Gigabyte X470 Aorus Gaming 7 WiFi – Hurrah for proper VRMs!

Rating: 9.0.

KitGuru used the Gigabyte X470 Aorus Gaming 7 WiFi in our launch reviews of the Ryzen 7 2700X and Ryzen 5 2600X as it proved to be stable and predictable, which is exactly what you want when you’re testing CPUs. Those are also desirable features in a motherboard but of course we are also looking for connectivity, the quality of the hardware and decent cooling. You get all of those things with the Gigabyte X470 Aorus Gaming 7 WiFi and in addition you also get a huge amount of RGB lighting.

Specification:
CPU AM4 Socket AMD Ryzen processor
Chipset AMD X470
Memory 4 x DDR4 DIMM sockets supporting up to 64 GB of system memory
Dual channel memory architecture
Support for up to DDR4 3600MHz+(O.C.)
Multi-GPU Support for NVIDIA Quad-SLI and AMD Quad-CrossFire
PCI Slots
2 x PCI Express 3.0 x16 slot (1x 16 or 2x 8)
1 x PCI Express 2.0 x16 slot, running at x4
2 x PCI Express 2.0 x1 slots
Storage
1 x M.2 connector M.2 type 2242/2260/2280/22110 SATA and PCIe x4 SSD support
1 x M.2 connector M.2 type 2242/2260/2280 PCIe x4 SSD support
6 x SATA 6Gb/s connectors support for RAID 0, RAID 1, and RAID 10
USB
ASMedia USB 3.1 Gen 2 Controller:
1 x Type-C port and 1 x Type-A port (red) on the back panel
CPU:
4 x USB 3.1 Gen 1 ports on the back panel
Chipset:
1 x USB Type-C port with USB 3.1 Gen 2 support through the internal USB header
6 x USB 3.1 Gen 1 ports (2 ports on the back panel, 4 ports available through the internal USB headers)
6 x USB 2.0 ports (2 ports on the back panel, 4 ports available through the internal USB headers)
Audio
Realtek ALC1220 codec with ES9018Q2C DAC
High Definition 7.1 Audio
LAN Intel GbE LAN chip (10/100/1000 Mbit)
WiFi/Bluetooth Wi-Fi 802.11a/b/g/n/ac, 2.4GHz/5GHz Dual-Band, Bluetooth 5
Form factor ATX 305mm x 244mm

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