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The multi-threaded Cinebench R23 score rose from 15,540 at stock speed with Adaptive Boost Technology enabled, to 16,458 with the manual overclock. With that setting switched off, the board ran happily at 5.1GHz across all eight cores with a vcore of 1.38V. Not doing so saw our usual 5.1GHz settings fall back to 4.7GHz. With Adaptive Boost Technology enabled, the VRMs peaked at just 53☌, so the heatsinks and power circuitry do a great job of coping with the power-hungry Core i9-11900K however, you’ll need to turn off Thermal Velocity Boost frequency clipping in the EFI to get the most out of an overclock. The audio put in an excellent performance too, with a dynamic range of 110dBA and noise level of -111dBA. Even after back-to-back stress tests, our SSD still hit its peak read and write speeds of 4,997MB/sec and 4,275MB/sec respectively. The PCI-E expansion card kept our PCI-E 4 SSD below 63☌ in our stress test, but this only rose to 68☌ in the board’s own PCI-E 4 M.2 slot, so either option will keep you well clear of any throttling.
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Finally, the EFI and software make it easy to apply overclocks and fine-tune your fans and pumps, with thermal probe inputs enabling you to control fans on radiators if you hook them up to coolant probes. You also get a pair of LAN ports offering 10 Gigabit and 2.5 Gigabit maximum speeds respectively, courtesy of Aquantia and Intel networking controllers, while 802.11ax Wi-Fi is also included.
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Move around to the rear I/O panel and you’ll find a healthy tally of eight USB Type-A ports, all of which are USB 3.1, plus two Thunderbolt 4-enabled Type-C ports. You get all the usual overclocking and testing tools as well, with the power and reset buttons integrated into the shroud next to the DIMM slots. You also get an ESSential USB Type-C external DAC in the box, which costs nearly £90 to buy separately. Thankfully, Gigabyte has also included a dual M.2 slot expansion card that not only adds two more PCI-E 4-capable M.2 ports, but is also equipped with a large heatsink – it makes for easy SSD access once your system is up and running.
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With such huge heatsinks covering the three M.2 slots, and all potentially being covered by PCI-E devices, accessing the M.2 slots once your devices are installed might be tricky. The latter two use proprietary cables to connect to your case to save space.Īs a result, the rest of the board can be covered up, with just a small cap covering the audio header and dual BIOS switches below the third PCI-E slot. Meanwhile, a full-length shroud runs top to bottom on the right, housing six right-angled SATA 6Gps ports, seven 4-pin fan headers, the 24-pin ATX connector, USB headers and even right-angled RGB connectors. It’s one of the best-looking boards we’ve seen. The board also looks fantastic, with most of the PCB covered in shrouds or massive heatsinks, while reflective plates offer two RGB lighting zones. Despite the enormous cooling arrangement, there’s also plenty of space around the CPU socket, thanks to the board extending out to E-ATX dimensions. There’s no active cooling, but few Z590 boards have this. The VRMs are cooled by two massive finned arrays of heatsinks, linked by a heatpipe and further aided by a backplate covering the entire rear of the PCB.