Packaging and Accessories
The Z890 Aorus Pro Ice’s box has a bright white background that matches the Ice theme of the board. The front has black line drawings of the Aorus eagle logo and has Aorus branding in a light grey all across the background. The model name has the largest font and below that they let you know that it is an LGA 1851 socket motherboard, has PCI 5 and DDR5 support. The back of the box has the same bright white background. The back also has a picture of the Z890 Aorus Pro Ice along with four other photos that touch on a few of the board's main features. The back has a basic specification listing along with a line drawing of the rear I/O which combined gives you a good idea of what you are getting if you are shopping in retail.
When you get inside, the Z890 Aorus Pro Ice comes wrapped up in a static protective bag, like always. On top of that Gigabyte has a folded-up piece of cardboard on top that keeps the board from moving around and then it sits in another cardboard tray that can be pulled out. Up under that, you have the documentation and accessories. Gigabyte included a universal installation guide and then a Z890-specific guide as well. You also get an ice-themed set of white stickers with different Aorus logos and branding all over them. For accessories, you get a few different cables. Two are thermal sensors that you can attach in other locations in your PC to monitor more than just the motherboard’s sensors. There is also a sound sensor as well that ties in with the lighting controls. You get two SATA cables, one of which has a right-angled connection on one end. Those are bright white to match the board which is great to see. There is a small helper for the front panel connections, you use that to plug all of the hard to plug in front panel connections out in the open where it is easier, then you plug the whole thing into the Z890 Aorus Pro Ice all at once. That helper is white as well. Then there is a fan and mount. They call this the DDR Wind Blade and it mounts to give active cooling to your memory.
Last up you do also get a wireless antenna. This design is the same as we saw on the X870 Aorus Elite Wifi7 only this time around it is bright white to match the Ice theme of the Z890 Aorus Pro Ice. This antenna has a single connection that you plug in, skipping the old screw-on antenna connections. The antenna itself is a lot more compact than what I have seen from Asus and MSI boards. It doesn’t have too much of a base or a rubber mount at all but it does have magnets inside to stick it to your case.
