GIGABYTE Z490I AORUS Ultra (Intel LGA1200/Z490/Mini-ITX/Dual M.2/Realtek ALC1220-VB/SATA 6Gb/s/USB 3.2 Gen 2/WiFi 6/2.5 GbE LAN/HDMI/Gaming Motherboard)

Works great. I use a i7 10700 with it. The bios automatically removed the power limit on the CPU. No active cooling is another plus for me.

Overall the board runs fine, I have it installed with an i7-10700k in a Lian Li TU-150 with the Noctua NHD-15. At stock speeds (the board boosts the CPU to 4.7ghz automatically) temperatures are in the mid to low 70's under load (Cinebench) and in the high 80's under Prime 95's small FFT's. V Core seems a little higher than usual running the 10700k at 1.325V stock, so that will also raise temperatures unless you manually change it. The rest seems standard, this board has the most fan headers out of any z490 itx board, as well as a front panel usb 3.1 header. Currently the intel i225 lan driver is buggy where it disables itself upon a system restart, however rolling back the driver one version fixed that so its not that big a deal.Pros -4 Fan HeadersUSB 3.1 front panel headerGood CPU Cooler compatibilityGood power deliveryTurbo boots's CPU by defaultCons -No Thunderbolt 3Runs CPU at a higher vcoreCurrent Intel Lan DriverPassively cooled VRM'sOverall I feel the cons aren't that bad and I would recommend this board. One glitch I am having is that in windows task manager says this board has 4 total slots of ram, which is kinda weird. Other than that no weird glitches or issues!

So at some point during the pandemic I decided I needed THIS motherboard for a build. Amazon US was the ONLY place I could find one new (I’m in Canada but I ordered it from the US site).I used it to build a desktop PC with no dGPU (just CPU based graphics). All good. About a year and a half later I decided to switch the mobo to a larger case with a dGPU and realized that the PCIE slot was defective (a known problem with this particular board, I later learned). So, seeing as it is still WELL within the warranty period, I RMA’d with Gigagbyte in Canada.What they responded with was such weasel-level BS that they have permanently lost a long-time user as a customer. Since it was from another jurisdiction I would have to pay for any repairs -- the warranty did not apply!! And also apparently the seller was not ‘authorized’ by them?! I literally don’t care about either of these issues. I have had other companies replace parts for me overnight when I was half-way across the world. Maybe those days are gone, or I was just lucky. But it seems to me that Gigabyte Canada, US, Europe etc. are all the SAME bloody company, and should honour the warranties on their defective products, not try to weasel out of doing so with some asinine policy. I went out of my way to find the ONLY new Gigabyte mobo I could get at the time and this was the result?At the end of the day, this was maybe the 3rd or 4th build I’ve made using Gigabyte parts. It will also most certainly be the last. Pay attention Gigashite, this is how good companies die: by alienating their most loyal customers with garbage customer service. A really dumb hill to die on IMO, but hey what do I know? Well, at least one thing: the PCIE slot on my new Asus mobo works perfectly!

I'll preface the review by saying that I have had the board for 3 months now and haven't had any issues with it.Got a good deal on a 10850k so I decided to upgrade my spare PC. Even though this board was the same price as the newer z590i Aorus Ultra, I went with the z490 because I wanted to use both m.2 slots and on the newer board you must use a newer 11th gen CPU to use the front m.2 slot.I'm extremely GPU bottlenecked on this system waiting on GPU supply to normalize. Reusing the GTX Titan Black from the previous build. So I haven't bothered overclocking the system yet, but I've got the cooling to push it when I do get around to it. CPU is delidded with a Rockit copper IHS. Custom loop with 120mm Monsta and an external MO-RA3.VRM heatsink clearance is pretty tight. I had a MM or two to spare mounting the CPU block. Also instead of normal size fan headers, most of them use a slightly smaller connecter with a short adapter cable... Not really a big deal, but just seemed like they could have slimmed down the heatsink a bit and had the space to fit normal size headers there.Overall, I like the board. It looks nice, and has performed fine so far.