Gigabyte Z490 Aorus Xtreme Review

Storage

Of all the motherboards we’ve had through the offices in the run up to today, the Gigabyte models are the ones that are most cloaked in a veil of secrecy regarding their PCI Express setup. All of them have “this depends upon what CPU you have” warnings, which made a lot of people wonder if they had surreptitiously snuck PCI Express 4.0 onto their boards. If they have, the i9 doesn’t do anything with it.