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FRONTPAGE Gigabyte X870E AORUS PRO ICE Motherboard Review

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Gigabyte has just released a new series of motherboards based on AMD's latest AM5 socket chipsets. This article will focus on one of the highest models: the X870E AORUS PRO ICE. The motherboard uses the flagship X870E chipset, which replaces the very successful X670E.
The X870E AORUS PRO ICE supports the latest components, such as DDR5 memory, PCIe 5.0, USB4, and WiFi 7. The list of interesting features is much longer, but to find out what else the X870E AORUS PRO ICE offers, you have to read our review.
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Interesting PCIe layout, I will say Gigabyte has become my goto MFG for the AMD platforms, they seem to be very reliable, have good BIOS support, and for me, strong PCIe bifurcation so I can get more use out of the board than the stock configuration.

I current have 3x Gigabyte boards in operation, an X470 Aorus Ultra Gaming, X570 Aorus Ultra Elite, and a B550 Gaming X V2.
 
Should try to get hands on the X870E OC Formula board from ASrock.
I wonder if it has the tested memory presets like the Z77 OC Formula board had.
That was a really nice feature back then gave many working DDR3 presets based off each chip type that worked up to 3000mhz in some cases.
Took my 2133mhz Black mombas up to 2666 and just tightened up timings from there it was super user friendly.
 
Should try to get hands on the X870E OC Formula board from ASrock.
I wonder if it has the tested memory presets like the Z77 OC Formula board had.
That was a really nice feature back then gave many working DDR3 presets based off each chip type that worked up to 3000mhz in some cases.
Took my 2133mhz Black mombas up to 2666 and just tightened up timings from there it was super user friendly.

There is no X870E OCF. The highest one is Taichi, and I can tell you it will be reviewed soon. However, there is Z890 OCF, and there is a chance it will be reviewed, but I can only tell you it won't be released just after the premiere with the first wave of Z890 motherboards.
 
Ok i must have miss read the board name when i saw it mentioned. so no AMD version only Intel .. sigh.
 
Ok i must have miss read the board name when i saw it mentioned. so no AMD version only Intel .. sigh.

On AMD, it's not even worth it. It's a matter of features and controllers. On almost all mobos CPUs OC the same, and RAM is highly limited by the CPU - 7000/9000 series will make 1:1 6400MT/s and 1:2 8000-8200MT/s. I just finished 6 X870/X870E mobo tests. My CPU made the same max clocks on all of them; Gigabyte has the best RAM performance because not every mobo has high bandwidth/low latency mode, while GB has both options. I had no ASUS in my hands, and I probably won't have one as I'm not going to buy one, and I don't expect review samples. There will be ASRock X870E Taichi, and Taichi Lite reviews in the upcoming days. Later, I move to Z890. The first will probably be the Gigabyte Z890 Master, but we will see.
 
I really feel that. now with the intel stability issues and rumors of it happening on arrow lake Intel just feels dead in the water to me atm.

I'm really debating if i should bother with 9000X3d's or just wait for the next version.

I more or less bought my 7600X as a placeholder but it pegs at 5.5 at basically 60-70*C and that's all core even in summer i didn't see it do over 70*C on anything i tossed at it.

I dislike the sandbagging and upselling they are doing with higher core CPU's that run much much hotter yet amazingly clock higher.

This is not the future i imagined tbh id like to string out this 7600X to like 5.8 or at least until it screams murder at 85-90*C and then game on it.

It just feels like pay to play now and I've lost interest.
 
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