Installation
As usual, we used our open-frame vertical chassis to build the test rig, and installed the Gigabyte B860 AORUS ELITE WiFi7 ICE motherboard with no issues at all.
To cool the Intel Core Ultra 9 285K processor, we used the Thermaltake 360 Ultra AIO cooler mounted with 3 x Corsair RX120 RGB cooling fans.
We also installed 48GB of Patriot Viper Xtreme 5 DDR5-8000 ram, Crucial T700 1TB PCIE Gen5 SSD, and the GeForce RTX 4080 Super.
BIOS
There are two BIOS modes on the Gigabyte B860 AORUS ELITE WiFi7 ICE motherboard … Easy Mode and Advanced Mode. The Easy Mode allows you to monitor all the system status on this page such as fan speeds, CPU temperatures, memory and processor speeds, as well as voltages.
Users can also configure other settings for CPU, chipset, storage and NVMe, as well as onboard devices such as USB, TPM, Thunberbolt 4 port, and more.
In the Advanced Mode, there are a lot of options available for tweaking your processor, memory speeds and more. Voltages for memory and processor can also be adjusted here.
During our tests, we left everything on AUTO/Default except for the memory. We used 48GB of Patriot Viper Xtreme 5 DDR5-8000 ram at default XMP Profile 1. You can check out Gigabyte’s QVL/download page for more information.
