Gigabyte launches a Kaby Lake-X only X299 motherboard
Gigabyte's X299 Aorus Gaming motherboard only supports Kaby Lake-X
Published: 4th August 2017 | Source: Tech Report |
Gigabyte launches a Kaby Lake-X only X299 motherboard
Now it looks like motherboard makers are aiming to address this imbalance by offering X299 motherboards that only support Kaby Lake-X, releasing with no unnecessary features like unusable PCIe lanes and DIMM slots and only bringing the bare essentials that are required to support Kaby Lake-X.
The question that is raised here is why? Given the similarities of Kaby Lake-S and Kaby Lake-X there is no real reason why users should go for the more expensive model, aside from slightly better overclocking potential. When Z270 motherboards and Kaby Lake-S already exist this new motherboard socket combo makes little sense.
What buyers trade away when using this motherboard is upgrade headroom, as these motherboards are unable to use higher core count Skylake-X CPUs, leaving users with what is effectively Z270 on a larger socket.
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Take the 3820 for example. It cost more than the 2600k, didn't overclock as well and you needed a £300 (at launch) board for it ! Then they cracked out the 4820k, more of the same. They only really changed that with the launch of the 5820k.Quote
