During Computex 2017, several manufacturers have shown their upcoming AMD X399 motherboards. Meanwhile Gigabyte is ready to present their upcoming Aorus Gaming 7 model. According to Videocardz, X399 preorders start today on Newegg, NCIX and Amazon. The motherboard might be bundled with a HyperX Cloud headset or $50 US Steam gift card.


The X399 Aorus Gaming 7 is based on an ATX form factor featuring RGB backlight underneath each heat sink and there are steel reinforcements on the PCIe slots. In general the layout concurs with today’s de facto standards for high-end motherboards and therefore there are five full-sized PCIe 3.0 x16 slots for instance.

Furthermore we find eight angled SATA ports. Apart from that you get three M.2 slots allowing the installation of differently sized SSDs. The first M.2 slot is placed in the middle of the motherboard and it’s compatible with 2280 units (80mm), the second one is in the bottom area and it supports 22110 (110mm) SSDs, while the third is placed in the bottom right corner of the motherboard and is compatible with 2280 units (80mm) again. Furthermore one slot features a M.2 heatsink which should help preventing your SSD from thermally throttling.

Looking at the external connectors placed directly at the I/O-panel, Gigabyte equipped the X399 Aorus Gaming 7 motherboard with one PS/2 port, eight USB 3.0 ports and two USB 3.1 Gen2 ports. Furthermore there is one Gigabit Ethernet port and the analogue audio panel with optical out as well as a WiFi module with two connectors for antennas. At a first glance this is certainly a good looking motherboard. Nevertheless such an eye-catching design on a motherboard usually comes at a price, which makes us assume, that this board is definitely not going to be a bargain.



Source: Videocardz