Installation
We used our usual vertical open chassis for our test rig which has plenty of room, so installation was easy. For cooling we used the Thermaltake 360 Ultra AIO cooler mounted with 3 x Corsair RS120 Max cooling fans.
We also installed the Crucial T700 PCIE Gen5 1TB SSD and 48GB of Kingston Fury Renegade DDR5-8800 CUDIMMs.
BIOS
There are two BIOS modes on the Gigabyte Z890 AORUS Elite X 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, Thundebolt, TPM, onboard devices 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. All we did was to make sure that XMP was enabled to ensure that the ram was running at DDR5-8800 speeds. For a list of compatible memory kits, check out Gigabyte’s QVL page here.
