On October 5th, Intel’s eighth-generation Core processor was born and made many DIY players excited. I remember that the last time that Intel took AMD’s "core battle" with AMD was the Pentium D era, almost ten years ago. Although this is to recoup the decline of AMD RYZEN, it is clear that Intel's father still could not fully relax. The new Core Duo processor adopts the same LGA1151 interface as in the past, but it is not compatible with the old motherboard.
In all fairness, the LGA1151 interface has undergone the Core 6 and Core 7 generations of products, which is in line with Intel's consistent practice of a generation of motherboards compatible with two generations of processors. The Core Duo uses the old interface but is not compatible with the old motherboard. In addition to the increase in the number of its own cores, there may be changes in the power supply layout. This may be due to Intel's need to reduce R&D time and restore the market that AMD seized.
The new motherboard supporting the Core Duo processor currently has only one Z370 series. As a user who has been in touch with Intel since the Z68 era, this time for the new Core Duo 8 generation machine is also a special start with a Gigabyte Z370 AOURS Gaming 7 motherboard.
One, out of the box, accessories appreciation:
GIGABYTE Z370 AOURSGaming 7 Motherboard Overpack
The packaging is still the image of Gigabyte's AORUS “carving cardsâ€. It is packed with hard-packed boxes and looks very refined.
The bottom left corner of the motherboard highlights support for the eighth-generation Core processor and five-year warranty information.
Some information on the back of the package, the basic parameters of the motherboard can be found.
The inner packaging adopts a multi-layer design structure, which is similar to a mobile phone. The upper layer is a main board, and the lower part is a fitting, an instruction sheet, a sticker, and the like.
Below the main board are the stickers that Gigabyte's AORUS series motherboards will give. All kinds of patterns and logos are available.
In the fittings section, first of all, it is still the "oldest" explanation + drive CD + quality guarantee.
Top left and right are RGB extension lines and two temperature detection lines. Below are the more common and familiar straps, bezels, and SATA cables.
Simple jumper mounter G-CONNECTOR (left) and SLI bridge (right). The motherboard itself supports both the SLI of NV and the crossfire of AMD. However, AMD's crossfire now requires no bridging. When can NV cancel this redundant SLI bridge?
G-CONNECTOR instructions, this device is equivalent to the integration of all jumpers, making the jumper assembly becomes simple, for the small chassis inconvenient to the line of the platform to help.
The appearance of the main body of the motherboard looks very similar at first glance, but actually the motherboard armor is composed of a mixture of plastic and metal. The color difference control is very good. It is very difficult to feel the difference without careful inspection. No past Gigabyte Z270 series. That kind of strong plastic feeling.
Comparison between the two generations of motherboards before and after, you can clearly feel the difference in the design language, the new Z370 motherboard has become more simple and simple style, a large number of components and fonts in the PCI-E area are gone, the overall look and feel to be a lot of tidy .
The back of the motherboard is still a dense solder joint. Say aside, now the graphics cards are popular with their own backplanes, but there are very few similar designs on the motherboard. The main reason is because they need to consider the compatibility of the chassis. Otherwise, this kind of ugly and sticky hands on the back of the motherboard does not keep up with the times. .
I/O area, metal head audio interface is shining. The metal interface can improve the audio transmission anti-interference ability, but the unified gold interface makes me a non-metaphysical player a bit embarrassed, often forget the headset plug that hole. . . In other respects, the PS/2, USB3.1, TYPE-C, DP, and HDMI interfaces are readily available, and no WIFI network card antenna is reserved, but dual network cards are provided, one of which is the KILLER killer network card.
CPU power supply, a total of ten inductors.
For the power supply part, the blackened version of the FPCAP solid capacitor from Fujitsu and the Cooper closed inductor were used.
The main memory area supports two channels of four DDR4, and there are light guide slots between the memory slots.
(This breaks through the sky's memory prices.)
There is a power switch and one-button overclocking button next to the memory slot. There is a COMS clear (black) and restart (white) button next to the memory slot. There is also an XMP indicator with memory overclocking. The top 5 PIN is a WRGB light bar interface. .
Next to the motherboard's 24pin power supply is a GIGABYTE motherboard light bar that consists of an acrylic panel that is removable.
A large area of ​​South Bridge heat dissipation, modeling is Gigabyte AORUS "carving card" LOGO.
6 SATA 3.0 interfaces, all-side plug design.
The jumper interface does color discrimination and the motherboard comes with a self-test card.
Both M.2 and PCI-E interfaces are metal-reinforced.
There are three PCI-E 3.0 X16 and three M.2 interfaces, and the top M.2 also comes with a metal heat sink.
The TURBO B-Clock controller can be used to adjust the BCLK frequency.
Since the M.2's heat vest, the color match is also consistent with the motherboard.
The back comes with a thermal pad, usually in the high-end graphics card will be very common in this way to memory and inductor cooling.
M.2's thermal vest screws are also special and cannot be removed from the heat vest.
Four WIMA 2700pF/100V audio capacitors.
The gold part is the Nichicon audio capacitor.
Second, motherboard dismantling, material analysis:
The south bridge heats up, and after dismantling it is found that it also brings a “little tailâ€.
This small tail is the LED light on the South Bridge heat sink. There is also a ITE IT8686E, I/O and monitoring chip under the South Bridge.
Z370 South Bridge chip, right there is a small crab Realtek RTS5411, but this crab can not listen to songs, but is used to do USB 3.0 HUB controller.
The I/O area motherboard armored disassembled and contained a small Q fan.
The fan comes from the Taiwanese brand EVERFLOW, a company that specializes in small fan motors.
Main board power MOS tube heat sink, comes with heat pipe.
After the complete removal of the armored I/O area, you can see that many motherboard components are hidden under the motherboard armor so that the entire CPU area looks clean.
The thermal thickness of the South Bridge is almost one centimeter.
CPU power MOS heat vest top half height, the overall height is actually almost 3CM, and there is still a point in his hand sink.
The thicker the board thickness of the motherboard, the thicker it shows that the stronger the anti-pressure capability, it is not easy to be bent when installing a large heat sink and graphics card.
GIGABYTE Z370 AORUS Gaming 7 motherboard complete dismantling at a glance.
Third, the lighting effect display:
The motherboard supports LED TEST so even if it is not turned on, you can use the mobile power to light the breathing light. You see that many booths in the computer city do not turn on the light and the light is turned on in this way.
Memory and motherboard light bar effects.
South Bridge and PCI-E slot lighting effects.
Breathing light map effect.
Fourth, summary:It is said that this generation of Z370 motherboards and the previous generation Z270 did not change much. For personal dismantling experience, the total is as follows:
Personally speaking, this GIGABYTE Z370 motherboard is still very sincere in terms of work materials, 10-phase power supply, KILLER dual network card, three M.2 interfaces, high-end audio capacitors, etc., as the I7-8700K's Queen Motherboard, Gigabyte Z370 AORUS GAMING 7 is still competent.
However, we still have to spit a groove: Although the motherboard of this price segment certainly will not be too bad, but some of the BUG design still exists, such as:
1, although the armor of the motherboard I / O area looks good, but it squeezed the CPU 8PIN power supply interface space, when installed, we must remember to first CPU power supply line alignment is good, water cooling radiator, then we must all re-demolition Equipment. (Hardware reloading is very sour)
2, the general motherboard self-test card will go out after successful boot, Gigabyte Z370 AORUS Gaming 7 will always shine! Always show this AO, even if the display, the problem is the default font is red, a bit to destroy the light pollution RGB palette uniform. (OCD users can't stand it! Hopefully Gigabyte will fix it in the BIOS later)
3, on the overclocking, dew in the default voltage of 4.7Ghz, after pressing 1.38V 4.8Ghz successful test, and then 1.35V impact 5G can boot but can not pass the baking machine, it is likely with my ES version of the CPU physique ,for reference only. (Overclocking will be written later in the article)
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