Wednesday, July 5th 2023
Gigabyte's Upcoming Motherboard Refresh Leaked via the EEC
The Eurasian Economic Commission or the EEC for short, has become something of a source when it comes to upcoming product leaks, at least as far as the model names goes and now a range of upcoming motherboards from Gigabyte has made an appearance on its site. What we're looking at is a range of refreshed boards, some that were on display at Computex, but most of them haven't been officially announced as yet. On the Intel side, all the new models have an X somewhere towards the end of the model names to reflect them being part of the refresh and at least some SKUs are getting WiFi 7 support, All except one model is based on the Z790 chipset, at least as far as most of us are concerned, as there's one custom SKU that's said to be for a Chinese system integrator that won't be available outside of China. As the China specific SKU is already listed on Gigabyte's Chinese website, we've included a picture of the B70M YT Pioneer WiFi below.
On the AMD side of things, Gigabyte is adding a more affordable X670E SKU with the X670E Aorus Elite AX. Here, AMD has stuck with a simple V2 to reflect the refreshed boards, but it's unclear what has changed on these models. Gigabyte has also added a few new MicroATX B650 boards, with the B650M Aorus Elite AX Arctic which will be a white and/or silver motherboard with matching design elements. This board will have limited availability and although it might be found in retail in some countries, it's largely intended for system integrators. The other two new boards are the B650M A Elite AX Arc—we were told by a source that this is a mistake in the filing—and the B650M Gaming WiFi, which should be a cheaper alternative to the B650M Gaming X models the company is currently offering. These boards should start arriving in the autumn some time, at least based on the boards Gigabyte was showing at Computex.
Sources:
The Eurasian Economic Commission, via @momomo_us
On the AMD side of things, Gigabyte is adding a more affordable X670E SKU with the X670E Aorus Elite AX. Here, AMD has stuck with a simple V2 to reflect the refreshed boards, but it's unclear what has changed on these models. Gigabyte has also added a few new MicroATX B650 boards, with the B650M Aorus Elite AX Arctic which will be a white and/or silver motherboard with matching design elements. This board will have limited availability and although it might be found in retail in some countries, it's largely intended for system integrators. The other two new boards are the B650M A Elite AX Arc—we were told by a source that this is a mistake in the filing—and the B650M Gaming WiFi, which should be a cheaper alternative to the B650M Gaming X models the company is currently offering. These boards should start arriving in the autumn some time, at least based on the boards Gigabyte was showing at Computex.
19 Comments on Gigabyte's Upcoming Motherboard Refresh Leaked via the EEC
New AM5 boards are more curious. For example two DIMM memory OC focused boards like Gigabyte B650E Tachyon is still MIA despite the support page existing and has received four BIOS updates even but cannot be bought from anywhere: www.gigabyte.com/us/Motherboard/B650E-AORUS-TACHYON-rev-10
Sad that only two DIMM AM5 options are still budget focused A620 or ITX boards. No love for full size ATX boards.
Do you by any change have any info on MSI boards? They had interesting Unify series AM4 boards that stripped out all the RGB while retaining memory OC focus.
Would be nice to see something like that for AM5 in the future.
The refresh Z790 boards will have some changes from the current ones. In the case of Gigabyte this includes 10Gb ethernet and Wi-Fi 7. I think it can be assumed that Z790X will be more expensive than the current Z790s. But again, the buyer has the choice if they can do a BIOS update and if they don't need any of the new features.