The title originally wanted to be written.,Beauty and wisdom coexist.,The motherboard is the same color as the chassis.,Haha.。 Thinking about it later, I'm afraid it's not appropriate to use the word beauty on the motherboard, so it's more traditional. For DIY enthusiasts, performance, functionality, and freedom are important, and appearance is also important, which is probably one of the reasons why white-themed computers are becoming popular now. Despite this, white motherboards are still rare, because motherboards are an important platform for computer parts to run, white is not only the color of the painting, the cost, but also affects the performance, which is also the reason why white motherboards are rare on the market, such as ordinary motherboards will be more expensive.
Therefore, a motherboard that is both beautiful and has strong performance, and at the same time gives players a good degree of freedom, is a favorite of DIY enthusiasts. Recently, I bought a new GIGABYTE motherboard, the Z790 AORUS Pro X, also known as the GIGABYTE Z790 Ice Sculpture X, is a white motherboard with strong performance parameters.
The box of this GIGABYTE Z790 AORUS Pro X motherboard is still the same as the traditional packaging of the previous GIGABYTE motherboard, and it looks very familiar.
On the back of the box, there is an outline drawing of the product, which can be seen to be an all-white motherboard. There are also some features of the product, including power supply, quick-release design, support for WiFi7 and high-gain antennas.
Taking out the motherboard, I saw that this motherboard is very beautiful, with white as the base color, and at the same time covered with a large heatsink and vest, which is also white. And this white is the kind of low-key white, not dazzling, and at the same time with gray patterns and stripes, which makes this motherboard look more vivid, full of variety, and good looks. Not only is it beautiful, but the motherboard adopts an 8-layer PCB design, SMT process, and 2 ounces of copper to achieve better signal transmission stability and electrical performance.
The GIGABYTE Z790 Ice Sculpture X motherboard is powered by 18+1+2 phases, with 18-phase 90A SPS for CPU vcores, 1-phase 60A SPS for the GPU, and 2 phases for auxiliary power (providing stable power supply for the CPU integrated PCI-E and memory controller). Powerful power supply and heat dissipation are also very important, we see that the CPU motherboard uses an integrated heat dissipation armor for heat dissipation, and the pleated design can increase the heat dissipation area and improve the heat dissipation effect. High-quality thermal pads are used between the thermal armor and the VRM, and there is also an 8mm heat pipe, connected to 2 heat sinks, which can improve heat dissipation efficiency and ensure the stability of power supply.
The power supply to the CPU adopts a dual 8-pin power supply with solid pins. As you can see from this side, there is also a pleated design on this side of the heatsink.
On the other side of this side, you can see multiple interfaces, there is 1 CPU fan interface, an OPT fan interface, an ARGB color light interface, on the other side, there is a motherboard interface, a sys fan pump interface, you can connect a fan or water pump, there is a fan interface near the inside, and the front USB-A port of the chassis (2 USB-A, USB 3.2Gen1 rate 5Gbps) and a USB-C port (Type-C port, USB 3.) on the front of the chassis2 Gen 2x2 rate 20Gbps).
On the other side of the motherboard, there are 4 SATA hard disk interfaces, and in today's popularity of NVMe SSD hard disks, the demand for SATA hard disks is indeed much less. In addition, there is a white RST SW button, this button is a multi-function button, you can set different function options in the BIOS, including restart, enter the BIOS, etc., for DIY enthusiasts, it is a very useful function button.
The motherboard has 4 DDR5 slots, with a maximum of 48GB per slot and support up to 192GB of dual-channel memory. Let's take a look, these 4 memory slots are all reinforced with metal anti-interference masks to isolate the memory wiring, which can greatly improve the overclocking ability of the memory, and can support the memory overclocking frequency of 8266+MHz.
The bottom interface of the motherboard is the most, in addition to the case interface, audio interface, there are 4 fan interfaces, 2 USB 20 ports, 2 x 5V ARGB ports, 1 x 12V RGB port, a BIOS update button, etc.
The motherboard's all-in-one IO board connector is 2 USB 2 from left to right0 ports, 2 WiFi 7 high gain antenna ports, 4 USB-A, standard USB 32 Gen1 ports (blue), 2 x USB-A, standard USB 32 Gen 2 interface (red), one USB-C, standard USB 32 Gen 2x2 interface, one USB-C, standard USB 32 Gen 2 interfaces, followed by wired network interface rates of 5Gbps. On the far right is the speaker interface.
In the lower half of the motherboard, we see a large area of thermal armor that covers m2 and chipset. There are different stripes and engravings on it, and the armor has a tool-free quick release design. At the same time, this GIGABYTE Z790 Ice Sculpture X motherboard offers 3 PCIe x16 slots, which are PCIe 50 x16 lanes, PCIe 40 x4 lanes and PCIe 30 x4 channels.
Let's take a look at the details of the quick-release design, which is simple and easy to use. Let's take a look at the first PCIe slot, which is usually used for graphics cards, and is specially designed to provide 10 times the carrying capacity of ordinary slots. The inside of the slot uses a rubber lining strip to effectively protect the gold finger of the graphics card, and the zinc alloy material can provide effective electromagnetic shielding for high-speed signals.
Remove the thermal armor and you can see that there are 5 m2 slots, very rich. And m.The installation of the 2 SSD also supports the quick-release design, which is very convenient, so you don't have to worry about the cumbersome screwing. From top to bottom, the first one supports PCIe 50x4, straight out of the CPU, sharing bandwidth with the graphics card slot, and the remaining four support PCIe 40x4, the second of them is directly connected to the CPU, and the rest are from the chipset. The slot on the right also supports M2-port SATA SSD hard drive.
Through the above observations, we can see that this GIGABYTE Z790 AORUS Pro X motherboard, also known as GIGABYTE Z790 Ice Sculpture X, has a beautiful appearance, powerful performance, and excellent design.
Oh, by the way, there is also such a small and beautiful antenna with the box accessories, which is also white.
First of all, the motherboard is placed in the chassis, and the chassis chooses a white chassis, the white model of Antek Chuxing P1 is a full-tower chassis, it can be seen that after placing the motherboard, there is still rich space up and down, and the operation is relatively easy. The white motherboard also matches the white chassis and looks more comfortable.
The 14th generation CPU has a large heat dissipation, so you need a good CPU radiator, I chose Xingu's Kunlun 2nd generation 360 water cooling radiator, this radiator has a temperature resolution capacity of up to 320W, and the hidden temperature control water pump is more beautiful and unobtrusive. Ceramic bearings, quiet and powerful. The 3-in-1 pre-installed fan is easy to install, which is very popular with me, and can save a lot of time in installing the fan. The fan has an FDB white appearance, which is very compatible with the chassis and motherboard, and the wiring is simple.
The cold head has an LCD display with a resolution of up to 480x480, which can display information such as screen, CPU status, etc. There is a 70mm embedded fan on the cold head, which blows directly from the air outlet to the motherboard power supply module, which can provide effective heat dissipation for the motherboard power supply module. The fan has 33mm water column wind pressure, 23db quiet operation, 800-3000rpm intelligent temperature control. This extends the heat dissipation to the motherboard power supply module, which can reduce the CPU power supply heatsink by an average of 8°.
The memory is a new Lushi DDR5 memory, a single capacity of 24GB, XMP frequency is 7200MHz, Hynix M-Die particles.
The graphics card is the Sapphire RX7800XT Polar Edition, which is covered with pure white metal armor, has 3840 stream processors, the core frequency is overclocked to 2475MH, has 16GB GDDR6 video memory, 256 bit width, and 8+8pin power supply. The graphics card uses a 14-layer PCB, which provides better electrical performance. The use of 5 nickel-plated heat pipes, with 3 dual ball bearing fans, flying wing shaped blades, can provide greater air pressure and air volume, to ensure the stability of the graphics card temperature.
After installation, the overall shape is all-white theme, and the touch of red of the graphics card just plays a role in embellishment. This Antek full-tower chassis P1 has a large space, which is very comfortable for both component installation and wiring. It supports up to 420 water cooling and 3x140mm fans, and can install up to 10 fans in the whole chassis, with good heat dissipation, with upper and lower and left and right air ducts, and wide adaptability.
Its front face has a distinctive shape and is well ventilated. And it is magnetic, so it can be removed very easily.
By the way, there is also a power supply, the power supply is also very important, the choice is a well-known power supply manufacturer, Zhenhua's Leadex VP 850W. The white packaging box has the shape of the product and the characteristics of the product on it.
I chose the white model, this power supply has a short 13cm body, x2opp double over power protection, 0.5% floating voltage, 12FDB hydraulic bearing fan, ECO intelligent temperature control, all Japanese capacitors, and has passed the 80PLUS platinum certification.
We see that Zhenhua's power terminals are different from the conventional ones, among which the CPU PCIE SATA MOLEX are the same, intelligent and identification-free, patented, and more convenient to use.
Its cables are all white, which is perfect for the installation of a white-themed case. In particular, it also comes standard with a 12vhpwr line that supports 4080 graphics cards.
The short size of the power supply can leave more space inside the chassis, which is convenient for cable management and cable placement.
Of course, the Antek case is relatively wide, so the wiring of the wire is also very convenient, and it has a guard plate, and the inside cannot be seen after the outside is covered, which is very comfortable.
Start the computer and enter the system smoothly. The computer with a white theme is very coordinated, and there will be no more black feelings.
Running Master Lu, we see that the CPU is Intel i9-14900K, the latest generation of top-of-the-line CPUs, the memory is 48GB, Xinlux 7200MHz 24GBX2, the graphics card is Sapphire RX 7800XT, the motherboard is Gigabyte's Z790 AORUS Pro X, the display is PMQ E27, and the network card display is MediaTek's MT7927 supporting WiFi 7.
Running Master Lu, the CPU and memory scores are not too high, because the memory is now silent frequency, only 4800MHz.
Running the AIDA64 memory test, the read and write are only about 70MB s, and the latency is as high as 959ns, this is also because of the silent frequency, after all, 4800MHz is too low, this memory module XMP can be above 7200MHz. In the next article, we'll conduct an overclocking test to see how much the performance of the computer system can be improved. Stay tuned for the performance of GIGABYTE's black technology, low latency and high bandwidth.