It’s no secret that there are a lot of motherboard reviews going live on eTeknix today, and while there are boards from ASUS and MSI and more on the way, one that stands out is the Gigabyte X870 Aorus Elite WIFI7 ICE. It’s by far one of the most unique motherboards we have for this launch thanks to the “ICE” design. Offering up a plethora of massive heatsinks and armour all finished in a stunning mixture of white, grey and silver, with a bit of RGB thrown in for good measure. However, it’s not just a great-looking motherboard, as part of the AORUS series, it’s one of their more high-end solutions and comes brimming with high-end features for enthusiast gamers and content creators alike.
It features a 16+2+2 Twin Digital VRM design, with a range of premium chokes and capacitors, so it should be able to deal with the best of the best AMD CPUs, and since it supports AMD Ryzen 7000, 8000 and 9000 processors, you’ve got a fair few to choose from. While not the most extreme motherboard from AORUS, it’s obviously still very much on the high-end. The armour and heatsinks are massive too, again, not the biggest or most extreme implementation, but it’s still a lot and should help push storage, memory and CPU performance to the next level. You get DDR5 support, an impressive 3 x PCIe 5.0 M.2 and 1 x PCIe 4.0 M.2 for extreme storage configurations. There’s also a PCIe 5.0 x16 slot, as well as a PCIe 4, and PCIe 3.0 slot for additional add-in cards.
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Memory support is impressive, offering up incredible speeds for these new CPUs, however, which generation of CPU you use will have some impact on the memory capabilities as you might expect, but typically they’re all over 8000 MHz.
While this review cycle we’ll be focusing on the X870E series of motherboards, of course, there’s going to be more to this series, with the X870E being the flagship models, the X870 below that, and then the B850 and the B840 being the more affordable models below those, but with some obvious compromises on the features, giving us a range of options for normal PC users, gamers, overclockers and enthusiasts.
For these reviews, we’ll be using the latest AMD Ryzen 9000 series CPU, and while we haven’t actually reviewed this CPU on its own, of course, we’ll be exploring the Ryzen 9 9950X performance through these motherboard reviews. We did a feature testing Windows 32H2 Vs 24H2 on YouTube recently, which you can check out here.
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