GIGABYTE Z690I AORUS Ultra DDR4 (LGA 1700/ Intel Z690/ Mini-ITX/ DDR4/ Dual M.2/ PCIe 5.0/ USB 3.2 Gen2X2 Type-C/WiFi 6/ Intel 2.5 GbE LAN/Gaming Motherboard)

No real hiccups with this Revision 1.0 Motherboard, however if you are using a 13 gen intel CPU just Update the Bios to F20 and you are good to go, and the Q-Flash worked flawless for me having a blinky USB drive helps with the paranoia that the deed is done, the board is BANG 4 THE BUCK, smooth sails since installation of cpu. i5 13600k , 32gb gskill rgb 3600 ddr4

Awesome board, however the left memory slot came dead on arrival and has caused me a lot of pain, I have submitted an RMA and will update this review based on how well that process goes. Edit: Gigabyte refuses to repair damage under warranty as it is "not covered under their warranty" but they shipped the board broken to me, they've charged me $100 USD to fix damage which I didn't cause, thanks Gigabyte, steer clear of this motherboard

Coil whine was really annoying. Also came with these weird fan header adapters. Never seen something like that before but it made cable management a lot more difficult. Other than those two things it worked as intended but feels really overpriced for what you're getting. Switched to MSI z690 itx board and like it a lot more.

When you are installing M.2 hard drives, the manual says unscrew this & that then just lift. Well, mine wasn't budging. Sometimes things are stiff to un/plug from mobos so I tried get my fingers under the M.2 part to push up from underneath, but I (very easily!) crushed some delicate plastic connection. There was this mysterious thick cable blocking the M.2 thing from lifting out which I tried to push out of the way to no avail. I didn't want to pull on it since it looked as if it was plugged into somewhere deep in the back of a very small cavity. Well, I should have tugged on it earlier! It was supposed to come out and attach to your audio! No mention of it in the manual and literally no reason for it to be stuffed away in that space. Plenty of room for it to be left hanging. Mind you, this thing is damn short and I had trouble getting it over/under the M.2 and the graphics card in order to use it. You wouldn't even know where to find it if you don't need to install an M.2 drive. Anyway I had to buy a second mobo and RMA the one I busted. It's been 2 months maybe and each time I communicate with them it's a lengthy delay to the next step. Only just the other day did they send it to the repair team after charging me $20 for a new M.2 thingo. Obviously my return window is closed so now I'm stuck with 2 boards. Let's hope they fix the 1st one properly or else I will have one damn overpriced mobo. Don't make my mistake! Watch out for that sneaky audio cable! Update the firmware immediately. Also, if you have win10 and upgrade to win11, you'll have to flash it again to get your wifi/Bluetooth back online.

Awesome mini motherboard! Perfect and compact for any SFF build. I have this with a I5 12600k, 3060Ti FE, 16gb DDR4 3600, and a 2tb Samsung 970 NVME all sitting in a cooler master nr200p. This build can easily game triple a titles in 2k at 165fps. Only complaint is the BIOS that these boards shipped with. I had to update it once just to get on board video to work, then a second time to get the PCIE riser cable to detect my graphics card. Other than that it’s an amazing rig!