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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 GB-BKi7HA-7500 Kaby Lake BRIX Review
The emergence of power-efficient high-performance processors has created a bright spot in the desktop PC market. The ultra-compact form factor (UCFF) heralded by the Intel NUCs has experienced rapid...
32 by Ganesh T S on 3/16/2017GIGABYTE Extends Aorus to GPUs: A New GeForce GTX 1080
GIGABYTE this week announced its first graphics adapter that belongs to the Aorus line of products - the Aorus GeForce GTX 1080 xtreme edition 8G. The video card features...
12 by Anton Shilov on 2/1/2017GIGABYTE Server Shows Two-Phase Immersion Liquid Cooling on a 2U GPU G250-S88 using 3M Novec
In the land of immersed systems, there are many ways of doing things. A few intrepid users have gone with oil, still using a CPU cooler but relying on...
28 by Ian Cutress on 1/17/2017The AnandTech Podcast, Episode 40: CES 2017
The annual CES show is always a mélange of announcements and sneak peeks for what is to come through the year. At the show we had most of our...
14 by Ian Cutress on 1/17/2017CES 2017: GIGABYTE’s Thunderbolt 3 to 8x USB 3 Dock
In some ways, Thunderbolt 3 is opening up a new world of connectivity. Having 40 Gbps of bandwidth to play with, along with a number of key mobile devices...
15 by Ian Cutress on 1/12/2017CES 2017: GIGABYTE Shows Passive Apollo Lake BRIX in Embedded UCFF
Despite the candid approach that Intel has had to its Apollo Lake platform, we are now starting to see fully developed platforms coming out to play from the major...
15 by Ian Cutress on 1/11/2017GIGABYTE Exhibits an Aquantia AQC107 based 10G Ethernet PCIe Card
During December, Aquantia announced that it will be launching two multi-gigabit NICs into the market, offering 2.5G/5G capability on both and one with 10GBase-T as well. We were told...
25 by Ian Cutress on 1/11/2017GIGABYTE Quietly Launches Low Profile GeForce GTX 1050, 1050 Ti Graphics Cards
GIGABYTE has quietly added two low-profile video cards to its lineup of products during CES. The graphics adapters are based on NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 1050-series GPUs and will be...
23 by Anton Shilov on 1/10/2017CES 2017: Gigabyte "Aorus" Press Event Live Blog
I'm here at Gigabyte's CES 2017 Aorus press event, where the company is showing off their latest gaming wares.
8 by Ryan Smith on 1/4/2017GIGABYTE's New Console: The 'Gaming GT' PC Launched with Core i7-K, GTX1080, TB3
GIGABYTE has quietly announced its new small form-factor computer designed for performance-minded gamers. The new SFF PC not only packs high-performance components, such as the latest-generation CPU and GPU...
44 by Anton Shilov on 12/30/2016The GIGABYTE Z170X-Ultra Gaming & Z170X-Designare Motherboard Review
In this review we are having a look at GIGABYTE's Z170X-Ultra Gaming and Z170X-Designare, motherboards that were designed with a way of bringing U.2 support to the market. The...
28 by E. Fylladitakis on 12/28/2016Gigabyte Expands Xtreme Gaming Lineup with XC700W and XC300W Chassis
GIGABYTE this month quietly introduced two PC chassis that belong to the flagship Xtreme Gaming family of products. Both computer cases can boast a distinctive design as well as...
2 by Anton Shilov on 12/9/2016GIGABYTE Updates The Aero 14 Thin Gaming Laptop: Now with a GeForce GTX 1060 GPU
GIGABYTE has introduced an upgraded version of its Aero 14 thin gaming notebook, upgrading to NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 1060GPU with 6 GB of GDDR5 memory. The system has...
21 by Anton Shilov on 12/5/2016GIGABYTE BRIX Gaming UHD GB-BNi7HG4-950 mini-PC Review
The PC market has been subject to challenges over the last several years. However, gaming systems and small form-factor (SFF) PCs have weathered the storm particularly well. Many vendors...
53 by Ganesh T S on 10/28/2016The GIGABYTE X170-Extreme ECC Motherboard Review: For When Skylake Xeons need SLI and Thunderbolt 3
When we reviewed the GIGABYTE MW31-SP0, I stated at the time that due to the design of many of the Xeon focused motherboards, only two or three were actually...
31 by Ian Cutress on 10/17/2016GIGABYTE Updates BRIX SFF PCs with Intel’s Kaby Lake CPUs
GIGABYTE has updated its BRIX family of small form-factor PCs with Intel’s latest Core processors featuring the optimized Kaby Lake microarchitecture. The new systems are promoted to offer better...
28 by Anton Shilov on 10/12/2016GIGABYTE GB-BSi7HAL-6500 Dual LAN Skylake BRIX Review
Ultra-compact form factor (UCFF) PCs have become quite popular after Intel introduced the NUCs. They have become powerful enough to be the primary computing platform for many households. However...
25 by Ganesh T S on 9/21/2016Rivet Networks Launches the Killer E2500 Network Controller: Website Detection, New UI
The Killer brand of network controllers is evolving. The original company, Bigfoot Networks, launched on FPGAs over a decade ago, with super large heatsinks (that are now collectors’ items)...
50 by Ian Cutress on 9/15/2016Cards Galore: A Quick Look At the Custom GeForce GTX 1060 Launch Lineup
The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 is here to contend for mainstream space. Alongside the NVIDIA-only Founders Edition card, we will see a large number of cards released from other...
55 by Daniel Williams on 7/21/2016GIGABYTE Releases Xtreme Gaming XP1200M 80PLUS Platinum Power Supply
GIGABYTE has quietly released its new high-end power supply designed for expensive gaming PCs as well as workstations. The new PSU belongs to GIGABYTE’s Xtreme Gaming family of components...
8 by Anton Shilov on 7/7/2016