Finished Looks

The first thing that may stand out is the lack of RGB lighting elements on the heatsinks, or anywhere. As touched on earlier in this review, Gigabyte has moved away from the orange accents to a neutral gray tone, but this motherboard goes one step further. In fact, besides a few boot LEDs, the motherboard does not have any on-board RGB elements. This isn't a bad thing, just something to be aware of for those who want lights on everything. Besides the change in aesthetics, similar to the B650E and X670E Master, there is spacing for a 4 slot graphics card without interfering with the lower PCIe slots. The Gigabyte X670 AORUS Elite AX is definitely in the budget realm, but mainly just in the cosmetic sense, without affecting those who just want the core basics of a X670 based motherboard and nothing more.

Test System

Supporting Hardware

Testing is performed with the newest available version of the BIOS at the time of review. All BIOS settings related to the CPU are left untouched. EXPO is enabled for the memory. However, if the primary, secondary or tertiary memory timings are incorrectly set by the BIOS, it is tested as-is, to mimic a standard user. The same goes for the CPU. Unless it is a bug in the current BIOS—i.e., not present in other versions—any and all CPU boost parameters are left alone.