The Core 14th Gen processor platform is one of the best options for gamers who want to build a high-performance gaming console, but if you want to get the full performance of the Core 14th Gen flagship processor, you need a Z790 motherboard that is powerful enough in design and materials. For example, the GIGABYTE Z790 AORUS Pro X WiFi7 brought to you today is a high-end motherboard built for Core 14th generation processors, let's take a look at its performance.
Extremely powerful material design.
The GIGABYTE Z790 AORUS Pro X WiFi7 motherboard is finished in black and grey and is available in the same form factor as the regular ATX form factor. The VRM power supply part and the motherboard chip are covered with a large area of thermal armor, which effectively improves heat dissipation and brings a good overall appearance. The VRM thermal armor on the left side is not only designed with a bevel-cut AORUS totem decoration, but also an RGB logo, which can be controlled by GIGABYTE's own GCC software, which can be used to create a personalized lighting unit with other hardware.
As a high-end motherboard, the GIGABYTE Z790 AORUS Pro X WiFi7 motherboard also performs well in terms of workmanship and materials. The motherboard is equipped with an 18+1+2 phase digital power supply design, of which the 18-phase processor power supply is equipped with a 90A power supply stage chip, coupled with high-quality inductors and capacitors, solid 8+8pin pins, 8 layers of 2-ounce copper circuit boards and other components, the power supply capacity is very strong, and it can easily achieve the peak performance of the 14th generation processor, while providing better stability under heavy workloads.
The motherboard also features a 24-pin solid motherboard power supply socket and an 8+8-pin solid CPU power supply socket to ensure a better connection to the power cable, which can reduce the power supply impedance and improve power efficiency. At the same time, in order to prevent the performance of the power supply components from degrading due to the increase in heat generated during long-term high-load operation, the motherboard covers the entire power supply area with a new generation of one-piece thermal armor, which adopts a composite trench design and is equipped with high-quality thermal pads, and has built-in 8mm heat pipes to achieve efficient heat dissipation.
In terms of memory, the GIGABYTE Z790 AORUS Pro X WiFi7 motherboard offers four DDR5 slots with an ultra-durable design. Thanks to the use of 8-layer 2oz copper server-grade PCB, anti-interference mask, back drilling, SMD technology, and isolated memory cabling, the GIGABYTE Z790 AORUS Pro X WiFi7 motherboard has excellent electrical performance and can easily support DDR5 8266+ high-frequency memory. At the same time, the motherboard is equipped with GIGABYTE's unique D5 technology, which supports "memory high bandwidth" and "memory low latency", which can bring a huge performance boost to the memory.
In terms of expansion slots, the GIGABYTE Z790 Aorus Pro X WiFi7 motherboard has 3 full-size slots, with the main slot supporting PCIe 50, and adopts a new seamless all-in-one design, fixed on a dedicated backplane, which can stably carry larger and heavier flagship graphics cards. In addition, the ultra-durable graphics card slot X is also equipped with a rubber lining strip and a zinc alloy shield to protect the graphics card PCB from scratches and effectively reduce signal interference from the outside world.
For storage expansion, the GIGABYTE Z790 AORUS Pro X WiFi7 motherboard carries 5 M2 SSD slots, 2 of which are directly from the processor, each supporting PCIe 50 4 and PCIe 40 4, the other 3 are provided by the motherboard chip, both support PCIe 40Γ4γIt is worth mentioning that PCIe 5 is supported0 mThe 2-slot has an EZ-LATZ design and can also accommodate 25110 form factor SSDs. In addition, each mBoth SSD slots are equipped with an integrated anti-jamming metal mask, full coverage thermal armor XL and thermal backplate.
The GIGABYTE Z790 AORUS Pro X WiFi 7 motherboard is equipped with the latest WiFi 7 wireless card and 5Gbps wired network card. Among them, the Wi-Fi 7 wireless network card supports MLO multi-link technology, which can allocate streaming ** and game applications to different frequency bands, and with the high-gain magnetic antenna attached to the motherboard, it can bring lower network latency and faster wireless WiFi network experience.
In terms of connectivity, the GIGABYTE Z790 AORUS Pro X WiFi7 motherboard comes pre-installed with an all-in-one I O backplate that offers a total of 9 USB ports, including 2 USB 32 Gen 2 10Gbps Type-A ports and 1 20Gbps Type-C port. The motherboard has a Thunderbolt expansion card port, a 20Gbps Type-C front port, as well as DP and HDMI ports for the core graphics card, which can fully meet the needs of gamers.
In terms of ease of use, the GIGABYTE Z790 AORUS Pro X WiFi7 motherboard has the all-new UC BIOS. The motherboard also supports the EZ-LATCH quick and easy to disassemble function, which can be used to assemble and remove the graphics card and M. with one click2 SSD, and also reserved an on-board ** interface for the secondary screen of the chassis, which is convenient for players to create a lighting effect mod host. In addition, the motherboard provides a Q-Flash Plus button button, a multi-function button reset button, which is very friendly for DIY gamers who have tested overclocking.
Performance test: Easily unleash the performance of the Core i9 14900K, and the bandwidth soars with the support of memory black technology.
Test platform. Motherboard: GIGABYTE Z790 AORUS Pro X WiFi7 motherboard.
Processor: Core i9 14900K
Memory: COLEV CRAS V RGB DDR5 7600 16GB 2
Graphics: RTX 4090 FE
Hard disk: WD Black SN850X 2TB
Power supply: Gigabyte UD1000GM
Operating system: Windows 11 Professional.
To verify the performance of the GIGABYTE Z790 AORUS Pro X WiFi7 motherboard, we chose the best processors and graphics cards available today β the Core i9 14900K and RTX 4090 β to create a top-of-the-line platform. When using the Cinebench R23 test machine with the power wall unlocked, the continuous full-load power of the Core i9 14900K has increased to about 330W, indicating that the processor performance release is very sufficient.
The surface temperature of the VRM heatsink is around 53.
In the processor benchmark performance test, the Core i9 14900K processor showed strong performance in "CPU-Z", "Cinebench R20", and "Cinebench R23". In terms of productivity performance, the Core i9 14900K also performs very well in a variety of productivity software, and the GIGABYTE Z790 AORUS Pro X WiFi7 motherboard is fully capable of running a flagship CPU.
In terms of gaming performance, which everyone is most concerned about, we have selected more than a dozen popular games for testing. In terms of frame rate performance for all games, the GIGABYTE Z790 AORUS Pro X WiFi7 motherboard is paired with the Core i9 14900K and RTX 4090 top-of-the-line gaming platforms, and the frame rate of both online gaming and triple-A games is excellent, giving full play to the performance of flagship processors and graphics cards, which can bring gamers a very smooth gaming experience.
In terms of memory performance, from the actual test of AIDA 64, after we used CRAS V RGB DDR5 7600 to enable the memory high bandwidth and memory low latency technology, the memory performance has indeed been improved considerably, and the memory read speed has increased from 11281GB s increased to 12115GB s, write speed from 9727GB s increased to 11306GB s, the copy speed has also been increased to 11069GB s, latency from 627ns down to 578ns, the overall memory bandwidth is increased by as much as 11%, and the effect is very obvious.
Then we tried to overclock the memory, and while maintaining the timing parameters, we easily overclocked the memory to 8000MHz, and the running test was very stable, and the memory read speed reached 12419GB s, with a write speed of 11812GB s, copy speed up to 11623GB s, the latency is even pressed to 55ns, and the bandwidth is further increased by 4%. In contrast, the performance improvement after overclocking to 8000MHz is slightly lower than that of the default XMP to enable memory high bandwidth and memory low latency technology, for the average non-overclocking gamer, directly turning on GIGABYTE memory black technology is the easiest and most profitable, of course, players who have overclocking needs on this motherboard, with a better memory, the frequency up to 8200MHz is also very easy.
Summary: A good companion for high-end esports players.
The GIGABYTE Z790 AORUS Pro X WiFi7 motherboard is luxurious in terms of materials and cooling, and can easily meet the needs of high-end Core 14th Gen processors as well as high-end graphics cards, and it also performs well in terms of stability and ease of use. At the same time the motherboard has access to high-frequency memory and PCIe 5The support of 0 SSD also gives it a greater performance advantage, excellent performance in actual combat, and with the exclusive memory black technology, it can further improve the performance and bring a smoother user experience, which fully meets the user's requirements for a flagship Z790 motherboard. If you're looking to build a high-performance Core 14th Gen gaming console, the GIGABYTE Z790 AORUS Pro X WiFi7 motherboard should be a priority.