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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 Announces GeForce GTX 1070 Mini ITX OC
As the various board partners finally begin unveiling their custom GTX 1000 series designs, GIGABYTE has arrived with their latest entry in the Mini ITX game. GIGABYTE’s GeForce GTX...
21 by Daniel Williams on 7/5/2016
GIGABYTE Aero 14: Thin Gaming Laptop with NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M and 10-Hour Battery Life
GIGABYTE has introduced its new Aero 14 gaming laptop, which weds a relatively thin form-factor with high-performance components such as an Intel Skylake-H CPU, and a NVIDIA GeForce GTX...
33 by Anton Shilov on 5/30/2016
The GIGABYTE Server MW31-SP0 Motherboard Review: A Quick Look at C236
When we learned that Intel would be restricting Skylake based Xeon E3 CPUs to motherboards using server chipsets only, there was a small outcry from a community that has...
30 by Ian Cutress on 4/21/2016
GIGABYTE Adds 75W GeForce GTX 950 to Lineup
GIGABYTE has quietly added a low-power GeForce GTX 950 video card to its lineup. The product does not require auxiliary PCIe power connector and can be powered entirely by...
8 by Anton Shilov on 4/14/2016
Gigabyte Announces New 17.3” Gaming Laptops with Intel Skylake Processors
GIGABYTE has introduced its new family of desktop replacement gaming notebooks with Intel’s Skylake microprocessors. The new laptops not only feature new CPUs, but also add support for technologies...
13 by Anton Shilov on 2/24/2016
The GIGABYTE Z170X-UD5 TH Motherboard Review: An Entry to Thunderbolt 3
At the initial phase of Intel’s Skylake processor launch, a myriad of Z170 equipped motherboards were released to enable the platform. One of the prominent features of Z170 was...
29 by Ian Cutress on 2/19/2016
GIGABYTE Unveils New 990FX and 970-Gaming Motherboards for AMD FX
In the past week, GIGABYTE has introduced two new high-end motherboards for AMD FX microprocessors. The new platforms belong to GIGABYTE’s premium Gaming G1 product lineup and include the...
16 by Anton Shilov on 2/18/2016
New GIGABYTE Server Motherboards Show Xeon D Round 2
The Xeon D platform, as reviewed by Johan back in June, put together eight Broadwell cores, 24 PCIe 3.0 lanes, dual 10 Gbit Ethernet and USB/SATA control all into...
23 by Ian Cutress on 1/18/2016
CES 2016: 34-inch 3440x1440 AIO Hands-On at GIGABYTE
One of the notable elements of CES this year has been the march of the 34-inch 21:9 3440x1440 all-in-one PC. An all-in-one is what it says on the tin...
27 by Ian Cutress on 1/14/2016
CES 2016: The Race to Skylake Xeon Motherboards at GIGABYTE
I have been relatively tight lipped on the swathe of Xeon focused motherboards recently making headlines, for good reason. Back at the launch of Intel’s latest generation of processors...
22 by Ian Cutress on 1/13/2016
CES 2016: GIGABYTE’s Double Length Gaming BRIX
The BRIX mini-PC line from GIGABYTE is an odd internal mashup within the company whereby the server business unit designs it, but the consumer arm does the marketing and...
12 by Ian Cutress on 1/12/2016
The GIGABYTE Z170X-Gaming G1 Review: Quad-SLI on Skylake, and now with Thunderbolt 3
This is a review of a $500 motherboard for Skylake processors. For some readers, there’s going to an instant reaction of a series of question marks, confused emoji and...
67 by Ian Cutress on 12/1/2015
Skylake Xeon Motherboards: GIGABYTE’s C230 Series Announced
With the new E3-1200 v5 processors announced today we also get a new series of workstation/server motherboards under the C230 series. Aside from standard workstation and Xeon markets that...
13 by Ian Cutress on 10/19/2015
Intel Skylake Z170 Motherboards: A Quick Look at 55+ New Products
Along with the launch of the two Skylake-K processors today, we also have a raft of new motherboards to go with them. The Skylake processors use the LGA 1151...
85 by Ian Cutress on 8/5/2015
Steam Machines, Steam Link, & Steam Controller Launching November 10th
For a couple of years now Valve has been developing and promoting the concept of what has become their Steam Universe. The Linux-based SteamOS running on top of console-sized...
57 by Ryan Smith on 6/4/2015
Gigabyte Updates Gaming Laptops With Broadwell And Details New Aorus Models
With today’s launch of the quad-core Broadwell laptop parts, there are going to be a lot of devices making the jump over to the new CPU. Pretty much the...
21 by Brett Howse on 6/3/2015
GIGABYTE Server Launches the MW70-3S0, Targeting 3x PCIe 3.0 x16 and LSI 3008
If you’ve been following motherboard coverage over the past few years, you can’t help but notice that all the major consumer players also have their own server based business...
11 by Ian Cutress on 5/20/2015
The Gigabyte P35X v3 Review: Slim GTX980M Gaming Laptop
Gigabyte has refreshed its P35 series to include the latest NVIDIA GPUs, and the P35X is the top model in their 15.6 inch lineup. Gigabyte has the lightest GTX980M...
55 by Brett Howse on 4/23/2015
GIGABYTE Server Releases ARM Solutions using AppliedMicro and Annapurna Labs SoCs
As Johan points out in his deep dive of ARM in the server market, given a focused strategy new ARM solutions can offer the potential to disrupt some very...
16 by Ian Cutress on 3/24/2015
Corsair Releases Orange Dominator Platinum DDR4-3400 for GIGABYTE X99-SOC Champion
During CES earlier this year we spent some time at the Corsair booth and saw a beta system demoing an orange kit of DDR4-3400 modules on the X99-SOC Champion...
21 by Ian Cutress on 3/23/2015
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