

The favorites section is a user-customized portion of the BIOS.


From left to right, there’s Favorites, Tweaker, Settings, System Info., Boot and Save and Exit. Across the top, there are several headings each with specific functionality beneath. The Advanced mode is where most of the tweaking and overclocking will be handled. Any other functionality will have to come from the advanced sections. On the lower right-hand side is where one can switch into advanced mode, Smart Fan 5, or Q-Flash, as well as loading defaults, can be done here. You’re able to adjust a few things on this screen including setting the XMP profile, changing the boot sequence, as well as access Smart Fan 5 to control your fans. It will also display an installed SATA or M.2 drives, as well as what is populating the PCIe slots. There is a section covering the CPU frequency and voltage, along with temperatures of the CPU, chipset, and VRMs. It displays information such as the motherboard name, BIOS version and the installed CPU and RAM amount. Starting off in Easy Mode, this section is mostly informative with a bit of editing and interaction allowed. For example, MIT has been replaced with “Tweaker,” though overall styling and the Aorus theme of Orange and black remain the same. Oh and it gets worse.I forgot to mention the MSI RTX 2080 Gaming X with more RGB and the Soundblaster AE5 with even more.Moving on to the UEFI / BIOS, there are some slight changes to what I am used to across the top.

I wish there was a standardised RGB and ARGB system but that seems a long way off unless you stick to just one manufacturer. I also have 4 120mm ARGB fans from Fractal Design and 2 x 200mm ARGB fans from Thermaltake which are all controlled from the Thermaltake controller.bit of a bodge job but I got it to work.Okay, okay my RGB drug has completely taken over.what can I do! As you have quiet a bit of Corsair kit, iCue will be best for that. On the iCue side it has been a bit better though again I have had issues with high CPU usage and I had to go back to an older version to stop that.Still the control of RGB is done quiet well on iCue with all the devices synced up as is control of the fan speeds and pump speed. I have not used the RGB Fan Commander module so it might be a little different. I am using both Gigabyte RGB Fusion for the motherboard and iCue for my Corsair H150i Pro, 3 x 8gb Vengeance Pro RGB RAM, Corsair Strafe RGB motherboard and Corsair M45 Mouse (okay I have gone a bit overboard on the RGB!) and to be honest both have issues and have some way to go, though I find Gigabytes RGB Fusion software beyond crud at the moment.
