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.

3:30 The motherboard looks like a resort.

That rounded design on the heatsinks will fit perfectly with a white ZOTAC gaming card

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.

I Always love Colorful tbh. They create many good looking product too.

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

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?

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.

really appreciate the compitition

Very impressive work from Colorful!

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)

I got that toolkit with my sapphire toxic ee 6900, its a great tool set!

That's quite a lovely motherboard. I like the white, and the the software.

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

Having the debug codes listed is actually really nice.

Super video! Would be good to see Colorful as an option in Europe, I like the look of the CVN Z790M FROZEN D5

Very interesting to see how we can push this board on the "memory tunning" side...

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.

Good looking too

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

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.

That is a gorgeous board.

From what you have shown, I would certainly consider such a board. Though the cat board was even more fun.

Better Bios than Gigabyte

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.

Very interesting!

Wow What A Board Id Love One :)

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.

Cool motherboard!

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.

I think this goes to show, even at the big main board manufacturers, it's still only 3 people on the BIOS teams.

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

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.

More Gen5 slots we don’t need, Let’s Go !!!

Ive always liked there design of motherboards and gpu's I hope they come to the states.

Thank you, it's always interesting to see hardware from less widespread manufacturers. Biostar next please? :)

It has indonesian language too on the packaging. But funnily its not available here lmao.

Damn! If this were sold in America I would buy it along with a white case and GPU/CPU cooler.

"midrange"

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.

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.

7:42 the motherboard says 3.0 PCIe, the box advertised 4.0 PCIe.

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

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.

that white pcb 🥹

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.

Nice..white pcb!😎

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.

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

Will you do falloup on braking chipsets in MSI z790 motherboards ?

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.

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 💖💖

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!

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.

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.

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.

I saw a sonic the hedgehog 🦔 mother board in ebay and I was like huh neat

Are we in the baroque era of electronics? I will sit this out.

I really like that BIOS. ASUS, and others - take note!!!

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)

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.

I learnt a lot this video. Had no idea there was CPU or PCI-e M.2 slots.

I hope they take over the Market and lower prices.

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.

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.

Such a manufacturer of motherboards

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..

has debug LEDs, worth a check, thats better than most the boards i saw at that price

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.

This is like my "adult" version of Sunday morning cartoons 😊

really highlights the lack of pcie lanes on intel

Test the X670e/z790 Taichi MB from asrock. It has BIOS controlled RGB functionality. No software needed and it works well!

what is the problem when MB is switch on when its empty ?

I'm not sure why but white computer hardware looks 100x better than black

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.

I wish all motherboards had a single disable all rgb switch

the goat motherboard

what kind of memtest was used here plz? 15:20, thx

Ok, but what about that precision screwdriver?!?!

So er....yeston boards next?😎

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

It's ironic as hell having a board named "flow" with no liquid cooling support

Why did it say gigabyte in the bottom of the bios screen?

whats the point of the LED when they always put it under the GPU?

Why did they put 1080p in there twice and skip 1440p tho?

Why not purple or green or anything other than black white with the occasional red accents?

reminds me of MSI boards.

😊👍

Brother need your help. I have asus x99 10th anniversary mobo. Whenever I start PC. It give F1 every time.

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.

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 would like to have that motherboard,not sure why I would but I like it

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

Wifi antenna is exact white copy of my Asus Z690-F Rog strix.

MAXUN white motherboards also look awesome but hard to find. GUNNIR and YESTON are difficult to find as well. GUNNIR are a bit overpriced like asus high end gpus but they are pretty great. Likewise YESTON has good cooling and looks cool as well and both are difficult to get in europe.

They sell an h610 mobo in white with WIFI for cheaper than MSI, Asus, Gigabyte h610 boards which dont even have those features.

oh no.... the price is going up on this one