Gigabyte Z690I A ULTRA PLUS D4 Intel Motherboard

Z690I AORUS ULTRA PLUS DDR4
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.

UNPARALLELED PERFORMANCE
With technology moving so fast, GIGABYTE still keep up with the latest trends and provide our customers with advanced features and latest technology. GIGABYTE Z690 Series motherboards come with upgraded power solution, latest storage standards and outstanding connectivity to enable optimize performance for gaming.

ADVANCED THERMAL SOLUTION
GIGABYTE Z690 Series Motherboards' Un-throttled performance is guaranteed by innovative and optimized thermal design to ensure the best CPU, Chipset, SSD stability and low temperatures under full load application and gaming.

NEXT GENERATION CONNECTIVITY
GIGABYTE Z690 Series Motherboards let you experience ultimate connection flexibility and blazing data-transfer speed with next generation network, storage, and WIFI connectivity.

DEFINITIVE AESTHETICS
GIGABYTE motherboards bundle several useful and intuitive software to help users to control every aspect of motherboard and provide customizable lighting effect with outstanding aesthetics to fit your unique personality.

ULTRA DURABLE
GIGABYTE Ultra Durable™ features its product durability and high-quality manufacturing process. GIGABYTE motherboards use the best components and reinforce every slots to make each of them solid and durable.

Key Feature

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 6E 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

Tech Specs
CPU
LGA1700 socket: Support for 13th Generation Intel® Core™ Processors and 12th Generation Intel® Core™, Pentium® Gold and Celeron® 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 4096x2160@60 Hz
* Support for HDMI 2.1 version and HDCP 2.3.
** Support native HDMI 2.1 TMDS compatible ports.
1 x DisplayPort port, supporting a maximum resolution of 5120x2160@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 6E AX411
WIFI a, b, g, n, ac, ax, supporting 2.4/5/6 GHz carrier frequency bands
BLUETOOTH 5.2
Support for 11ax 160MHz wireless standard and up to 2.4 Gbps data rate

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 2x2 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 x 24-pin ATX main power connector
1 x 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(routed from the adapter card on the rear panel)
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

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 2x2 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

BIOS
1 x 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
* Available applications in APP Center may vary by motherboard model. Supported functions of each application may also vary depending on motherboard specifications.
@BIOS
EasyTune
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)
LAN bandwidth management software

Operating System
Support for Windows 11 64-bit
Support for Windows 10 64-bit

Form Factor
Mini-ITX Form Factor; 17.0cm x 17.0cm