Gigabyte x299 aorus gaming, new x299 motherboard only for kaby lake

The Kaby Lake-X processors have been a very strange and meaningless launch for most users, they are processors that are almost identical to the Kaby Lake-S for the Z270 platform with the difference that they need a motherboard base much more expensive than the latter. In addition, they do not include integrated graphics nor can they take advantage of all the benefits of X299, so they are not very interesting for users. Gigabyte X299 Aorus Gaming is a new X299 platform motherboard that is only compatible with the Kaby Lake-X.

Gigabyte X299 Aorus Gaming

The new Gigabyte X299 Aorus Gaming motherboard is a fairly simple model to be part of the Intel HEDT platform, the manufacturer has wanted to make it as cheap as possible by eliminating all the elements that cannot be taken advantage of by the Kaby lake-X architecture, therefore PCI Express lanes and DIMMM slots have been dispensed with to offer only what is necessary for these processors.

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All these modifications make the Gigabyte X299 Aorus Gaming only compatible with Kaby Lake-X processors and a Skylake-X model cannot be installed, this will allow Gigabyte to offer a product with a more attractive price compared to its competitors.

With all this we have to ask ourselves if it makes any sense to opt for a Kaby Lake-X processor instead of a Kaby Lake-S, the differences are non-existent beyond a very slightly higher overclocking potential in the case of the former.

Source: overclock3d