Gigabyte aorus x370 gaming 5 review in Spanish (complete analysis)

Gigabyte Aorus X370 Gaming 5 technical characteristics

Unboxing and design

The Gigabyte Aorus X370 Gaming 5 It is presented in a compact box where black and the Gaming series predominate with a wide variety of colors. Thanks to its cover we can quickly identify what product it is.

While in the rear area we have all the most important technical characteristics and specifications. As usual, everything is very well illustrated and explained in English.

Inside we find the following bundle:

Gigabyte Aorus X370 Gaming 5 motherboard. Backplate. Instruction manual and quick guide. CD disk with drivers. SATA Cable Set. Control panel cable installer. Tapes to fix the power supply wiring.

The Gigabyte Aorus X370 Gaming 5 is an ATX format motherboard, Its dimensions are 30.5 cm x 24.4 cm and it is compatible with the AM4 socket. To keep the aesthetics with the other components, it has a matte black PCB and white details on its heatsinks.

We leave you a rear view of the motherboard.

The motherboard features two zones with cooling: power phases and X370 chipset. It has enough 10 phases of power certified Ultra Durable technology.

If this is the first time you have heard this technology, we will summarize what it is for: Gigabyte offers better components, such as: power phases signed by PowIRstage, Japanese high resistance capacitors, CHOKES and first class solders.

8-pin EPS connection for extra power to the motherboard.

It has 4 available 64 GB DDR4 RAM memory sockets with frequencies up to 3200 Mhz. As we have already mentioned on some occasion, we must wait for the new certified DDR4 AMP memory for this platform to come out, to have 100% compatibility. Currently, only Samsung chips and specific reviews support 3000 to 3200 MHz.

The Gigabyte Aorus X370 Gaming 5 features a fairly matched layout with three PCI Express 3.0 to x16 connections and three PCI Express x1 connections. Does it allow us to connect Multi-GPU? Yes, both 2 Way on Nvidia SLI and 4 Way CrossFireX.

Both memory slots and PCI Express connections have PCIe Armor technology. With it it absorbs better the weight and the transmission of the data. A luxury, on a plate of only 220 euros.

It has a single M.2 connection that allows us to install any disk of this format and with size 2242/2260/2280/22110 (42/60/80 and 110mm). The advantages of taking advantage of this technology is that its bandwidth is 32 GB / s and we do not need any wiring to give it power, a plus for a cleaner installation.

It incorporates an improved 8-channel Realtek ALC1150 sound card sound card. Among its most interesting features is the compatibility with amplifiers for ALC 1220 120dB helmets and high impedance speakers. For even better sound management, you have Sound Blaster X-Fi MB5.

Regarding storage, it has six SATA III connections of 6 GB / s somewhat separated from each other but with support for RAID 0.1, 5 and 10. The truth, that it has done a good job Gigabyte, with a quality motherboard.

Of course, we must not forget about the RGB lighting system that we can configure from the software that Gigabyte offers for Windows. It allows us to choose between a palette of 16.8 million colors, many effects that we will love. Ideal for users who loves gaming and colored lights!

Regarding their rear connections, they have:

1 x PS / 2.8 x USB 3.0.1 x HDMI. 1 x USB Type-C with USB 3.1 Gen 2.2 x RJ-45 port5 x audio connections plus optical sound output.

Test bench and tests

TESTING BENCH
Processor:	AMD Ryzen 7 1700.
Base plate:	Gigabyte X370 Gaming 5
Memory:	Corsair Vengeance 32GB DDR4
Heatsink	Noctua NH-D15
HDD	Samsung 850 EVO 500 GB.
Graphic card	Nvidia GTX 1080.
Power supply	Corsair AX860i.

To check the stability of the 3.9 GHz AMD Ryzen 7 1700 processor and motherboard we have stressed with Prime 95 Custom and air cooling. The graphics we have used is an Nvidia GTX 1080, without further delay, let's see the results obtained in our tests with a 1920 x 1080 monitor.

BIOS

In very few ways is it different from the Intel and AMD Gigabyte BIOS. This is a very good signal, since it allows us to manage fans, overclock, monitor and control many parameters. Very complete but it needs a little optimization to such a new platform.

Final words and conclusion about Gigabyte Aorus X370 Gaming 5

The Gigabyte Aorus X370 Gaming 5 has proven to have great performance with really good aesthetics. We had to update to the latest BIOS to achieve a fully stable 3.9 GHz frequency, which caused a lot of problems with the first ones.

We really liked the Ultra Durable components chosen, their RGB lighting and all the technologies that we have seen present in the Z270 platform we have it in this AM4 series. All a success on the part of Gigabyte.

Regarding games, I have been able to enjoy as a small child with a GTX 1080 and an AMD Ryzen 7 1700 in all resolutions. Although in our tests only Full HD appears, both in 2K and 4K you can see much less the differences in FPS compared to Intel.

We think Gigabyte (and all manufacturers) have a tough job debugging BIOS for such a new platform. They have the base and over the next few months we will be able to see all the potential that the new AMD Ryzen 7 and AMD Ryzen 5 can offer.

Its price in online stores is 215 euros, a fantastic price seeing that it behaves just like any high-end motherboard. You just have to think about whether we are more interested in a Gigabyte Aorus GA-AX370-Gaming K7 or this one, since its difference is just 30 euros.

ADVANTAGE	DISADVANTAGES
+ DESIGN AT THE HEIGHT OF THE COMPONENTS.	- IMPROVE THE BIOS, SOMETHING GREEN.
+ CONSTRUCTION QUALITY.
+ ALLOWS 4WAY CROSSFIRE AND 2 WAY SLI.
+ PERFORMANCE AND OVERCLOCK.
+ IT SEEMS TO ME A PREICO MORE THAN CHORD.