I had a Gigabyte Z690 motherboard on my iBuyPower gaming PC, but I was encountering a lot of issues while gaming, such as the mouse or keyboard not responding, the ethernet connection failing, and microstuttering and crashing of games. I replaced the power supply and memory, to no avail. I even reinstalled Win 11. I finally just replaced the motherboard with this one, and all my problems went away. It feels so good to just have everything working like it should, and I haven't had any issues. The connections were pretty much identical to my Z690 board, so it was an easy swap.
Has everything needed for upgrade to windows 11 to be worth it since board features are mainly win 11 only. At first was just booting but not loading anything, turns out i needed to push both sides of ram down and put them in A2 and B2 slot. Got DDR5 6000 was worried cause intel i7 14700kf said 5600 max supported but the xmp for it to worked out and ram runs great with it. Also was worried was doing to much man handling of board cause i installed it then pulled it back out then back in. Anywho though just needed seat the ram snug down in dimm. Everything bought for it works great thank you
Happy it comes with a digital BIOS Q-Code display along with pins for a beep speaker. Gigabyte appears to be using a new and updated BIOS interface, which is different from the Z370 and Z390 Aorus motherboards that I have.
* affordable * Good performance *Easy bios upgrades *Linux compatible *Does it's job *Two nvme ssd slots as well as a pcie 4.0 port. One of them has a heatsink called "thermal guard" as it's brand name to keep your SSD cool. But it's not the best thermal guard and you have to use it if you want to have two ssds. *Ethernet port * Very small, but not too small which means it fits extremely well with a micro ATX case.
Very heavy and solid they use a lot of metal. ATX Board, Supports socket 1851 for my intel core 9 285. Easy latch for m2 sticks, release button for PCI video Card. Debug display for troubleshooting. Z890 Chipset, reinforced pci slot, Wi-Fi 7, 10 GB Lan, dual channel DDR 5 memory with 4 slots. Support for gen 5 m2. PCI 4 and PCI 3 available for expansion. Easy build for me. Best motherboard I have had to date.
Excellent build quality, this motherboard is heavy in the box, I mean they have a few things that came with the board but man it is a heavy product. You pull it out of the plastic bag it comes in and you can feel the build quality and see it to. I've bought MSI products for years and I still have a Z87 board with a 4th gen cpu and also a 970 MSI video card and they both are still going strong to this day. The ease of building this new system with the new Tomahawk board is amazing, it's like putting a puzzle together and once you do it works perfectly every time. I've never had any problems with MSI equipment out of the box. I will post some pics soon to show the finished build.
My first Tuff motherboard was a X58 that last thirteen years and my second Tuff motherboard was a Z87 which still runs today after ten years. The bios is easy to navigate. I paired this board up with a i9 i12900k and it is as fast as a Hellcat. I did have some issues with an internet connection while loading Windows but I did some research and got it taken care of. Hopefully I can have the same luck with this Z790 as I have with the other Tuff motherboards. Since I have a rare and unique Cooler Master Nvidia case, I did a retro fit with this motherboard and I think it turned out fine.
Looks nice in my setup and working great
Simple setup, worked and updated itself on first power up zero issues thus far. Massive heat sinks everywhere running benchmarks so far everything has been optimal. Nothing over 70c at 100% on processor,board, or video card. Wish I had known before hand they had heat sinks installed on the M.2 sockets for M1 M3 and M4. Wouldnt have had to buy memory with heat sinks. This is more positive than negative hence the pros column.
It just works unlike many other boards I have tried over the past few years. Onboard options are good enough for me but would be nice to have a few extra's
Plenty of features. Easy to use software. What more could you want in a motherboard?
- Plug and play, the XML worked without any issues. Ram rated at 6600, ran at 6600 with xmp enabled. - The board feels excellent, you can feel the quality of the board when you hold it - No issues with drivers or bios settings from the start - The i9 13900k worked as expected - The OC in the bios makes it easy to get an extra boost without having to touch a ton of settings and spend hours testing and adjusting. The OC boost was stable and did not crash during Cinabench.
The rgb on the motherboard looks really good the pcie button makes installing larger cards such as the 5090 much easier to do
Lots of high quality cables. Power supply quiet.
I love the speed of ram it can use, i also love how they hide the SSD, and that it has a 5.0 pcie slot. I bought this MB as a combo with the 5070 TI, and so far they've done great even for a game like MH wilds
Works great as advertised. No issues out of the box. Rtx 4090 with i9-14900kf.
It works. I've had the best luck with MSI boards working and not having to return them.
Fortnite works great with this mobo. I feel that this is a future proof item, should last me years. I hear the OLED screen will be able to display pictures in future BIOS updates.
-beautiful board -plenty of high speed connections (TB5, TB4, 10G LAN, etc)
Well built with quality parts.