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Gigabyte Releases X299 AORUS Gaming 7 Pro Motherboard
The new X299 AORUS Gaming 7 Pro motherboard offers support for the new Intel 18-Core i9 7980XE processor. Featuring an updated VRM design paired with Smart Fan 5 technology to satiate the power demands of the new 18-core processor while keeping the system icy cool, the new X299 AORUS Gaming 7 Pro is the definitive motherboard of choice for users who value performance first and foremost.
“The X299 AORUS Gaming 7 Pro motherboard is designed to fully support Intel’s newest Core™ i9 7980XE processor.” said Vincent Liu, Senior Associate Vice President of GIGABYTE’s Motherboard Business Unit. “With our tried-and-true approach and seasoned experience, we have designed a motherboard that truly fulfills enthusiasts’ highest expectations.”
The X299 AORUS Gaming 7 Pro motherboard utilizes a server-grade digital power design with 12 power phases, each providing up to 60 amps. A digital Intersil PWM controller has been implemented within the VRM to enhance the communication efficiency between the CPU and PWM. With the inclusion of the Turbo B-Clock tuning IC, the motherboard is geared to produce the best overclocking results.
Smart Fan 5 technology provides the perfect cooling solution for a motherboard that supports so many peripherals and impressive performance capabilities. Smart Fan 5 allows users to customize fan speeds and specify temperature parameters to their liking. Users also have the ability to allocate and configure fan headers in tangent with the thermal sensors to regulate temperatures on critical areas. The Active Cooling fan initiates to lower VRM temperatures once they surpass certain thresholds, mitigating the effects of excess heat on the VRM and CPU in overclocked systems.
RGB Fusion technology gives users the ability to illuminate the board with surround lighting to their own style. Components inside the chassis can also be lit up with support for external RGB LEDs, including Digital LED, RGBW and RGBUV. With Digital LED support, LED lights are individually addressable allowing for more patterns and effects than ever before. RGBW offers true white light and more vivid colors while RGBUV LED is the way to go for dark light effects. 5V and 12V LEDs in the form of strips, arrays or matrices can be added for additional flair.
The X299 AORUS Gaming 7 Pro motherboard provides gamers with the best gaming experience. It provides 3-Way SLI™ and CrossFire™ multi-graphics support which gives users the ability to increase their 3D performance through the use of multiple graphics cards and also allows for flexibility through expansion. For gaming connectivity, Killer + Intel® GbE offers stable low latency network connections for users to take advantage of in-game. Featuring ESS Sabre DAC enhanced audio to offer audiophile level sound quality, the motherboard gives the user a competitive edge while gaming.
The motherboard provides outstanding storage performance with its triple PCIe x4 M.2 design protected by M.2 Thermal Guard and support for Intel® Optane™ Memory technology, which operates as a cache drive that enhances hard drive performance to SSD levels. The motherboard is VROC ready (Virtual RAID On CPU) and enables the usage of CPU PCIe lanes for CPU RAID, further boosting storage performance. Whether it’s for quickly booting up operating systems, faster game loading, or high speed data storage, the X299 AORUS Gaming 7 Pro motherboard does it all.
Durability is a defining feature of GIGABYTE motherboards. Ultra Durable 10K BlackTM Solid Caps reduce excess electrostatic charge and its effect on the system. GIGABYTE patented Double Locking brackets and Ultra Durable PCIe armor reinforce the connectors to uphold heavy graphics cards. With GIGABYTE DualBIOS™ technology providing users with an automated BIOS recovery option, the durability of this motherboard cannot be understated.
Aside from its impressive hardware specs, the X299 AORUS Gaming 7 Pro motherboard is also bundled with powerful software including the APP Center which allows the user to manage all GIGABYTE apps in a unified interface and offers a 14 day subscription of WTFAST GPN to provide up to 60% increased network speeds. Also included is a year’s subscription of XSplit Gamecaster + Broadcaster, which allows gamers to stream awesome gameplay.
To learn more about GIGABYTEX299 AORUS Gaming 7 Pro motherboard:
http://uk.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/X299-AORUS-Gaming-7-Pro-rev-10
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#5494948 Posted on: 11/23/2017 12:35 PM
Oh boy, 3rd pic, small 40mm fan blowing air over the VRMs around CPU socket. Year or two later that high RPM fan worn-out and starts to rattle it's going to be a horror sound for motherboard owner.
Oh boy, 3rd pic, small 40mm fan blowing air over the VRMs around CPU socket. Year or two later that high RPM fan worn-out and starts to rattle it's going to be a horror sound for motherboard owner.
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#5494953 Posted on: 11/23/2017 01:17 PM
Biased fanboy approach.
Don't care of Gigabyte. Always was cheap "made in China's garage" brand. Did they grow / improve now? I personally love ASUS and loyal to it. The second one would be MSI.
Biased fanboy approach.
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#5494965 Posted on: 11/23/2017 01:43 PM
That's exactly where i also said >> NOT FOR ME !!!
Oh boy, 3rd pic, small 40mm fan blowing air over the VRMs around CPU socket. Year or two later that high RPM fan worn-out and starts to rattle it's going to be a horror sound for motherboard owner.
That's exactly where i also said >> NOT FOR ME !!!
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#5494978 Posted on: 11/23/2017 02:17 PM
They have at least tried, and it looks like it would be easy to replace.
There is still a marked for x299 (and that is not among gamers) but professional users that need higher clock speed than ryzen/threadripper can deliver. Just wish they made the boards more like work tools than bling.
Oh boy, 3rd pic, small 40mm fan blowing air over the VRMs around CPU socket. Year or two later that high RPM fan worn-out and starts to rattle it's going to be a horror sound for motherboard owner.
They have at least tried, and it looks like it would be easy to replace.
There is still a marked for x299 (and that is not among gamers) but professional users that need higher clock speed than ryzen/threadripper can deliver. Just wish they made the boards more like work tools than bling.
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#5495055 Posted on: 11/23/2017 07:13 PM
And i can name at least as many people who had bad experiences with Asus and MSI and would not recommend them even if they would give the boards away for free.
In other words comments like yours are utterly useless.
Don't care of Gigabyte. Always was cheap "made in China's garage" brand. Did they grow / improve now? I personally love ASUS and loyal to it. The second one would be MSI.
And i can name at least as many people who had bad experiences with Asus and MSI and would not recommend them even if they would give the boards away for free.
In other words comments like yours are utterly useless.
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#5495066 Posted on: 11/23/2017 08:16 PM
Perhaps, but some people might had burned themself previously.
I have also problems with Gigabyte stuff as some of their stuff I used before were not exactly good quality.
Even now when they finaly seems step up, their top end stuff still have issues.
I decided to buy their Aorus 1080Ti extreme waterforce WB gpu and end up with it leaking 45 days later (they used only 2 ot of 3 screws and one of them was not screwed in enough causing leak eventualy). Dont get me wrong it looks great and except that leak was perfect, but I would expect little bit more QC especialy in case of GPU with water block.
If I wasnt paranoid and used smaler cheaper case, that water would end up driping into PSU, most likely killing my whole $4k PC.
Also it seems some of their current mobos apparently having issues with VRM temperature (20+ degrees higher then others).
And then there was their bios screw-up that was killing CPUs with over voltage.
So would you call me biased fanboy too ?
Biased fanboy approach.
Perhaps, but some people might had burned themself previously.
I have also problems with Gigabyte stuff as some of their stuff I used before were not exactly good quality.
Even now when they finaly seems step up, their top end stuff still have issues.
I decided to buy their Aorus 1080Ti extreme waterforce WB gpu and end up with it leaking 45 days later (they used only 2 ot of 3 screws and one of them was not screwed in enough causing leak eventualy). Dont get me wrong it looks great and except that leak was perfect, but I would expect little bit more QC especialy in case of GPU with water block.
If I wasnt paranoid and used smaler cheaper case, that water would end up driping into PSU, most likely killing my whole $4k PC.
Also it seems some of their current mobos apparently having issues with VRM temperature (20+ degrees higher then others).
And then there was their bios screw-up that was killing CPUs with over voltage.
So would you call me biased fanboy too ?
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#5495076 Posted on: 11/23/2017 09:12 PM
That vent at the rear is not only a SHEER stupidity - it's a crime against humanity and technology. And it is typical for gigabyte... Such company should be forbidden from getting involved in any kind of busyness except selling bananas, oranges, lemons, potatoes...
That vent at the rear is not only a SHEER stupidity - it's a crime against humanity and technology. And it is typical for gigabyte... Such company should be forbidden from getting involved in any kind of busyness except selling bananas, oranges, lemons, potatoes...
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#5495079 Posted on: 11/23/2017 09:15 PM
Perhaps, but some people might had burned themself previously.
I have also problems with Gigabyte stuff as some of their stuff I used before were not exactly good quality.
Even now when they finaly seems step up, their top end stuff still have issues.
I decided to buy their Aorus 1080Ti extreme waterforce WB gpu and end up with it leaking 45 days later (they used only 2 ot of 3 screws and one of them was not screwed in enough causing leak eventualy). Dont get me wrong it looks great and except that leak was perfect, but I would expect little bit more QC especialy in case of GPU with water block.
If I wasnt paranoid and used smaler cheaper case, that water would end up driping into PSU, most likely killing my whole $4k PC.
Also it seems some of their current mobos apparently having issues with VRM temperature (20+ degrees higher then others).
And then there was their bios screw-up that was killing CPUs with over voltage.
So would you call me biased fanboy too ?
Perhaps, but some people might had burned themself previously.
I have also problems with Gigabyte stuff as some of their stuff I used before were not exactly good quality.
Even now when they finaly seems step up, their top end stuff still have issues.
I decided to buy their Aorus 1080Ti extreme waterforce WB gpu and end up with it leaking 45 days later (they used only 2 ot of 3 screws and one of them was not screwed in enough causing leak eventualy). Dont get me wrong it looks great and except that leak was perfect, but I would expect little bit more QC especialy in case of GPU with water block.
If I wasnt paranoid and used smaler cheaper case, that water would end up driping into PSU, most likely killing my whole $4k PC.
Also it seems some of their current mobos apparently having issues with VRM temperature (20+ degrees higher then others).
And then there was their bios screw-up that was killing CPUs with over voltage.
So would you call me biased fanboy too ?
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#5495117 Posted on: 11/24/2017 12:46 AM
does anyone notice this is "Videocards - NVIDIA GeForce Drivers Section" ?
does anyone notice this is "Videocards - NVIDIA GeForce Drivers Section" ?
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#5495136 Posted on: 11/24/2017 04:31 AM
OK? This motherboard come with a free Nvidia GPU or something?
My first reaction to this thread was scanning through the posts then I started wondering why someone hadn't said anything about this being in the wrong forum.
OK? This motherboard come with a free Nvidia GPU or something?
does anyone notice this is "Videocards - NVIDIA GeForce Drivers Section" ?
My first reaction to this thread was scanning through the posts then I started wondering why someone hadn't said anything about this being in the wrong forum.
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#5495382 Posted on: 11/25/2017 07:02 AM
Perhaps, but some people might had burned themself previously.
I have also problems with Gigabyte stuff as some of their stuff I used before were not exactly good quality.
Even now when they finaly seems step up, their top end stuff still have issues.
I decided to buy their Aorus 1080Ti extreme waterforce WB gpu and end up with it leaking 45 days later (they used only 2 ot of 3 screws and one of them was not screwed in enough causing leak eventualy). Dont get me wrong it looks great and except that leak was perfect, but I would expect little bit more QC especialy in case of GPU with water block.
If I wasnt paranoid and used smaler cheaper case, that water would end up driping into PSU, most likely killing my whole $4k PC.
Also it seems some of their current mobos apparently having issues with VRM temperature (20+ degrees higher then others).
And then there was their bios screw-up that was killing CPUs with over voltage.
So would you call me biased fanboy too ?
to put simple, its just personal experience and preference
nothing reflect to the "true" brand reliability
if you can give some data that gigabyte products have much higher failure rate compared to other brand then it can means something
like u saying that their current mobo have VRM issue, if that true, then it will be hot-news, so far i hear nothing about recall neither report from any tech sites.
i personally had multiple failed MSI gpu, even their lighting series... while none yet from asus or gigabyte brand, only 2-3 cards that got noisy fan (wearing) after years of 24/7 usage.
ever since then i never buy MSI again, because i got bad experience with their products, but that doesnt mean their product bad
Perhaps, but some people might had burned themself previously.
I have also problems with Gigabyte stuff as some of their stuff I used before were not exactly good quality.
Even now when they finaly seems step up, their top end stuff still have issues.
I decided to buy their Aorus 1080Ti extreme waterforce WB gpu and end up with it leaking 45 days later (they used only 2 ot of 3 screws and one of them was not screwed in enough causing leak eventualy). Dont get me wrong it looks great and except that leak was perfect, but I would expect little bit more QC especialy in case of GPU with water block.
If I wasnt paranoid and used smaler cheaper case, that water would end up driping into PSU, most likely killing my whole $4k PC.
Also it seems some of their current mobos apparently having issues with VRM temperature (20+ degrees higher then others).
And then there was their bios screw-up that was killing CPUs with over voltage.
So would you call me biased fanboy too ?
to put simple, its just personal experience and preference
nothing reflect to the "true" brand reliability
if you can give some data that gigabyte products have much higher failure rate compared to other brand then it can means something
like u saying that their current mobo have VRM issue, if that true, then it will be hot-news, so far i hear nothing about recall neither report from any tech sites.
i personally had multiple failed MSI gpu, even their lighting series... while none yet from asus or gigabyte brand, only 2-3 cards that got noisy fan (wearing) after years of 24/7 usage.
ever since then i never buy MSI again, because i got bad experience with their products, but that doesnt mean their product bad
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#5495397 Posted on: 11/25/2017 08:33 AM
Currently I only slightly dislike Gigabyte, whereas I use to hate them for hardware.
The only Gigabyte motherboard I have owned was a Sandy Bridge P67A-UD4-B3, It literally took 6 months before I could run my system at full stock settings reliably without crashing. After that period I could OC normally to the 4.6-4.7Ghz range. I currently have a Gigabyte Laptop (P57W V6) and it is decent, but it doesn't have any way to modify the BIOS beyond the bare basic settings of AHCI/Boot Drive etc. Disappointing for a upper mid-tier laptop.
Currently I only slightly dislike Gigabyte, whereas I use to hate them for hardware.
The only Gigabyte motherboard I have owned was a Sandy Bridge P67A-UD4-B3, It literally took 6 months before I could run my system at full stock settings reliably without crashing. After that period I could OC normally to the 4.6-4.7Ghz range. I currently have a Gigabyte Laptop (P57W V6) and it is decent, but it doesn't have any way to modify the BIOS beyond the bare basic settings of AHCI/Boot Drive etc. Disappointing for a upper mid-tier laptop.
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Don't care of Gigabyte. Always was cheap "made in China's garage" brand. Did they grow / improve now? I personally love ASUS and loyal to it. The second one would be MSI.