The look of the board is definitely unique, and though looks are in the eye of the beholder, for me the cyberpunk theme, with its copper accents and cogs, looks great. The yet-to-be-seen Aqua is the company’s top model, but with its expected limited-edition nature and likely stratospheric price, the Taichi will essentially be ASRock's premium Z690 motherboard for us mortals. And that's not a bad place to be. The brand has now evolved into a genuinely high-end one. It offered a good feature set and value for money without the excessive RGB overload that was common to gaming boards a few years ago. When ASRock first launched its Taichi brand, we were impressed with its less-is-more design approach. Like all high-end Z690 boards, it’s expensive
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Read the full Gigabyte Z690 Aorus Pro review. And at $330 you'll have a few dollars that you can put towards the scarcer things, like DDR5 memory or a faster GPU. With plain Wi-Fi 6, 4x M.2 slots, a strong VRM, and loads of USB ports, most gamers will be happy. Features such as Thunderbolt 4, a fifth M.2 slot, or 10G LAN would add considerable extra cost which is hard to justify. Gigabyte's Z690 Aorus Pro sits in a genuine Alder Lake sweet spot, where it offers good value for money and a nice, rounded feature set. There are four RGB headers, though, with two of them being addressable, so you can still add plenty of flashy illumination if you really want. That's rare for a gaming motherboard in 2022. There's also minimal RGB lighting with just a tiny Aorus logo atop the rear I/O heatsink. Though a lot of the grey chipset and M.2 cooling will be hidden beneath a GPU, it might not be the easiest board to blend in with your build. The BIOS is maturing regularly as well, which makes us completely confident in recommending the Gigabyte board as our pick of the Z690 bunch.Ībout the only downside with this option is the high contrast design, with lots of grey heatsinks. By limiting it to 'just' Wi-Fi 6 wireless (as opposed to Wi-Fi 6E) and 2.5G Intel wired networking connections, and eschewing such unnecessary luxuries as Thunderbolt 4 or another M.2 slot, it has managed to keep the price at least relatively sensible.Īnd it's a great performer, too, delivering system and gaming performance easily on par with the far more expensive boards we've also tested. Gigabyte has been smart about the way it's specced out the Aorus Pro. There are cheaper DDR4 boards around-Gigabyte also makes an Aorus Pro in DDR4 flavor, too, though that's not sold in the US or EU-but if you want to get the absolute most out of the new Intel platform you want DDR5.
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