Looking below at the X299 Aorus Gaming 9, we can see that Gigabyte has gone a little RGB crazy, including RGB illuminated RAM slots, PCIe slots, heatsinks, IO covers and even an RGB illuminated rear IO. This is easily the largest number of RGB elements that we have ever seen on a single motherboard, offering users with a lot of illumination options. Let's hope that end users have the ability to disable some of these LED at will if they desire a more stealthy system.
We can see that Intel X299 socket is a similar size to their older X99 socket, which makes sense given the fact that they support the same cooler mounting solutions. We can also see that X299 still supports 4-channel DDR4 memory, with the board also supporting three M.2 slots, all of which support large M.2 heatsinks.
Below we can also see the Aorus Gaming 7, which offers similar features as the Gaming 9 but lacks the rear IO RGB illumination and lacks M.2 coolers for the top two M.2 slots.
We can also see some changes to several components on the motherboard, including different capacitors around the motherboard's audio section as well as other subtle changes on different locations on the motherboard from changed buttons/switches to different capacitor brands and placements.
With the Aorus Gaming 3, we have less reinforced PCIe slots and no RGB LEDs between this motherboard's RAM slots and the removal of this motherboard's third M.2 slot which is present under the chipset heatsink on Gigabyte's Gaming 7 and 9 motherboards. We can also see some clear changes fo this motherboard's audio section as well as a removal of the USB 3.1 front panel header that is present on the Gaming 7.
Originally reported by OC3D
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