Here's the Clearest Picture of GIGABYTE X470 Aorus Gaming 7 WiFi

[btarunr]

GIGABYTE X470 Aorus Gaming 7 was the first X470 motherboard to be shown off to the world. With its chipset name redacted, the board was even shown off at the 2018 International CES, early January. Now closer to its mid-April launch alongside AMD Ryzen 2000-series "Pinnacle Ridge" processors, we have the first clear picture of the board.

The board features the same design scheme GIGABYTE introduced with its Aorus-branded motherboards based on Intel 300-series chipset. There are subtle changes in the retail board, compared to the prototype shown off at CES, such as more decals over the VRM heatsinks and the rear I/O shroud. As detailed in our CES coverage of this board, it has all the bells and whistles to be the company's next flagship socket AM4 product, and could be priced north of $200 or even $250. There could be a sub-variant that lacks the WLAN module.



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[dj-electric]

Properly cooled VRMs is an incredible thing to see today. I'd love to see others join.

Look at all this beautiful surface area of cooling.

 

[Ubersonic]

Properly cooled VRMs is an incredible thing to see today. I'd love to see others join.

In fairness the VRMs on the Aorus X370 worked perfectly fine and looked cooler.

 

[R-T-B]

In fairness the VRMs on the Aorus X370 worked perfectly fine and looked cooler.

Meh, I had one. They did "ok" but I wouldn't have called them excellent, and I prefer this look honestly.

 

[R0H1T]

Maybe we should wait for reviews before assuming Gigabyte has done a good job here, notwithstanding the extra space these VRM's have for cooling.

 

[RejZoR]

In the past such heatsinks with heatpipe were nothing out of the ordinary. Then makers got cheap and started slamming slabs of aluminium and calling it a day. That's just lazy and greedy. I also hate huge chunks of aluminium with stupid branding covers that kill nearly all natural convection of passive heatsinks. That's just plain dumb design.

 

[Ubersonic]

Maybe we should wait for reviews before assuming Gigabyte has done a good job here, notwithstanding the extra space these VRM's have for cooling.

Considering the ghastly state of Gigabyte's X370 BIOSes I fully agree ^^

 

[Imsochobo]

In fairness the VRMs on the Aorus X370 worked perfectly fine and looked cooler.

if one has watercooling and no airflow over vrm it'll be an issue.
No downside to having GOOD vrm cooling where you do not have to take it into consideration when it comes to airflow.

With good airflow even the cheapest non vrm cooled b350 boards do 3.9 ghz on 8 cores all day, adding memory heatsinks allows me to do 4ghz.
I just bought the damn b350m-a as a placeholder but works good.

 

[eidairaman1]

If they can get the bios right for once it might be a viable contender

 

[Deleted member 67555]

if one has watercooling and no airflow over vrm it'll be an issue.
No downside to having GOOD vrm cooling where you do not have to take it into consideration when it comes to airflow.

I experienced this...
2 Daisy chained mini Kaza's is an easy fix tho.
This on the other hand has a radiator design for better heat dissipation...
I bet this design works better for water cooling...

 

[jboydgolfer]

Properly cooled VRMs is an incredible thing to see today. I'd love to see others join.

It is refreshing to see metallic HS's. When I bought my Z370 extreme4 , I was blown away when I found out they were to metal, or aluminum. They used to just be plastic or rubber or some kind of crap