THE NEW KING OF GAMING

Rule supreme with the Z690 AORUS gaming motherboards. The new king of gaming platform continues the legendary AORUS bloodline with the most robust power delivery and dominant thermal design, glorified with the complete memory overclocking technology to crown your PC with the best Alder Lake’s performance in all its gaming glory.

FEATURES

• Supports 12th Gen Intel® Core™ Series Processors
• Dual Channel Non-ECC Unbuffered DDR4, 2 DIMMs
• Intel® Optane™ Memory Ready
• Direct 10+2+1 Phases Digital VRM Solution with 105A Power Stage*
• Advanced Thermal Design with Fins-Array II, Thermal Guard III and Heatpipe
• Blazing Fast Intel® 2.5GbE LAN with cFosSpeed
• Intel® WIFI 6 802.11ax 2T2R & BT5 with AORUS Antenna
• AMP-UP Audio with ALC4080 and WIMA for Rear 120dB SNRHDMI 2.0 supports Premium 4K
• Dual Ultra-Fast NVMe PCIe 4.0* x4 M.2 with Thermal Guard III
• RGB FUSION 2.0 with Multi-Zone Addressable LED Light Show Design, Support Addressable LED & RGB LED Strip
• Smart Fan 6 Features Multiple Temperature Sensors, Hybrid Fan Headers with FAN STOP and Noise Detection
• Q-Flash Plus Update BIOS without Installing the CPU, Memory and Graphics Card

SPECIFICATIONS

• CPU:
  • LGA1700 socket: Support for 12th Generation Intel® Core™ i9 processors/Intel® Core™ i7 processors/Intel® Core™ i5 processors
  • L3 cache varies with CPU
• Chipset: Intel® Z690 Express Chipset
• Memory:
  • DDR4 5333(O.C.)/ DDR4 5133(O.C­.)/DDR4 5000(O­.C.)/4933(O.C­.)/4800(O.C.)/ 4700(O.C.)/ 4600(O.C.)/ 4500(O.C.)/ 4400(O.C.)/ 4300(O.C.)/4266(O­.C.) / 4133(O.C.) / 4000(O.C.) / 3866(O.C.) / 3800(O.C.) / 3733(O.C.) / 3666(O.C.) / 3600(O.C.) / 3466(O.C.) / 3400(O.C.) / 3333(O.C.) / 3300(O.C.) / 3200 / 3000 / 2933 / 2800 / 2666 / 2400 / 2133 MHz memory modules
  • 2 x DDR DIMM sockets supporting up to 64 GB (32 GB single DIMM capacity) of system memory
  • Dual channel memory architecture
  • Support for ECC Un-buffered DIMM 1Rx8/2Rx8 memory modules (operate in non-ECC mode)
  • Support for non-ECC Un-buffered DIMM 1Rx8/2Rx8/1Rx16 memory modules
  • Support for Extreme Memory Profile (XMP) memory modules
• Onboard Graphics:
  • Integrated Graphics Processor-Intel® HD Graphics support:
    • 1 x HDMI port, supporting a maximum resolution of 4096×2160@60 Hz
      • Support for HDMI 2.0 version and HDCP 2.3.
    • 1 x DisplayPort port, supporting a maximum resolution of 5120×2160@60 Hz
      • Support for DisplayPort 1.4 version and HDCP 2.3
      • The DisplayPort does not support HDMI connection by adapter.
• Audio:
  • Realtek® ALC4080 CODEC
  • Support for DTS:X® Ultra
  • High Definition Audio
  • 2-channel
• LAN: Intel® 2.5GbE LAN chip (2.5 Gbps/1 Gbps/100 Mbps)
• Wireless Communication module:
  • Intel® Wi-Fi 6 AX201:
    • WIFI a, b, g, n, ac, ax, supporting 2.4/5 GHz Dual-Band
    • BLUETOOTH 5.2
    • Support for 11ax 160MHz wireless standard and up to 2.4 Gbps data rate
      • Actual data rate may vary depending on environment and equipment.
• Expansion Slots:
  • 1 x PCI Express x16 slot, running at x16 (The PCI Express x16 slots conform to PCI Express 5.0 standard.)
• Storage Interface:
  • CPU:
    • 1 x M.2 connector on the back of the GC-Z690I BTB PLUG (Socket 3, M key, type 2260/2280 PCIe 4.0 x4/x2 SSD support) (M2A_CPU)
  • Chipset:
    • 1 x M.2 connector on the front of GC-Z690I BTB PLUG (Socket 3, M key, type 2242/2260/2280 PCIe 4.0 x4/x2 SSD support) (M2P_SB)
    • 4 x SATA 6Gb/s connectors
  • Support for RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, and RAID 10
  • Intel® Optane™ Memory Ready
    • System acceleration with Intel® Optane™ Memory can only be enabled on the M.2 connectors supported by the Chipset.
• USB:
  • Chipset:
    • 1 x USB Type-C® port on the back panel, with USB 3.2 Gen 2×2 support
    • 1 x USB Type-C® port with USB 3.2 Gen 2 support, available through the internal USB header
    • 3 x USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A ports (red) on the back panel
    • 4 x USB 3.2 Gen 1 ports (2 ports on the back panel, 2 ports available through the internal USB header)
    • 2 x USB 2.0/1.1 ports on the back panel
  • Chipset+USB 2.0 Hub:
    • 4 x USB 2.0/1.1 ports available through the USB headers on the front of GC-Z690I BTB PLUG
• Internal I/O Connectors:
  • 1 × 24-pin ATX main power connector
  • 1 × 8-pin ATX 12V power connector
  • 1 x external power connector(Note 1)
  • 1 x CPU fan header
  • 1 x water cooling CPU fan header
  • 2 x system fan headers(SYS_FAN1/S­YS_FAN2(Note 1))
  • 1 x addressable LED strip header(Note 1)
  • 1 x RGB LED strip header
  • 2 x M.2 Socket 3 connectors(M2A_CPU(No­te 2)/M2P_SB(Note 1))
  • 4 x SATA 6Gb/s connectors
  • 1 x front panel header
  • 1 x front panel audio header
  • 1 x speaker header
  • 1 x USB Type-C® header, with USB 3.2 Gen 2 support
  • 1 x USB 3.2 Gen 1 header
  • 1 x USB 2.0/1.1 header(Note 1)
  • 1 x reset button(Note 1)
  • 1 x reset jumper
  • 1 x Clear CMOS jumper
  • All fan headers are subject to support AIO_Pump, Pump and high performance fan with the capability of delivering up to 2A/12V @ 24W.
    • (Note 1) The connector is on the front of GC-Z690I BTB PLUG.
    • (Note 2) The connector is on the back of GC-Z690I BTB PLUG.
• Back Panel Connectors:
  • 2 x SMA antenna connectors (2T2R)
  • 1 x DisplayPort
  • 1 x HDMI port
  • 1 x USB Type-C® port, with USB 3.2 Gen 2×2 support
  • 3 x USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A ports (red)
  • 2 x USB 3.2 Gen 1 ports
  • 2 x USB 2.0/1.1 ports
  • 1 x Q-Flash Plus button
  • 1 x RJ-45 port
  • 2 x audio jacks
• I/O Controller: iTE® I/O Controller Chip
• H/W Monitoring:
  • Voltage detection
  • Temperature detection
  • Fan speed detection
  • Water cooling flow rate detection
  • Fan fail warning
  • Fan speed control
    • Whether the fan speed control function is supported will depend on the cooler you install.
• BIOS:
  • 1 × 256 Mbit flash
  • Use of licensed AMI UEFI BIOS
  • PnP 1.0a, DMI 2.7, WfM 2.0, SM BIOS 2.7, ACPI 5.0
• Unique Features:
  • Support for APP Center
    • @BIOS
    • EasyTune
    • Fast Boot
    • Game Boost
    • ON/OFF Charge
    • RGB Fusion
    • Smart Backup
    • System Information Viewer
  • Support for Q-Flash Plus
  • Support for Q-Flash
  • Support for Xpress Install
• Bundled Software:
  • Norton® Internet Security (OEM version)
  • cFosSpeed
• Operating System: Support for Windows 10 64-bit
• Form Factor: Mini-ITX Form Factor; 17.0cm x 17.0cm