Gigabyte Z490 AORUS XTREME WATERFORCE [3/120] Table of contents

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Table of Contents

Box Contents ...................................................................................................................5

Optional Items .................................................................................................................5

Z490 AORUS XTREME WF (Z490 AORUS XTREME WATERFORCE)

Motherboard Layout ........................................................................................................6

Z490 AORUS XTREME WF (Z490 AORUS XTREME WATERFORCE)

Motherboard Block Diagram ............................................................................................ 7

Chapter 1 Hardware Installation .....................................................................................9

1-1 Installation Precautions .................................................................................... 9

1-2 ProductSpecications .................................................................................... 10

1-3 Installing the CPU and CPU Cooler ............................................................... 14

1-3-1 Installing the CPU ...................................................................................................14

1-3-2 Installing the Water Cooling Kit...............................................................................16

1-4 Installing the Memory ..................................................................................... 18

1-4-1 DualChannelMemoryConguration .....................................................................18

1-4-2 Installing a Memory ................................................................................................19

1-5 Installing an Expansion Card ......................................................................... 20

1-6 Setting up AMD CrossFire

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/NVIDIA

SLI

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Conguration .............................. 21

1-7 Back Panel Connectors .................................................................................. 22

1-8 Onboard Buttons and Switches ...................................................................... 24

1-9 Internal Connectors ........................................................................................ 26

Chapter 2 BIOS Setup ..................................................................................................39

2-1 Startup Screen ............................................................................................... 40

2-2 The Main Menu .............................................................................................. 41

2-3 Favorites (F11) ............................................................................................... 43

2-4 Tweaker .......................................................................................................... 44

2-5 Settings .......................................................................................................... 51

2-6 System Info. ................................................................................................... 59

2-7 Boot ................................................................................................................ 60

2-8 Save & Exit ..................................................................................................... 63

Chapter3 ConguringaRAIDSet ................................................................................ 65

3-1 ConguringSATAControllers ......................................................................... 65

3-2 Installing the RAID/AHCI Driver and Operating System ................................ 79

3-3 Installing an Intel

Optane

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Memory .............................................................. 82