Rule supreme with the Gigabyte Z690 AORUS ELITE DDR4 gaming motherboards. The new king of gaming platform continues the legendary AORUS bloodline with the most robust power delivery and dominant thermal design, glorified with the complete memory overclocking technology to crown your PC with the best Alder Lake’s performance in all its gaming glory.
Specifications
- Chipset: Intel Z690
- CPU Socket: LGA1700
- Supported CPU: 12th Gen Intel Core, Pentium Gold and Celeron Processors
- Memory Slots: 4
- PCIe Gen 5 X16 Slots: 1
- Form Factor: ATX
- Shielded Memory Routing to avoid interference
- Advanced Thermal Design
- AMP-UP Audio
- RGB FUSION 2.0
- Fast 2.5GbE LAN with bandwidth management
- Robust power delivery
Intel Z690
Chipset
LGA1700
Socket
Gen 5.0
PCIe
ATX
Form Factor
About the Gigabyte Z690 AORUS ELITE DDR4 Motherboard
Direct Digital VRM Design
To ensure maximum Turbo Boost and overclocking performance of Intel‘s new generation CPU, Gigabyte Z690 AORUS ELITE DDR4 motherboards equip the best VRM design ever built with the highest quality components.
PCIe 5.0 Design
Gigabyte Z690 AORUS ELITE DDR4 motherboards are ready to work with the upcoming PCIe 5.0 devices which are expected to experience double bandwidth than the current PCIe 4.0 devices. To reach the high speed and maintain good signal integrity, GIGABYTE R&D uses the low impedance PCB to provide the maximum performance.
DDR4 XMP
AORUS is offering a tested and proven platform that ensures proper compatibility with profiles up to 5333MHz and beyond. All users need to do to attain this performance boost is to ensure that their memory module is XMP capable and that the XMP function is activated and enabled on their Gigabyte Z690 AORUS ELITE DDR4 motherboard.
RAID Storage
The exclusive 3 PCIe 4.0 M.2 from CPU and 2nd Generation 7000 MB/s SSD provides unparalleled Read/ Write performance up to 21053 and 15499 MB/s.
Advanced Thermal Solution
Gigabyte Z690 AORUS ELITE DDR4 motherboards’ un-throttled performance is guaranteed by innovative and optimised thermal design to ensure the best CPU, Chipset, SSD stability and low temperatures under full load application and gaming.
Fully Covered MOSFET Heatsink
Increased surface area up to 2X larger compared to traditional heatsinks. It improves heat dissipation from the MOSFETs.
Smart Fan 6
Smart Fan 6 contains several unique cooling features that ensure gaming PC maintain its performance while staying cool and quiet. Multiple fan headers can support PWM/DC fan and pump.
AMP-UP Audio
ALC1220 120dB(A) SNR HD Audio with Smart Headphone Amp automatically detects impedance of your head-worn audio device, preventing issues such as low volume and distortion. With the new VB series audio controller, stream your voice to the world vibrantly with both front/rear microphone SNR up to 110/114dB(A).
Latest connectivity
Gigabyte Z690 AORUS ELITE DDR4 motherboards let you experience ultimate connection flexibility and blazing data-transfer speed with next generation network and storage connectivity.
2.5 GbE LAN
Adoption of 2.5G LAN provide up to 2.5 GbE network connectivity, with at least 2 times faster transfer speeds compared to general 1GbE networking, perfectly designed for gamers with ultimate online gaming experience.
Definitive Aesthetics
GIGABYTE motherboards bundle several useful and intuitive software to help users to control every aspect of motherboard and provide customisable lighting effect with outstanding aesthetics to fit your unique personality. Now offering more LED customisations than ever, users can truly adapt their PC to represent their lifestyle.