[Foreword].
The 14th Gen Core processors are already on the market, and the interface remains the same as the LGA1700, and the 600 series motherboards of the 12th Gen processors and the 700 series motherboards of the 13th Gen processors can be used perfectly with the new processing. Since the first two generations of chipsets can support the latest 14th Gen Core processors, Intel has not launched a new generation of chipsets. With the further increase in the frequency of Core 14th generation processors, the power consumption has also increased slightly, and many motherboard manufacturers have redesigned their motherboards to meet the performance release needs of higher power processors. Today, I'm going to give you a B760M AORUS ELITE X AX motherboard brought by Gigabyte from the Royal Three Family.
Product Analysis].
The GIGABYTE B760M AORUS ELITE X AX motherboard features a white design language that caters to the aesthetics of today's young DIY gamers, and can achieve a very fresh and refined visual impact when paired with a white chassis and white graphics card.
The GIGABYTE B760M AORUS ELITE X AX motherboard is a MATX form factor that combines expansion and size, making it the first choice for users who are looking for a small chassis in recent years. 4 DDR5 DIMM memory slots, dual PCI-E x16 (bottom bandwidth is X4), and dual M.S2. The SSD interface can meet the various expansion needs of mid-to-high-end players. Although white-themed motherboards have been popular for many years, there are not many products that can make Ice Sculpture X even PCBs white, but it's a little regrettable that the second PCIe slot, memory slot, and interface part of this motherboard are still black. I think that even if you can't make it all white, it would be better to make a white and gray combination.
GIGABYTE B760M AORUS ELITE X AX motherboard is very luxurious in the processor power supply section, with up to 14+1+1 phase design plus 60A DRMOS tubes, supplemented by 8 pin + 4pin 12V input, bringing powerful current to the processor**.
The large size of the heatsink covers the power supply module, and on the decorative plate of the heatsink, GIGABYTE has also designed an ARGB illuminated logo light strip, which is very cyberpunk when lit.
The two M2 SSD bays are covered in a thick silver-white thermal armor, and to improve the efficiency and reliability of the installation process, GIGABYTE provides a tool-less EZ-LATZ tenon for quick installation of the thermal guard and SSD without the need for a screwdriver.
GIGABYTE B760M AORUS ELITE X AX motherboards also use EZ-LATH technology on PCIe clips, making it easier to press the high-priced clips.
Article 1 PCIe 5The 0 x16 graphics card slot is also interesting, not only providing metal armor on the front, but also having a reinforced backplate on the back of the motherboard PCB. This way, even the current overweight flagship-level graphics card will not put too much pressure on the slot.
The 4 DDR5 DIMM slots are more flexible in terms of memory expansion, and although most gamers will not fill it, it will be easier to upgrade and expand after many years. It is worth mentioning that the memory slots are marked with priority to use A2 and B2 slots to improve stability and achieve better overclocking capabilities. In addition, the motherboard's memory supports a frequency of DDR5 8266MHz, so gamers with high-end slivers can try overclocking the extreme memory.
The surprising thing happened, this motherboard actually offers a built-in HDMI port. The now popular secondary screen chassis is blessed,You don't need to throw the cable out of the chassis to easily connect the secondary screen,Whether it's indicator monitoring or the whole work, it's really good to make full use of the nuclear display of chicken ribs。 There is also a set of front-facing USB3 on the right side of HDMI2 Type-A and one USB32 type-c。
Although SATA hard drives have been silent in the mainstream market, it is still difficult for many players with ** needs to give up. The GIGABYTE B760M AORUS ELITE X AX motherboard offers four SATA 6Gbps native ports, which are enough for 99% of gamers.
The audio part of this motherboard uses the ALC897 HD sound card of the crab family, although it is not a high-end model, but it can also bring good sound quality performance with professional audio capacitors.
The wired network card is Intel's i225, which supports 10M, 100M, 1000M and 25Gbps adaptive rate. The wireless network card is Intel's AX211, which supports WiFi6E high-speed network (the domestic frequency band is not open).
In recent years, GIGABYTE motherboards have provided convenient on-board switches, and GIGABYTE B760M AORUS ELITE X AX motherboards have a processor-free Q Flash Plus button to update the BIOS in addition to the usual reboot.
Three sets of ARGB and one set of RGB light pins can provide good personalized lighting, and with GCC control software, a variety of colors and lighting effects can be customized.
The GIGABYTE B760M AORUS ELITE X AX motherboard has a white unibody bezel on the rear of the IO interface, from left to right: 4x USBX SMA antennas, DP12、hdmi2.0、usb 3.2 gen2x2 type-c、3 x usb 3.2gen x usb 3.2 Gen2 (support Q-Flash Plus update BIOS) 25gbps rj.5mm audio input and output as well as digital optical audio output.
It's time to verify this B-plate with such a fierce plugging material. I used a Core i6 13600K processor with exaggerated power consumption and a flagship-level air-cooled Josbo HX7280 (it would be nice if there was a white version).
The Hx stands for high-end air cooling, 7 is 7 heat pipes, and 280 is a nominal depyretic capacity of 280W, which can provide good performance when dealing with high-end processors.
The design of the double-tower structure can make use of the high efficiency thermal conductivity of the U-shaped heat pipe as much as possible, and the fully blackened fins and heat pipes also adopt the reflow soldering + FIN buckle process common on high-end products, which has higher thermal conductivity efficiency than the traditional FIN heat sink.
Qiao Sibo also took into account the increasing size of the current motherboard power supply heatsink and the compatibility of memory modules, and made a great optimization of the shape of the heatsink. Although it is possible to mount all three fans, the rear 14cm fan will protrude to a certain height, and the 12cm fan will block the light from the memory.
First of all, let's look at the performance score of CPUZ, the i5-13600K is paired with the GIGABYTE B760M AORUS ELITE X AX Ice Sculpture X motherboard in the default state with a single-threaded score of 8258 points, multithreaded 98258 points, and I am very satisfied with the performance.
In the Cinebench test with a higher load, the Core i5 13600K processor is 771CB single-thread and 9278CB multi-thread in the R20 version, and 2011PTS and 24211PTS in the R23 version for single-thread and 24211PTS for multi-thread.
The memory performance of these generations of GIGABYTE motherboards has been good, and I tested it with DDR5 memory with a frequency of 6800MHz and I can see that the latency of the AIDA64 memory bandwidth is 704ns, the memory read and write speed reached 96069MB s and 90192MB s respectively, and the memory copy was 89036MB s.
GIGABYTE motherboards have the ability to enable the low latency and high bandwidth technologies of the memory, and I call myself an expert when testing the memory performance after enabling these two technologiesAt this point, the memory latency is reduced to 652ns, the memory read and write speeds reached 102197MB s and 103 respectively56GB s, 100831MB s memory copy, amazing!This performance is directly at the level of the DDR5 7200. If you overclock the memory to a certain extent, the memory performance will take off directly.
Through the above introduction and testing, it is not difficult to find that the GIGABYTE B760M AORUS ELITE X AX motherboard is not only very good-looking, but also has the power supply specifications of the high-end Z board with crazy stacking, and the Core i5 13600K processor in the test can continue to release full performance. Of course, the power supply specification of 14-phase 60A can be handled even if the i9 14900K comes. Under various luxury configurations,The price of this motherboard is not too exaggerated,Jingdong Daily**is about 1400 yuan,With the net red i5 processor, it can be less than 3000 yuan to take the boardU。 If you're looking for a good-looking, high-performance motherboard, then the GIGABYTE B760M AORUS ELITE X AX motherboard might be a good choice.