Gigabyte
Over the years, motherboard manufacturers have consistently pushed the limits on top-end motherboards with striking designs and PCBs filled to the brim with the latest controllers and feature sets. Although these typically come with a high price premium, these 'flagships' represent the latest components, designed to operate the fastest processors to deliver leading-edge performance while offering the best controllers available at the time of manufacture. One such model is the GIGABYTE Z790 Aorus Xtreme, which is the direct successor to the Z690 Aorus Xtreme, and boasts a premium feature set, including support for DDR5-8000 memory, dual Thunderbolt 4 Type-C, as well as 10 GbE and Wi-Fi 6E connectivity. Sitting at the top of GIGABYTE's Z790 range of motherboards, the Z790 Aorus Xtreme is designed for...
GIGABYTE Launch H81 Series Motherboards
When it comes to our motherboard reviews, we typically attempt to focus on the high sellers with distinguishing features - this normally means chipsets aimed at the mainstream to...
24 by Ian Cutress on 8/24/2013GIGABYTE F2A85XN-WiFi Review: FM2 and Richland in mini-ITX
Mini-ITX is an exciting form factor, as with every CPU generation we can make something small and faster with better features over the previous gen. GIGABYTE recently released a...
32 by Ian Cutress on 8/21/2013GIGABYTE Announces FM2+ A88X Series Motherboards for Kaveri
The evolution of the Bulldozer module, through Piledriver, and Steamroller on Kaveri to come has been an eventful journey. Despite recent rumors floating around the Internet reporting delays...
24 by Ian Cutress on 8/16/2013Interview with Jackson Hsu, Product Management Director at GIGABYTE
Interview with Jackson Hsu, Product Management Director at GIGABYTE As part of our trip to Computex this year, alongside a good look around the GIGABYTE Taipei 101 VIP Suite and the...
20 by Ian Cutress on 8/9/2013Intel Z87 Motherboard Review with Haswell: Gigabyte, MSI, ASRock and ASUS
Talk about Haswell and Z87 has circulated the internet for many quarters – today we reap the benefits of the wait and get our chance to review both the...
58 by Ian Cutress on 6/27/2013Competitive Overclocking: The GIGABYTE OC Lab and HWBot.org
Every field has enthusiasts – the users that obsess over the smallest details to get the best, to be the best, and excel in their field. Well it turns...
18 by Ian Cutress on 6/19/2013Gigabyte at the Taipei 101
Part of the Gigabyte show over recent years as one of the main sponsors of Computex is their VIP suite on the 36th floor of the Taipei 101, reserved...
15 by Ian Cutress on 6/11/2013Gigabyte's 8-Series Haswell Motherboard Tour [video]
Today is all about Haswell and Gigabyte is kicking things off with a video tour of some of their Haswell motherboard lineup. Colin from Gigabyte stopped by a couple...
28 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/1/2013Haswell Z87 Motherboard Preview: 50+ Motherboards from ASUS, Gigabyte, ASRock, MSI, ECS, Biostar and EVGA
With time quickly approaching the launch of Haswell, leaks on both motherboards and CPU performance are coming out of the woodworks. Similar to our advance Ivy Bridge coverage...
71 by Ian Cutress on 5/22/2013Gigabyte Z77-HD4 Review
While most of the focus for motherboards is on the big models, what happens when we get down to the lower price points? If you want a basic...
64 by Ian Cutress on 5/19/2013ASUS Maximus V Gene vs. Gigabyte G1.Sniper M3 Review
Competition between gaming mATX boards doesn’t get any tougher than this. In the red corner, weighing in at $200 and from the Republic of Gamers’ range, we have...
32 by Ian Cutress on 5/13/2013Best High End Z77 Motherboards, April 2013
As part of our ‘Best X’ range of pipeline posts, our focus turns on to the motherboard segment. At this point of the year, we really are between...
30 by Ian Cutress on 4/11/2013Gigabyte Z77X-UP7 Review: OC Oriented Orange Overkill
Aside from Gigabyte’s gaming motherboards (the G1 Series) and its channel motherboards (such as the UP4 TH, MX-D3H), there exists the OC Oriented series of motherboards. The first participant...
41 by Ian Cutress on 3/1/2013Trio of New Gigabyte Server Motherboards Announced
We recently reviewed a dual processor setup using the Gigabyte GA-7PESH1 and a pair of socket 2011 Xeons, with varied reactions from the point of view of a need...
13 by Ian Cutress on 1/29/2013A Cheaper Way to 4K: Intel’s Collage Driver
A Cheaper Way to 4K: Intel’s Collage Driver If you heard my recent rant on Podcast 13, my main beef was with the state of monitors to the end user...
29 by Ian Cutress on 1/11/2013Gigabyte GA-7PESH1 Review: A Dual Processor Motherboard through a Scientist’s Eyes
Browsing through a manufacturer’s website can offer a startling view of the product line up. Such was the case when I sprawled through Gigabyte’s range, only to find...
64 by Ian Cutress on 1/5/2013Gigabyte F2A85X-UP4 Review – Are PowIRStages Needed with Trinity?
Since Computex back in June, Gigabyte has been pushing a new power delivery system across parts of its motherboard range. This involves an integrated circuit to combine power...
25 by Ian Cutress on 12/14/2012Gigabyte H77N-WiFi Review – First Look at Ivy Bridge with mITX
Reviews of the Ivy Bridge platform at AnandTech have focused solely on the primary chipset supplied to most desktop users – Z77. In a twist, today we are...
52 by Ian Cutress on 11/6/2012NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti Launch Recap
Earlier this week we reviewed NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 650 Ti. As this was a hard launch many of NVIDIA’s partners have had their cards available for purchase from day-one...
9 by Chris Hansen on 10/11/2012The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti Review, Feat. Gigabyte, Zotac, & EVGA
At a pace just shy of a card a month, NVIDIA has been launching the GeForce 600 series part by part for over the last half year now. What...
91 by Ryan Smith on 10/9/2012