Guru3D.com
  • HOME
  • NEWS
    • Channels
    • Archive
  • DOWNLOADS
    • New Downloads
    • Categories
    • Archive
  • GAME REVIEWS
  • ARTICLES
    • Rig of the Month
    • Join ROTM
    • PC Buyers Guide
    • Guru3D VGA Charts
    • Editorials
    • Dated content
  • HARDWARE REVIEWS
    • Videocards
    • Processors
    • Audio
    • Motherboards
    • Memory and Flash
    • SSD Storage
    • Chassis
    • Media Players
    • Power Supply
    • Laptop and Mobile
    • Smartphone
    • Networking
    • Keyboard Mouse
    • Cooling
    • Search articles
    • Knowledgebase
    • More Categories
  • FORUMS
  • NEWSLETTER
  • CONTACT

New Reviews
Sapphire Radeon RX 7600 PULSE review
Gainward GeForce RTX 4060 Ti GHOST review
Radeon RX 7600 review
ASUS GeForce RTX 4060 Ti TUF Gaming review
MSI GeForce RTX 4060 Ti Gaming X TRIO review
GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 8GB (FE) review
Corsair 2000D RGB Airflow Mini-ITX - PC chassis review
ASUS PG27AQDM Review - 240Hz 1440p OLED monitor
MSI MAG X670E Tomahawk WiFi review
Mountain Makalu Max mouse review

New Downloads
CPU-Z download v2.06
AMD Radeon Software Adrenalin 23.5.1 WHQL download
GeForce 532.03 WHQL driver download
AMD Chipset Drivers Download 5.05.16.529
Corsair Utility Engine Download (iCUE) Download v5.1 (5.1.1114 )
CrystalDiskInfo 9.0.0 RC3 Download
Intel ARC graphics Driver Download Version: 31.0.101.4369
Display Driver Uninstaller Download version 18.0.6.4
HWiNFO Download v7.46
7-Zip v23.00 Download


New Forum Topics
NVIDIA GeForce Game Ready 532.03 WHQL Download & Discussion 3080 Owner's thread! ASUS Launches M.2 SSD Case 'TUF Gaming A1' – Robust and Resistant to Dust and Water MSI AB / RTSS development news thread AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 23.5.1 - Driver Download and Discussion Extreme 4-Way Sli Tuning Voltage and clock problem with 6950xt The AMD Ryzen All In One Thread /Overclocking/Memory Speeds & Timings/Tweaking/Cooling Part 2 Guide for those ready to make the switch to Linux gaming German translation




Guru3D.com » Review » Gigabyte Aorus AX370 Gaming 5 review » Page 1

Gigabyte Aorus AX370 Gaming 5 review - Introduction

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 03/29/2017 08:57 AM [ 5] 17 comment(s)

Tweet

Aorus AX370 Gaming 5
Gigabyte's Top Of The Line Ryzen Motherboard Is Dressed To Impress.

In this review we check out the Aorus AX370 Gaming 5 from Gigabyte. This motherboard is incredibly nice looking and perhaps a perfect match for your Ryzen series 5 or 7 processor. The X370 motherboard is seated in the high-end Ryzen motherboard spectrum. A motherboard with a black and white design with gorgeous looks and some extras.

AMD has released Ryzen 7, the product name and series for their released 8-cores (16 threads) processors. A processor series fabbed at a more efficient and optimized 14 nanometer FinFET process, rather than the 32 nm and 28 nm processes of previous AMD FX CPUs and AMD APUs, respectively. AMD's processors and APUs over the years have run their course really, for the gamer and more mainstream PC aficionado the older FX and APU series simply lack in raw processor performance compared to what the competition has been offering. We discussed it many times in the reviews, but if you compared an Intel processor core and an AMD processor core and clocked them at the very same frequency, Intel was almost half faster. The effect of that phenomenon showed in the less optimized and threaded applications, many games are a good example here. Ryzen series 7 likely is best matched with B350 (a little more vlaue) and thr X370 motherboards as it is a high-end desktop (HEDT) product series

Much like the competition AMD will be selling Ryzen in product stacks, low-end, mid-range and high-end much like Intel's Core i3, i5 and i7 series. Earlier on referred to as SR7, SR5 and SR3, matching up with Summit Ridge (SR) and thus a performance segment denominator. But then Summit Ridge from the new Zen architecture was named Ryzen, and hence one more change in naming has now been made. You will see Ryzen series 3, 5 and 7 processors. The Ryzen series 7 processors are eight core processors at attractive pricing combined with an IPC increase of roughly 52%. They come with four integer units, two address generation units and four floating point units, the decoder can decode four instructions per clock cycle. L1 data cache size is 32 KiB and 64 KiB for instructions, the L2 cache size is a whopping 512 KiB per core. Two of the floating point units are adders, two are multipliers. One unit that holds four processors is a CCX (core complex). Ryzen 7 is an 8-core processor series and thus that means 2 CCXs x 8 MB (L3) + 8 x 512 KB (L2) = 20 MB in total for L2 and L3 caches. These numbers sound familiar, eh (Intel)? Today is obviously not just about the processors, au contraire Mon ami, you are going to need a new motherboard as well of course. A new processor series will need a new chipset as the motherboard needs an infrastructure as well. This has been outsourced and at launch you will see multiple product stacked motherboard chipsets. For Ryzen, you probably want a high-end / enthusiast class chipset with lots of features and tweaking options, this will be the X370 chipset that went along with the launch of the processor series release. X370 will give home to the new socket AM4 and will provide DDR4 memory support (as well as all other modern usual suspects like USB 3.1 gen 2, SATA Express, as well as NVMe protocol based M.2 support and surely PCI-Express Gen 3.0. For Socket AM4 following chipsets will be released: X370, B350, A320, X300 and A300. X370 is the more high-end series.

The Aorus AX370 Gaming 5 is obviously based on the X370 chipset and this the feature set that comes along with it. This board includes support for M.2-NVMe SSDs, USB 3.1 as well as an enhanced audio solution based on the Realtek 1220 codec and SoundBlaster X-Fi MB5 software suite. The Aorus AX370 Gaming 5 supports two-way SLI and CrossFireX configs split between its main PCI Express x16 slots. The PCIe slots have reinforcement to withstand the weight of high-end cards. Ethernet jacks wise you get to choose, as the dual-Gigabit solutions offers both an Intel and Killer E2500 Gigabit LAN.

Overall we have lots to talk about, let’s start up the review, next page please.
 




24 pages 1 2 3 4 next »



Related Articles
Gigabyte GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Gaming OC review
The third graphics card from the ADA Lovelace generation is here; join us as we review the mighty GeForce RTX 4070 Ti 12GB. Yeah, that would be the 4080 12GB that NVIDIA cancelled. ...

Gigabyte GeForce RTX 3090 Ti Gaming OC review
Gigabyte has released their GeForce RTX 3090 'Ti' Gaming OC. The new flagship was fitted with faster memory, a boost frequency of 1905 MHz, more shaders, and a TGP passing 450 Watts. This review ben...

Gigabyte RTX 3050 Gaming OC review
We analyze Gigabyte's new GeForce RTX 3050. In specific, the Gaming OC model has 8GB of memory, 2560 Shader processors, and a factory boost speed of 1822 MHz (1770 MHz reference)....

Radeon RX 6600 (Gigabyte Eagle 8G) review
Gigabyte's new Eagle is spreading its wings for the first time, meet the youngster called Gigabyte Radeon RX 6600 Eagle 8G. This is the non-XT version of NAVI23, still offering quite some performanc...

© 2023