Gigabyte Z490 AORUS Ultra motherboard

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Bullet Points Gigabyte Z490 AORUS ULTRA G2 (rev. 1.x) Intel Z490 Express LGA1200 ATX:
- Dual Channel Non-ECC Unbuffered DDR4, 4 DIMMs
- Intel® Optane™ Memory Ready
- Direct 12+1 Phases Digital VRM Solution with 55A DrMOS
- Shielded Memory Routing for Better Memory Overclocking
- Fins-Array II Heatsink and Direct Touch Heatpipe II
- Exclusive ESSential USB DAC
- Onboard Intel® WiFi 6 802.11ax 2T2R & BT5 with AORUS Antenna
- Amp-Up Audio with ALC1220-VB and WIMA for Rear 120dB SNR
- Blazing Fast Intel® 2.5GbE LAN with cFosSpeed
- Triple Ultra-Fast NVMe PCIe 3.0 x4 M.2 with Thermal Guards II
- RGB FUSION 2.0 with Multi-Zone Addressable LED Light Show Design, Support Addressable LED & RGB LED Strips
- Smart Fan 5 Features Multiple Temperature Sensors , Hybrid Fan Headers with FAN STOP and Noise Detection
- Q-Flash Plus Update BIOS without Installing the CPU, Memory and Graphics Card

Gigabyte Z490 AORUS ULTRA G2 (rev. 1.x) Intel Z490 Express LGA1200 ATX:
- Teaming Up with World´s Esports Elite
- By including G2 Esports´ valuable input throughout the product development, AORUS is able to deliver the Z490 AORUS ULTRA G2 with the barrier-breaking performance, cooling, and audio optimized for competitive gaming. With all the gaming-oriented features, you can play like pros with this G2 inspired gaming-ready motherboard.

Crisp, Powerful Sound for the Win. KennyS Customized:
- Get superior gaming audio anywhere, anytime when pairing with the included ESS SABRE USB DAC. The soundscape is meticulously tweaked and customized by CS:GO legend KennyS from G2 Esports to deliver accurate and responsive surround sound, giving you an edge over opponents on the battleground.

ULTIMATE POWER DESIGN:
- To fully support the latest 10th Gen ten-core CPU, the Z490 AORUS ULTRA G2 is equipped with the ultimate power solution with the desired features: direct, digital and multiple phases. After countless experiments and tests, GIGABYTE presents the unbeatable Z490 AORUS ULTRA G2 for enthusiasts and gamers.

- Digital PWM Controller delivers appropriate voltage to the CPU.
- 12+1 Direct DrMos without PWM Doublers. Each power phase connects directly to the CPU, with the capability to handle 660 Amps current in total.
- Tantalum Capacitor Array improves transient response and minimizes oscillation.
- 8 Solid Pin CPU Power Connectors with metal shielding secure power delivery and better heat dissipation

2X Copper PCB:
- GIGABYTE´s exclusive 2X Copper PCBs design provides sufficient power trace paths between components to handle greater than normal power loads and to remove heat from the critical CPU power delivery area. This is essential to ensure the motherboard is able to handle the increased power loading that is necessary when overclocking.

UNPARALLELED PERFORMANCE:
- GIGABYTE understands that our customer won´t stop chasing better computer performance, and strive to deliver that in our products. For the Z490 series, protective and optimized memory trace enhance the performance; faster read and write speed save time and improve efficiency; and generous M.2 Storage with thermal guards ensure unthrottled performance. Future upgrades to the Z490 are made possible by the use of PCIe 4.0-ready components.

XMP 5000+:
- Support for DDR4 XMP Up to 5000MHz and Beyond AORUS is offering a tested and proven platform that ensures proper compatibility with profiles up to 5000MHz and beyond. All users need to do to attain this performance boost is to ensure that their memory module is XMP capable and that the XMP function is activated and enabled on their AORUS motherboard.

Triple NVMe M.2 PCIe SSDs in RAID 0 Support Extreme Performance with Gen3 x4 NVMe PCIe SSDs:
- Z490 AORUS motherboards offer the industry´s best compatibility in terms of NVMe storage for users who demand high capacity and seek the best performance. AORUS´ unique design can be configured in RAID for record speeds of up to 3551 MB/s (Sequential Read), making AORUS the obvious choice for the ultimate PC.

PCIe 4.0 Like SSD Best Upgrade Solution for PCIe 3.0 Platform:
- Upgrade to PCIe 4.0 storage performance on the Z490 platform with AORUS RAID SSD 2TB. The SSD is embedded with RAID controller, transfer speed up to amazing 6300 MB/s. The performance is twice faster than regular PCIe 3.0 SSD. It surely brings high efficiency to your work, shorten the time of waiting. It’s the perfect solution for prosumers like video editors, 3D file creators and engineers who make giant files daily. Further more, Users can easily to configure RAID array to meet your needs under BIOS.

ADVANCED THERMAL SOLUTION:
- Unthrottled performance is guaranteed by the enhanced thermal solution that incorporates Fins-Array II, Heatpipe II and Thermal Guards II. The comprehensive solution delivers excellent heat dissipation. The Z490 AORUS ULTRA G2 stays cool on VRMs and M.2 SSD even on full loading, making it most suitable for enthusiasts, overclockers and professional gamers.

Fins-Array II:
- Fins-Array II uses brand new louvered stacked fins technology which is usually only used on industrial equipment that need compact heat exchangers. It has a special secondary fins structure that enhances heat transfer performance.

Louver Directed Flow:
- Heat flow that goes through fins will enter from the leading edge of the louver and is then directed by other louvers or fins. This louver directed flow can greatly improve heat transfer performance.

Direct-Touch Heatpipe II:
- With an extra large 8mm heat pipe and made from a new manufacturing process to narrow the gap between the heat pipe and heatsink, new Direct-Touch Heatpipe II greatly helps transfer heat on MOSFETs.

AORUS M.2 Thermal Guard II:
- With durability in mind, GIGABYTE provides a new thermal solution for large capacity M.2 SSD devices with double side flash. The M.2 Thermal Guard II uses a double-sided heatsink design and prevents throttling and bottlenecks on high speed M.2 SSDs by dissipating heat before it becomes an issue.

Smart Fan 5:
- With Smart Fan 5 users can ensure that their gaming PC can maintain its performance while staying cool. Smart Fan 5 allows users to interchange their fan headers to reflect different thermal sensors at different locations on the motherboard. Not only that, with Smart Fan 5 more hybrid fan headers that support both PWM and Voltage mode fans have been introduced to make the motherboard more liquid cooling friendly.

NEXT GENERATION CONNECTIVITY:
- A high-end product needs to be future-proof so your system stays up-to-date with the latest technology. Z490 AORUS ULTRA G2 provides all next generation network, storage, and WIFI connectivity to keep you up to speed.

Intel 2.5GbE LAN Onboard 2X Faster than ever:
- Adoption of 2.5G LAN provide up to 2.5 GbE network connectivity, with at least two times faster transfer speeds compared to general 1GbE networking. It´s perfectly suit for gamers and streamer with ultimate and smooth online experience. It also backward compatible with Multi-Gig(10/100/1000/2500Mbps) RJ-45 ethernet.

WIFI 6 AORUS Antenna:
- New Introduce Intel® WiFi 6 802.11ax + BT 5 Module Intel Wireless solution supports 802.11ax, enables gigabit wireless performance, provides smooth video streaming, better gaming experience, few dropped connections and speeds up to 2.4Gbps*. Moreover, Bluetooth 5 provides 4X range over BT 4.2 and with faster transmission.

Benefit of WiFi 6:
- 5.5X throughput than 802.11ac 1x1
- 4X better network capacity, no traffic jams especially in those dense area with lots of devices
- Network efficiency increase for better user experience

AUDIO SOLUTION WITH ESSENTIAL USB DAC & DTS IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCE ESSential USB DAC:
- Complete Digital to Analog Signal processing on front-access USB Type-C ports gets rid of any possibility of distortions and provides superb sound stage recreation so users can experience the vocal cohesion. Enjoy the depth of the music and the immersive sound profile.

- USB Type-C for PC, Laptop and Android Devices
- Replace Ancient Front Audio Interfaces
- Powered by ESS SABRE HIFI DAC
- Premium Power Processing
- Left/Right Separation Routing
- Superior Sound Stage by WIMA Capacitors

ALC1220-VB Immersive Gaming ViBes All New Realtek High-End HD Audio Codec:
- ALC1220 120dB(A) SNR HD Audio with Smart Headphone Amp automatically detects impedance of your head-worn audio device, preventing issues such as low volume and distortion.

- With the new VB series audio controller, stream your voice to the world vibrantly with both front/rear microphone SNR up to 110/114dB(A).

RGB FUSION 2.0 Multi-Zone Light Show Design:
- Now offering more LED customizations than ever, users can truly adapt their PC to represent their lifestyle. With full RGB support and a redesigned RGB Fusion 2.0 application, the user has complete control over the LEDs which surround the motherboard.

RGB FUSION Software:
- With an integrated intuitive user interface, the RGB Fusion 2.0 provides you a better solution for customizing the lighting effects across all supported devices. From motherboards, graphics cards to the peripheral products, you can personalize your gaming rig with your own style and show off your build by sharing the profiles. In addition, the new gaming mode makes the lighting effects interactive with selected games to bring you the most immersive gaming experience.

RGB FUSION APP GIGABYTE RGB Fusion APP:
- Don´t just make your PC shine, make it a work of art that friends will envy. With the GIGABYTE RGB Fusion mobile app users can watch as they control the lighting within their gaming PC. This gives users ease of access as they try and adjust colors and speeds for different modes, all this can be achieved away from the keyboard and monitor of their PC.

ULTRA DURABLE:
- GIGABYTE is reputable for its product durability and high quality manufacturing process. Needless to say, we use the best components we can find for the Z490 AORUS motherboard and reinforce every slot to make each of them solid and durable.

3X PCIe Armor Ultra Durable™ PCIe Armor:
- Industry Leading Ultra Durable™ PCIe Armor The innovative one piece stainless steel shielding design from GIGABYTE reinforces the PCIe connectors to provide the extra strength required to support heavy graphics cards.

4X Memory Armor Ultra Durable™ Memory Armor:
- AORUS´ exclusive one piece stainless steel shielding design prevents against PCB distortion/twisting and plate bending, in addition to preventing any possible ESD interference.

Solid Pin Solid Pin Power Connectors:
- Z490 AORUS motherboards feature solid plated ATX 24pin & ATX 12V 8+4 Pin power connectors to offer a stable power supply during CPU overloading.

Q-Flash Plus:
- Update the BIOS easily without installing the CPU, memory and graphics card.

- With GIGABYTE Q-Flash Plus, you don’t need to install the CPU, memory and graphics card nor enter the BIOS menu to flash the - BIOS. Just download and save a new BIOS file (rename to gigabyte.bin) on the USB flash drive, then press the dedicated Q-Flash Plus button and you’re good to go!

GIGABYTE BIOS & APP CENTER:
- Good software goes hand in hand with perfect hardware. Z490 AORUS ULTRA G2 bundled several useful and intuitive software to help users to control every aspect of motherboard.

BIOS:

New User Interface:
- All new EASY MODE shows important hardware information in one page including CPU clock, Memory, Storage, Fan.

My Favorites:
- Add constantly used items into the favorite menu for quick access.

Storage Information:
- Show all kinds of storage information including SATA, PCIE and M.2 interface.

Changelog:
- List all changes before saving and exiting bios. Quickly review overall settings modification.

Intuitive Load Line Curve:
- Clearly show each loadline calibration setting in an intuitive curve graph.

APP CENTER:
- GIGABYTE APP CENTER is a useful portal of all GIGABYTE MB utilities and drivers, you can choose any utility you want to install from APP CENTER and keep updated with the latest utilities and drivers version.

EasyTune™:
- GIGABYTE´s EasyTune™ is a simple and easy-to-use interface that allows users to fine-tune their system settings or adjust system and memory clocks and voltages in a Windows environment. With Smart Quick Boost, one click is all it takes to automatically overclock your system, giving an added performance boost when you need it the most.

System Information Viewer:
- GIGABYTE System Information Viewer is a central location that gives you access to your current system status. Monitor components such as the clocks and processor, set your preferred fan speed profile, create alerts when temperatures get too high or record your system´s behavior; these are the possibilities of the System Information Viewer.


Specifications:

Processor:
- Processor manufacturer: Intel
- Processor socket: LGA1200
- Maximum number of SMP processors: 1

Memory:
- Supported memory types: DDR4-SDRAM
- Number of memory slots: 4
- Memory slots type: DIMM
- Memory channels: Dual-channel
- ECC: Yes
- Non-ECC: Yes
- Supported memory module capacities: 32GB
- Memory, maximum: 128 GB
- Unbuffered memory: Yes

Storage controllers:
- Supported storage drive types: HDD & SSD
- Supported storage drive interfaces: Serial ATA III
- RAID levels: 0,1,5,10

Graphics:
- Graphic subsystem video card memory512 MB
- Parallel processing technology support: 2-Way CrossFireX,2-Way SLI,Quad-GPU SLI
- On-board graphics adapter: Yes
- Graphics adapter family: Intel
- HDCP: Yes

Internal I/O:
- USB 2.0 connectors: 2
- USB 3.2 Gen 1 (3.1 Gen 1) connectors: 1
- Number of SATA III connectors: 6
- Front panel audio connector: Yes
- Front panel connector: Yes
- ATX Power connector (24-pin): Yes
- CPU fan connector: Yes
- Number of chassis fan connectors: 4
- EPS power connector (8-pin): Yes
- TPM connector: Yes
- Thunderbolt headers: 2
- 12V power connector: Yes
- RGB LED pin header: Yes

Rear panel I/O ports:
- USB 2.0 ports quantity: 4
- USB 3.2 Gen 1 (3.1 Gen 1) Type-A ports quantity: 2

Rear panel I/O ports:
- USB 3.2 Gen 2 (3.1 Gen 2) Type-A ports quantity: 3
- USB 3.2 Gen 2 (3.1 Gen 2) Type-C ports quantity: 1
- Ethernet LAN (RJ-45) ports: 1
- HDMI ports quantity: 1
- Headphone outputs: 1
- Microphone in: Yes
- S/PDIF out port: Yes
- WiFi-AP antenna jack: 2
- USB connector type: USB Type-A, USB Type-C

Network:
- Ethernet LAN connection: Yes
- Ethernet interface type: 2.5 Gigabit Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet
- Wi-Fi: Yes
- Top Wi-Fi standard: Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax)
- Wi-Fi standards: 802.11a,802.11b,802.11g,Wi-Fi 4 (802.11n),Wi-Fi 5 (802.11ac),Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax)
- WLAN controller model: Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX201
- Bluetooth: Yes
- Bluetooth version: 5.0

Features:
- Chipset: Intel Z490 Express
- Audio chip: Realtek ALC1220-VB
- Audio output channels: 7.1 channels
- PC health monitoring: Fan, Temperature, Voltage
- Component for: PC
- Motherboard form factor: ATX
- Motherboard chipset family: Intel
- Power source type: ATX
- Windows operating systems supported: Windows 10 x64

Expansion slots:
- PCI Express x16 slots: 3
- Number of M.2 (M) slots: 3

BIOS:
- BIOS type: UEFI AMI
- BIOS memory size: 256 Mbit
- ACPI version: 5.0
- Clear CMOS jumper: Yes
- Desktop Management Interface (DMI) version: 2.7
- System Management BIOS (SMBIOS) version: 2.7

Processor special features:
- Intel Extreme Memory Profile (XMP): Yes
- Intel® Optane™ Memory Ready: Yes

Weight & dimensions:
- Width: 305 mm
- Depth: 244 mm

Packaging content
- Bundled software: Norton Internet Security, cFosSpeed, XSplit Gamecaster + Broadcaster


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