Gigabyte has an interesting policy regarding Aorus motherboards. Usually Aorus graphics cards, drives or RAM strips belong to A class, competing with another popular line of products for gamers — Asus ROG. But in the case of Aorus motherboards, the trend towards elitism is not so clear. Many representatives of this series cost around $130-180, and AMD B450 and Intel B560, which belong to the middle echelon, are often used as chipsets. Despite this, they can boast of very serious equipment that will satisfy all the whims of the average gamer.


For example, the Gigabyte B550 AORUS ELITE V2 is equipped with a high-end LAN controller, reinforced PCI-E slots, a comprehensive backlight system and an advanced audio track. It can work with a high-speed PCI-E 4 bus, with which you can seriously speed up the loading of textures in games or squeeze all the juices out of an NVMe SSD drive. Well, the presence of a strong element base, a high-quality 14-phase power subsystem and efficient cooling of power circuits make it a reliable base for a desktop or gaming PC with Core i7 or Ryzen 7, 32 GB of high-frequency RAM and a modern set of drives. At the time of writing this material (note: summer 2021), only $140 is being asked for all this good.

If these capabilities are not enough, there will be much more serious AORUS MASTER and Aorus PRO models based on AMD X570 and Intel Z490 chips in the Aorus range. This is already a pure overclocker class with the appropriate prices and equipment. The power systems here are more serious, LAN controllers are most often dual, the BIOS is also dual, and as pleasant little things there are often wireless Wi-Fi /Bluetooth receivers and additional sensors for better control of the system.