Gigabyte Z690I AORUS

And even on the second BIOS release, I think this board is not ready for release yet and it just feels a little bit too rushed even one month in. Now ...

I'm going to put this down now because it's kind of hurting my arm. It's a very heavy motherboard. As far as some of the features that we're seeing on...

This board also takes very long to boot to the BIOS screen. It needs at least 20 seconds which is very annoying.

Gigabyte so be warned. If yall recall, their PSUs go up in flames, their 3080 water cards corrode, and their newest blunder, their z690i mobos have a hardware defect that restricts it to pcie 3.0.

Coil whine was really annoying. Also came with these weird fan header adapters. Never seen something like that before but it made cable management a lot more difficult. Other than those two things it worked as intended but feels really overpriced for what you're getting. Switched to MSI z690 itx boa...

For me, there is no universe where an ITX board with crap cooler compatibility at that price represents a good value. Especially factoring in the early-adopter tax for DDR5. All of the boards this round are expensive, but this is just a special brand of unreasonable.

When you are installing M.2 hard drives, the manual says unscrew this & that then just lift. Well, mine wasn't budging. Sometimes things are stiff to un/plug from mobos so I tried get my fingers under the M.2 part to push up from underneath, but I (very easily!) crushed some delicate plastic connect...

I have the Gigabyte z690i/12900k w/z63. It's on my Streacom testbench right now until I can get my Cooler Master NR200P Max. This is with the LGA1700 kit from NZXT. Here are the pics:

[PICS](https://imgur.com/a/XC9W8px)

Ok, let me get a few of the gripes out of the way.... YES it does take longer then usual to boot, but it does boot. Yes it did have issues early on, but the latest F8 Bios seems to have ironed everything out. Yes it has a massive heatsink for the M.2 that limits its cooler compatibility (Just remove...

I dont want sound stupid but gigabyte aorus mobos are just better in all ways, especially in quality of hardware parts. I will just leave it up to you what you will take from my comment. If you have some questions i will answer.