This thread is still under construction. Please be patient and thank you for understanding. This thread is for the Z390 Aorus motherboard owners or future owners. We would like to be able to make this the go to for info, help, complaints, and suggestions about the board. Lets make this thread...

I have read somewhere that memory is becoming a bottleneck for modern CPUs. If that's the case, why AMD and Intel don't use QDR memory or use more memory channels (3 or 4) for mainstream sockets?

I thought that it might be helpful and/or interesting to see what others have done to try to cool the junction temperatures. GB 3090. I used an IR thermometer to identify the hottest part of the back plate and put this CPU cooler on top of it with thermal paste. was thermal throttling. Now...

Here we go :D Stock 11700k on Apex z490 b-die @3200c14 2x16

I have a week old system: B560 Steel Legend i5-11500 2x8GB Corsair CMK16GX4M2B3200C16. The board came with 1.40 BIOS, which I successfully updated to 1.50. No problems so far. Yesterday, I updated BIOS to 1.70 (flash procedure was successful). However, in Windows 10 Event Viewer I now get...