Gigabyte X570S AORUS Master Motherboard Overview
The overall look of the X570S AORUS Master has changed quite a bit from the original. While the design is very close to the Z590 AORUS Master it is still slightly different. We have a black PCB with black and silver/grey accents. Overall I think the board looks quite good.
Towards the center of the board we have our CPU socket, which is of course AMD’s AM4 socket. Gigabyte is making use of a 14 (12+2) power phase design with 70A power stages. So with 12 phases for the CPU that means you have a total output of 840A. The power delivery components are covered by two heatsinks which make use of Gigabyte’s Fins-Array II thermal design. This design uses louvered stacked fins technology which is usually only used on industrial equipment that need compact heat exchangers. It has a special secondary fins structure that enhances heat transfer performance.
At the top corner of the board you’ll find two 8-pin EPS connectors, which are metal-reinforced. There is also a 4-pin fan header tucked away up, perfect for a top or rear fan. Moving over to the other side of the board there our four more 4-pin headers, two are for your CPU fans, two are for other fans or pumps. There is also a standard 4-pin RGB header and a 3-pin addressable RGB header.
Coming down to the memory slots we have four DDR4 DIMM slots which support 128GB of memory up to 5400 MHz. These slots are metal-reinforced as well. Along the edge of the board you’ll find a small reset button, larger power button, post code display, 24-pin ATX power connection, 3 more fan headers, and a USB 3.2 gen 2 header.
Moving down the board there is a Thunderbolt header, six SATA 6GB/s ports, and a USB 3.2 header. The SATA ports and USB 3.2 header are at a 90 degree angle to not interfere with your graphics cards. At the bottom of the board you’ll find the rest of your headers and connection which include your front panel audio header, 3-pin addressable RGB header, 4-pin standard RGB header, TPM header, two USB 2.0 headers, 2 more fan headers, a USB 3.2 header, and your front panel headers.
The bottom half of the board is covered in heatsinks, which is pretty common for boards these days. While this type of design looks great it does make installing or swapping out M.2 drives a bit hard as the bottom part of the heatsink is a single piece. This board features four PCI-Express 4.0 M.2 slots. All of the slots have pre-installed cooling pads on both sides. As far as expansion slots go you have three PCI-Express 4.0 x16 slots which will operate at x16, x8, and x4. These slots are metal reinforced.
The rear I/O has a nice cover on it, which will light up with RGB lighting when you have your system powered on. There is also an integrated I/O shield which is all but standard these days. As far as connections and buttons on the rear I/O go from left to right you have a Q-Flash Plus button, Clear CMOS button, WiFi antenna connections, four USB 2.0 ports, two USB 3.2 gen 1 ports (blue), five USB 3.2 gen 2 ports (red), a USB 3.2 gen 2×2 port (Type-C), 2.5G Ethernet, and your audio connections.
Flipping the board over to the back we can see that we have a full coverage aluminum backplate. This not only adds rigidity to the board, but also helps with cooling.
