Finished Looks

The Gigabyte Z690I AORUS Ultra Plus DDR4 looks a bit silly on the test bench because of its small size. To my surprise, the underside next to the memory has a some RGB LEDs, which isn't that important in the grand scheme of things. Given that this is designed for an SFF case, lighting primarily takes a backseat.

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. 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.