The Box and Packaging
Inside the box, you’ll find the motherboard, an installation guide, an information leaflet, a Gigabyte Q connector, 1 x AORUS badge, 1 x SATA cable, and 1 x Ultra-high gain WiFi antenna with magnetic base.
The Gigabyte X870 AORUS ELITE WiFi7 Motherboard
The board uses a 6-Layer low loss, x2 Copper PCB and comes in a nice matte black finish. It features a Digital Twin 16+2+2 phases VRM design, giving you superb power efficiency and stability.
To help cool the VRMs, Mosfets and SSDs, the board comes with Thermal Armor Advanced as well as M.2 Thermal Guard L, and M.2 Thermal Guard Ext. There’s a couple of RGB LEDs underneath the heatsink of the chipset.
The motherboard comes with 4 x DDR5 DIMM slots, supporting AMD’s EXPO memory and memory speeds of up to DDR5-8000. The motherboard also features Shielded Memory and Daisy-Chained Routing.
A Closer Look
On the top left-hand corner of the board, there are 2 x 8-pin PCIE power connectors. Make sure these are connected to the power supply using the 8-pine PCIE power cables.
There’s a total of 8 x 4-pin fan headers on the board (2 at the top and 6 at the bottom), which is more than enough to install extra cooling fans if needed.
Expansion slots include 1 x PCIE 5.0 x16 UD X slot (Ultra Durable steel slot made with Zinc alloy) for your graphics card, 1 x PCIE 4.0 x4 slot and 1 x PCIE 3.0 x2 slot. A nice added feature is the PCIe EZ-Latch Plus, which allows users to easily remove their graphics card with a press of a button.
For storage, it comes 4 x SATA ports and 3 x M.2 PCIE Gen5x4 slots and 1 x M.2 PCIE Gen4 slot for SSDs. These M.2 slots feature Gigabyte’s EZ Latch Click and EZ-Latch Plus, which allows users to mount your M.2 SSDs with ease. Furthermore, these M.2 slots are covered by their impressive-looking M.2 Thermal Guard L and Thermal Guard Ext. with full cover heat shield.
On the back I/O panel, you’ll find a Q-Flash button, WiFi EZ-Plug for the WiFi 7 antennas, 4 x USB 2.0 ports, 4 x USB 3.2 Gen1 ports, 2 x USB 3.2 Gen2 ports, 2 x USB4 ports, 2.5GB LAN, 1 x optical S/PDIF Out connector, Line-out and Mic-in.
