Gigabyte's Aorus Z270 Motherboards Announced

[beelzebozo]

Gigabyte is expected to release six new Aorus Z270-based motherboards tomorrow, January 5th.

Check out TechPowerup's write up below.

Source: https://www.techpowerup.com/229262/gigabyte-announces-its-aorus-z270-based-motherboard-lineup

 

[WonkeyDonkey]

Z270 not Z170 maybe ?

 

[beelzebozo]

Fixed. Muscle memory. Thanks

 

[trs96]

Aorus sounds like a strange name. Makes it sound like:

"It's either Asus or us. " The big two of motherboard manufacturers.

Not so thrilled about all the LED lighting emphasis but I guess it sells product.

 

[beelzebozo]

Current trend is LED errywhere.

Some of the motherboards have Creative audio on board, which is a bit disheartening. But some are using a new ALC 1220 codec.

 

[DJ4MC]

Wondering how soon we can build with one of them. I'm very interested in the M2 drive and USB-C. Might be time to do another build...

Jules

 

[WonkeyDonkey]

Its the USB-C im interested in knowing about too; thinking about the new monitor possibilities.

 

[DrBEN]

Aorus sounds like a strange name. Makes it sound like:

"It's either Asus or us. " The big two of motherboard manufacturers.

Not so thrilled about all the LED lighting emphasis but I guess it sells product.

AORUS /‘aʊ -rʌs/ is a hardcore-gamer-focused company which delivers SLI gaming laptop, mechanical gaming keyboard, MMO gaming mouse. It is a subsidiary of Gigabyte Technology.More at Wikipedia

 

[DJ4MC]

And they are now on Newegg and Amazon...

Jules