Gadgetory

what's up guys I'm Dmitry with Huracan accent aim these Rison is coming down the pipeline very soon and everyone is excited about what it could offer as a competition for entos hire and processors when it's so close to being officially released CES 2017 is providing a perfect platform for motherboard manufacturers to show us what they will have to offer when the horizon becomes available some of this stuff is pretty exciting since we haven't seen anything truly new on the AMD chipset side for a very long time if you have gigabytes upcoming rise in ready motherboards were shown behind closed doors for us during the show and we got a close look at three of them the ax 370 gaming 5 the ax 370 gaming k5 and the a be 350 gaming 3 so let's start things off with a gaming 5a motherboard that uses aim DS upcoming 370 series chipset while actual pricing wasn't discussed gigabyte and every other multiple manufacturer we talked to so far made it evident that they are initially targeting the mid-range category where they are m4 boards while higher-end products may be available in the future it seems like everyone is approaching Rison and it's a summit ridge platform as a value focused solution as for the gaming 5 it uses gigabytes new auras branding which will be added to all of their premium gaming focused products it uses a six plus two phase PWM for the CPU and ddr4 and it has well spaced three primary PCIe x16 slots that can be used for either dual card SLI or triple cross fire and those slots are reinforced with metal to provide some additional support for heavier GPUs being their more expensive option the gaming 5 has a lot of interesting features there's onboard power and auto OC buttons a killer 2500 Ethernet chipset and MDOT to slot with access to 4 pcie 3.0 lanes and gigabytes amp up audio which has replaced o amp for modifying sound signature at the hardware level one very interesting addition is the u2 connector for ultra-fast storage which until now has been an exclusive to higher-end int'l motherboards it looks like AMD is licensing this from Intel which is definitely a development to be taken note of there are some hallmarks here too that you will see on all gigabytes rise in supporting other boards the RGB W header for LED control is a gigabyte specific development that adds a dedicated white channel to the typical RGB for enhanced white level control it is also backwards compatible with the 3-pin RGB headers to the socket actually hasn't changed all that much between the older m3 and the new a m4 it still uses plastic retention brackets from previous series which you will certainly want to remove if installing aftermarket coolers and the socket itself is an almost carbon copy of its predecessor visually gigabytes or as gaming k5 will be based off the gaming 5 but it will be offered with a lower price point to things like reinforced PCIe slots and pop audio SATA Express ports and overclock buttons and the RGB W headers are still carried over however the u2 port and some other minor items have been eliminated you can also see gigabyte has given this more of a stealthy appearance than the gaining 5 with the black shrouds for the i/o area and the chipset and other than notes the difference between the two boards are right now at least very minimal since both use the same 370 series chipset and finally this is gigabytes GAA be 350 gaming 3 motherboards which as its name suggests users aim DS lower and 350 series chipset and doesn't make use of the premium or as branding this means less connectivity options and features but at a much lower price on this board gigabyte has gone with a basic layout that still has two primary PCIe x16 slots that are reinforced and make use of some led accents however don't expect things like SATA Express onboard diagnostic readouts or more capable pwm headers this is truly a value focused product but one thing you may have noticed in some of our shots is that all these boards have some form of backplate display connector even though Rison processors will not have any onboard graphics capabilities the reason for this is pretty simple the summit reach platform and the aim for socket will be compatible with upcoming ap use built using this an architecture therefore any aim for motherboard can also be used for next-generation ap use and so that's all we have to talk about for now about these new m4 rising motherboards everyone around here and at the show are super excited about seeing what AMD has to offer in the coming months and I'm sure that we'll be seeing a lot more of gigabytes boards very soon thanks again for watching our coverage for CES and we'll be back with more soon