Gigabyte Z690 Aorus Master Review

Up Close – Packaging and Contents

The Aorus logo has undergone a bit of a revision here. Until now it’s been a smooth, screaming eagle type thing, but it now looks like the sort of ship you’d fly in Darius or similar game. We’d be amazed if something similar doesn’t turn up in Star Citizen. Should that ever get released. Ahaha. Ahem. It’s been a long day.

  
  

Once you’ve lifted the motherboard out of its robust box you’re greeted with some stickers. We’re not sure how big your door handles are but we’re not entirely sure that ours are small enough to fit the “do not disturb” door-hanger sticker there.

  

We grew up in the days when games came with ring-bound manuals, and whilst those are long in the past, we still love a good glossy manual. What else do you read in the office or bed? If, like us, you have a gap between opening the box and getting to use it then the manual allows you to fulfil the ache of wanting to get building whilst you’re busy with other things.

  

The Gigabyte WiFi antenna for the 6E WiFi connectors.

  

Mmm SATA cables. If we had a quid for every SATA cable in a draw somewhere we could probably live in Bali.

  

If you want your temperatures to be accurately monitored then some thermal probes are exactly what you want.