Gigabyte’s Mini-ITX AMD motherboard has taken on a jacket that melts into circular terrain

The smallest member of the Aorus Pro Ice family didn’t overdo the on-board I/O, but other than that it doesn’t look bad.

Gigabyte has recently expanded its range with a Mini-ITX motherboard, which is based on a white and AMD X870 control bridge, and its 8+2+1 phase, 110 ampere VRM is covered by a thick aluminum rib.

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Handles 7000, 8000 and 9000 series Ryzen processors, priced at (net) $300 X870I Aorus Pro Ice it has a ten-layer printed circuit board, and two DIMMs can hold up to 128 GB of DDR5 memory, the effective clock of which can be increased to 8800 MHz by overclocking. A single – reinforced – x16 PCI Express 5.0 rail is waiting for the video card or NVMe expander, while in the network set a 2.5 gigabit Realtek Ethernet serves as company for the Realtek RTL8922AE Wi-Fi 7/Bluetooth 5.4 module, and the task of creating sound is a two-channel Realtek It was entrusted to an ALC4080 chip.

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For data storage, a PCI Express 5.0 M.2280 slot covered by a rib and a PCI Express 4.0 M.2 2280 slot on the other side are available in addition to the two SATA ports, while the fixed I/O shield, which facilitates installation, has a HDMI output supporting 2.1, 4K displays up to 60 Hz refresh rate, two antenna connectors and one DisplayPort alt mode USB4 Type-C, one USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C, two USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A, two USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A, plus two USB 2.0 ports are located on the aforementioned LAN, in addition to the two 3.5 mm jacks and BIOS flash button.

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We can connect one USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C and two USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A connectors to the front panel of our chassis, our system cooling fans must share a PWM spike row, and our LED-sprinkled headers can be connected to one RGB and two ARGB headers.