AORUS Z790 X Gen motherboards are designed to unlock the power of next-gen processors

These days, building a gaming PC is almost as fun as the computer games themselves. No longer is one constrained by what you buy off the shelf in a box; you can mix and match parts and customize your computer to your gaming tastes, including motherboards that the PDP-1 inventors could only imagine. But cutting-edge motherboards aren’t just for gamers. IT enthusiasts, DIYers, hobbyists, and crypto mavens are all drawn to the allure of building a custom-made computer.

In the race for power and speed, AORUS Z790 X Gen motherboards have been built specifically to harness and unleash the power of Intel Core 14th Gen processors, which include the highly vaunted Double Data Rate 5 (DDR5). The AORUS motherboard helps accomplish DDR5’s mission, which is to increase the density and bandwidth of RAM while simultaneously dialing back power consumption. DDR5 Extreme Memory Profile (XMP) performs up to 8266 or above.

In addition to XMP, DDR5 offers so much more than DDR4, featuring improvements in speed, capacity, and bandwidth. DDR5’s 4800MT/s is 50 percent faster than the maximum DDR4 speeds of 3200MT/s. Along with DDR5’s blazing speed, you’ll also notice improved power consumption with DDR5’s 1.1 volt power consumption compared to DDR4’s 1.2 volt. Plus, memory banks not in use are powered down, thus further saving power consumption.

Many of the DDR5’s best features are a click away with AORUS Z790 X Gen motherboards:

AORUS allows scalability to choose what you need, with XTREME X, MASTER X, PRO X, and ELITE X models with varying levels of bells and whistles. Here’s a look at other highlights the AORUS Z790 X Gen motherboards offer:

For the DIY set, the fun is the build — or at least it can be. Nothing is worse than having to poke a screwdriver into your beloved gaming system as you try to secure everything into place, only to hear a clinking little screw falling deep into the innards. But with AORUS’s proprietary EZ-Latch, components click into place, and you’re ready to go. Whether it’s graphic cards, heatsinks, or SSDs, AORUS is a snap (literally). Snap your pieces into place and move on to the next. Building becomes fun.

The days of a difficult-to-access, don’t-you-dare-touch BIOS are over with AORUS. The Z790 X Gen motherboards offer a user-centered BIOS that puts you in control. The redesigned BIOS also has an aesthetically appealing, easy-to-navigate interface. New Quick Access is effortless in Easy Mode with nine customizable slots. And the PerfDrive optimizes performance based on cooling configurations.

AORUS partners with HWiNFO to offer real-time system monitoring, displaying real-time data on a backside LCD monitor. The tranche of real-time data available includes the most detailed memory settings, helping users monitor performance. System health can be further monitored with detailed BIOS information displayed in real time, so there’s no need to take a detour for a BIOS reboot.

You don’t want a flimsy paper plate when you visit the all-you-can-eat buffet. You want a heavy-duty, load-bearing stoneware plate to fill up on your favorites. A gamer or DIYer feels the same way about their system. You want to load up graphic cards, heat sink, storage drives, RAM, and on and on. You don’t want a system that’ll collapse under the weight of your favorite add-ons. The AORUS Z790 X Gen motherboards feature a new PCIe UD Slot X that offers 10 times the typical load-bearing capacity so you can soup up your motherboard to your heart’s content.

Fins are more than a song we remember from a tropical-minded crooner; in computers, fins are an integral part of any high-end motherboard, offering four to 10 times the surface area for heat dissipation, depending on the model. Heat is a computer killer and a performance drag.

What if a high-end gaming computer had no heat sink at all? The temperature of the M.2 SSDs, if left unchecked, can easily reach 100 degrees and under heavy load, can go as high as 170 degrees, which exceeds most operating limits. You don’t want your M.2 SSDs registering the same temperatures as Death Valley during the summer. The AORUS Z790 X Gen motherboards’ heat sink capabilities will keep the M.2 SSD temperature at optimum levels, which enhances performance and virtually eliminates the chance of temperature-related failure.

Improved durability, beefed-up power, thermal design, aesthetics, and accessibility make the AORUS Z790 X Gen motherboards a logical choice for gamers wanting to upgrade their game or DIYers wishing to build a better mousetrap.