Gigabyte X299 Aorus Gaming 7 PRO motherboard review

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The Gigabyte X299 Aorus Gaming 7 PRO motherboard is to be considered the high-end class solution X299 series motherboards. The Gigabyte board is built using the Ultra Durable standard, assuring high reliability and proper components. 

 

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Quick note, the four red blocks behind the audio capacitors to get a different color are actually WIMA film capacitors, these are high-end grade Polypropylene Capacitors. The motherboard includes all of the standardized X299 enhancements like three M2 SSD slots (properly shielded) and will support SLI and Crossfire. Your PCIe lane configuration will be highly dependant on the processor your purchase, unfortunately. Only that 10-core (or better) CPU will get a full 44 PCIe lanes available. 

 

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The motherboard features five PCIe x16 Gen 3.0 expansion slots. A Realtek ALC1220 audio codec is the source for audio which will be enhanced quality capacitors following the AMP-Up logic that gigabyte offers on most motherboards these days. The I/O panel of the Gigabyte X299 Aorus Gaming 7 PRO reveals eight 3.1 ports with one type-c connector. Intel still does not have native USB 3.1 Gen 2 support from the processor hence Gigabyte makes use of external 3rd party controllers like Realtek & ASMedia 3142. USB 3.1 is coming from the chipset though.  

 

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The board gets one 10/100/1000 Ethernet controller from Intel, and then there is a Rivet Networks Killer E2500 LAN chip (10/100/1000 Mbit) as well as a Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac module supporting 2.4/5 GHz Dual-Band as well as Bluetooth 4.1. There is a single PS/2 combo port that can be used with either a keyboard or mouse and your typical audio outputs. 


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We'll talk about the improved VRM for the PRO model on the next page but this board is powered by two 8-pin ATX power headers to the processor (you can use just one). A small detail, see the two metal protected PCI-Express slots? These actually have LED strips alongside them and this lights up:


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You will hopefully agree with me that once powered up the aesthetics change quite a bit. The board has 2x four DIMM slots. Depending on your processor you can opt dual- and quad channel memory. Kaby Lake-X is limited towards dual-channel and Skylake-X processors will support quad-channel memory.  This board supports up-to Support for DDR4 4400MHz memory (overclocked), you may install up-to 128 GB of it. 

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