Gigabyte Z590 Aorus Pro AX Review

Cooling, Packaging and Overview

Having plenty of places to plug in your cooling – be it CPU AIOs or swathes of case fans – is key to getting your temperatures down and letting the automatic overclocking that is such a strong feature of both CPUs and GPUs these days work to their utmost. Low temperatures equal higher clock speeds equal better performance and make for happy users. The Aorus Pro AX definitely has plenty of fan headers, but also lots of temperature monitoring points too.

Packaging and Overview

The Aorus box is rapidly becoming famous both for its consistent design approach regardless of the hardware contained within, but also for the solidity of the Gigabyte Aorus product range. It’s been a long time since any of them have been even average much less disappointing. It shows how far Gigabyte have come in a short period of time.

Before we get down to taking a closer look at the Aorus Pro AX it’s always nice to get an overall view of it. We like the angles on the heatsinks and are big fans of the brushed aluminium finish on the M.2 heatspreaders and chipset heatsink. It’s certainly an attractive product even before it’s been covered in hardware.