The Gigabyte MZ01-CE0 motherboard is one of the second salvos of AMD EPYC motherboards. When AMD EPYC first launched, the first motherboards offered had some reasonably specific use cases in mind. In this second salvo we are seeing from vendors, motherboards are coming out that are more general purpose in nature.
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For this season’s Intel Z390 chipset the Designare doubles down on Thunderbolt 3 – bringing in two USB-C ports on the Rear IO, as well as a plethora of other features including DisplayPort 1.4 Input. Another significant inclusion is CPU attached PCI Express, which allows SSD add-in cards to completely bypass the chipset controller and utilise greater throughput directly from the CPU.
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To this end we had to buy this board ourselves to test it despite emaling since its launch without a single reply. It’s huge shame that they hadn’t more faith in their design team as clearly the rejig has worked wonders for the Z390 Aorus Pro.
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Flagship overclocking, impressive I/O, and excellent performance make this board shine. If the price doesn’t stop you, the Aorus Xtreme is an excellent blend of the Aorus 7’s performance and the Designare EX’s style, making it one of our favorite X399 options.
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However, occasionally they also have a flagship model that’s so expensive you’d have to be slightly mad to buy it. That’s essentially where the Gigabyte Z390 Aorus Xtreme fits in the overall scheme of things, retailing for nearly twice the price of the next most expensive Aorus-branded Z390 board.
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Motherboard manufacturers are not late in the game, as many of them have released newer versions of X299 motherboards to enhance their current motherboard lineup. Gigabyte has released their new X299 AORUS MASTER motherboard to welcome the new Skylake X Refresh processors as well.
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The X3999 Aorus Pro is certainly well equipped, offering support for the entire TR4 range of CPUs, as well as quad-channel DDR4 memory and overclocking. You’ll find superb connectivity too. There are USB 3.0, 3.1, and Type-C inputs. Expansion cards can benefit from 4-way GPU support.
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AMD has really been taking the fight to Intel over the last year. Ryzen has made AMD a viable CPU option for gamers and enthusiasts while Threadripper is outstanding for workstations. But arguably the big money – and the most important battle – is at the highest end of the market. This is where EPYC comes in, and industrial-strength motherboards like the Gigabyte MZ01-CE0 (rev. 1.0) on test here.
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It’s fairly evident, though, that the Z390 I Aorus Pro WiFi hasn’t reigned in the features quite as much as MSI to keep the price low. You get reasonable cooling for the six-phase power circuitry plus a large M.2 heatsink that sits atop a PCH heatsink – the M.2 heatsink of course being absent on the MSI board.
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Also available as a WiFi model, the standard Pro pares down the cooling when compared to the Master, understandably so. This is most obvious around the covered I/O section, with the Pro eschewing the super-thick, stacked-fin heatsink for a L-shaped design that connects the top and right sections with a heatpipe inside an aluminium sandwich.
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