Gigabyte introduced the X870E AORUS Master motherboard for Ryzen 9000 processors. This is the second model in the hierarchy of AMD 800 series motherboards for the Socket AM5 platform. The company is also going to release a flagship model – X870E AORUS Xtreme.
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The X870E AORUS Master is based on an eight-layer PCB and a 20-phase VRM power subsystem with a 16+2+2 phase pattern. Each phase is designed for a current of 110 A. The new product is equipped with two 8-pin EPS connectors for powering the processor. Massive aluminum radiators are responsible for cooling the board’s power subsystem and the top M.2 connector for the NVMe PCIe 5.0 drive.
The new product has four DIMM slots with support for installing up to 192 GB of RAM at speeds of over 8000 MT/s. It also features three M.2 NVMe PCIe 5.0 slots. For two of them, four PCIe lanes are allocated, which work directly from AMD Rapael or Granite Ridge processors, another four PCIe lanes are taken from the PCI Express 5.0 x16 slot. The fourth M.2 NVMe slot of the PCIe 4.0 standard. It works in tandem with PCI Express 4.0 x16. In addition, the board received four SATA III ports (6 Gb/s).
The new product is equipped with two USB4 ports (Type-C 40 Gbit/s each), four USB 3.2 Gen 2 (10 Gbit/s each), four USB 3.2 Gen 1 (5 Gbit/s each), two front USB 3.2 (each 5 Gbit/s) and one front USB-C (20 Gbit/s). A 5-gigabit Realtek RTL8251B controller is responsible for the wired network connection. Support for Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 5.3 wireless standards is provided by the Qualcomm QCNCM865 controller. The board also received a Realtek ALC1220 audio codec.
The cost of the X870E AORUS Master motherboard has not been announced.
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