Gigabyte Z890 AORUS ELITE WIFI7 PLUS

A 16+1+2 phase VRM design, matching the DUO X board's power delivery tier despite the different memory slot configuration, comfortably suited to the full Core Ultra 200S Plus lineup including the flagship Core Ultra 9 290K Plus.

Four conventional DDR5 DIMM slots supporting both standard DDR5 and the newer CQDIMM format, with Gigabyte's Ultra Turbo Mode enabling one-click overclocking up to 10,266 MT/s, a genuinely high figure for a four-slot configuration and a direct result of the PCB and BIOS tuning work Gigabyte applied across the whole Z890 PLUS series.

Four M.2 slots alongside a PCIe 5.0 x16 graphics slot, a comprehensive and conventional storage layout appropriate for mainstream-to-upper Z890 builds without stepping into the DUO X's specialised two-slot design.

USB4 Type-C, 5GbE LAN, and Wi-Fi 7 round out a genuinely strong connectivity package for this tier, matching what the DUO X offers on the networking and USB front while keeping the more familiar four-slot memory layout most builders expect.

Gigabyte's EZ-DIY features, tool-free PCIe and M.2 latches, a reinforced UD base plate for structural rigidity, and VRM Thermal Armor cooling, carry through from the rest of the Z890 PLUS series onto this board. The defining engineering story here isn't the physical layout, as it is on the DUO X, but the memory tuning work behind Ultra Turbo Mode, which Gigabyte states delivers up to a 40% CPU performance improvement and the 10,266 MT/s memory ceiling with a single BIOS click.

Against the Z890 AORUS ELITE DUO X, covered elsewhere on this site, this board offers double the DIMM slot count (four versus two) for builders who want more total capacity flexibility, at the cost of the DUO X's specific CQDIMM-optimized single-module capacity advantage. Against the Z890 EAGLE WIFI7 PLUS, covered elsewhere on this site, this ELITE tier board steps up from that board's 14+1+2 VRM to 16+1+2, a real if modest power delivery advantage.