
This board is the definition of a “Flagship” motherboard. Introducing the Z390 Aorus Extreme Waterforce Edition, Gigabytes flagship Z390 Aorus motherboard. Gigabyte knew this, and they covered all bases on the Z390 line up. Especially if you intend to hit 5.0 GHz and beyond.

So, to keep it cool, you need serious cooling. Now, we all know that the I9 9900k is a very hot running processor. But one each and every Aorus motherboard in the Z390 lineup, you’ll get the same high-end MOSFETs, capacitors, transistors, and amazing build that Aorus is known for. Sure, you’ll get more power phases, more M.2 slots, and other features as you go up the lineup. Whether it is on their Aorus Elite or their Aorus Master and Extreme, the components are the same. To do this, they used the same high-end components across their entire line up. Gigabytes released their Z390 line up with the aim for any board in their Aorus line being able to hit 5.0 GHz on K Sku processors. Well, with the Z390 line, Gigabyte intends to change this, and they may have done just that. However, when you ask people in forums and on social media who makes the best high-end motherboards, most people answer Asus. Top that with one of the best logos in the business, in my opinion, and Aorus motherboards are just all around great boards. Not only do Aorus motherboards look amazing, but they use only high-end components such as MOSFETs, transistors, and capacitors. With each generation since the Aorus line up has gotten progressively better. The Aorus line up replaced their very popular G1-Gaming line and was previously designated for Gigabytes high-end laptop line up. This included the Aorus Xtreme Waterforce. I bought a cheap RGB fan kit for the second 465X case that my dad is using.At CES 2017, Gigabyte officially launched their Aorus line up of motherboards, graphics cards, and peripherals to coincide with Intel’s 9th generation of Core Processors.

So the Commander Pro is only controlling the fan speed and running the LED strips. I ended up having to leave the Node Core in this case since my fan hub seems faulty, the 6th fan wouldn't light up.

I got 2 of the cases and pulled the fans from the second case so I could fill up this one. The image I posted above with the LL fans is the Corsair 465X case that comes with 3 fans and a Lighting Node Core. The kits will come with a 6 fan hub, and some kits also come with Lighting Node Pro. The fans need to plug into a hub then the hub goes to the Node Pro or the Commander Pro.

Lighting Node Core has the RGB Hub and controls one type of Corsair fan. Lighting Node Pro just has 2 RGB inputs so it can control 2 different styles of Corsair fans or fans and LED strips. I don't know much about the other RGB systems that use the onboard RGB headers. Commander Pro is basically a Lighting Node Pro with Temp and Fan control.
