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fit wits coverage of CES 2018 is brought to you by fantex and cable mock click the links in the description below for more info what's going on guys welcome back to the channel and my coverage of CES 2018 I had a chance to stop by the gigabyte Suites today and they actually had some pretty cool stuff to show off one of which was an optical mechanical keyboard which I may be taking a closer look at in a dedicated video later down the line but for now I really want to talk about one product that really piqued my interest so it's probably gonna pick yours it's the the new AM for board next generation for the second generation rise in CPUs that are not even out yet um so far it's the only motherboard manufacturer that I've seen at CES actually having a board on this on this chip said that gigabyte was actually not able to tell me firsthand what the chipset was but I think we can all safely assume since AMD's already kind of announced with that chips that's gonna be that this is an X 470 motherboard so that's exciting of course on the am 4 socket and it's it's actually pretty nice looking board it's featuring two aluminum fin heat sinks that span over the entire VRM and those are bridged by a six millimeter copper heat pipe that's making direct contact for increased thermal dissipation we also have 2 m2 slots one of which is routed to the PCH the other to the CPU both of these slots actually have a nice beefy heatsink cover on them whether or not that's going to be effective or helpful or hurtful remains to be seen after some rigorous testing we also have an IO shield the rear i/o has plenty of connectivity options pretty much anything you might expect from a premium board here in 2018 and it's also got a clear CMOS button and the power button built in so that's really convenient being able to power on your system is for example if you're not wired up with your front I owe you can still power it on from behind your case even once the motherboards all installed you don't have to open up your side panel and hit the surface mounted power button on the motherboard itself so that's actually really handy I like that feature I haven't seen that before on a board naturally we get a ton of hours you be on this board including the digital RGB area on the i/o shield or the i/o cover I should say and then normal RGB elsewhere unfortunately we didn't get to see this board all lit up they didn't even have a CPU obvious to slot it in I guess they could have used a first generation rise in CPU but they would have also needed the BIOS update to make that all work anyway I'm getting carried away here there are debug LED switches on the board for single and dual BIOS modes that's really nice board features a 10 plus 2 phase power design for very clean stable power that's using IR 2 5 603 which is what gigabyte has used in the past on some of their boards gigabyte mentioned that there's been a huge emphasis on memory compatibility with this new platform which is really exciting because you know there was definitely a time there when the first generation of aim for boards came out where there was a very limited selection of which memory kits you could actually use and run properly on top of that we're gonna see maximum supported speeds of ddr4 4,000 megahertz which is gonna actually makes a difference this matters because you know the faster your memory is with an infinity fabric woven in to these Rison cpus the higher your in-game performance is going to be so that's exciting as well we do have a metallic back plates that's not full cover or anything but it's sort of on the upper and right hand side of the board itself it's mainly for rigidity and they guest comes with cosmetics because it does look pretty cool but gigabyte did mention that it's not intended for you know reducing thermals or anything like that more so just to make sure that the board stays nice and straight real tech audio with an ESS saber DAC so great audio features there overall this board it's not that it looks it doesn't look terrible at all for starters but you could definitely tell that gigabytes focus with with the gaming 7 Wi-Fi was performance over over cosmetics and I think that's kind of a trend that we need to sort of bring back into the industry after you know the the RGB craze and just trying to make everything look pretty and sort of having actual performance and functionality fall by the wayside so kudos to gigabyte can't wait to get my hands on this board and actually try it out for the second generation rise and CP you guys let me know what you think oh yeah I should say it's coming soon obviously probably in in April I think April is when the first first batch of Verizon as new resin CPUs come out and then it's gonna retail for 250 us so I think for all the features you're getting it's it's pretty justifiable of course if you're gonna use all those features if you're only going to use coupled maybe not so much I know that a lot of you guys probably prefer to spend no more than 100 to 150 on a motherboard so let me know what you think about this price point for a mobo for you know the latest Rison platform in the comments below as always feel free to toss me a like on the video if you enjoyed it and make sure that you're subscribed so you don't miss any more of my coverage here at CES 2018 guys thanks for watching and I will see you all in the next one