Gigabyte X399 Aorus Gaming 7 review

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The Gigabyte X399 Aorus Gaming 7 motherboard is to be considered a enthusiast class solution in that super-high-end segment of AMDs X399 chipset based series motherboards. The board is built using the best components, assuring high reliability and a long life-span. Some interesting features are 802.11ac Wi-Fi, triple M.2 as well as an intricate LED Lightning system and five PCIe Express x16 slots.

 
 

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The motherboard includes all of the standardized X399 enhancements with three M.2 SSD slots and will support SLI (2-way) and Crossfire (4-way). Your PCIe lane configuration will be highly dependent on the choices you make with you purchase. However the CPU alone will deliver a nice 64 PCIe Gen 3.0 lanes. If you'd use four graphics card they would be configured at 16:8:16:8 (or a combination of that) as the chipset uses a x4 link from the processor. The board uses a regular ATX Form Factor at 30.5cm x 24.4cm.

 

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The I/O panel of the mobo reveals ten USB 3.1 ports, among it a 10 Gbps type-c and type-a  connector. AMD offers native USB 3.1 Gen 2 support used in combo with an ASMedia's 3142 controller:

CPU:

  1. 8 x USB 3.1 Gen 1 ports on the back panel

Chipset+ASMedia USB 3.1 Gen 2 Controller:

  1. 1 x USB Type-C port with USB 3.1 Gen 2 support, available through the internal USB header

Chipset:

  1. 1 x USB Type-C port on the back panel, with USB 3.1 Gen 2 support
  2. 1 x USB 3.1 Gen 2 Type-A port (red) on the back panel
  3. 2 x USB 3.1 Gen 1 ports available through the internal USB header
  4. 4 x USB 2.0/1.1 ports available through the internal USB headers

I would assume that is plenty for you USB needs. The motherboard features five PCIe x16 Gen 3.0 expansion slots. A Realtek ALC1220 audio codec is the source for audio.

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The board gets one 10/100/1000 Ethernet controller by KillerNIC, we sorely miss a 5 or 10 GBit from say Aquantia. There is a PS/2 combo port that can be used for either a keyboard or mouse.

  • 1 x PS/2 keyboard/mouse port
  • 1 x USB Type-C port, with USB 3.1 Gen 2 support
  • 1 x USB 3.1 Gen 2 Type-A port (red)
  • 8 x USB 3.1 Gen 1 ports
  • 1 x RJ-45 port
  • 2 x MMCX antenna connectors (2T2R)
  • 1 x optical S/PDIF Out connector
  • 5 x audio jacks (Center/Subwoofer Speaker Out, Rear Speaker Out, Line In, Line Out, Mic In)

The board seriously has dual-band AC WIFI (Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac). Memory wise the board has 8 DIMM slots for your quad-channel needs.  This board is should support up to DDR4 3600 MHz memory (overclocked), you may install up-to 128 GB of it, we recommend 3200 MHz as that is the current best supported frequency. If you look at the overview of the board you'll spot a nice black design with styled RGB elements on the heatsink plating. Included are SLI adapters (High Bandwidth), Antenna for WIFI, SATA cables and all the regular like manuals and driver CDs. 

BTW small tip. The Intel AC 8265 chip Wifi controller will auto install on W10, however will crash the system at one point. It needs the driver that you can download from the Gigabyte website.
 

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