Gigabyte’s catalog has been supplemented by the Z590 Aorus Xtreme Waterforce motherboard. Targeting the PC enthusiast, it supports 11th Gen Intel Core (Rocket Lake) processors slated for release on March 30th. The description of the board is impressive, but it’s worth remembering that everything comes at a price. Although the manufacturer does not name the price, it will probably be comparable to the price of the Asus ROG Maximus XIII Extreme Glacial, equal to 1,500 euros.
The motherboard based on the Intel Z590 Express chipset is equipped with a water block to remove heat from the processor and nearby power components. An indicator is built into the water block cover to display the temperature of the coolant and the processor. The second water block cools down the system logic set.
By the way, the power subsystem is built according to a 21-phase scheme (20 + 1) with digital control, a “smart” power stage, the load capacity of which reaches 100 A, and an array of polymer tantalum capacitors.
Next to the LGA 1200 processor socket are four DDR4 DIMM slots.
The board has three PCIe x16 slots. One of them works in x16 mode, but switches to x8 mode if an expansion card is installed in the second slot, always working in x8 mode. These two slots are PCIe 4.0 compliant (PCIe 4.0 support is processor dependent). The third slot complies with the PCIe 3.0 specification and always operates in x4 mode.
PCIe 4.0 x4 signals from the processor are also routed to one of the three M.2 slots. Two more M.2 slots are connected to the chipset. They can accommodate SSDs with PCIe 3.0 or SATA 6Gb / s interface. There are also six SATA 6Gb / s ports for connecting drives.
The board is equipped with two Thunderbolt 4 ports routed to USB Type-C connectors on the I / O panel with support for USB 3.2 Gen 2, eight USB 3.2 Gen 2 ports routed to USB Type-A connectors, and two USB 3.2 ports Gen 1, which are routed to the pin header on the board. In addition, there are 10 GbE and 2.5 GbE network ports, WiFi 6E 802.11ax 2T2R wireless connectivity, and Bluetooth 5.2.
The sound subsystem on the Realtek ALC1220-VB codec with the ESS ES9018K2M DAC and TI OPA1622 op amp supporting DTS: X Ultra deserves a separate mention.
Of course, the board has an abundance of temperature sensors, connectors for fans and backlights, and other little things, useful and not so useful.
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