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we found the new gigabyte gaming 7 motherboard at CES equipped with what one could assume is an AMD x4 70 chipset given information from AMD on its own launch timelines it would also be reasonable to assume that the new motherboards can be expected for roughly April of this year alongside Andes rise in CPU refresh this is all information learned from Andes public data as 4 gigabytes gaming 7 motherboard the new one with an AM for socket the first thing we noticed is that it has real heat sinks on the VRMs and that it's actually running what appears to be a higher-end configuration for what we would assume is the new rise and launch what we've been calling risin + or some have called risin 2 before that this coverage is brought to you by Thermaltake and the flow liquid cooler the flow is a 360 millimeter radiator with three ring RGB LED fans you can program the fans our custom lighting through software and then of course benefit from the larger radiator size and cooling performance learn more at the link in the description below started with the heatsink gigabyte has taken pride and listening to media and community concerns about vrm heat sinks over the last year and has now added an actual thin stack atop its 10 phase V core vrm to give an idea we saw a significant performance improvement on the EVGA X 299 dark motherboard with just the finned heat sinks not even using the built-in fans so it's definitely worthwhile we saw upwards of 20 degree improvements over the fat blocks in some cases with EVGA s board since there's blocks don't provide any actual service area the vrm on the new gigabyte board is a doubled 5 phase using international rectifier 3 5 9 9 v core drivers with 3 5 5 3 MOSFETs and ir35 to 0 one is used for the PWM and the board is comprised of a 6 layer PCB a doubling scheme is used to create an effective 10 phase and an additional 2 phases are allocated to memory on the gaming 7 Wi-Fi board these MOSFETs are cooled with direct touch copper heat pipes or one of them anyway at 6 millimeters in diameter which contacts be a thin thermal pad for maximum heat transfer potential the aluminum fin stack takes up the rest of the heat spreading process and still managed to get some visual elements in there as well other keyboard features include an external clock Gen which is really useful for dialing and over clocks to smaller intervals than whole 1x jumps additional overclocking features include a dual BIOS useful recovery and targeted support for up to 4,000 megahertz memory from what we've found out anyway about Andy's new CPUs it's unclear how well the target will work out for 4000 megahertz but that's what we're expecting as of now the board has two BIOS dip switches present for dual BIOS or single or dual BIOS mode and for PCIe slots the board has three PCIe x16 length slots which are wired for x16 x8 for the first two and then by four for the third one based on the backside of the motherboard a couple of PCIe x16 all over the board perimeter which is welcomed and an integrated i/o shield the rear i/o panel includes a CMOS clear switch and a power button both of which are also welcomed along with some digital RGB LEDs that I guess will take at this point and finally it is named the gaming Sun Wi-Fi because it's got a 2 by 2 Wi-Fi module on there as for release timelines and price given the presence of the am for socket and Andes event at CES for the rise and refresh we can assume this is x4 70 release is targeted at roughly April based on Angie's own schedule and we think the board will be in the $250 range plus or minus a couple bucks briefly gigabyte also has a new mining motherboard we won't go too in depth on this one but it's a b250 chipset for Intel LGA socket CPUs LGA 1151 as for PCIe slots the mining board has 12 of them one of which is a full by 16 length which is also electrically wired four by sixteen and it's using two molex headers on the board for additional power to the PCIe lanes the motherboard also will include a 3-way splitter for power supplies so you can piggyback multiple power supplies for the single board and that's about all we know about this one for now so as always you can help us out directly on patreon.com side gamer's Nexus subscribe to check the rest of our CES 2018 coverage and we'll see you all next time