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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 Launches R161-Series Overclocking Servers: 1U, Core X, Liquid Cooling
GIGABYTE has released its first servers based on overclockable Core X-series processors that offer a higher single-thread performance when compared to regular server CPUs. The new Overclocking Servers R161-series...
7 by Anton Shilov on 12/13/2018Just When You Thought It Was Dead: Qualcomm Centriq Arm Server Systems Spotted
Much to our surprise, we saw a Qualcomm Centriq server from an OEM at Supercomputing this week.
7 by Ian Cutress on 11/13/2018AMD EPYC for ATX Workstations: GIGABYTE MZ01-CE0 & MZ01-CE1 Motherboards
AMD’s EPYC processor has made it into servers and supercomputers, yet it still has to find its place inside workstations. To a large degree that is because up until...
29 by Anton Shilov on 11/7/2018New GIGABYTE X299-WU8 Workstation Motherboard: Dual PLX8747, but Built for Core-X?
In what appears to be a silent launch, GIGABYTE has launched a new workstation motherboard called the X299-WU8. The new GIGABYTE X299-WU8 has a total of seven full-length PCIe...
13 by Gavin Bonshor on 10/30/2018Intel Z390 Motherboard Overview: 50+ Motherboards Analyzed
As far back as May of this year details of Intel's Z390 chipset were seemingly leaked accidentally (or was it?). And ever since then, speculation has been rife with...
81 by Ian Cutress & Gavin Bonshor on 10/8/2018Gigabyte Drops More Early Z390 Motherboards
With the Z390 chipset right around the corner, yesterday we reported that ASRock had jumped the gun with announcing their product stack. Today GIGABYTE has done the same with...
9 by Gavin Bonshor on 10/6/2018GIGABYTE Launches M.2 PCIe SSDs: Phison PS5008-E8T, Up to 512 GB
GIGABYTE this week expanded its lineup of SSDs with its new M.2 PCIe drives. The company keeps its cautious approach to the storage market and for now continues to...
12 by Anton Shilov on 9/20/2018Turing Custom: A Quick Look At Upcoming GeForce RTX 2080 Ti & 2080 Cards
Following NVIDIA’s announcement of its latest GeForce RTX 20-series GPUs on Monday, its board partners also introduced their custom-built offerings based on the new processors. As is usually the...
48 by Anton Shilov on 8/23/2018GIGABYTE's Cavium ThunderX2 Systems: 1U R181-T90 and 2U R281-T91
GIGABYTE's server division has started sales of its first servers based on Cavium’s ThunderX2 processors with up to 32 cores. Being among the primary companies to begin selling machines...
7 by Anton Shilov on 8/16/2018GIGABYTE Ships X399 Aorus Xtreme: A Chariot for Threadripper 2
With the first AMD Threadripper 2 processors hitting the market today, GIGABYTE has started shipments of its flagship X399 Aorus Xtreme motherboard for AMD’s new chips. The motherboard comes...
17 by Anton Shilov on 8/13/2018Intel Preps New H310 Chipset Revision With Windows 7 Support For Coffee Lake
Based on some recent hardware releases from motherboard vendors, it would appear that Intel is prepping a new chipset and appropriate drivers to enable Coffee Lake processors to work...
25 by Anton Shilov on 8/9/2018GIGABYTE Adds Support for Intel’s 9th Gen Core Processors to Existing Motherboards
GIGABYTE has released new BIOS versions for its motherboards based on Intel’s 300-series chipsets, which add support for the upcoming 9th Generation Core i3/i5/i7 processors. The release reaffirms that...
12 by Anton Shilov on 8/6/2018Analyzing B450 for AMD Ryzen: A Quick Look at 25+ Motherboards
One of the secondary stories from Computex was that AMD and its partners were set to launch a new generation of mid-range chipsets and motherboards with the new lower-power...
62 by Gavin Bonshor on 7/31/2018The GIGABYTE X470 Gaming 7 Wi-Fi Motherboard Review: The AM4 Aorus Flagship
The GIGABYTE X470 Aorus Gaming 7 Wi-Fi is specifically aimed at gamers looking to make the most of the benefits of AMD’s newest AM4 based chipset, X470. Like most...
30 by Gavin Bonshor on 7/26/2018GIGABYTE Releases Aorus Branded Power Supplies: 80 Plus Gold, 750W/850W
GIGABYTE has announced a new line of power supplies under the Aorus premium branding unveiling the new P850W and P750W to the market. The two power supplies carry an...
10 by Joe Shields on 7/17/2018The GIGABYTE B360 Gaming 3 WIFI Review: A Cheaper Alternative at $120
One of GIGABYTE's first B360 series motherboards in the Gaming 3 WIFI. This is our first review of this new chipset, and it offers users a cheaper way into...
18 by Joe Shields on 7/11/2018GIGABYTE Launches CMT4030-Series PCIe 3.0 x8 and PCIe 3.0 x16 SSD Risers
GIGABYTE B2B has launched two PCIe riser cards for M.2 SSDs designed to build ultra-fast storage sub-systems consisting of multiple M.2 drives. The CMT4030-series risers will be available through...
20 by Anton Shilov on 7/6/2018Multiple AMD B450-Based Motherboards Listed in Europe Ahead of Launch
AMD still has not formally announced its B450 chipset, but it looks like everything is ready for the launch. Pre-orders and listings for B450 boards from three major motherboard...
8 by Anton Shilov on 7/6/2018The ASRock X399 Professional Gaming Motherboard Review: 10G For All
Today we are taking a look at ASRock's most advanced AMD X399 motherboard for Ryzen Threadripper, the Fatal1ty X399 Professional Gaming. As its name suggests, it is a motherboard...
45 by E. Fylladitakis on 7/5/2018The GIGABYTE X399 DESIGNARE EX Motherboard Review
In this review we are having a look at GIGABYTE's currently best AMD X399 motherboard, the Designare EX. The specifications of the motherboard are impressive, and the design of...
21 by E. Fylladitakis on 6/22/2018