Pros: Price 19 phase VRM Runs the 12900k DDR4 support Quiet Good amount of heatsink for the VRM feels heavy and well built. Nice amount of features for cpu overclocking Memory runs 3600 c14 14 14 (should do more, see cons) Gives me great frames in BF 2042 on my 6900xt @ 1440p You can disable the E cores Lots of boost options for P cores i have yet to play with (cpu is very fast out of the box) Plays nice with my 4400mhz c19 19 19 patriot viper 16gb kit x2 for 32GB. (i did have to use 1.45volts on it for 3600mhz a bit more than with other builds)

Cons: I had to disable RST VDM for the bios to see any of my NVME drives outside of the raid manager did still show the drives so i knew they were working. At this time i am unable to find io voltage for the cpu limiting my ddr4 to just 3600mhz.(should do 4000mhz c14 14 14 according to others) Limited support / very few people own z690 gigabyte boards at this time. Gigabyte bios update revisions might be lacking some function or quality of life aspects as gigabyte often only really spends good amount of time on the release bios (dumb i know) Gigabyte forums seem to be pretty dead and from what i have seen do not offer any gigabyte support there.

Overall Review: Over all it seems to be a solid platform for just 200usd, and while that's not exactly cheap i do think its a pretty good value compared to what else is available at this time. I like the fact it has a pretty beefy VRM with out all the extras i don't want/need. like "highend audio" or any other items that bloat the price to oblivion just to run my cpu with good clean power. I knew gigabyte has bios issues from past builds years ago. But not having IO voltage control seem like an oversight, however it is possible they just linked it with something else or its not used any longer, i really cant say at this time. At any rate going from 3200mhz c14 to 3600 c14 had very minimal effects on game performance. So the bottleneck might be some place else in the system. Z690 is suppose to support bclk oc and maybe that could help, i know it did on my x299 platform.

Pros: It works (sort of) overclocking is easy bios has a lot of options and has good fan control even if it is a bit clunky. Have my i9 7980XE @ 4.8ghz on all 18cores. With no delid and only h100i for cooling. 32GB 4000mhz 16,16,16, feels really really good.

Cons: USB ports are flaky. they all seem to work well with keyboards and mice, but not so good with my capture cards. infact only one port will work with them. The type A port next to the usb c port is the only port that has proper signal. Allowing my capture cards to work proper! The other ports seem to work OK for the most part but i have had some USB flash drives get corrupted when using other ports! I have tested with no overclock and the board seems to be have the same.

Overall Review: I have had issues with other recent intel boards as well with usb ports. how ever so far the 2 amd systems i have seem to work great on all usb ports. I do not know how many others are having issues but i know of at least 2 others that have capture card issues on there intel based systems. \o/ My old x79 intel system works great as well all usb ports work with capture cards. sooo for what its worth there you go i shared my experience.

Pros: 3840x1600 killer card. Even in games that are not well optimized at all, this card still delivers acceptable performance. Mainly got this card to review it and for cities skylines with heavy mods. My vega 64 LQ was able to play 3840x1600 + 150% Super Sampling, Granted it was lower fps around 26 it looked good and was 100% playable. (26fps was at its worse zoom level) Gpuz reported 13GB vram usage and it did have some slight hiccups while moving at times not too bad tho. With this card i can run +200% SS and get 40fps (at the same worse scaling zoom) and have zero hiccup or stutters its just silky smooth now. This is with a city of 170k people and all tiles unlocked 500+ assets with extra shaders and lighting effects mods. Atlas is now playable on ultra settings at 3840x1600. Atlas is basically ark with new skin, and the fps is not good at that resolution, 1440p would be much better, but i can play it with resolution scale back a little bit and all is well mid 30's and feels very nice. Pretty certain that game is a worst case scenario.(by a landslide lol) All in all i would say this card is about 30% faster than my vega64LQ running at 1750-1800mhz core and 1050hbm. So not huge but 16gb is nice for mods and 1TB/s aint too bad either :)

Cons: This card should have been a liquid cooler at 750$ usd, they should have made a slightly slower card at 700$ with the same cooler. That way you would have more overclocking headroom and it would have been received by the media better. And really only would have been about 3% slower. And the liquid would have make it a down right 2080 killer on average.

Overall Review: Putting a cheap water block on this card should get temps down by a good 35c on a custom loop, should easy do 2000mhz possibly 2050-2100. Do wish they would have optimized it more for games sure. But it is what is. and its good enough for AMD until they can get out of debt. No clue how loud it gets as my pc is a nuclear reactor with a 7980xe @5.0ghz. And i can safely say my other fans are much louder lol. I am happy with the card as i wanted the extra vram and it works well for my resolution.

Pros: s/n is marked on back of drive so you can locate bad drive off storage manager! They look really nice on your desk as a paper weight.

Cons: 1 of 6 DOA second one never worked proper (no errors) and died 2 weeks later, 3rd disk would not show fault but could not be used in array without missing files (unable to copy) files were usable just not copyable. Finally 3 years later it showed errors and can now find the bad drive. All drives worked fine on there own so was hard to tell what drive was bad.

Overall Review: I should have just sent them all back right away i paid 400$ each and really have not been able to make proper use of them. Shame this drive is the first out of many (32) or so drives that never had a issue other than being old and small :) I guess stick to the normal black drives, even the green drives have been ok to me.

Pros: Look cool, Has a ton of promise over the RAT7 I own.

Cons: Zero quality. First two I got had major scroll wheel drag, Third one drag was tolerable and now only a few months of casual use less than 4 hrs/day. The scroll wheel will now scroll up at random on its own or even when your scrolling down... Combine with the left and right click buttons going out for everyone (as did my rat7) in less than a year. Its just not worth owning.

Overall Review: Hard to believe i still have my old ps/2 mouse i used to play StarCraft Broodwar on and it still works fine.... used that mouse every day all day for 3 years all the clicks still work..... Simply put madcats is selling a mouse that is about 15$ in actual value and charging you over 100$ Shame on you madcats good luck to you tho i'm sure your company will continue to grow and prosper lol.

Pros: DOA

Cons: cant remember the last time i got a DOA motherboard, let alone a 600$ motherboard Oh that's right never haha! jokes on me!

Overall Review: Package was received in perfect condition tested on multiple power supplies. tested out of case on table with only CPU installed. Hit power button only to have it blink on and imminently power off then back on and so on. This indicate board is DOA from electro static discharge or was defective from mfg. I would think Asrock would test a $600 board before shipping. With that said maybe they should start using a antistatic bag like 99% of all the other motherboards come in....(idk just thought it was odd that this one has no antistatic bag.) I am no expert but have built enough computers in the last 14 years to know how to handle a mother board.