Gigabyte X399 Aorus Gaming 7 Motherboard Review: Threadripping In Style

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What happens when you take the powerhouse of I/O and thread counts that is AMD’s Threadripper, and plug it into a prosumer motherboard overflowing with LEDs? Let's find out!

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[Snipergod87]

No 10Gb ethernet on this board? Not worth it.
Its not like it is short of PCI-Express Lanes

 

[spdragoo]

[quotemsg=20937832,0,248497]No 10Gb ethernet on this board? Not worth it.
Its not like it is short of PCI-Express Lanes[/quotemsg]

Why? Even among the rarified crowd that this board would be geared towards, how many of them actually would have a 10Gbps connection (network or Internet) to even require it?

 

[Snipergod87]

[quotemsg=20938100,0,587530][quotemsg=20937832,0,248497]No 10Gb ethernet on this board? Not worth it.
Its not like it is short of PCI-Express Lanes[/quotemsg]

Why? Even among the rarified crowd that this board would be geared towards, how many of them actually would have a 10Gbps connection (network or Internet) to even require it?[/quotemsg]

Maybe so but it is becoming more of a standard on high end chipsets like X299, I myself have a 16 port 10Gbe switch at home so lacking a 10Gb nic would mean I would have to purchase one since the onboard 1Gbit nic would be useless for me.

Platforms like Threadipper X399 and X299 are often used like workstations, like in a business, if editing and manipulating large images, videos or running virtual machines, you would want a high end NIC to handle the bandwidth.

99% of people gaming will be on Ryzen or Mainstream i5, i7, not HEDT X299 and X399

 

[pensive69]

quote extremetech => '...NAS vendors such as Synology and QNAP allow upgrades to 10-Gigabit ...'

i imagine any gamer who needs or uses storage might find it sweet.

 

[pavel.mateja]

Be aware of Gigabyte support for this particular board: http://forum.gigabyte.us/thread/1767/x399-beta-bios-thread

 

[echofightr]

I have this Motherboard and i have no issues at all, it is a great board and real easy to navigate the BIOS. I made sure the BIOS was updated before doing anything major. Downside it does not have the 10GB LAN port like the ASUS board but none the less it is still a great board.

 

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