Z390 - Gigabyte/Aorus - Xtreme Waterforce

orbitalwalsh

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https://videocardz.com/77792/gigabytes-z390-aorus-elite-motherboard-pictured

pictured board is the ENTRY model....

12+1 VRM phase design - guessing this is 6 Phase doubled and Gigabyte has learnt its lesson with no 'Hybrid' wording in site .
Either 8 Core needs some juice or Gigabyte has jumped into the pool at the deep end

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wonder if Xtreme might push the VRM count and either do 8 true phases doubled like Z270 boards or like the MEG, 16 true phased paired together due to controllers handling max 8 Phases...

VRM set up on the old Z270 G9

https://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/7998/aorus-z270x-gaming-9-motherboard-review/index3.html

Interesting to see how the ITX Z390 looks, since the B450 has 4 True Digital phase count, and room was tight , could 6 have been squeezed in or doubled etc
 
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Im still waiting to find out and get full clarification on whether all z370 boards will support 9th gen cpus (with a bios revision), i think all features so far that has been disclosed for z390, are so close to z370 that it maybe an option to go that route and save some cash, however it is a nice looking board and it does start to play with my enthusiast side and makes me question myself.
 
Jamie Archer said:
Im still waiting to find out and get full clarification on whether all z370 boards will support 9th gen cpus (with a bios revision), i think all features so far that has been disclosed for z390, are so close to z370 that it maybe an option to go that route and save some cash, however it is a nice looking board and it does start to play with my enthusiast side and makes me question myself.
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Yeah they will pretty sure Gigabyte along with the rest have stated Z370 will have Bios update .

Key difference are, like B360/H370 they are true coffeelake chipsets so everything is in house and no 3rd party controller etc and made on smaller node .
VRM have been beefed up to. Z370 isn't EOL as well and guessing will be budgeted for lower end of the market
 
orbitalwalsh said:
Yeah they will pretty sure Gigabyte along with the rest have stated Z370 will have Bios update .

Key difference are, like B360/H370 they are true coffeelake chipsets so everything is in house and no 3rd party controller etc and made on smaller node .
VRM have been beefed up to. Z370 isn't EOL as well and guessing will be budgeted for lower end of the market
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Yeah bit worried though as was gonna jump on one to save some money but upon researching what little there is out there, I've seen that z370 likely will but there's bits of information suggesting that this will only be for 6 core cpus and the i9 and 8 cores will require z390, i would hate to pull the trigger and find out I lose that potential upgrade path down the line.
 
Jamie Archer said:
Yeah bit worried though as was gonna jump on one to save some money but upon researching what little there is out there, I've seen that z370 likely will but there's bits of information suggesting that this will only be for 6 core cpus and the i9 and 8 cores will require z390, i would hate to pull the trigger and find out I lose that potential upgrade path down the line.
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Get flagship Aorus 7 or Asus hero or asrock taichi personally .
Might land good deals come week 40-42
 
Jamie Archer said:
Im still waiting to find out and get full clarification on whether all z370 boards will support 9th gen cpus (with a bios revision), i think all features so far that has been disclosed for z390, are so close to z370 that it maybe an option to go that route and save some cash, however it is a nice looking board and it does start to play with my enthusiast side and makes me question myself.
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This might help you get clarification

https://ph.aorus.com/news-detail.php?i=303

GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY Co. Ltd, a leading manufacturer of motherboards and graphics cards, announced the release of new BIOS updates which provide support for the highly-anticipated Intel 9000 processors. GIGABYTE’s engineering teams have developed BIOS updates for the Z370, H370, B360, H310 motherboards to provide the best support for Intel’s next-gen CPUs.
 
netdps said:
This might help you get clarification

https://ph.aorus.com/news-detail.php?i=303

GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY Co. Ltd, a leading manufacturer of motherboards and graphics cards, announced the release of new BIOS updates which provide support for the highly-anticipated Intel 9000 processors. GIGABYTE’s engineering teams have developed BIOS updates for the Z370, H370, B360, H310 motherboards to provide the best support for Intel’s next-gen CPUs.
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Thanks, i have read mixed views lately with some people suggesting they may do, but they maybe locked to only the 6 cores, but ive also seen bios info on the asrock extreme4 (on official site) where they have a description for their latest and most recent bios updates saying '8 core next gen cpu compatibility' or words to that effect.
So yes it's looking more and more likely now :-)
Cheers
 
https://videocardz.com/newz/gigabytes-z390-aorus-master-and-ultra-leaked

XTREME STILL NOT LISTED

GIGABYTE Z390 AORUS Series
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VRM PCIe (x16/x1) WIFI M.2
Z390 AORUS MASTER 12+2 3 / 3 yes 3
Z390 AORUS ULTRA 12+1 3 / 3 yes 3
Z390 AORUS PRO 12+1 3 / 3 – 2
Z390 AORUS ELITE 12+1 2 / 4 – 2

MASTER

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ULTRA - have heard this board hits 5ghz on 9900k just fine and no toasty VRM

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PRO

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LambChop said:
If the ultra hits 5g with the 9900k then surely the master will too?
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A reasonable assumption.
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seems 5.3 ghz - guessing these are the good chips but they are out there - you need really good cooling still though so under water .

seems rumor mill is Masters audio is 125dB SNR , take around 470-500 amps across the VCore and long milled BIOS re-haul will finally show up - fingers crossed
 
Ah yeah. I meant if the ultra can hit 5ghz then assuming the master will do at least 5 is not unreasonable.

We'll all know soon.

Not soon enough, but soon.
 
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Ah yeah. I meant if the ultra can hit 5ghz then assuming the master will do at least 5 is not unreasonable.

We'll all know soon.

Not soon enough, but soon.
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marketing media is out for all i believe, wont be too long before they are leaked, all displaying about 5ghz for most of the range though - then again, they have to push a hard sale haha
 
It would be really good if Intel gave consumers some confidence that what they are buying is going to last.

The same way Amd has with their promise of compatibility for however many generations.
 
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It would be really good if Intel gave consumers some confidence that what they are buying is going to last.

The same way Amd has with their promise of compatibility for however many generations.
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true, AMD could have gone on longer if not for DDR5 , which will be interesting as that lands on the last year of AMD's 4th gen or Zen2 refresh plan
 
orbitalwalsh said:
seems 5.3 ghz - guessing these are the good chips but they are out there - you need really good cooling still though so under water .

seems rumor mill is Masters audio is 125dB SNR , take around 470-500 amps across the VCore and long milled BIOS re-haul will finally show up - fingers crossed
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Not really fussed about the audio, I'm running the stx ii which is awesome, hate paying for stuff I don't need though.
 
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