Gigabyte announces aorus z270x gaming 8 motherboard

Gigabyte has announced the new Aorus Z270X Gaming 8 motherboard that arrives to position itself as the new top sub-range for the Z270 platform that brings Skylake and Kaby Lake processors to life. This board inherits the VRM of the Aorus Z270X Gaming 7 and the connectivity of the Aorus Z270X Gaming 9.

New Aorus Z270X Gaming 8

The Gigabyte Aorus Z270X Gaming 8 motherboard is based on a new PCB that has never been used in any model before, is built with an ATX form factor and is powered by a combination of 24-pin ATX connector and EPS 8 connector pins which ensure great electrical stability under the most demanding conditions. It has a 10-phase VRM that is cooled by a heatsink designed by Bitspower and that allows connecting a high-performance liquid cooling system.

We found no less than three PCI-Express 3.0 x16 slots connected to the CPU to allow the installation of up to three graphics cards and achieve the best performance in video games, it has a fourth PCI-Express gen 3.0 slot with x4 electrically and connected to the Z270. The rest of its expansion options go through the inclusion of two M.2 ports, two U.2 ports and six SATA III ports of which four can be used to achieve two SATA-Express ports. As for the network, it has two Gigabit Ethernet interfaces signed by the Intel i219-V and Killer E2500 controllers together with a Killer WLAN AC-1535 + Bluetooth 4.1 WiFi module and Killer DoubleShot Pro technology.

We continue to see the remarkable features of the Gigabyte Aorus Z270X Gaming 8 with an excellent sound system with the Creative Sound Core3D controller, two JRC NJM2114 and a TI Burr Brown OPA2134 OPAMPs and the Creative SoundBlaster ZxRi driver. It offers us a Thunderbolt 3 40 Gb / s port, two USB 3.1 ports, ten USB 3.0 ports and the characteristic lighting system controllable by GIGABYTE RGB Fusion software.

The Gigabyte Aorus Z270X Gaming 8 is officially priced at $ 399.

Source: techpowerup