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Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Master X
Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Master X
Team up, fight on. It’s a massively popular ethos extolled by the swathes of people battling on servers every day. Personally I prefer “play solo, kill everyone”, but then I’m sufficiently old to have started gaming when it was just a past-time for loners in darkened bedrooms. Now it’s for people in brightly lit rooms streaming to the world. Luckily the lighting on the Aorus Master X is good enough that you can pretend to be soaked in neon signs of your handle even if you’re not.
Look at the size of that heatpipe! It’s a full u-shaped one too, surrounding the whole CPU socket. With 20+1+2 105A SPS Power phases to control, it’s no surprise that Gigabyte have used such a thick solution. And that’s without getting into the insane fin density on the IO section.
When you’ve seen as many motherboards as I have, any little extra detail is a godsend. At the high end it is too easy for a manufacturer to rest on their Laurels (and their Hardys too). I’ve written at length in these pages about how transformative the Aorus brand has been to Gigabyte, and their attention to detail with the Gen5 M.2 heatsink is testament to the effort they continue to make.
