Gigabyte X299 Aorus Gaming 3 Review

Written by Antony Leather

July 19, 2017 | 19:30

Tags: #kaby-lake-x #lga-2066 #skylake-x #x299

Companies: #gigabyte #intel

Test Setup

  • CPU Intel Core i9-7900X
  • Memory 32GB (4 x 8GB) Corsair Vengeance RGB 3,000MHz DDR4
  • GPU 2 x Asus Radeon RX 480 Strix 8GB
  • PSU Corsair RM850i
  • SSD Samsung SSD 850 Pro 256GB (SATA 6Gbps speed tests); Samsung 960 Evo 500GB (M.2 speed tests)
  • CPU cooler Fractal Design Celsius 240
  • Operating system Windows 10 64-bit

We'd like to thank Overclockers UK for supplying our CPU.

Tests

    Content creation
  • Cinebench R15
  • PCMark 10 Photo Editing
  • HandBrake video transcoding
  • Terragen 4

    Gaming
  • 3DMark Time Spy (CPU test)
  • Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation (CPU test)
  • Unigine Valley 1.0

    SATA 6Gbps and M.2 Storage
  • CrystalDiskMark

    Audio
  • Rightmark Audio Analyzer

    Power
  • Power consumption

    Overclocking and EFI
  • Overclocking, EFI, and software

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