PERFECT Intel 14th Gen Mobo for White PC Builds! Gigabyte Z790 AORUS PRO X Unboxing & Overview

Intel's 14th Generation Raptor Lake Refresh processors have just launched, and in the lead-up to their arrival, motherboard manufacturers have been busy refreshing their LGA1700 motherboard offerings in anticipation for this launch.

For today's video, ALKtech checks out what could possibly be the nicest-looking Intel Z790 Refresh motherboard offering to hit the market - Gigabyte's Z790 AORUS PRO X. Positioned more at the mid-range of Gigabyte's Intel Z790 Refresh motherboard offerings and sporting new features such as 5 Gigabit Ethernet and WIFI 7 support, all wrapped up in a sleek white aesthetic, watch on to find out if this motherboard is any good!

0:00 Introduction
0:34 Packaging & Unboxing
2:20 Motherboard Aesthetics, Physical Features & VRM
3:45 Memory Support
4:08 Front Panel USB Connectivity & Special Features
6:29 Expansion Slots
7:23 Storage
8:56 Audio & Internet Connectivity
9:48 Fan & RGB Headers
10:09 Rear I/O & VisionLINK
11:54 Conclusion & Pricing

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The motherboard featured in this video was a review unit provided on loan from CDL Trading Pte Ltd, an authorised distributor for Gigabyte in Singapore.

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[michaelpalm]

Thank you very much! The best review of this mainboard ever (I watched all other of this board at youtube - yours is best)! Thumb up. TOP!!

[DriftyWingss]

Thanks for letting us know about the PCIe lanes! <3

[joerockwell]

Thank you so much that was an amazing video

[shadowrd]

Thank you for posting this video 🎉. You have a new subscriber. Keep up the great 👍 work.

[stevelarson]

excuse me for my lack of understanding, but if i used this board and had planned on using rtx 4070 ti super and a m.2 gen 5 ssd. would my graphics card performance suffer?

[Oceanborn]

Recently I've found myself more and more surprised by mainboards still coming with SATA cables. PCIe SSDs have become so common and cost the same as SATA ones that I don't think most people would need those included cables. In my mind, either you use an NVMe SSD or you have an old SATA SSD that you take from an old build and have cables from there.

Anyway, this is a really beautiful mainboard. I like that white/silver PCIe slot at the top. I just wish the other ones also were white. The one that is white is going to be covered by the graphics card most of the time anyway.

[ChristianWheel]

Thanks for this overview. Do you know if the Sensor Link port works if you use an F sku CPU like an i7-13700KF?

[YGadgETech]

Is there any way to bypass the loss in performance with nvmes gen 5 with gpu pcie gen 5 for example Rtx 4080? Is there any motherboard capable of this?

[MeMyself-gffn]

The PCI limitations have nothing to do with the board, that is due to the architecture, all motherboards have that limitation, not just this one. Next gen may be different but currently no motherboards support full x16 on both slots simultaneously, not that it really matters as neither of them max out the 16 lanes anyway. Your graphics card may at most see a 3% slow down and that is only in very limited situations. So its not fair to take points off for this board not doing 16 lanes on both slots when that's the case with all motherboards.

[michalwalks]

Hey. Does your wifi work? My drivers didn't work at all with this...

[minhnguyen]

Hi, mine is about to be delivered and I'm trying to download the bios. How can I know if my model is rev 1.1 or rev 1.0 to download?

[nivea]

why has Intel much much more high end boards to buy?

[ABP]

Gen 5 8x is the same as Gen 4 16x bandwidth. Your Gen 4 graphics card won't lose performance.

[MrKZdemos]

so i guess im not going to even bother with a gen 5 ssd

[nihalshah]

So if i use 4.0 ssd the graphics card will work properly and if i use 5.0 it will not 🥴 braaaah