The GIGABYTE X570 Aorus Xtreme Motherboard Review: Fanless AM4
by Gavin Bonshor on September 24, 2019 9:00 AM ESTGaming Performance
For X570 we are running using Windows 10 64-bit with the 1903 update as per our Ryzen 3000 CPU review.
World of Tanks enCore
Albeit different to most of the other commonly played MMO or massively multiplayer online games, World of Tanks is set in the mid-20th century and allows players to take control of a range of military based armored vehicles. World of Tanks (WoT) is developed and published by Wargaming who are based in Belarus, with the game’s soundtrack being primarily composed by Belarusian composer Sergey Khmelevsky. The game offers multiple entry points including a free-to-play element as well as allowing players to pay a fee to open up more features. One of the most interesting things about this tank based MMO is that it achieved eSports status when it debuted at the World Cyber Games back in 2012.
World of Tanks enCore is a demo application for a new and unreleased graphics engine penned by the Wargaming development team. Over time the new core engine will implemented into the full game upgrading the games visuals with key elements such as improved water, flora, shadows, lighting as well as other objects such as buildings. The World of Tanks enCore demo app not only offers up insight into the impending game engine changes, but allows users to check system performance to see if the new engine run optimally on their system.
Grand Theft Auto V
The highly anticipated iteration of the Grand Theft Auto franchise hit the shelves on April 14th 2015, with both AMD and NVIDIA in tow to help optimize the title. GTA doesn’t provide graphical presets, but opens up the options to users and extends the boundaries by pushing even the hardest systems to the limit using Rockstar’s Advanced Game Engine under DirectX 11. Whether the user is flying high in the mountains with long draw distances or dealing with assorted trash in the city, when cranked up to maximum it creates stunning visuals but hard work for both the CPU and the GPU.
For our test we have scripted a version of the in-game benchmark. The in-game benchmark consists of five scenarios: four short panning shots with varying lighting and weather effects, and a fifth action sequence that lasts around 90 seconds. We use only the final part of the benchmark, which combines a flight scene in a jet followed by an inner city drive-by through several intersections followed by ramming a tanker that explodes, causing other cars to explode as well. This is a mix of distance rendering followed by a detailed near-rendering action sequence, and the title thankfully spits out frame time data.
F1 2018
Aside from keeping up-to-date on the Formula One world, F1 2017 added HDR support, which F1 2018 has maintained; otherwise, we should see any newer versions of Codemasters' EGO engine find its way into F1. Graphically demanding in its own right, F1 2018 keeps a useful racing-type graphics workload in our benchmarks.
Aside from keeping up-to-date on the Formula One world, F1 2017 added HDR support, which F1 2018 has maintained. We use the in-game benchmark, set to run on the Montreal track in the wet, driving as Lewis Hamilton from last place on the grid. Data is taken over a one-lap race.
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SSTANIC - Tuesday, September 24, 2019 - link
"Users can expand on this with a single USB 3.1 G2 Type-C header which provides a single port, a USB 3.1 G1 Type-A header for two additional ports, and a single USB 2.0 header which offers users two additional ports". It says right there - USB 3.1 G1 Type-A, formerly known as USB 3.0..uplink - Tuesday, September 24, 2019 - link
A great motherboard indeed, that died after 5 days of installation of the system...Andy Chow - Tuesday, September 24, 2019 - link
I don't get paying $700 for a motherboard. Consumer motherboards over $300 don't make sense. And yes, this is a consumer motherboard.TheinsanegamerN - Tuesday, September 24, 2019 - link
There's a sucker born every minute.Total Meltdowner - Wednesday, September 25, 2019 - link
This.rtoledo2002 - Tuesday, October 1, 2019 - link
so true. these days, they add a 1:00 dollar RGB light and call it " GAMING " and all of a sudden it cost 3 to 10 times more, and these kids just pay it. at most these MOBO are worth 150.00 to 300.00 dollars . can't wait to see RGB toilet paper for gamersDr.Neale - Saturday, September 28, 2019 - link
For you, they don’t make sense.For me, I firmly believe you have to pay for what you get, and a better “price limit” on a motherboard might be the price of the “consumer” CPU it matches: in this case, the $749 price [announced] for the Ryzen 9 3950X.
Somehow, I doubt you would be willing to spring for one of those, either...
Of course, just because YOU aren’t into this particular [*sniff*] “consumer” motherboard, many enthusiasts ARE.
And enthusiasts often drive many diverse markets, precisely because they WILL spend the money to fulfill their wish lists, unlike skinflints, who want everything for next to nothing !!!
Not much profit in selling to skinflints !
willis936 - Sunday, August 1, 2021 - link
Human from the future here: watch out for the next year.Also, this board is $700 because it has 12 USB ports on the rear panel and 10G networking. Those things would eat up the (extremely limited) number of PCIe lanes on AM4. The fastest single core processors available today are on AM4. You could always go to Threadripper Pro or Xeon or something but you lose a *lot* of single threaded performance. This board makes a lot of sense. The other AM4 flagships: not so much.
Ratman6161 - Tuesday, September 24, 2019 - link
Interesting Materiel for sure. But...a $700 motherboard???? Not for me. I would really like to see reviews of some "real people" boards. I tend to be more about using lower priced low to mid-range hardware and then using overclocking to get more out of it. For example I've got a R7-1700 that performs like an 1800x (which was a much more expensive proposition at the time). Maybe you know your audience better than I do, but I don't know anyone buying $700 motherboards for home use.On new egg there are actually x570 boards for as low as $149 and 12 of them for under $200 as of the time I'm writing this. So, if I spend $500 less, maybe I'll just get the 4.2Ghz and not the 4.3 squeezed out of the board in this review? Yup, I'm OK with that.
Threska - Tuesday, September 24, 2019 - link
Maybe buy a fanned motherboard and water-cool the whole thing?