending the B550 Unify-X for RAM OCing, it's fucking BATSHIT, 3800 CL16 on Zen+ all day long!

[@treyquattro]

B550 is a great board. I got one too.

[@godnamedtay]

Yea, unify x is one of THE greatest mobos ever created. GOAT status for sure…too bad the AMD memory controller is straight up dog water garbage, oh well 🤷🏼‍♂️

[@Wasmachineman]

@@godnamedtay Horrific BIOS though, which is why I ended up selling it.

[@godnamedtay]

@@Wasmachineman what’s so bad about MSI bios? Oh wait, I forgot u have AMD lol, that’s why. Msi z690 unify x bios is my fav of all brand bios’s BY FAR. I hate ASUS bios, trash. Too many fake bells & whistles for nothing.

[@uniballer5189]

The world of PC is SO fascinating I want to learn about it

[@SumOfSeveralEquations]

subbed. your videos are awesome !

[@corsairsloop3234]

Drmos is driver and mosfet and SPS is smart power stage with smarter capabilities like current and temp sensing. Didn't know that difference. Thought Drmos was the mosfet manufacturer because you see the name labelled on top of the chips.

[@shaneeslick]

Yeah & it's "D R Mos" not "Doctor Mos" like many people STOOPIDLY say

[@benjy117]

@@shaneeslick I had a old Power Acoustik car stereo amplifier back in the 90s that advertised that on the amp itself. D R Mos power delivery. It lit up with blue leds and was a damn good amplifier.

[@danw3735]

I bought this today, then found this video so I'm happy. Also got a 13700k and corsair ddr5 6400 CL32, I'd be happy with 7000mHz for general use or even just run the ram at stock doubt it would be much of a difference.

[@PuscH311]

can we get a breakdown of the Z790 Dark K|NGP|N, too? asking for a friend :)

[@Carsalesman47]

I 2nd this request. And M-die 1T guide for it pretty please! ❤❤❤

[@Franseven]

14th gen is a raptor lake refresh and will be on lga 1700

[@girtsdauka7451]

exactly mate it does work on this motherboard all 3 of them i5, i7 ,i9 14th gen

[@боберсприветом]

Hello. it makes sense to pay extra to tomahawk or edge for more comfortable use from 13700 kf

[@Mom19]

It never really makes sense to pay extra. Unless you really need more IO or for OC go for an APEX/Taichi/Tachyon/DARK etc

[@godnamedtay]

@@Mom19this is false…not all z790’s are created equal. U clearly have NO idea what ur attempting to talk about. Stop giving advice. It’s bad.

[@Mom19]

@@godnamedtay of course they're not created equal. But if you're not into XOC or pushing extreme boundaries, you won't be having problems. Unless you go with the absolute bottom of the barrel trashcan stuff. There's a certain threshold where spending extra simply doesn't make sense unless you need more features, more IO or other things. This person talked about "comfortable use" of a 13700KF. Which literally every Board out there is able to do unless you try to hunt down the absolute bottom of the barrel cheap junk you manage to find. They haven't asked for XOC, they haven't asked for massive IO. They haven't asked for super crazy RAM OC. So why should you buy a board that has a ton of stuff, you don't need, want or can actually take advantage of? That's just burning money for unused potential. My advice isn't bad, its simply just not as detailed as it could have been, the person in question didn't even ask back for anything so I couldn't even figure out what their use case is or what they want to do with it EXACTLY. But if you can judge what someone needs just by the phrase "comfortable use", then go for it. Say what you think and give better advice than me. Instead of hating or ranting, give a better example. Understand the question better than me and figure out what is actually required here. I've yet to see a person that needs a crazy high end or even upper high end board that asks such questions to begin with.

[@benjy117]

I have the ddr4 version and keep getting wifi errors constantly on every boot. I have updated bios over and over and reformatted windows 11 3 times with no solution. USB hangs, and crashes and all my hardware was working fine with my z490 board with the same memory. I believe it's the Intel wifi adapter AS the 1.1 revision of the board ditched Intel's and went REALTEK!

[@mapa1101]

Hello friends, greetings from Ecuador. I hope you can help me with ideas with a thing is happening to my computer, that has the mobo you described here, processor Intel Core i7-13700K, Bios version F2. First, I have my cpu connected to energy, and you can see mainboard status leds are off. As soon as I turn on my computer, those leds sequentially turn on and off, I don't know too much about motherboards, but I assume those leds show the POST process steps when the computer is booting. Finally when computer turns on, all status leds are off and I can use computer normally, the odd situation comes when I turn off the computer, as soon as the cpu is off, the CPU status led turns on. This happens too when the PC and monitor enters to standby mode after an idle period, and as soon as I begin using computer again, that led is off. I want to know if this behavior of CPU status led is normal or not? As I said, that only happens when the motherboard is off after shutting computer down, not when it is off when you first connect cpu to energy at the beginnig of day. This could cause me short or long term problems? Should I ignore that problem or send the motherboard to technician? (all the pc components are brand new, I have them only from a week ago). I appreciate your help, thanks in advance. Here is a short I made describing the situation (sorry pronunciation 😅) kzbin.info/www/bejne/bpqmdaqDgcmbeqM

[@ccc3]

38:17 I wonder if manufacturer employees ever watch Buildzoid's channel and giggle when he spots something quirky that they contributed to

[@saon4823]

Your video is always informative. This board should be the best value mb until strix Z790-h came out, which is just 40 dollars more. And I saw people easily get 7800mhz on that board. Is there a chance that you review that board?

[@EarthStarz]

Dood, if you were on a budget what intel / amd mobo would you choose? Would love a video round up on these. I know it's a lot of "effort"

[@godnamedtay]

He doesn’t care about this question

[@deivytrajan]

How is Z790-A Pro compared to Aorus Elite?

[@godnamedtay]

Bruh how do u think? It’s trash in comparison. Do u not know how to read??

[@adamu6941]

how to disable bluetooth and wifi on this card? impossible to find the option in the bios, or do you have to remove the card from the motherboard?

[@ccc3]

Thanks for the thorough breakdown! You used to have a negative view on Gigabyte's 8+8 phase (fake 16) VRM. Did this review change your opinion on that?

[@ibra5o6]

The m.2 screw is a nightmare to unscrew , I tried several screwdrivers but didn’t work even the other screws are tight as shi , did U face any problems while unscrewing it ?

[@plompudu2529]

I have a some unrelated Question: As someone with no experience with Overclocking would you say the Kingston FURY Beast EXPO DDR5-5600 CL36-38-38 is a good buy for 134€ to try and overclock? Or should i buy the 6000 CL36-38-38 Version for 156€? I've heard you say something about the different chips and there capabilities, are these the same ones? Would you expect i can just change the DRAM frequency to 6400, leave the Rest and run MEMTEST86 or am i missing something important?

[@a_void]

I would say that running at 6000 with hand tightened timings is better than 6400 with xmp timings and most likely easier to get stable. I have no experience with any recent AMD cpus though but this is what I've gathered from reading and listening to various people with more knowledge.

[@benjy117]

when you go past intels official limits the memory controller speed is cut in half. I didn't realize until I fired up CPUZ and it stated that. I have a 13700KF and DDR4 memory 4000mhz CL16 but it cut the memory controller in half to 2000mhz. IT WILL NOT POST OR RUN WINDOWS if you turn the memory controller to it's full speed. This should be false advertising but AMD has problems as well running 4 dimms I believe. It makes your memory latency go much higher when this happens. (my memory latency went from 56ns to 65ns) I can see or feel it because I am not a fan of cheap memory like CL16 3200mhz. I've been doing it so long I pretty know what type of ram is in a computer as low latency memory is what I always go for.

[@hmingzahawmahnialum]

One question. If I populated the M.2 slot which connected directly to the CPU, will the pcie x16 down to x8

[@ibra5o6]

Hello friend, I was trying to open the m.2 for 3 days now , the screw doesn’t even move , did U have this problem?

[@WarmVoice]

@@ibra5o6 I had this problem. It took a pair of pliers and a cloth to grab the nut and unscrew it. It was almost enough to return the board, because I thought I would break it by loosening it.

[@keponen331]

why do some mobos have a wifi module in m.2 slot, is that better?

[@mikolajr4700]

Please do some timings optimization for ddr5 hynix Dual Rank memory on ryzen (large capacities like 32 per stick)

[@ubacow7109]

Today i discovered the video niche of Mobo Analyzers

[@sylwesterirla9246]

thanks

[@benjy117]

Why am I thinking of American Pie and band camp?

[@Franseven]

Will you review the msi z790 tomahawk?

[@pastuh]

Thanks, today got this mb :)

[@fromhell1]

uh hello can you do a video about sapphire 590 nitro special ?

[@mylittlepwny3447]

Z790 Dark pcb breakdown when?

[@noldevin]

lol 4:55 hasn't aged well

[@godnamedtay]

Ur annoying & dk how to tune a cpu obviously. Ever heard of a BIOS?? …Probably not

[@chovekb]

B450 Aorus Pro has 4(8)+3 phases, 3 SoC phases right? Cause it's fkn amazing with 5000G APUs, doing 4133 cl16 17 17 with 4x8gb b-die, when rated 3600 max OC LOLOL xD

[@FishAtN1ght]

Hey Buildzoid i wanna buy 13600kf or 13700kf + A-Die 6000 38 38 38 78 > this board is fine for that?) or Asus Prime Z790-A WiFi is better choice? (Prime Z790-A is 6 Layers too?)

[@shaneeslick]

G'day Buildzoid, 🤔on your comment PSUs don't have 1x 8pin + 1x 4pin 12v good thing you added the "Well not in my experience" as I have a Coolermaster RS500-ASAA PSU & ... 1 x Main connector (20+4Pin) 1 x 12V (P4) 1 x 12V(8Pin) 5 x peripheral 6 x SATA 1 x Floppy 2 x PCI-E I have found with PC components even when you think something is weird or dumb & nobody should do it somebody probably has or will 😉

[@adensenpai8547]

what do u think about Asus Tuf Z790 Plus D5 compare to this?

[@benjaminserra5884]

Hi everyone, a bottle in the sea here. i can't find any information and don't know where to ask, so here iam. gskill trident Z neo is branded with "unparalleled DRAM" is this marketing or is it something to consider ?

[@Shonkuk1]

I havnt watched this yet going to later, any chance of doing Z690 Aorus Elite AX at some point i know its old..

[@ActuallyHardcoreOverclocking]

I don't have the Z690 Elite AX or PCB pics of it so no.

[@Mom19]

Probably veryyy similar honestly

[@lupuradu841]

Z790 UD,what do you think?

[@ЮрийТрунов-ъ7ъ]

So, it's basically the same as their z790 gaming x? Anyone understands the difference?

[@girtsdauka7451]

to be honest that flash bios it is very helpful as i bought intel 14th gen i7 14700kf and its did not work until i flash the bios on version FE update which straight away recognize my CPU and was able see the boot option on bios. Whoever bought this motherboard after February 2024 no need worried as bios fully upgraded for dual rams plus one stick 48GB ram, plus 14th gen intel CPU,s and m.2 . somehow if you get this motherboard with no upgraded bios options no need panic> on gigabyte support is 11 type bios flash upgrades, just remember first needs flash on F6 then can do other updates on bios. The author is on point when he release this review as on that time this motherboard was exactly as he is talking about ,thanks for your job Buildzoid

[@JamieTDC]

I have just bought this motherboard and ill be paring it with an i7 13700k, my ram is Corsair DOMINATOR Titanium RGB Black 32GB 6600MT's DDR5, do you think that will be ok because i'm a bit nervous about it, and i have the rtx 4070

[@masha1845]

regaring the fp 06CG 5 6 1 6.3 anyone know if its rated for 10k hours as well?

[@Greez1337]

If I wanted to torture myself by OCing DDR5, I would love that safe boot button. I'll stick with B die, on my MSI board, where a this point it's all known values and simply almost plug and play.

[@girtsdauka7451]

there is boot coders: PCU fault-top right led stay on amber-yellow> flashing top right with flashing top left led in sequence-RAM fault>steady bottom right vga led stays on-not recognize processor(most issue with 14 gen ,requires update bios FE).>steady right bottom vga stay on but boot bottom right led goes off-graphic card fault(normally needs driver) >flashing on frequency both bottom vga and boot led-no compatible components (possible requires take out from one slot RAM if there more than 2,try another slot graphic's card connector.power unit too weak.no cooling,graphic dead,RAM dead, or just need clean.but thats is worse scenarios if bottom both flash. it can take long time until solve whats wrong.this motherboard is beast if you know how to put right components. not just for gaming -also for hard work ,basically pleasure for gaming and crazy hard working. You wont regret if you have one

[@rizpista]

This mobo is best because my brother using with i9 13900k then undervolt and it running so smooth and no stuttering anything.

[@krakenunbound]

@ 1:05 you talk about some of the M2 slots are tied to the sata ports but don't say which is which and then say to consult the motherboard manual which is not provided with these boards. In fact I am here watching this video in hopes you provide useful information for someone trying to set it up for the first time and will have to go elsewhere.

[@wewillrockyou1986]

Looking forward to W790 boards 😂

[@czaknoriz8004]

Im using this board with 13700kf and F5-7200J3445G16G (2*16GB). Everything works perfectly fine. 5,5 Ghz with XMP no problem on 280mm AIO. 5,7 Ghz is a problem in stress tests but because of cpu heat. Temps on MB are fine. Lack of post code or lack of OC handy buttons on rear IO is somewhat pain in the a...s but not so much.

[@benjy117]

I'm using the ddr4 version with a 13700kf with CL16 4000 memory and I constantly have wifi errors and disconnects along with USB hangs when the wifi disconnects along with bsods. Can't figure it out. Same hardware worked on my z490 board fine. Guess it's the wifi on the board which I have not disconnected yet but have disabled. Still it will cause issues even when disabled. (I'm assuming it's the wifi or maybe a problem the the PCIE or my 13700kf is bad)

[@gammafilter]

Intel is planning on a rator lake refresh, .so the bios flashback ma be nice

[@pietrmuffei8874]

Doubt. Buy new motherboard

[@girtsdauka7451]

no doubt flash bios on F6 provided from support ,make sure you disconnect ram only before it and PCU connectors on top right. on half way you will see all coolers com live , don't be afraid its normal. wait after it when its finish flash. it may restart process twice, make sure you wait until flash lights go finally off ,it will disconnect power after it. then put back all CPU connections and RAM. that all

[@ArthurSalt]

Aren't Gigabyte releasing refreshed LGA 1700 Aorus "X" motherboards precisely because 14th Gen Intel CPUs are going to be compatible? They have 8 layer PCBs as standard, Wi-Fi 7 with an "Ultra-high gain antenna", Quick Release M.2 covers ("EZ-Latch"), and a back reinforced PCIe slot supposedly to stop the 40 series cards from sagging like an octogenerian's mamms. And I think I saw ASUS are doing something similar so they can flog some more of their tacky ROG filth for £730 a pop. AMD has certainly forced Intel to stop completely fleecing everyone (not that we're not still getting bent over a barrel by everyone anyway with the way the market is now).

[@accp8463]

Intel i9 Gen 14 IS compatible with this motherboard :)

[@lamtruong8658]

Don't know but for me Giga always do the worst out of three giant mobo brands in term of memory topology. They keep getting problem with mem overclocking. Can 't run 6600mhz on my adata with z690 aorus pro ax. My z490 giga got blue screen with 3600 aswell. Bet i will just switch to other brand or amd cpu for future upgrade then

[@Chrontard]

framechasers did 7800 on aorus x670 so its probanly crap ram modules.

[@abdullahmorsy4029]

have Rx 570 itx pulse mini, it's powered by 6pin connector only and has 10A fuse to the connector. On the pcie slot it has 8A fuse. Power limit of the card is 120w, and can be changed via adrenaline or msi afterburner to +50% so 180w total. We all know that this is only the chip power and TBP will be like 30w more at least, so total 210w. Something doesn't add up. Giving the fact that pcie connector can only provide up to 75w, and the 6 pin connector is limited to 120w max by the fuse, total 75+120=195. How can the bios of the card permit something like that? shouldn't the fuse blow when using max power limit in something like furmark? well I've tried and it didn't. What do you think about that?

[@ZeroHourProductions407]

As long as I can use a sound card, I'm inclined to agree. But since no sound card I care about is supported at all in Windows 11, I basically either have to go AMD or just completely disable the error cores to use this board with windows 10.

[@xBINARYGODx]

what sound cards are you into that dont work in W11? Have not heard about this issue - most, if not all, cards that worked in 10 just carry right over. I mean, I personally, am only using a lowly Audigy FX, so I assume you live in a world of much higher end and niche stuff.

[@ZeroHourProductions407]

@@xBINARYGODx Creative hasn't made a single driver to support _any_ Audigy or X-Fi series cards on Windows 11, full stop. Daniel K's final repack _in theory_ should work, which would basically let all of those work; however, even in his posting about it he did warn that any significant kernel/driver model change could break support. And Microsoft *has a precedent* of doing that, as was the case with Windows 10 not even a couple years ago. I also have a set of Razer Tiamat 7.1 v2's, so having 7.1 analog audio out is kind of a big deal now. The repacked drivers from Daniel K also allow me to use stuff like ALchemy on Windows 10 at least, so even legacy games that still expect EAX support work as they should with it. So not having a supported option in 11 is one big reason I'm holding off on even trying the OS on anything.

[@sauravgoswamisg]

Make more pcb breakdowns video , asus prime z790 a wifi , gigabyte aero g z790 , love from india 🇮🇳

[@yorkyswe]

Current cheapest UK price is £279.95. For a motherboard with no Post LED. No thanks from me.

[@WarmVoice]

13th Gen DDR5 motherboards are ridiculously priced. They say its because so many layers of traces are required, but I think there's a lot of profit being made!

[@biiki007]

Great video! But bro drink some water please lmao

[@LastSecBloomer]

$260 motherboard and they couldn't even be bothered to put different colored LEDs...

[@wondernutts]

They have different colors

[@pabloPL103]

Who cares about led

[@slimeseason4012]

@@pabloPL103those are not aestethic leds, what do you even mean

[@aytokpatop]

Just get the Z690 Aorus Pro, it's better

[@deivytrajan]

Worse ram oc

[@christopherjackson2157]

Plug in the second 8 pin if you have one on ur psu. If you dont, don't sweat it. There. 2 sentences. All ppl need to know.

[@alexmills1329]

Unless you have an i9. Three sentences since we are learning to count I guess?

[@christopherjackson2157]

@@alexmills1329 lol sure ok we can have three. Though if your psu doesn't have an extra 8 pin it probably can't generate enough current to do any damage anyways lol. But ok ur right.

[@Mom19]

@@alexmills1329 honestly even an i9 would run fine with one 8 pin unless you go to extremes with it xD But yeah depends on your cooling solution

[@weizhen199]

no, every 1 gen on 1 socket at 99%🐒

[@GDubbleBubble]

back in the day they didn't have all those leds. you got maybe 1.