GIGABYTE has introduced its AMD 800-series motherboards with the release of the high-end X870E AORUS Master. This model will be the company’s second most premium offering on this chipset, as they also plan to release the X870E AORUS Xtreme. The AORUS Master is fully equipped with all the features of this chipset, along with advanced onboard components. The motherboard is designed in the ATX form factor and is powered by a 24-pin ATX connector and two 8-pin EPS connectors. It includes a 16+2+2 phase digital VRM with 110 A power stages, all built on a high-quality 8-layer PCB. The board features tall extruded aluminum heatsinks for cooling the CPU VRM and the top M.2 NVMe Gen 5 slot.
The AMD Socket AM5 on this motherboard is connected to four DDR5 DIMM slots, supporting up to 192 GB of dual-channel DDR5 memory with speeds exceeding DDR5-8000. The motherboard features three M.2 NVMe Gen 5 slots, two of which are connected to dedicated x4 interfaces from the AMD “Raphael” or “Granite Ridge” processors, while the third shares four lanes with the board’s PCI-Express 5.0 x16 slot. There is also a fourth M.2 NVMe slot, which is Gen 4 and connected to the chipset. For additional expansion, the board includes two PCI-Express 4.0 x16 slots (operating at Gen 4 x1). In addition to the M.2 slots, there are four SATA 6 Gbps ports to complete the storage options.
The motherboard’s onboard audio is powered by a Realtek ALC1220 CODEC paired with audiophile-grade capacitors. This CODEC is considered preferable to the ALC4080 because it uses the HDA bus instead of the USB 3.0 bus found in the newer CODEC, making it less prone to audio glitches caused by kernel timing issues with certain GPUs. The company has not yet announced the pricing.
Via TechPowerUp
