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GIGABYTE Showcases Intel Z890 Arrow Lake and AMD X870E Zen 5 Motherboards

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GIGABYTE in its Computex 2027 booth showcased a huge lineup of next-generation Socket LGA1851 motherboards based on the top Intel Z890 chipset, which are ready for Intel's Core Ultra "Arrow Lake-S" desktop processors. GIGABYTE has taped out the motherboard model names, so all mentions of Z890 in this article are based on our assumption that it's the name of the next-gen Intel chipset. These chips are expected to bring generational IPC increases from their "Lion Cove" P-cores, "Skymont" E-cores, a more complete PCIe Gen 5 I/O (including for the CPU-attached NVMe slots), and other innovations. If the socket looks similar to the LGA1700, it's because it's identical in physical dimensions, and you can use your LGA1700 cooler on the LGA1851, but the processors are not inter-compatible. The company also showcased a few AMD Socket AM5 motherboards based on the new AMD X870E chipset.

The first motherboard to catch our eye is the Z890 AORUS Tachyon. This board is geared for record-seeking CPU overclocking. The processor is wired to just two DDR5 memory slots (1 DIMM per channel, the best configuration for memory OC); and the CPU-attached NVMe slots being close to the socket, with a combined heatsink. The only expansion slots are a PCI-Express 5.0 x16, and what could be a Gen 4 x8. There are plenty of overclocker-friendly controls, voltage measurement points, diagnostic LEDs, and status displays, scattered all over the board.



Next up, is the Z890 AERO G, the company's content creator-focussed product. This board has a design-focus on high bandwidth I/O connectivity that creators need, which very likely includes Thunderbolt 4, USB4, Wi-Fi 7, multiple Gen 5 NVMe slots, and two wired Ethernet interfaces (likely 2.5 GbE and 10 GbE). GIGABYTE also showed off Z890 AORUS Elite products—of which there will be plenty in its product stack, given the popularity of the AORUS Elite brand extension.

The AMD X870E chipset motherboard lineup is led by the flagship X870E AORUS Xtreme. This board comes with a powerful CPU VRM with some of the most elaborately designed VRM heatsinks we've seen in recent times. All I/O features of the X870E platform are exposed. High-bandwidth connectivity includes USB4, Wi-Fi 7, high-speed Ethernet, and several Gen 5 M.2 slots. Lastly, we spotted the beastly GIGABYTE TRX50 AI TOP, a no-holes-barred motherboard for the Ryzen Threadripper 7000 series platform, with 8-channel DDR5 memory, four full-bandwidth Gen 5 x16 PCIe slots, and half a dozen M.2 NVMe slots, most of which are Gen 5.

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The 3rd board is the Z890 AORUS Master.. not an AORUS Elite series board..
 
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