Gigabyte Z690 AORUS ELITE DDR4 ATX Motherboard

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    • Supports 12th Gen Intel® Core Series Processors

    • Dual Channel Non-ECC Unbuffered DDR4, 4 DIMMs

    • Direct 16+1+2 Digital VRM Design with 70A Power Stage* and Tantalum Polymer Capacitor

    • Shielded Memory Routing to Avoid Interference

    • Fully Covered Thermal Design with High Coverage MOSFET Heatsinks

    • AMP-UP Audio with ALC1220 and WIMA Audio Capacitors

    • Fast 2.5GbE LAN with Bandwidth Management

    • 4x Ultra-Fast NVMe PCIe 4.0/3.0 x4 M.2 with Enlarged Thermal Guards

    • SuperSpeed USB 3.2 Gen2x2 TYPE-C® delivers up to 20Gb/s transfer speeds

    • RGB FUSION 2.0 with Multi-Zone Addressable LED Light Show Design, Support Addressable LED & RGB LED Strips

    • Smart Fan 6 Features Multiple Temperature Sensors , Hybrid Fan Headers with FAN STOP

    • Q-Flash Plus Update BIOS without Installing the CPU, Memory and Graphics Card

    Gigabyte Z690 AORUS ELITE DDR4 ATX Motherboard

    Z690 AORUS ELITE DDR4

    THE NEW KING OF GAMING

    Rule supreme with the Z690 AORUS gaming motherboards. The new king of gaming platform continues the legendary AORUS bloodline with the most robust power delivery and dominant thermal design, glorified with the complete memory overclocking technology to crown your PC with the best Alder Lakes performance in all its gaming glory.

    UNPARALLELED PERFORMANCE

    With technology moving so fast, GIGABYTE still keep up with the latest trends and provide our customers with advanced features and latest technology. GIGABYTE Z690 Series motherboards come with upgraded power solution, latest storage standards and outstanding connectivity to enable optimize performance for gaming.

    Advanced thermal solution

    GIGABYTE Z690 Series Motherboards' Un-throttled performance is guaranteed by innovative and optimized thermal design to ensure the best CPU, Chipset, SSD stability and low temperatures under full load application and gaming.

    NEXT GENERATION CONNECTIVITY

    GIGABYTE Z690 Series Motherboards let you experience ultimate connection flexibility and blazing data-transfer speed with next generation network and storage connectivity.

    DEFINITIVE AESTHETICS

    GIGABYTE motherboards bundle several useful and intuitive software to help users to control every aspect of motherboard and provide customizable lighting effect with outstanding aesthetics to fit your unique personality.

    ULTRA DURABLE

    GIGABYTE Ultra Durable features its product durability and high-quality manufacturing process. GIGABYTE motherboards use the best components and reinforce every slots to make each of them solid and durable.

    Specifications

    CPU

    • LGA1700 socket: Support for 12th Generation Intel® Core, Pentium® Gold and Celeron® Processors*

    • L3 cache varies with CPU

        * Please refer to "CPU Support List" for more information.
    Chipset

    • Intel® Z690 Express Chipset

    Memory

    • Support for DDR4 5333(O.C.)/ DDR4 5133(O.C.)/DDR4 5000(O.C.)/4933(O.C.)/4800(O.C.)/ 4700(O.C.)/ 4600(O.C.)/ 4500(O.C.)/ 4400(O.C.)/ 4300(O.C.)/4266(O.C.) / 4133(O.C.) / 4000(O.C.) / 3866(O.C.) / 3800(O.C.) / 3733(O.C.) / 3666(O.C.) / 3600(O.C.) / 3466(O.C.) / 3400(O.C.) / 3333(O.C.) / 3300(O.C.) / 3200 / 3000 / 2933 / 2800 / 2666 / 2400 / 2133 MHz memory modules

    • 4 x DDR DIMM sockets supporting up to 128 GB (32 GB single DIMM capacity) of system memory

    • Dual channel memory architecture

    • Support for ECC Un-buffered DIMM 1Rx8/2Rx8 memory modules (operate in non-ECC mode)

    • Support for non-ECC Un-buffered DIMM 1Rx8/2Rx8/1Rx16 memory modules

    • Support for Extreme Memory Profile (XMP) memory modules

        (Please refer "Memory Support List" for more information.)

    Onboard Graphics

    • Integrated Graphics Processor-Intel® HD Graphics support:

    • 1 x HDMI port, supporting a maximum resolution of 4096x2160@60 Hz

        * Support for HDMI 2.1 version and HDCP 2.3.
        ** Support native HDMI 2.1 TMDS compatible ports.

    • 1 x DisplayPort, supporting a maximum resolution of 4096x2304@60 Hz

        * Support for DisplayPort 1.2 version and HDCP 2.3
        (Graphics specifications may vary depending on CPU support.)

    Audio

    •  Realtek® ALC1220-VB CODEC

            * The back panel line out jack supports DSD audio.

    • High Definition Audio

    • 2-channel analog output

    • Support for S/PDIF Out

    • 7.1-channel digital signals

            * Actual output of digital signals may vary depending on the playback content and software used, and an external DAC is required.
    LAN

    •  Realtek® 2.5GbE LAN chip (2.5 Gbps/1 Gbps/100 Mbps)

    Expansion Slots

    • 1 x PCI Express x16 slot, running at x16 (PCIEX16)

            * For optimum performance, if only one PCI Express graphics card is to be installed, be sure to install it in the PCIEX16 slot.
            (The PCIEX16 slot conforms to PCI Express 5.0 standard.)

    • 2 x PCI Express x16 slots, running at x4 (PCIEX4_1, PCIEX4_2)

            (The PCIEX4 slots conform to PCI Express 3.0 standard.)

    Multi-Graphics Technology

    •   Support for AMD Quad-GPU CrossFire and 2-Way AMD CrossFire technologies

    Storage Interface
        CPU:

    •  1 x M.2 connector (Socket 3, M key, type 2260/2280/22110 PCIe 4.0 x4/x2 SSD support) (M2A_CPU)

        Chipset:

    • 1 x M.2 connector (Socket 3, M key, type 2260/2280/22110 SATA and PCIe 4.0 x4/x2 SSD support) (M2M_SB)

    • 2 x M.2 connectors (Socket 3, M key, type 2260/2280/22110 PCIe 4.0 x4/x2 SSD support) (M2Q_SB/M2P_SB)

    • 6 x SATA 6Gb/s connectors

    • Support for RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, and RAID 10

        * Refer to "2-7 Internal Connectors," for the installation notices for the M.2 and SATA connectors.

    • Intel® Optane Memory Ready

        * System acceleration with Intel® Optane Memory can only be enabled on the M.2 connectors supported by the Chipset.
    USB
        Chipset:

    • 1 x USB Type-C® port on the back panel, with USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 support

    •  1 x USB Type-C® port with USB 3.2 Gen 2 support, available through the internal USB header

    •  2 x USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A ports (red) on the back panel

    •   5 x USB 3.2 Gen 1 ports (3 ports on the back panel, 2 ports available through the internal USB header)

        Chipset+2 USB 2.0 Hub:

    • 8 x USB 2.0/1.1 ports (4 ports on the back panel, 4 ports available through the internal USB headers)

    Internal I/O Connectors

    • 1 x 24-pin ATX main power connector

    • 1 x 8-pin ATX 12V power connector

    • 1 x 4-pin ATX 12V power connector

    • 1 x CPU fan header

    • 1 x water cooling CPU fan header

    • 3 x system fan headers

    • 1 x system fan/water cooling pump header

    • 2 x addressable LED strip headers

    • 2 x RGB LED strip headers

    • 4 x M.2 Socket 3 connectors

    • 6 x SATA 6Gb/s connectors

    • 1 x front panel header

    • 1 x front panel audio header

    • 1 x USB Type-C® header, with USB 3.2 Gen 2 support

    • 1 x USB 3.2 Gen 1 header

    • 2 x USB 2.0/1.1 headers

    • 2 x Thunderbolt add-in card connectors

    • 1 x Trusted Platform Module header (For the GC-TPM2.0 SPI/GC-TPM2.0 SPI 2.0 module only)

    • 1 x reset button

    • 1 x Q-Flash Plus button

    • 1 x reset jumper

    • 1 x Clear CMOS jumper

      *All fan headers are subject to support AIO_Pump, Pump and high performance fan with the capability of delivering up to 2A/12V @ 24W.
    Back Panel Connectors

    • 1 x USB Type-C® port, with USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 support

    • 2 x USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A ports (red)

    • 3 x USB 3.2 Gen 1 ports

    • 4 x USB 2.0/1.1 ports

    • 1 x HDMI port

    • 1 x DisplayPort

    • 1 x RJ-45 port

    • 1 x optical S/PDIF Out connector

    • 2 x audio jacks

    I/O Controller

    • iTE® I/O Controller Chip

    H/W Monitoring

    • Voltage detection

    • Temperature detection

    • Fan speed detection

    • Water cooling flow rate detection

    •  Fan fail warning

    • Fan speed control

            * Whether the fan (pump) speed control function is supported will depend on the fan (pump) you install.
    BIOS

    • 1 x 256 Mbit flash

    • Use of licensed AMI UEFI BIOS

    • PnP 1.0a, DMI 2.7, WfM 2.0, SM BIOS 2.7, ACPI 5.0

    Unique Features

    • Support for APP Center

            * Available applications in APP Center may vary by motherboard model. Supported functions of each application may also vary depending on motherboard specifications.

            @BIOS

            EasyTune

            Fast Boot

            Game Boost

            ON/OFF Charge

            RGB Fusion

            Smart Backup

            System Information Viewer

            Support for Q-Flash Plus

            Support for Q-Flash

            Support for Xpress Install

    Bundled Software

    •  Norton® Internet Security (OEM version)

    • Realtek® Gaming LAN Bandwidth Control Utility

    Operating System

    • Support for Windows 11 64-bit

    • Support for Windows 10 64-bit

    Form Factor

    • ATX Form Factor; 30.5cm x 24.4cm