Colorful Z790 Motherboards are Surprisingly GOOD!
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- Опубликовано: 1 авг 2024
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Outro:
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- Colorful Z790 Mainboard, Seasonic PSU
Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
1:19 Seasonic (Advertising)
2:01 RAM marketing
3:54 Unboxing & DeBug codes
5:10 Overview of the mainboard
7:32 PCIe lanes
9:18 I/O shield & BIOS flashing
12:52 BIOS overview
14:40 AIDA64 RAM test
16:04 Cinebench & VRMs
17:50 iGame software
20:08 The power stages
20:52 Summary/conclusion
24:59 Outro 
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3:30 The motherboard looks like a resort.
lol
Reminds me of these old motherboards with a whole bunch of tall capacitors on them. We as kids used to say that it looks like a city.
_how can they learn how to read if they can't even fit inside the building? It needs to be at least... 3 times bigger._
The heatsink looks like Casa Milà in Barcelona.
haha... that is a good spot!
On Z790 PCI-e 5.0 M.2 slots also force the GPU to X8. I have no idea why you'd ever want a 5.0 M.2 slot on Z790.
Z790 boards with pcie 5.0 m.2 is custom tailored made for 4060/7600 user 😬
agree
It's not only a Potatoe, it's a Potatoe Salad of PCIe ports. Of course, because nobody who knows what they're talking about watches this channel? idk - dudes loosing it.
I can't believe my £700 apex encore does that😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Rather silly statement, to begin with anything below 4090 performance level current is largely fine in a X8 4.0 slot. Once GPUs get 5.0 support, that means you can even go past 4090 performance without meaningful impact in a 8x slot.
Secondly, it's not so much about "wanting a 5.0 m.2 slot", it's about wanting more m.2 slots on dedicated lanes. But if you want to bifurcate the 16x slot without dropping down to 4.0 for the GPU. Then the m.2 slot has support 5.0 as well unless I've missed some recent changes. Because the link speed is set as an aggregate from my experience, rather than individual links when you bifurcate, and will settle on the lowest supported device speed. If you stick a 3.0 speed device into your 2nd slot on a Intel board that can do 2x8 4.0 bifurcated, then the device in the first slot will be 3.0 as well afaik.
So if you want 5.0 X8 on the GPU slot while bifurcating at a future point. Then you have to stick a 5.0 m.2 device in the slot coming off those lanes as well. That means the slot has to have 5.0 support to begin with.
That rounded design on the heatsinks will fit perfectly with a white ZOTAC gaming card
I think it's meant to match their neptune cards
Zotac 🤮
everyone gets motion sick with the addition of Zotac memory as well
I knew a few idiots on youtube is going to clown on Zotac and I was right. So far I haven't had issues selling them but eh
I like how you found something good and are trying to help promote it just because it's good
Used to buy Colorful products all the time. Took a hiatus from building PCs in the late 2000s and when I came back to the hobby in the 2010s a lot of my favourite brands were either defunct, or had exited the US market. Good to see Colorful is still building a decent board.
From the side it looks like a condominium building, all it's messing is a pool in the middle, you could use it to water cool the build.
Glad to see colorful products getting some coverage they've definitely been making awesome stuff, always keeping an eye on them
I Always love Colorful tbh. They create many good looking product too.
The BIOS used to be very bad though
used to be, like amd ¨drivers¨, but not now
@@Artiom97esamd's windows drivers are still pretty rough around the edges
Looks like a pretty well put together bit of kit. It's always nice to see a POST code on a mid range board given the big manufacturers try to limit them to only their high-end offerings.
Any chance you could look at one of their AMD boards as well?
Very impressive work from Colorful!
really appreciate the compitition
That's quite a lovely motherboard. I like the white, and the the software.
Colorful also do AM5 boards, the CVN frost something v14 atx board (there is an matx too at 150 usd) can support 2 pcie 5.0 m.2 drives, yes 2 full speed 5.0 drives, and nobody have tested it properly i would say
The matx is interesting too
@9:18 I'm certain that Roman knows, but I've had a number of boards with integrated I/O shields that adjust slightly to accommodate imperfections in the fitment of the case. The shield moves slightly and can often look like it is misaligned after installation. This is by design. Perhaps this one was just a little 'sticky' and wasn't moving freely at first? Just an idea.
I got that toolkit with my sapphire toxic ee 6900, its a great tool set!
Super video! Would be good to see Colorful as an option in Europe, I like the look of the CVN Z790M FROZEN D5
Having the debug codes listed is actually really nice.
Colorful is the only brand that continuously produce white MOBOs with white PCBs. BIOS can be wonky at times, but for the price its not bad
I bought a b650 colorful board on Ali and it works excellently for me, was surprised how easy the bios was to understand and it has a 5x16 slot and two gen 5 m.2 slots which for the price was head and shoulders above any of the mainstream brands (especially for mATX, the only other mATX board with a 5x16 is the crosshair gene which has a completely troll price)
We need more white pcbs. They are so aesthetic and beautiful. I’ve been really wanting a white z790 ….. I might have to snag one if this ever hits the us sellers but I’d def have to 3d print covers for the cringe gamer slogans or cover with white vinyl lol. It’s nice they give you white cables and a tool kit too
Very interesting to see how we can push this board on the "memory tunning" side...
From what you have shown, I would certainly consider such a board. Though the cat board was even more fun.
20:56 all manufacturers started like that.
Made their software as much smaller and functional to attract costumers. When they got bigger they simply integrated all the tracking bs that's available and made more profit than their own products do.
Hey now, Asrock hasn't made coherent software or added a bunch of telemetry nonsense. Boards are solid but I swear they must have hired one dude 10 years ago to program a tool that someone has tacked spaghetti code to every generation.
Colorful is no spring chicken, they just don't really care to compete with ASUS ROG and MSI on the worldwide market for some odd reason. It isn't their products, or them being too small or something. I'm not really in the market segment they target, but if I were, I'd be making my choice between iGame and ROG probably. So Colorful and ASUS.
Off the top of my head Colorful has been around 10+ years at least, top end enthusiast market in Asia, so China, Japan etc.
Good looking too
That is a gorgeous board.
Looking like this board can do 7600 stable easily with VDD2/VDDQ massage
14:01 all voltages for memory tunning in one place except VSA, quite handy
Use y-cruncher VT3 for IMC stability check, memtestpro is unreliable for DDR5
My niece is about the age to have her own gaming pc and has already worn out her Switch playing Minecraft with her friends. I've been eyeing those cute cat components for her and it would be nice if I could buy them straight from EU.
Thanks for the review and I wish they did have better availability as their stuff is quite interesting. Also anyone complaining about the lack of PCIe 5.0 M.2 on Intel is a fool as it causes primary lane to run x8.
On my recent Intel build in US, Colorful was on my radar, but couldn't find a white GPU in my price range from them, so went with a Zotac 4070 RTX OC. Hopefully they will branch out more and drive competition.
Wow What A Board Id Love One :)
I would love a report on best 35" to 45" TVs for PC gaming because I now use my monitor for streaming movies as well as gaming.
Gigabyte does have some motherboards with white PCB like the Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Elite AX Ice and the Gigabyte B760M Aorus Elite X AX for example.
I have the mATX board in an all white build and it looks so nice. 🙂 Those 2 boards are pretty expensive though. Asrock has a cheap white board the ASRock B760M-HDV/M.2.
But yeah white motherboards are pretty rare.
Very interesting!
I think this goes to show, even at the big main board manufacturers, it's still only 3 people on the BIOS teams.
Ive always liked there design of motherboards and gpu's I hope they come to the states.
Cool motherboard!
Thank you, it's always interesting to see hardware from less widespread manufacturers.
Biostar next please? :)
Will you do falloup on braking chipsets in MSI z790 motherboards ?
7:42 the motherboard says 3.0 PCIe, the box advertised 4.0 PCIe.
Just slip heat pipes into those big fat VRM heat sink fins and stick an ROG label on it for additional bandwidth. And with all four memory dimms installed switching on the power supply opens portals.
Guess what kind of PC my nephew wants to build? If you guessed all white with lots of RGB you are correct. By the time he gets enough money maybe this motherboard will also be an option for him.
Considering the fact that it is a 340$ ish mobo with a postcode and has a VR VOUT sensor built-in + 6 Sata slots. Brilliant job Colorful!
this is why i like this channel. he explains everything except just drooling over everything that was sent to them with no real information other than some benching.
when doing your memory stability test, do you just change the ram frequency ? or do you adjust other parameters ?
I'm curious because I would like to buy some high speed ddr5 for my next pc, but I don't have the skills needed to tweak every timing by hand
Awesome video man i need help can you please help me what's the best PC curv for fans thank you and keep up amazing work
Damn! If this were sold in America I would buy it along with a white case and GPU/CPU cooler.
first of all this is fantastic company that no one knows about it
my next build gonna be colorful i hope they have amd lineup 🤲🏼
the amount of polished bios and clean UI is ! OMG it has QR Code LED !!
I hated that other motherboard manufacurer removed QR LED with sub 150 and up motherboard why they di that WHY !!
instead of makeing the diagnose of a motherboard easy they make it diffcult for the consumer its very important feature !
about the OC setting I don't mind you showing us what setting you adjusted for CPU, make a segment at the end after the conclusion for us nerdy people to see what did you do 💖💖
that white pcb 🥹
I really like that BIOS. ASUS, and others - take note!!!
i do wish that Colorful had more availability in the West, as their 'CVN' Motherboard line looks so, so, so cool to me. also their CLC/AIO GPU's this gen were like, the best on the market, period.
i'd be happy with using such Motherboards provided that they're competitive with BIOS layout and Memory Training and PCB design for Memory Overclocking and sensible LLC curve settings, Et Cetera - on top of having good choices for I/O Ports, a VRM that's reasonably good, PCI-E Slot locations that are useful, you know, all the usual stuff.
my main worry really just is the Memory Overclocking. not sure if i should or should not expect that they'd have BIOS updates out in reasonable timeframes to the other Vendors, and if it would be a similar experience to the other Vendors in use.
anyways, those Charts Silkscreened onto the Board are indeed nice. always want to see more useful features like that.
the CPU M.2 Socket being 4.0 is BETTER, frankly. we still don't have any real/native 5.0 class Drives yet AFAIK, all still using Overclocked Controllers and so they run like garbage. and outside of pro level Video Editing, there's literally no benefit anyways, nor will there be for probably another entire Decade.
fyi - This White MB is $359 @ Newegg in the US...
has debug LEDs, worth a check, thats better than most the boards i saw at that price
The one thing I don't like about asus motherboards is how confusing the bios can get. This looks very very nice and i kinda want to get one of these boards now.
Colorful makes some really cool looking GPUs as well if I remember correctly. I can't speak about how good they are or anything (because y'know, China brand). Their Kudan series of cards has always looked really cool, and they have a clockwork aesthetic.
I hope they take over the Market and lower prices.
I 100% agree with the reviews stating the top slot should be 5.0. I also 100% agree with you probably shouldn't buy a 5.0 drive today. The thing is, those drives will get cheaper eventually and so having the top slot supporting the same thing the CPU supports on the top of the line chipset is in my opinion baseline and should be mandated by Intel.
Nice..white pcb!😎
A Chinese ad slogan says, "I can tell if it's Made in China; it's swell!" An American ad slogan says, "You can tell it's Mattel; it's swell!" Does this mean our PCs are toys? My wife thinks so.
Colorful's been around for ages so there's nothing surprising about them having some good stuff. They wouldn't have lasted as long as they have if they didn't.
what is the problem when MB is switch on when its empty ?
Such a manufacturer of motherboards
More Gen5 slots we don’t need, Let’s Go !!!
That's a very cool board. Very well done Colorful. It's clear the bios in particular was designed by people who actually use a board and have spent FIVE minutes or more searching for a feature in bios which is nonsense. All current boards have a bios which are akin to a full on OS and it's really annoying.
I wonder if there's an AM4/5 equivalent from Colorful? Regardless, Colorful NEED to get this level of engineering, quality and price point on Intel and AMD into Europe and other markets ASAP.
Excellent engineering such as this should not be a secret. Also, I think Colorful are missing a trick here by not leaning in on their own branding and producing a red or blue, mate black and possibly other colours. I know it would be expensive but, if a buyer wanted a blue, white or red board who would they buy it from? Colorful. The clue is in the name.
It literally says "Gamer Customization" in huge text over the top of the VRM heatsink, that is total cringe, NOT "excellent engineering"
the goat motherboard
what kind of memtest was used here plz? 15:20, thx
i say it looks pretty cool gives me a future vibe look to it but yeah saying it is VR ready or something dumb like that is tuff to take seriously.
It's pretty cool they offer 4x M.2 on a mainstream board, but the 3 x4 of them are on PCH, so they get bottlenecked by the 8x DMI. Kind of unfortunate where it would otherwise be interesting for RAID5/zfs/storage-spaces/etc. And yeah, we need a node process iteration on Gen5 M.2 controllers to bring the temps down.
This is like my "adult" version of Sunday morning cartoons 😊
Nice video Roman.
i'm not digging the design of the board, too much branding and the design style isnt consistant for me but since Colorful is making motherboards is there any chance you think Red Devil will make their own motherboards?
Also still waiting for you to review the Asrock Livemixer Z790.
I love that I am still able to get 128GB ram to run 3600 on am4. I love the idea of updating my systems but I feel like the am5 components aren't that much faster.
Better Bios than Gigabyte
I learnt a lot this video.
Had no idea there was CPU or PCI-e M.2 slots.
Technically it's that some of the PCIE lanes go directly to the CPU while others go to the chipset (which has its own connection to the CPU). This can apply to any PCIE device, not just M.2.
whats the point of the LED when they always put it under the GPU?
It has indonesian language too on the packaging. But funnily its not available here lmao.
Why did it say gigabyte in the bottom of the bios screen?
Brother need your help.
I have asus x99 10th anniversary mobo. Whenever I start PC. It give F1 every time.
Got B650 Gaming Frozen V14 for my GF build its quite solid actually, the functions are even better than many B650E boards, idk why did they call it B650..
I would like to have that motherboard,not sure why I would but I like it
"midrange"
Haha yeah i was thinking the same, 400$ midrange!?....
@@BenjaminWassink Anus Z790 Dark Hero $700 hi-end
MSI Z790 ACE - $700 hi-end
Z790-F strix $410 midrange
Z790 Carbon $400 midrange
Only Gigabyte offer hi-end board Z790 Master X at $450 currently
midrange in price, after an z790 is expensive af, i remember some 700 dollars motherboard being offered not long ago, same for amd am5 years ago, no idea who buys this things
i won't buy anything over a 150 dollars motherboard and that is too expensive tbh
@@BenjaminWassink definitly mid range, high range boards are from 700-1200$, high end iz 1200-2000$
Are we in the baroque era of electronics? I will sit this out.
really highlights the lack of pcie lanes on intel
Why did they put 1080p in there twice and skip 1440p tho?
Test the X670e/z790 Taichi MB from asrock. It has BIOS controlled RGB functionality. No software needed and it works well!
When they slap something on there it means they are new to the whole game how do you think we NITR0 division or hard core in component design and layout and materials and testing so each user is so happy with there product they keep it repair it and continue to support
I purchased their Neptune series GPU ... Gotta say really please with the product and build quality (software - app can be a lot better but not a deal breaker as MSI AB is there)
I saw a sonic the hedgehog 🦔 mother board in ebay and I was like huh neat
Why not purple or green or anything other than black white with the occasional red accents?
I don't get being upset over not having a gen 5 m.2 slot. My gen 4 drive pushes 7,450/6,900 MB/s read/write. Loading screens in games are just a couple seconds long. That's plenty for a mid-range board. If you want the best of the best you're not looking at a mid-range board anyhow.
I wish all motherboards had a single disable all rgb switch
So er....yeston boards next?😎
Ok, but what about that precision screwdriver?!?!
reminds me of MSI boards.
😊👍
Nice to hear as from my experience from 10 years ago colorful was a pretty subpar brand in everything they did. They were slightly worse than zotac and palit
6:37 Mayby its made of plastic because, by design, to holds in place, it go to pci slots?
You really imagine using single piece of metal, that conduct electricity, and later stick them to pci slots???
To use something else beside plastic, they would need to redesigne whole that dust cover to add some type of clips or something like that.
In the US..."Colorful CVN Z790 D5 GAMING FROZEN V20 Motherboard LGA 1700 Intel Z790 ATX Mainboard DDR5 PCIE5.0 Support 13th Gen Intel Core" - @ Newegg - Cost: $359 - Color: White
It's ironic as hell having a board named "flow" with no liquid cooling support
That board is great cause u can clearly see the components against White pcb
wow thats actually a gorgeous board, z790 has much nicer boards than am5 at the moment if you ask me
Anyone know of any tech VR videos?
I'm confused. Isn't the motherboard supposed to turn on? Otherwise, why would they have put those lights there?