Z490 ITX Roundup, ASUS Strix vs MSI Unify vs Gigabyte Aorus Ultra

Test Setup

ASUS ROG Strix Z490-I Gaming – 0607 BIOS
MSI MEG Z490I Unify – V1.10 BIOS
Gigabyte Z490-I Aorus Ultra – F5c BIOS
Intel Core i9-10900K
Corsair LPX 4000 MHz
Corsair MP500 M.2 – OS Drive
Samsung 970 Pro
Corsair AX1600i
Nvidia RTX 2080Ti
Corsair HX1000i
Corsair H150i
Corsair ML Fans
Fractal Define 7

Overclocking

Rather than show you three CPU-Zs that all show the same thing, because the Intel Core i9-10900K is so responsive and the build quality of our three ITX motherboards is so high, they all ran at 5.2 GHz across all 10 cores at 1.3V. A staggering achievement on such small PCBs and compressed power stages when compared to their ATX counterparts. Performance is definitely not going to be lacking.

With three motherboards and six results in our graph we’ve strayed away from our normal highlighting procedure of blue for the stock and green for the overclocked, instead the ASUS Strix is blue, Gigabyte Aorus Ultra is green and the MSI MEG Unify gets to be yellow.