[H]ard|OCP took exception to some of the design choices on the Gaming 7, specifically the placement of an M.2 slot directly underneath the first PCIe slot and some of the data and power connectors are inconveniently placed. On the other hand the performance of the board is top notch, the 1950X ran perfectly stable at 4GHz and as there are two headers for watercooling on separate sides of the motherboard you should be able to hit that yourself. They have learned some interesting facts about the X399 chipset so even if you are not picking up this board it is worth reading through the whole article.
"We review GIGABYTE’s X399 Aorus Gaming 7 and see how it stacks up in the world of HEDT motherboards. This motherboard is not priced all that high considering the amount of features it touts and certainly it is not priced high for the stability we were afforded while overclocking the Threadripper to 4GHz."
Here are some more Motherboard articles from around the web:
Motherboards
- ECS Z270H4-I Review @ Neoseeker
- ASUS ROG STRIX Z370-F Gaming @ Guru of 3D
- ASRock Z370 Taichi @ TechPowerUp
- MSI X299 XPower Gaming AC @ [H]ard|OCP
- GIGABYTE X299 Aorus Gaming 3 @ [H]ard|OCP
And Foxconn socket. I hope
And Foxconn socket. I hope they improved it otherwise it’s a piece of garbage.
Can you elaborate? I am not
Can you elaborate? I am not sure how being a Foxconn produced socket affects the board’s overall quality.
Read about it. Watch some
Read about it. Watch some Youtube staff like JayzTwoCents. The screws on Foxconn sockets are too short and its hard to close the socket. You need to use a lot of force which might damage your expensive CPU and a lot of force is not always enough. LOTES socket seems to be much better.
Looking at that socket I
Looking at that socket I think Foxconn may have changed it from the first ones released. It looks like 2 & 3 screws have been counter sunk like the Lotes sockets. Foxconn did it slightly different but they are now sunk down a bit.
You are the one who needs to
You are the one who needs to watch real stuff instead of that unproficient, brute force reasoning, motherboard drilling Yeti, called JayzTwoCents.
There are some vids on youtube showing what states in the manual (rtfm). First, *start-only* the screwing on 1, 2… 3 & so on.
Maybe searching for “correct install of threadripper” might help.
That advice is probably not
That advice is probably not going to help, i am afraid. Similar advice apparently didn’t help in the past either — how else would one explain the emergence of reinforced PCIe and DIMM slots. (Reinforced DIMM slots? Some kids must really love to play rough with their toys…)