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Absolutely no problems!

Reviewed in the United States on December 10, 2023

Motherboard worked great right out of the box. The only issue I had was my own fault, I thought the onboard video was HDMI, but it is displayport. Gigabyte has a great little adapter that makes connecting the start, reset, HD, etc jumpers very easy. I did a BIOS upgrade right after installation. Gigabyte has what is called Aorus APP which made that extremely easy. My setup uses all 6 SATA ports, their position makes it very easy to connect/disconnect. I spent just under $600 on the motherboard, 12th gen core I-7 CPU, 32 gigs of DDR5 RAM, 1 TB M.2 SDD and fan. Kept my old case, power supply, monitor , keyboard and mouse. I could not have bought a new computer with this much horse power for more twice that cost.

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Akira20m

I Tried Three of These Boards Before Switching Make & Model. BUY AT YOUR OWN RISK

Reviewed in the United States on July 13, 2022

I went through three of these boards and RMAs before switching over to the MSI MPG Z690 Carbon w/ Wifi. (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09GLBZYSV/) The first board wouldn't post so it didn't even give me the opportunity to try to upgrade the BIOS or anything. The second board cleared POST but wouldn't recognize the M.2 Drive and upon further research, it said I needed to upgrade the BIOS to get them to work properly. Once I updated the BIOS, it would go through a loop cycle 5 times before powering down. All saying there's a memory error. At that point I already did the standard troubleshooting for RAM so I decided I should try new RAM and I got them swapped. The same issue. Went through 5 cycle loop before powering down.

Called their tech support and he said try a new power supply so I did. I have a power supply tester and it tested fine but I still tried a known good and also the replacement for the power supply I got for my new build. No change. Called support again and they said it was a bad board and to RMA it, then order a replacement. I already told them this was a replacement. They said order another one. Against my better judgement I returned and got a third board.

This third board would post but when I went to do the BIOS update, I noticed it was only recognizing two of the four 16GB DDR5 sticks. Doing some online research, I found that updating the BIOS can clear the unrecognized RAM error so I updated the BIOS which was successful but when I checked BIOS again, it was still only registering 2x16GB RAM. Swapped the RAM around, still only registering 32GB Total. Called support again and asked them if there is a known issue with the Memory Channels. The support agent was silent, inhaled after a couple of seconds, and then told me there is no known issue. Previously working for an IT Call Support Center, I recognized telltale reactions/actions of them knowing something but not publicly sharing it stating the standard "There is no known issue of this sort" kind of BS.

I told them I would be returning this and going with a different company. He apologized.

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Mark R M

Absolutely no problems!

Reviewed in the United States on December 10, 2023

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William

Great value for such a board

Reviewed in the United States on December 5, 2022

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I used this board for my first PC build and it went great, I did have some problems initially to have the BIO post however later on I realized that one of the SATA cable wasn't connected to the 870 EVO SSD, so the board kept getting error 66. This board is for 12th gen core and it worked great with it. Pretty much BIO installation for windows is pretty easy. I just used a windows USB. For BIOs update: it really doesn't matter if you update after installing windows or before, as long as you get a post. It is a guarantee you have your set up running correctly. My biggest problem would be the AIO would be in the way for DDR5 ram A2 slot. But 64 gb ram run great as it

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Akira20m

I Tried Three of These Boards Before Switching Make & Model. BUY AT YOUR OWN RISK

Reviewed in the United States on July 13, 2022

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Viktar Karpach

Easy to setup

Reviewed in the United States on May 5, 2023

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I did my last PC upgrade about 8 years ago. I was pleasantly surprised by how things changed since then. There are 4 slots for NVMe in this motherboard with heatsinks. There are plenty of SATA ports.

I used this board with Intel Core i5-13600KF, Noctua NH-D15S, Kingston Fury Beast Black 64GB 5600MT DDR5, SAMSUNG 980 PRO SSD (buy one without heatsink, since the motherboard has heatsinks)

There was no need to do BIOS re-flash, everything worked out of the box (although I did BIOS update later to have the latest and greatest). I installed Windows 11 Professional in less than 15 minutes (most time spent learning how to bypass the need to have a Microsoft account for the installation).

Pros:
1. CPU cooler power connector is too close to the edge of the board. I had a hard time fitting the connector because it was too close to the tower fan. Most people won't have this issue, but I did.
2. Motherboard Bluetooth failed to be recognized by Windows 11 until I powered off the PC (physical unplug power) and restarted it. This is a known issue for the motherboards of this family.

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jovanoty

Cumplió mis expectativas muy buen producto

Reviewed in the United States on March 14, 2024

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Excelente reacondinamiento esta como nueva funciona de maravilla

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CassieF

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Reviewed in the United States on January 24, 2024

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I built my first gaming PC and this was the motherboard I went with and I am very happy with it. There is plenty of space for fans memory etc. 10/10

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Omid

Great value motherboard with straightforward setup

Reviewed in the United States on November 27, 2022

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I was a little worried seeing the reviews for the gigabyte z690 aorus ultra, but made the decision to purchase due to a sale for such a feature rich motherboard. It seems a lot of the issues were due to past bios versions and has now been addressed.

I used q flash plus with a USB drive to install the latest bios from gigabytes website and it worked great. Would recommend to any potential buyers.

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DK072257

I only buy Gigabyte Now

Reviewed in the United States on October 7, 2023

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It’s exactly as advertised and then some. Over my 30 years building PC’s I have used many brands of motherboards. Not anymore, from now on it’s strictly Gigabyte.

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Dead Memory Slot, Wonky BIOS Update

Reviewed in the United States on December 11, 2022

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My first try at a Gigabyte motherboard and I've been pretty disappointed. One of my memory channels is dead, causing a boot loop when used. It took a bunch of troubleshooting to verify it's the channel, not the memory stick, BIOS, or debris. The other three work fine. I'll probably be sticking with the board because swapping out motherboards is a pain and this is functional enough, but still a bummer to have a sad, lonely DDR5 stick in my parts box.

Flashing the BIOS is more difficult than it should be. Gigabyte's built-in software didn't work so I had to do it manually with a thumb drive, and after updating it just shut down and took a minute to start booting once I gave it about 10 minutes just in case. I thought it had bricked itself but it seems mostly okay now. Overall a poor experience, but the board seems functional other than the one RAM slot.

I won't be going with Gigabyte again. The memory issue alone knocks off two stars, so I'll give it 3 stars because besides the BIOS updater everything else works well enough and the other features (The four M.2 slots, mostly) were big plusses for me.

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Rexx

With Bios update you can use the I9 14gen CPU

Reviewed in the United States on March 9, 2024

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I used to always like the old gigabyte motherboards because they worked with Windows 7 However, this one does not.
Another thing I don’t like about the motherboard is that if you do not download the gigabyte software, you are constantly nagged to download it.
Other than that this is a fine motherboard.
I really like the gigabyte DDR 5 RGB ram.

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