Gigabyte AORUS X470 Gaming 7 WiFi is the first Ryzen 2000 motherboard

Posted on Monday, January 08 2018 @ 13:41 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck

Steve from Gamers Nexus has the first details about a motherboard for AMD's upcoming second-generation Ryzen CPUs. Over at CES 2018, he spotted the Gigabyte AORUS X470 Gaming 7 WiFi motherboard.

Among other things, this motherboard has better VRM cooling than what was seen on the X370 editions, which should go a long way to enhance overclocking potential.

Other key board components include an external clock gen, which is really useful for dialing-in overclocks to smaller intervals than whole 1x jumps. Additional overclocking features include a dual-BIOS, useful for recovery, and targeted support for up to 4000MHz memory, from what GN has found about AMD’s new CPUs. It’s unclear on how well that target will work out, but that’s what we’re expecting now. The board has two BIOS dipswitches present for dual-BIOS and single- or dual-BIOS mode.

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