Gigabyte X570 AORUS ELITE WiFi evaluation： 12+2 phase power supply, cost-effective mid-range X570.

　　[PConline evaluation]It has been two months since the release of three generations of Ruilong. At the beginning, everyone’s promise of "real fragrance" seems to have been fulfilled: there were many people who grabbed the first launch. After AMD updated the BIOS of various chicken blood motherboards in the later period, it attracted a lot of users to join the camp of agricultural enterprises. However, even if the processor is really fragrant, the price of the motherboard remains high. Most of the first motherboards are flagship models, which cost 3,000 yuan at every turn. Many people turn to B450 with three generations of Ruilong.

　　B450 with 3rd generation Ruilong can be used, but it’s still a little uncomfortable not to use new technologies such as PCIe 4.0. Moreover, the power supply of many X570 motherboards has been strengthened, which has better support ability for more core processors in the future. The Gigabyte X570 AORUS ELITE WiFi evaluated this time has one of the best super power supply modules in the thousand-yuan class. Today, let’s see if it is worth choosing.

　　The front mainly introduces the characteristic design of the motherboard. If you want to see more motherboard drawings, you can skip to the last page.

　　The main color of the motherboard is the silver-black color matching consistently used in Gigabyte AORUS series, and the AORUS word of MOS tube heat dissipation armor and the carving of South Bridge heat dissipation are all designed in silver metal.

　　M.2 cooling armor, engraved with the words X570 AORUS ELITE WiFi, two PCIe X16 slots, one with metal reinforcement measures.

　　12+2-phase CPU power supply, 2 ounces of copper PCB, and increased heat sink design can effectively reduce the accumulated heat generated by the motherboard work and provide CPU with stronger power supply capacity.

　　I/O interface is equipped with integrated baffle, X570 AORUS ELITE WiFi interface is relatively complete, 4xUSB 2.0, one HDMI 2.0, four USB 3.2 Gen1 and two USB 3.2 Gen2, and also with Intel 802.11ac WiFi interface. The wired Gigabit network card is Intel’s I211-AT, which supports the regulation and control of application network traffic policies with Gigabyte cFosSpeed software.

　　The motherboard is positioned in the middle and high end, and the materials used are luxurious, so we will use Ryzen 9 3900X to test the limit of this motherboard.

　　Because there are uncertain factors in air cooling (the wind blown out by air cooling will cool the power supply of the motherboard, which will lead to the difference in the power supply temperature of the tested motherboard), so we will use water cooling to test, only let the CPU cool down, and the motherboard only depends on its own heat sink to cool down. The water cooling used this time is overclocking three Yanyue 360 RGB, which also played a great role in our initial evaluation, allowing the processor to give full play to its performance.

　　The graphics card uses the current game card king RTX 2080 Ti to ensure that there will be no bottleneck in the 3DMark test.

　　The Ryzen 9 3900X used in the test is the highest-end three-generation Ryzen processor at present, so it is no longer a problem to squeeze out the performance of our motherboards. For the comparison platform, Gigabyte X570 AORUS MASTER used in the previous first CPU test was selected. If the running scores of the two motherboards are the same, it proves that Gigabyte X570 AORUS ELITE WiFi can play all the functions that appear in all three generations of Ryzen processor.

　　In the performance measurement, except for the motherboard, we keep other accessories consistent and control other variables.

　　Summary:Judging from the difference between the test and comparison, the running scores of the two platforms are not much different, which belongs to the normal error range, and both platforms can play the performance of Ryzen 9 3900X, while the read and write speeds of PCIe 4.0 SSD of the two platforms are almost the same, and both motherboards do not affect the hardware play of the platform.

　　Temperature control ability is one of the important reference factors to measure whether a motherboard is excellent in design. The heat dissipation armor of X570 AORUS ELITE WiFi is much lighter than that of AORUS MASTER, so what is the heat dissipation ability?

　　During the test, the room temperature was about 25℃. We turned on the PBO function of the processor and turned it on. During standby, because the individual core frequency of the CPU was maintained at 4.6GHz, the core temperature fluctuated all the time. Finally, the maximum standby power supply temperature was 50.3 C..

　　After using the Prime95 roaster for 20 minutes, the temperature of the power supply module of X570 AORUS ELITE WiFi soared to 91.1℃, and the CPU was maintained at the frequency of full-core BOOST 4.1GHz, which was actually acceptable if it did not reach 100 C..

　　We installed two NVMe solid states in the first M.2 slot and the last M.2 slot respectively, copied the data repeatedly to load the South Bridge, and measured the temperature. Here, the South Bridge chip is covered with thick heat dissipation armor. The highest temperature we measured comes from the PCB on the side of the heat sink, and the highest temperature is only 36.7 C. During the test, the South Bridge fan did not start, and the temperature control ability was excellent.

　　Combining the motherboard temperatures of previous brands, we have integrated a table for your reference. This time, the temperature test data of Gigabyte X570 AORUS ELITE WiFi is added. The power supply temperature of the motherboard baking machine is at a high level, second only to MSI X570 GAMING PRO CARBON WiFi. Because the current solid-state drive can’t give full play to the full strength of PCIe 4.0, Therefore, the load and temperature of the south bridge are low. The temperature of the south bridge of X570 AORUS ELITE WiFi is only 36.7°C, which is the best level among all tested motherboards.

　　Finally, we also made a simple motherboard specification comparison table, and the motherboards that have been tested in the future will be recorded here for your reference.

　　Since the release of X570 motherboard, the high price has discouraged many people. Although three generations of Ryzen processor can use motherboards such as B450 in backwards compatibility, sometimes they feel uncomfortable not using new features such as PCIe 4.0 and USB 3.2 Gen2. The e-commerce price of this Gigabyte X570 AORUS ELITE WiFi is 1788 yuan, and there are still activities now. Every time 100 yuan is full, 10 yuan will be reduced, which means it only needs 1600 yuan to start. 12+2-phase power supply, feeding Ryzen 9 3900X is not a problem, even the Ryzen 9 3950X in the future should be able to compete with it. The M.2 interface of dual PCIe 4.0 and the rich I/O interface behind it are available. To be honest, there is nothing to be picky about this price.

　　The motherboard slot is used for the ever-changing AM4, and there is no big problem in adapting to previous generations of AM4 processors.

　　The audio part is equipped with ALC 1200 audio chip, WIMA and nichicon capacitors optimize the filtering effect, and the audio cutting line effectively separates other circuits of the motherboard from the audio circuit to prevent mutual interference.

　　The heat sink of the power supply module is very thick.

　　There are 6 SATA ports reserved on the side of the motherboard, which is estimated that many people can’t use them up.

　　There are four memory slots, and there are no metal reinforcement slots that are often used on higher-end motherboards.

　　The USB 3.1 Type-C interface of the front panel is placed under the memory slot.

　　CPU power supply is single 8PIN.

　　The pins of the power supply slot of the motherboard are all designed with solid pins, which reduces the resistance and effectively reduces the heat accumulation during operation.

　　Motherboards with WiFi modules in Gigabyte always have an external antenna, and the reception effect is not bad.