Bye Bye BSoD
Those that purchased Gigabyte’s AORUS Z690i Extremely when it first got here in the marketplace noticed numerous blue screens of dying because of Home windows {Hardware} Error Structure errors. These stemmed from an issue with it’s one and solely PCIe 4.0 slot, and led to Gigabyte providing house owners a refund or an change for this board, the AORUS Z690i Extremely Plus. Whereas the expertise might have left some with a bitter style of their mouth, it doesn’t imply that this board shares comparable points.
This Mini-ITX board sports activities heatsinks nearly half as thick because the board is large, with armour on the bottom as nicely. That appears to do a good job retaining the VRMs and different elements cool, as TweakTown hit 5.2GHz on all cores on the i9-12900K. The cooling wasn’t sufficient to maneuver this board to the highest of the charts, however for such a tiny board it does do very nicely.
In case you are constructing a SFF system the AORUS Z690i Extremely Plus is a good alternative, definitely higher than the non-Plus model.
