Introduction

If anything Gigabyte's main problem in getting you to steer your wallet towards the $360 Gigabyte X870E Aorus Pro is that it already has some excellent cheaper offerings, such as the Gigabyte X870 Aorus Elite Wi-Fi 7. Part of the extra cost here is of course we're dealing with an X870E motherboard rather than X870, featuring dual X870 chipsets and the potential for more M.2 ports and PCIe slots available without lane sharing. Hopefully we'll see some other extras too, but primarily the main reason you might want to step up to X870E is for additional bandwidth. If you have zero PCIe expansion cards in addition to your graphics card, and only one M.2 SSD, then the board we're looking at here is very much overkill.



There are reasons you might consider this board over its X670E predecessors too. The X670E Aorus Pro X, for example, lacks USB4 and Gigabyte's latest EZ features for its graphics card and Wi-Fi antenna, plus has inferior audio and lower power VRMs. Equally, if money is of less consequence, and you're gunning for maximum overclocks or longevity, you'd need to consider even more premium boards such as the X870E Aorus Master, but in general there are diminishing returns in terms of ports and features as you up the stack.

Back to the original point, though, and it's the cutting-edge I/O and extra bandwidth that you'll be focussed on if you're sensible and considering an X870E motherboard, by the end of this review you'll have a clearer picture whether it's the perfect board to see you through to the end of Socket AM5.

Specifications