Gigabyte Z790 AORUS PRO X : sorry, not good enough!

[@lazyking7773]

I got this motherboard and I absolutely love it. Much rather spend the money on something I like then something I don't and when you realize how much money we waste on little things that's not needed when you add it up $100 isn't a lot

[@tobiashansson8295]

How many fans/rgb can it takes?

[@lazyking7773]

@@tobiashansson8295 I got 10 lian li infinity daisy chain fans with hub so I can avoid extra wires. Along with the fans my cpu cooler & ram also has rgb on it if that answers your question. I've had no issues since

[@SumanYadav-gn6fw]

​@tobiashansson8295 i have 16 fan setup with it ❤😊

[@ching574]

$100?? its $280 lol

[@JayKobay]

Stellar review Laurent. Leagues above 95% of other TH-cam tech reviewers. I was actually looking at motherboards for an all white build, and fortunately you reviewed one of the ones I was eyeing. Thanks again for your in depth analysis as always!

[@Laurentschoice]

Thanks for the kind words ;)

[@StevenSavvides1]

Mine would not power on, just did it's diagnostics then rebooted and got stuck in that loop. Updated BIOS but made no difference. Tried different CPU/RAM and PSU from a working machine but did not resolve it. Returned for a refund.

[@reptilespantoso]

Good review. Nice mobo, I like the PCIe spacing. Not enough backside USB for my liking. You're right, the price is too high.

[@phillamoore157]

The first 1:30sec made me an instant, lifetime subscriber of Laurent's channel. Love it! I went ahead and picked this board up, because it wasn't rated as a "bad" board by ANY stretch. It just wasn't listed as a justified expense over the Elite. So, when it went on sale significantly cheaper than the Elite, I jumped on it, and it matches my Lian Li 011 Dynamic, which while very cool looking, and very well made case, is an excruciatingly painful experience (to say the very least) to actually have to use it for a practical build. Lian Li wins "the most nauseating experience with a case" award (at least with that model) But, I digress... As far as I know (someone please correct me if I'm wrong) There's not a board on the market that doesn't share PCIE lanes with a graphics card, using PCIE 5.0 M.2 ssd's. *GREAT video. These companies are making it barbarically confusing to figure out what boards can do what, clearly. When you go to their page is poorly defined over-hyped crap, and you have no way of gauging what you're getting without personal experience with the boards/builds, which is obviously very time-consuming, and expensive. So, these videos are priceless.* I'm hoping at some point an MB will come out that doesn't share the M.2 slots (at least the primary one) with the graphics card. I'm not building this for gaming, so I may mess around with installing the GC in another slot just to see what will break 🤣. If it means sacrificing graphics, but opening up the speed of the M.2, I may do that till a better solution comes along. Would be interesting to hear feedback on that from the guru's.

[@swizzler8053]

My favorite motherboard reviewer. Love the white design but i am on team red. Bought the x670 elite after watching your review. Keep up the great work monsieur and stay safe.

[@darkjp]

Gigabyte making white themed products always hits me weird for some reason, I guess I'm too used to the stealthy black style they've been having for so long.
As for the price difference, not so suprising, just like for graphics card the white paint is very expensive apparently! x)

[@Orioneuu]

So what’s the best all white mobo? (For intel 14th gen)

[@jeanyonsei2318]

NZXT?

[@masnaringquest4626]

I love the way you review tech, broseph! You crqck me up and make things fun...and informative. ❤

[@giovanni2910]

I subbed to him today just bcuz of his enthusiasm alone. lol but also his opinions.

[@xirrantos]

Sorry, this was TOO emotional for my taste

[@Laurentschoice]

Nooooo... Don't say that !!!! I'm not EMOTIONAL 😭😭😭😭😭...AHHHHHHHHHH...LORD !!!! NOOOOOOO!

[@pedrokornlord]

​@@Laurentschoice the best reply EVER

[@Laurentschoice]

(1 month later) AAAAHHHHHHHH NOOOOOOOO..... hr0fft.... COME BAAAAACK !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@vincentvega3093]

Good looks are not enough. Thanks, Laurent. I love me some motherboard reviews.

[@Laurentschoice]

Yeah.. i was really disappointed in this one :(

[@fancypantzz]

Great review. Love your easy to understand graphics and clear explanations. Unfortunately there are so few white board options these days. Super bummed also about no LED error code display on board and no CMOS button. Alas…. I “needed” a new white board to go with a 14900 .

[@zSynthex]

Does the same issue with the m.2 5th gen for intel does it also effect the AMD7000 series edition?

[@frostedflinks]

Been loving your channel, found it last night. Helped me understand board wayyyy more!
If you review the X670e pro x i would love you 5ever lol deciding between that board and the rog x670e-e. Thanks the vudeos and info!

[@opkarlsen]

So hard to find a good/nice looking white MB! I just bought this and building it when I see this video.. It works for me so far, but what do you recommend for M2 position? Top pos and only 8 lanes or put it down to gen 4? I will use an 4090 watercooled and not worried that I will upgrade this PC

[@Deme_banks]

Can you explain what he was saying there

[@JWSC2024]

Also there is the Aorus z790 Elite AX ICE -> which is identical to the Elite AX BUT just white and silver. There wasn't much press about it, but cheaper and in white.

[@tarunkarmakar2291]

make a video of msi z790 gaming pro wifi please

[@jeanyonsei2318]

Where is the Debug LED?

[@SoaringSimulator]

You get an AORUS RGB instead... LOL ... And marketing call it PRO... really stupid

[@SergeWorks]

Thank you Laurent, was waiting this review for some time from you, was curious how it compares to elite wifi 7 and yeah not that much better. Wonder what are your thoughts on Asus Rog Strix z790-a gaming wifi II motherboard. Thank again.

[@user-sf5ts5cb2z]

love this channel, just chanced upon it and subscribed immediately after a few videos. Was hoping you can review the x670e aorus pro x motherboard as i really love white builds and would want to hear your opinion on it. If a video is too long, maybe just let me know what's the best white motherboard in your opinion!

[@Laurentschoice]

Hmm... I am editting the Formula z790 ... To be uploaded on Tuesday. ;)

[@keponen331]

@Laurentschoice if I use a pci 4.0 ssd will my gpu get full 5.0 speed?

[@haies09]

Any update? I didn’t research enough and got a gen 5 m.2 and my GPU is only running at 8 lanes.

[@keponen331]

@@haies09nope, looks like thats how it is

[@haies09]

@@keponen331 from what I been watching, a few percent performance loss ain’t really bad, and I’ll keep my drive speed 😊

[@darkman237]

On your sweatshirt, GRANDIZER GO!!!!!

[@PatrickWood]

I got this motherboard already, will it really nerf my pcie5 ssd?

[@atrothe]

I think you are the singulary the strangest man in the PC tech review world. But I love your weirdness.

[@Laurentschoice]

And I love YOU

[@ching574]

can i put amd 7800x3d in it? or is it not compatible

[@SoloGamerChile]

Thanx for your videos.. i love it !!

[@Laurentschoice]

and i love YOU!

[@bernard3797]

make a video on the x670E version of thiss please and thank you would really appreciate it

[@SgtCreepyGaming]

Nice looking board…I’m stuck wondering if the strix z790-a II would be sufficient for my 13900k and cl34 7200 ddr5? Thoughts?

[@thealien_ali3382]

I got the z790-a strix 2

[@sammtamm]

Im considering the strix z790-a aswell, cant decide between this and the strix. Did the strix need any bios updates for the 14th gen do you know by any chance? Ill be going i7 14700k

[@massoudwazir6389]

​@@sammtammgo for gigabyte it is faster in ddr5 speed

[@Optimiser113]

Do not buy ASUS!

[@MrMichael361]

Hey what do you mean about the m.2 pcie slot robbing the gpu. Can you explain it better for me, I’m a bit of a newb

[@Laurentschoice]

The m.2ssd is basically trapped under the hottest component in the build (the GPU). So it'll get hot.. and slow down quite a bit.

[@justatim8143]

It is sad that Gigabyte tries to hide all the features on their new boards and charge more for their white boards and give you less. It is the same with AMD x670e/B650 boards as they sell you the same name boards and add Ice and X and lower the PCB layers to 6. Gigabyte hides their features like ALC897 Codec audio and just call it High Def. and force you to find it somewhere in all their Docs. Gigabyte has no problem showing the ALC 1220 Codec in the main description. The Pro X would have been the perfect board if done the right way Like M.2 gen 5 and PCIe Gen 5 but they didn't and they still charge way to much just to get white.

[@MrKZdemos]

i had to return this motherboard, i thought it was just a bad motherboard, but almost every review on this motherboard is 1star

[@Alan-tp6te]

Hi. Can I ask why you returned it? I've had 3 of these and 2 of them would not POST. The diagnostic lights cycled through then the board would get stuck in a reboot loop.

[@MrKZdemos]

@@Alan-tp6te same issue really, it would not recognize any of my 3 GPUs, only way i got it to post is by connecting an hdmi straight to the CPU. awful, unfinished motherboard. stay away if anyone is reading this in the future

[@Alan-tp6te]

@@MrKZdemos thanks for your reply. Yeah, I think they have issues with this board. Shame as it's a beautiful looking motherboard. I did the bios update via q flash and button on the board but still couldn't get it to stay on after the diagnostics light cycle through.

[@MrKZdemos]

where did you buy the board from? i got mine off amazon and its a 30 day process to return a motherboard, thats if they even accept the board back. @@Alan-tp6te

[@Laurentschoice]

They will take it back... No worries with that... But what a shame !!!

[@Aleksieff]

Does it support the 14700k out of the box tho??? I am wondering if i should order this. Also can anyone owning one share opinion? I just need working 14th gen mobo that can run 4x ddr5 dimms.

[@Laurentschoice]

It does

[@patrickwilliams9611]

those wanting micro atx look at the b760m aorus elite x ax

[@iangutierrez9121]

can this use ddr4 ram

[@Thunderbird1337]

I have this board. Beacause I wanted to have a white X670E board fitting my white case. And believe it or not: This expensive premium motherboard has NO F***N Windows 10 drivers for Wifi and Bluetooth!!! Only Win 11 drivers. That's insane. I already wrote to their support asking whether they are serious about this. But no answer since a week or so.

[@xBINARYGODx]

the vrm design on this is baffling. 9+9, really? This is the pro - did they make the pro too good for z690 and kill master sales for that gen? Anyway, there is not Ultra outside of the i version, and the X refresh was the perfect time to bring it back - use this, or really the black version, and give it a true 18 (or 16) and add the master's dac, and boom, you have Z90 Ultra X.

[@xBINARYGODx]

this should be 299 and the ultra I mentioned should be 350 - but whatever, I am happy with my Master X, so who cares.

[@DX6860]

Could I put the Gen 4 SSD in one of the other slots for it to run how its suppose to? Or will it only affect gen 5 ssds when in that slot?

[@Lxuh]

Gen 5 is backwards compatible and vice versa. if you put a gen 5 SSD in a gen 4 slot. you will get gen 4 speeds. if you put a gen 4 SSD in a gen 5 slot you will get gen 4 speeds.

[@DX6860]

But if I put a gen 4 in the gen 5 slot it will make my gpu run at x8 insteadf of x16. Although its not a huge performance loss its stills a loss.@@Lxuh

[@TranceCore3]

Good enough for me

[@Dark55550]

Best reviewer

[@keponen331]

I was about to hit "add to cart" then I saw the downgraded audio. Also z690 Aorus Pro had a 7 segment, wth

[@keponen331]

the wifi module is exposed and connected with a cable. never seen that is that safe?

[@_Zynaps_]

Goldorak Powaaaaaaaaa :D

[@mohandtem]

Can you made video with rog strix x670e-a ??

[@Laurentschoice]

Ill take a look at it for u

[@mohandtem]

Thanks, because I am looking to buy one, and its price is reasonable compared to the price of the x670e-e

[@snorfold]

You have an french accent xD

[@davidjames4583]

🤣 !! 👍 !!! 👍 !!! 👍 !!! 🤣

[@sensibledriver933]

Dunno about the specs and performance but it looks ugly.

[@ArthurSalt]

TL;DR: get this board if you're doing a white or panda build.
The ASUS "ROG MAXIMUS Z790 Dark HERO" has basically everything this board has except it's missing the quick release heatsinks and only has 2.5GbE LAN instead of the 5GbE port on the Pro X. The Pro X also has a white PCB which isn't standard in the industry as they're costly to produce, and it's likely where the bump in price comes from. The PCIe 5.0 lanes are shared on ALL Z790 motherboards from every manufacturer, and as you point out yourself that's an Intel problem because for some reason they limit the lanes on their "consumer level" CPUs, and have scrapped HEDT chips. Also, running GPUs at x8 has no noticeable real world impact on any card - you will not miss 3-4 FPS. But here's the real kicker: the Dark is £700 ($856.89), not the £419.99 ($514.12) that the Pro X costs. Every one of these "new" boards is overpriced; however, the top refreshed SKUs from ASUS are double the price of comparable boards from other manufacturers.
I'd say ignore this review and get this board if you're building a white or panda PC because the only other Z790 board that competes with the Pro X is the Apex which is £720 and was on sale at RRP for approximately three seconds anyway, and came with the potential to fry your CPU thanks to an awful BIOS.
At this point it should be a manufacturer critique rather than of individual boards as the brands are desperately trying to make tiny revisions seem huge, and are charging us ridiculous prices.

[@Laurentschoice]

I do believe that was my conclusion. This board really goes for White builders only. :)

[@ArthurSalt]

@@Laurentschoice Okay fella 👌. I just thought your review seemed disproportionately negative. It's important to contrast this board with other comparable boards for sale that are significantly overpriced. The industry is in a bit of a mess that's for sure. Nevertheless, as always, it was a well-made video 😉👍

[@Laurentschoice]

I get what you mean. Totally do. I'm reviewing the Dark Hero today. So I get you.
Thing is... Take away the white factor... It' struggles to do anything betters than the Elite. And that's a problem of some sort.

[@Optimiser113]

Do not by Asus!