Finished Looks

Getting a closer look at the motherboard while it's powered on, we can see the left side has an AORUS logo with a subtle amount of RGB. Overall the highlight of the system is going to be focused on the video card and memory, as the neutral gray tone of the board will not distract from a set theme. Lastly, this motherboard is designed with larger graphics cards in mind, by having four slots of space in between the x16 PCIe slots. It's a bit ridiculous that this something to be concerned about, but higher end model 3-slot cards are already quite common to see in 2022.

Test System

Supporting Hardware

Testing is performed with the newest available version of the BIOS at the time of review. All BIOS settings related to the CPU are left untouched. EXPO is enabled for the memory. However, if the primary, secondary or tertiary memory timings are incorrectly set by the BIOS, it is tested as-is, to mimic a standard user. The same goes for the CPU. Unless it is a bug in the current BIOS—i.e., not present in other versions—any and all CPU boost parameters are left alone.

Note: Using BIOS F2c, DDR5-6000 automatically has the memory controller in a 2:1:1 Ratio. (Infinity Fabric-Memory-Memory Controller).