Gigabyte x299 aorus gaming 9, top of the range motherboard

Gigabyte has presented at Computex 2017 one of the most interesting motherboards of the next LGA 2066 socket with X299 chipset . The Gigabyte X299 Aorus Gaming 9 comes to position itself as the flagship of the Taiwanese brand and with fantastic AMP-UP sound quality, which has done so well in previous generations and great overclocking potential.

Gigabyte X299 Aorus Gaming 9

The new Gigabyte X299 Aorus Gaming 9 features a total of 12 power phases with Ultra Durable technology. To feed these new bugs it has a 24-pin connection and two 8-pin EPS auxiliaries. Aorus opts for a classic design: black with metallic details and that will match great with all our internal components

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Among its novelties we find three M.2 NVMe Thermal Guard slots with passive dissipation, which will keep high-speed SSDs cool. We also see 8 SATA III connections that will allow us to connect a good arsenal of hard drives.

On the distribution of its slots, we find 5 PCI Express to x16 that we can configure in various profiles:

• 10 and 12 core processors: x8 / x8 / x8 / x8 or x16 / NC / x16 / NC or x16 / NC / x8 / x8. Processors 8, 6 and 4 core processors: x8 / NC / x8 / x4 or x16 / NC / NC / x4.

Connectivity is another of its important points with an ASMedia ASM3142 controller for USB 3.1 Type A and Type C connections. While accompanied by an 802.11 AC network card and a Blutooth 4.1 connection. Price and availability? It is still early, but is it expected very soon?

What do you think of this new Gigabyte X299 Aorus Gaming 9 ? Do you think it will cost a kidney or will it be worth acquiring?

Source: Techpowerup