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Over the years, motherboard manufacturers have consistently pushed the limits on top-end motherboards with striking designs and PCBs filled to the brim with the latest controllers and feature sets. Although these typically come with a high price premium, these 'flagships' represent the latest components, designed to operate the fastest processors to deliver leading-edge performance while offering the best controllers available at the time of manufacture. One such model is the GIGABYTE Z790 Aorus Xtreme, which is the direct successor to the Z690 Aorus Xtreme, and boasts a premium feature set, including support for DDR5-8000 memory, dual Thunderbolt 4 Type-C, as well as 10 GbE and Wi-Fi 6E connectivity. Sitting at the top of GIGABYTE's Z790 range of motherboards, the Z790 Aorus Xtreme is designed for...
GIGABYTE AM1M-S2H Review: What Can $35 Get You?
While most of the time enthusiasts are playing around with the latest and greatest, the cheaper low performance platforms are usually the high volume movers. As we explained in...
45 by Ian Cutress on 8/15/2014
More X99 Teasers: GIGABYTE’s X99 Gaming G1 WiFi
The summer months are usually some of the quietest in the tech world, however motherboard manufacturers seem to be keen to release preview images of the upcoming X99 platform...
23 by Ian Cutress on 8/8/2014
Best PC You Can Build for Under $500
With yesterday's launch of AMD's 65W Kaveri APUs, it seemed a good time to give some recommendations for new system builds. We're starting out at the budget end of...
86 by Jarred Walton on 8/1/2014
Z97 Mini-ITX Review at $140: ASRock, MSI and GIGABYTE
With every new chipset release, a large part of the community is always interested in the smaller form factor builds. Building a small yet powerful system seems to be...
38 by Ian Cutress on 7/23/2014
GIGABYTE Z97X-SOC Force Review
Overclocking motherboards are here to stay. The $200 overclocking motherboard market seems to be growing, even when overclocking is limited to specific processor SKUs. Intel’s Devil’s Canyon models...
17 by Ian Cutress on 6/17/2014
GIGABYTE BRIX Pro: A Second Look at the Intel i7-4770R with Iris Pro HD 5200
Earlier this year, we had our first look at the GIGABYTE BRIX Pro, along with a note about further benchmarks to follow. It was our first look at the...
55 by Ganesh T S on 6/14/2014
Computex 2014: GIGABYTE Gaming Motherboards
Last year we covered the whole GIGABYTE VIP suite at the Taipei 101, and this year there was a new, more focused feel of gaming to it. In...
15 by Ian Cutress on 6/12/2014
Computex 2014: GIGABYTE Server Shows 46x Avoton C2750 Microserver in 2U
For the few server-oriented business units I visited during Computex, a number of them were showing new Avoton oriented rackmount microservers. At GIGABYTE's Server unit, I was shown...
11 by Ian Cutress on 6/12/2014
G.Skill Overclocking World Cup at Computex 2014: $10,000 for #1
Extreme overclocking using LN2 (Liquid Nitrogen) to get the best scores possible has had a recent infusion of interest from PC component vendors. In the past there were...
6 by Ian Cutress on 6/11/2014
Computex 2014: GIGABYTE’s Liquid Nitrogen Memory Overclocking Motherboard, Z97X-SOC Force LN2
Taking a track day car to an event for regular road vehicles seems a bit unfair from the point of view of the regular drivers, however in order to...
7 by Ian Cutress on 6/4/2014
GIGABYTE Server Launches New C2750 Mini-ITX and 2P ATX LGA2011
Despite the C2750 coming to market officially in Q3 2013, we have not seen many products that exploit the possibilities that the new 8-core Silvermont SoC provides. We reviewed...
13 by Ian Cutress on 5/21/2014
GIGABYTE Z97X-UD5H Review: Choose Your Storage Option
For the first of our Z97 reviews, GIGABYTE sent us its mid-range Z97X-UD5H. This model is designed for the casual enthusiast interested in the higher end of the feature...
53 by Ian Cutress on 5/14/2014
Z97 Motherboards Listed: Now in USA, Taiwan, and EU
Despite being nowhere near the official release date, it would seem that retailers have jumped the gun. We reported earlier that a retailer in China has started to...
29 by Ian Cutress on 5/2/2014
Upcoming Intel Based Motherboards from GIGABYTE, ASUS, MSI and ASRock
Intel has recently been awash with news about upcoming processors. In March, Intel released information on an upcoming unlocked Haswell Pentium processor, an upcoming Haswell-K processor with overclocking enhancements...
58 by Ian Cutress on 4/28/2014
Upcoming GIGABYTE BRIX with GeForce GTX Inside
For the past 12-18 months, GIGABYTE’s BRIX platform has made inroads into the small form factor ecosystem with the help of Intel’s Haswell and AMD’s APUs under the hood...
39 by Ian Cutress on 4/23/2014
The AM1 Kabini Motherboard Preview: Analyzing the Hardware
One of AMD’s primary feature points for the AM1 Kabini platform was the introduction of low-cost motherboards. The promotional material provided gave a suggested AM1 combined price of $60...
64 by Ian Cutress on 4/19/2014
GIGABYTE GA-6PXSV3 Review
Server motherboards, unlike consumer motherboards, are never bought for looks. It is all about function, and the GIGABYTE GA-6PXSV3 we are reviewing today is aiming to supply enough at...
12 by Ian Cutress on 3/31/2014
GIGABYTE F2A88X-UP4 Review
In terms of motherboard output, there seems a clear dichotomy between AMD based motherboards and Intel motherboards. Innovation starts on the higher selling Intel ATX products, whereas AMD is...
18 by Ian Cutress on 3/24/2014
GIGABYTE Server to Offer a 1P LGA2011 Motherboard with 10GbE SFP+
While home networking is moving slowly forward in the march towards 10GBase-T, having high speed access in the enterprise arena can be a specific requirement for a mission critical...
19 by Ian Cutress on 3/6/2014
GIGABYTE G1.Sniper Z87 Review
The G1 series from GIGABYTE has seen a recent expansion of late – from the previous socket to new chipset releases, GIGABYTE is now attempting to provide a model...
36 by Ian Cutress on 2/24/2014
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