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Do you by any chance still have this motherboard? I got ripped off being this motherboard from eBay and the seller shipped it with a burnt capacitor on one of the VRMs, the capacitor I mean is placed on the back of the of the motherboard, but it's one of the ones from the top VRMs. Is there a way I could contact or message you? I could show you which one I mean exactly, the reason I'm asking is because I'd like to know exactly which capacitor I need to buy for replacement. Thank you.

I couldn’t find the bios video, still planning to post one?

Thank you for the detailed video! I recently purchased an open-box version of this model and your video was incredibly helpful. Upon disassembling the VRM heatsink, I noticed that a thermal pad was missing in one section. Could you please share some information on the thickness of the thermal pads used in this model, specifically in the VRM and M.2 sections? I’ve observed some oil leaks and plan to replace them as well. Thanks.

Good video, but dragging that board around on the bare table and seeing the giant scratches drove me nuts lol

One of the best motherboard reviews I've ever seen. Your explanation of PCIe lanes was extremely easy to follow. I'm probably buying this board and your review is pushing me over the edge. Great write-up!

How am I supposed to change the battery without getting the whole mb out of my case?!?! WTF is this

where is the cmos battery?

Hey guys, I need some information about this motherboard, I see a lot of reports that this board in rev 1.0 is causing a lot of problems, has anyone purchased it willingly to let me know which revision is coming? the latest revision is 1.3 if I'm not mistaken. I thank everyone.

can we replace the wifi card with wifi6e or its fixed you can't replace it ? my board is aorus z690 ultra ax exacly like master

Careful doing BIOS upgrade, there's no flashback feature. Corrupted = diy fix with BIOS flash tool or RMA.

Does it have a ASIO?

Hey Steve. Is it normal for the screw that holds the mb backplate on(bottom right front screw 0:45 ) to not go in all the way causing that section of the plate to be a bit loose. The 2 front screws are slightly different from the ones in the back. They have a small post on them ?

Suggestion: Use a toothpick when pointing to these tiny chips. Otherwise, outstanding.

I have had the M.2 thing explained to me differently. I was told that you don't lose the 16x slot unless you use both the top two M.2 slots.

Excelente!

what about the PCIe5 m.2 slot? can the heatsink handle a PCIe5 SSD like the T705 from Crucial?

No one shows seals 🤷‍♀️

Thank you very much. Great explanation of the board!

Own three of these now. Paid total for all 3 $286 so for $95 avg each that can’t be beat. They all were open box though. This is simply the best value board for the dollar minus pcie 16x 5.0 support. Comes with 4 full speed m2 slots and the 2nd 16x slot can also run full speed at 4x. So easily with a cheap adapter you can run 5 gen4 NVMe drives on this. I originally ordered the b650 elite ax but the x670 was $20 more so I would much more prefer more connectivity options for down the road. A little stronger vrm and 1 extra usb. The extra full speed options is what makes the x670 more valuable to me.

How about msi mag x670e ?

I love the 2 phases for the mystics <3

Found this one on discount for 179 euros in my country, worth buying?

I've heard this board can work with 192GB RAM is this correct?

someone please help me i keep writing this message to get serious help. i have new build and have this motherboard and the orange VGA LED is on. why? when GPUs are fine and working. cant get shit on my monitor. HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Right at 14:08 I was able to pause it and zoom in on the 3x M2 heatsink single screw location. The extra board I was given someone superglued the stand-off onto it and it broke off. There is some damage around that underside header but it looks like it might just have missed the traces. Looks like it's the middle M2 drive out of the 3 so maybe if damaged it will only be on that slot. No biggy I can always add a 4th to the PCIe 4.0 4x slot if needed. Thanks for the 4k footage! A open box 7700X $265 & Gskill Trident Z5 Neo RGB ram is showing up tomorrow. Going to test out the board and hopefully it works fine. Won't be able to use the 3x M2 heatsink but no biggy my M2 drives are for game loading and not heavy transfer usage.

Hi I know I'm very late to the video but do you know what type of coin battery is needed for the board?

Just want to confirm, regarding the m.2 slots and PCI slots I have no restrictions and could essentially fill the entire thing up and not be concerned about any sharing of bandwidth? thanks in advance

Question... I have an old Dell Motherboard with 3 chokes and 3 mosfets per choke next to the CPU. How much power can they reliably deliver? How can I figure that out? Why does this board only have 3 chokes and more mosfets than your example?

This comes with my prebuilt It’s has a i9 14900 and 4090 Just wasn’t sure if it was a good MB or not

Hey, great stuff. Which one is clock generator? I tried to listen carefully but either missed or it wasn't voiced.

stay away from Gigabyte if you want RAID drives. The motherboards are a mess when it comes to setting these up... Bios sucks

I have to Power Cycle my X670 Elite like 100 Times before it will boot and I've been updating the BIOS through the Q Flash hoping it would fix the Issue but I think there's something else going on so I just bought another one

@StevesHardware I’m going to buy a 4090 for this motherboard, but I also want 2 PCIe 5.0 M.2 SSDs, and the 4090 is a x16 PCIe connector. So am I able to plug the 4090 into the top PCIe slot, one gen 5 SSD into the lightning M.2 slot, and then the second gen 5 SSD into the expansion card, plugged in to the x4 PCIe slot at the bottom of the motherboard? I understand that the M.2 expansion card is a x8 connector, but if only 4 of those lanes are being used by one x4 5.0 SSD, does it really matter?

Grabbed this for a new build Christmas 2023... refurbished for $120. Combined with a pre-black Friday 12600KF for $140 and 16x2 (32GB) CAS 16 DDR 4 3200 for crazy price of $51. Made a great inexpensive 1440p gaming monster at $1200 total including 180Hz 27" monitor. Most expensive part was the $500 7800 XT. Prices on almost everything have literally gone UP since I did this build a few weeks ago. O/C'd broke 18,000 in timespy and R23. Did I mention $1200? :)

Does it come with the nine screws to mount it? I don’t see them in the box?

This is gonna look great in my asus rog helios.

I was looking for reviews of this board and found your video. It is actually what I was looking for as very few reviewers go into the technical aspects such as the vrm, capacitor composition etc. This is very important information for overclocking enthusiasts or for those that want to squeeze a little more performance out of a budget build. Great job. Keep up the god work. Subscribed!

Ok so what’s the biggest difference between this and the x670e godlike?

Hi Steve, unfortunately I can not finde any documentation if the m.2 Xpander Card can be used in the PCI_E3 slot when using only one ssd on the card. Would be great to know, cause I don't want to have PCI_E1 at x8. Also the cooling of the VGA would be improved I guess when there is no card in PCI_E2. Cheers Dirk

someone that actually knows their stuff. and shows a lot of things, thank you.

Manual says that "If M2_2 is occupied, PCIE1 will downgrade to x8 mode" It does not say that M2_1 (the gen4 one on top) will cause the PCIE1 to downgrade. So I believe you can run 4 Gen4 m.2s without downgrading the PCIE1 slot.

So what is this board used for? Clearly not gaming, since the VRMs and mosfets are total overkill and even super budget boards can easily handle gaming regardless the CPU..I read audioengineering is buggy in AMD too and most editing programs are optimized for Intel. Im guessing as some niche AMD based full time video editing build then (extra m.2 ssd slots)? Or for overclocking a 7900x or something? Dont know if the x3D ones are made for decent overclocking. Just curious..

I found it very informative. How many models are in Gigabyte z690 motherboards have

Is the wifi card the same as Mediatek MT7922?

Among them which motherboard is with non-RGB & DDR4 variant & specially made for creativities, not for gaming??????

I just bought this yesterday for my new pc build.

Does that DDR4 version come with a dial-up modem or do you buy it separately?

Hi Steve, great review. Kinda of a dumb question, but this board should be able to run a 13900kS out of the box right? ( it being a z790 - so no bios update required?)

Was there any RGB LEDs under the VRM heatsink? The Gigabyte Control Center has an animated RGB Eangle taht matches it you change patterns of, but I see nothing happening on the VRM heatsink as far as ny lights showing up. Maybe this only exists on the Master, or... this is just a graphic in Gigabyte Control Cneter to indicate your' chaning the patern for all the onboard RGB headers to that setting? I have no clue, I'm blind, so I can't even make out the Eangle on the VRM now that my motherboard is installed. You can forget removing any screws at this point. I don't even know how I'm going to install the M.2's while blind now that it's all installed if there's one or two screws holding them down. I just used the SATA 3.0 ports and none of the Nvme slots (het). Which is ironic, because the 4 NVME slots was the main reason I chose this midrange board over others like the LiveMixer.

LOL I think I screamed for a full hour about what stwp1d as h377 engineer designer in his CAD program would design a motherboard with the CMOS battery buried under a heat sink. Just the abject stwpidity of it blew my mind. One, if it's user replaceable, make it easy to access and replace. Two, heat from the heatsink is going to decrease the output of the button battery and can't be great for it. But mainly point #1. If you are a motherboard engineer, do not ever hide the CMOS battery under a heat sink. I mean literally, face palm. The amount of expletive curse words that flew out of my mouth when I saw this... you can't imagine. More so than having to do finger gymnastics plugging in connectors to pinouts along the edge of the motherboard crushed into a Corsair 5000x case with next to no clearance witht he 360 RAD.