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Z490 Aorus PRO AX review
Posted by: on: 06/10/2020 01:38 PM [
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In this review we look at the Gigabyte Z490 Aorus PRO AX. The new series is aimed to become the more high-end solution at 269 USD, it comes with AX WIFI, and has that intel 2.5 Gbps ethernet jack. That and some pretty fancy design choices from an aesthetic point of view.
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kakiharaFRS
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Posted on: 06/11/2020 08:58 AM
I found it very difficult to get the ram stable above 2933mhz. It doesn't want to boot and I have to go through a painful boot loop training process every time I want to change a memory setting. XMP would not work out of the box.
probably you know all that already but I have to ask, do you have a cpu overclock ?
XMP is validated only for default settings cpus as soon as you manually overclock it's out of spec and then not running at their sold frequency is common
if it doesn't boot with default cpu settings that's another problem
DerBauer just made a video about 5000Mhz kits on Z490 being hard not to say impossible to get running at 5Ghz, he had to reduce the cpu overclock to boot with that
it also seems to be a problem with heat on the memory as if he ran fans at max speed then it booted
I found it very difficult to get the ram stable above 2933mhz. It doesn't want to boot and I have to go through a painful boot loop training process every time I want to change a memory setting. XMP would not work out of the box.
probably you know all that already but I have to ask, do you have a cpu overclock ?
XMP is validated only for default settings cpus as soon as you manually overclock it's out of spec and then not running at their sold frequency is common
if it doesn't boot with default cpu settings that's another problem
DerBauer just made a video about 5000Mhz kits on Z490 being hard not to say impossible to get running at 5Ghz, he had to reduce the cpu overclock to boot with that
it also seems to be a problem with heat on the memory as if he ran fans at max speed then it booted
maize1951
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Posted on: 06/11/2020 08:05 PM
Never had much luck with Gigabyte motherboards, they would last about 2 1/2 years tops before they would die. I use ASUS now.
Never had much luck with Gigabyte motherboards, they would last about 2 1/2 years tops before they would die. I use ASUS now.
DeViLzzz
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Posted on: 06/11/2020 09:03 PM
Gigabyte has never failed me. Thing is with any brand there are going to be lemons. For some time there I saw so many complaints about MSI mobos when they started seriously getting to be in the spotlight but people kept buying due to them providing the best OCs and also pricing was decent. I will never touch an MSI motherboard. Gigabyte, Asus, ASRock (might as well be Asus) are what I look at first.
Never had much luck with Gigabyte motherboards, they would last about 2 1/2 years tops before they would die. I use ASUS now.
Gigabyte has never failed me. Thing is with any brand there are going to be lemons. For some time there I saw so many complaints about MSI mobos when they started seriously getting to be in the spotlight but people kept buying due to them providing the best OCs and also pricing was decent. I will never touch an MSI motherboard. Gigabyte, Asus, ASRock (might as well be Asus) are what I look at first.
DeViLzzz
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Posted on: 06/11/2020 09:09 PM
In regards to the article I can't say much as I haven't kept up on new hardware much over the years as 1155 socket stuff was satisfactory to late 2019 for me. I will say though Gigabyte, all black or close to it motherboard are pluses but as for the VRM cooling I don't know much about that but I sure as heck know based on what I see here I would not want this board compared to others. Anyway this is an Intel motherboard and not happening this generation for me as AMD has taken leaps and bounds to offering very affordable, high performance products.
In regards to the article I can't say much as I haven't kept up on new hardware much over the years as 1155 socket stuff was satisfactory to late 2019 for me. I will say though Gigabyte, all black or close to it motherboard are pluses but as for the VRM cooling I don't know much about that but I sure as heck know based on what I see here I would not want this board compared to others. Anyway this is an Intel motherboard and not happening this generation for me as AMD has taken leaps and bounds to offering very affordable, high performance products.
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@MM10X : I also had some connection issues on reboot, but disabling most of power saving stuff under LAN properties seems to fixed it completely.