BIOS
Rather than have stacks of pictures I put together a basic video that just goes through and clicks on each menu option in the BIOS so if there is anything you want to check out you can see it and pause when needed. The BIOS for the Z890 Aorus Pro Ice surprised me right away because Gigabyte has it themed out to match the motherboard with a silver/white background across the entire BIOS. It’s a nice touch that brings it all together. The starting landing page is the Easy Mode page. This has your memory and CPU frequencies, voltages, and temperatures all in the middle. Around that you can see details like what CPU you are running, RAM, bios revision, and fan speeds. You can turn on your XMP profiles, Re-Size Bar, and other common options here as well as set Intel’s Baseline, performance, or extreme modes. You can also change your boot order here but it doesn’t click and drag as you would expect, you need to click on it and drag it on the page it opens.
From there I went to the advanced mode. This is what you would normally expect for a BIOS and you start off right in the thick of things with the Tweaker tab. On every page on the right, you can see CPU, Memory, and Voltage information. Then on the left, you can work your way down through the options. When you mouse or arrow over something, down at the bottom you will sometimes get a description of what it is to help. Things with an orange arrow open up a menu and for some things depending on your setting, it will open up more options. For example, an Auto setting will keep things simple but manual mode will open up the manual options below it once you click it. This is a nice way to keep some features hidden away to simplify things but it does mean you will sometimes have things hidden away. The Tweaker page has all of your overclock-specific options. From there up top you have the settings page. This dives into board features and settings. The mouse and keyboard navigation was nice but I did notice here that when you open up some menus the escape button doesn’t take you back, it will exit the entire BIOS so doing keyboard only navigation can get difficult. On top of that when you go into a menu it will add an exit button in the bottom left but there are some menus where that button just doesn’t work at all and you have to click up top to the settings tab and start over.
The system Info tab is what you would normally see when you first enter a BIOS. This has your time settings, BIOS revision, and more. Then next up is the boot menu. You can change boot settings, swap your boot order here, and set up a boot password if you want. Down along the bottom Gigabyte has added two tools. You can open up the Smart Fan 6 menu by clicking the button or pressing F6. This lets you set up all of your fan profiles. You can use some of the default settings or make your own profiles and here you can set details like if you want the fans to stop altogether and what temperature input you want that specific fan to run off of. I only had CPU as an option, but this can be great when it picks up your GPU to set fans near your GPU to worry about it. The other tool is the Q-Flash tool, which is the tool you use to update your BIOS.