Very interesting changes are coming in the next generation of processors and GIGABYTE has already done its homework to have everything ready for your arrival. And of course, with Computex 2024 taking place these days, this was the space the company chose to show for the first time some of the motherboards that will make up its Intel Arrow Lake offering, with the Z890 chipset (as you can guess from the signs displayed at the fair near the boards), as with the recently introduced AMD Ryzen 9000, in this case with the X870E chipset.

We start with GIGABYTE’s proposal for the future Arrow Lakes, which will take the update from Raptor Lake and which, as we told you a long time ago, comes with a socket change, LGA1851, which will be incompatible with previous generations. This means that in order to jump to this new generation, it will be necessary to update the motherboard as well. As we have already told you, this fits into Intel’s strategy of two generations per socket.

GIGABYTE thus showed several motherboards with the LGA1851 socket, which belong to the brand’s most popular product families. They stand out among them Z890 AORUS Tachyon, which, as you might have guessed from the name, focuses on extreme performance, something we’ve seen with previous Tachyon products. It has only two DIMM slots (one per channel), concentrates the NVMe slots very close to the socket with which they share the heatsink, two expansion slots and, like its predecessor, more controls to facilitate and monitor overclocking. They also showed a Z890 AERO G high-end a various Z890 AORUS Elite models.

In the top row, three motherboards for Arrow Lake; Bottom motherboard for Ryzen 9000 (left) and Threadripper (right).

The situation is different for those interested in the new Ryzen 9000, because, as AMD already announced at the time, it shares the AM5 socket with its predecessor, and therefore Ryzen 7000 motherboards are compatible with this new generation. Now there’s no doubt that the X870E socket will allow you to take better advantage of these new Zen 5 architecture chips, in addition to other improvements derived from the evolution of the technology itself.

On this platform, the highlight of GIGABYTE’s offering is the motherboard X870E AORUS Xtremea motherboard that focuses on performance (as you might have already guessed from the name), for which it integrates a remarkable advanced temperature management system and uses next-generation connectivity technologies such as USB4 and Wi-Fi 7.

Finally, and outside of both platforms, GIGABYTE also brought to Computex 2024 a motherboard for AMD’s Threadripper platform, which, as you already know, is aimed at the workstation segment. It’s about TRX50 AI TOP and stands out for its support of eight-channel DDR5 RAM. It integrates four full-bandwidth PCIe Gen 5 x16 slots and half a dozen M.2. NVMe slots, most of which are Gen 5.

Information and images: TechPowerUp