Finished Looks

The Gigabyte Z690 AORUS Tachyon has a small amount of RGB lighting built into the PCH heatsink. It is kept to a minimum as this motherboard isn't designed to be a light show, but rather an overclocking-orientated product. It could have skipped this entirely without much backlash from the enthusiast community.

Test System

Supporting Hardware

Testing is performed with the newest available version of the BIOS at the time. All BIOS settings related to the CPU are left untouched. XMP 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.