Review Gigabyte X670E Aorus Pro X motherboard review: Striking in white, with lots of USB

[Admin]

The Gigabyte X670E Aorus Pro X is an updated AM5 board with Wi-Fi 7 and a unique white/gray appearance. For around $300, you get two PCIe 5.0 x4-capable M.2 sockets (rare at this price), loads of USB storage including front and rear 20 Gbps Type-C, and was a solid performer in our test suite.

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[HideOut]

$330 for ALC 897 audio? thats a JOKE! My 2.5 year old AMD 5900X system has a newer codec than that, on a board that was $132.49 WITH 2.5G ethernet and all. I know inflation blah blah blah, but this what, 2.7X more or something? Its pathetic. But hey, THG gets a cut if you buy this "bargain" pile from their link

 

[Ogotai]

heh, id just disable the audio on any board, and put my SB AE-4 Plus into it, problem solved...

 

[35below0]

$330 for ALC 897 audio? thats a JOKE! My 2.5 year old AMD 5900X system has a newer codec than that, on a board that was $132.49 WITH 2.5G ethernet and all. I know inflation blah blah blah, but this what, 2.7X more or something? Its pathetic. But hey, THG gets a cut if you buy this "bargain" pile from their link

Who gives a rat's ass about the audio codec though? The other features pointed out are the draw.
Audio components are kinda meh all the way to the top end Gigabyte boards anyway.

Granted, it would be nice if it were better, but i don't think a professional would be any happier with a slightly better (less crap) codec. And non-professionals will either not care or will happily step up to a higher end model to get what this board offers *and* more.

 

[Notton]

I'm not too into audio, but don't they all skip the onboard audio when you send the sound through HDMI, AptX-LL enabled BT, or 2.4Ghz wireless?

Like, if you care about audio so much, why not spend a little bit on a HDMI/USB DAC, or HDMI audio splitter?
I'm sure they are better EMI shielded than mobo audio too.

 

[Sleepy_Hollowed]

If I was buying this for audio, I'd just slide a pcie card and not touch the integrated one.

I have not used my on board card for a long time since I either use a USB DAC or a pci-e (not so much recently though) card if I need to get the CPU load out of the equation for audio..

 

[Aurn]

I'm not too into audio, but don't they all skip the onboard audio when you send the sound through HDMI, AptX-LL enabled BT, or 2.4Ghz wireless?

Like, if you care about audio so much, why not spend a little bit on a HDMI/USB DAC, or HDMI audio splitter?
I'm sure they are better EMI shielded than mobo audio too.

From what I found, you are correct, in the case of wireless speakers or headphones, the onboard audio is bypassed, so its quality does not matter. (And same in the case of HDMI.) But not everyone has or wants to use wireless speakers. I still use my 21-year old Creative speakers, which need the rear audio jack (black colour) and I’d rather not add yet another external peripheral (external sound card in this case). I just don’t like this trend of new mainboards skimping on audio quality and ports at the same time when you already don’t have much room for extra PCIe cards because graphics cards are thick. I’m glad I got the MSI B650 Tomahawk WiFi when I changed PCs in October ; it has noticeably better audio than my previous ASRock X370 Taichi and still has five audio jacks and optical output

 

[WonkoTheSaneUK]

Typos in the "test system components" table, unless the testers did manage to fit an Intel 13900K into an AM5 motherboard?

I've owned this motherboard since before Xmas (imported via NewEgg), so I may have had the first one in the UK.
I can cofirm the retail box includes all the usual bits (WiFi antenna, SATA cables, etc), but the manual has to be downloaded.

 

[jeremyj_83]

For anyone looking at this motherboard for use with the 9000 series it works quite well. I had to update my BIOS using Q-Flash Plus to support the 9000 series but once that was done it works with 6400MHz Team T-Create Expert RAM without any IF offset.