PC players are not any strangers to “bling” on their machines, each inside and outside. But the most recent motherboard and GPU combo will allow you to fully bling out your desktop PC with some ludicrously extravagant indulgences. In addition to the most recent and strongest elements, they’re adorned with “crystalized titanium,” and accents made with precise gold.

The Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Xtreme X Ice is the bottom of this monument to extra. The motherboard is suitable with Intel Thirteenth- and 14th-gen Core processors, naturally, however that’s simply the meat and potatoes right here. Above the first I/O panel is a tiny LCS display, displaying temperatures and fan speeds by default.

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Gigabyte

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Less helpful adornments embrace covers for just about all the pieces on the board, with a sample of crystallized titanium so that you can have a look at as a substitute of, you already know, your elements. Don’t fear, the PCIe 5.0 graphics card slot and PCIe 5.0 M.2 slot (with a large passive cooler included) might be accessed with out taking the first shroud off. The plate holding the CPU in place is gold-colored, although the one a part of the motherboard Gigabyte really claims is “99 percent AU” gold is the tiny triangular serial plaque.

The remainder of the spec listing is commonplace for a Z790 chipset, with help for DDR5 RAM at as much as 82766MHz, one full-speed x16 PCIe 5.0 motherboard slot, plus a PCIe 3.0 x4 slot for different {hardware}, three different M.2 PCIe 4.0 slots, a great deal of USB ports and headers (two USB-C/Thunderbolt ports on the I/O panel, ten USB-A of assorted speeds), and built-in Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 5.2.

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Gigabyte

Gigabyte

The matching Aorus Xtreme Ice graphics card has quite a lot of the identical ostentatious touches. It’s an Nvidia RTX 4080 Super, which is certainly the most recent however not the best within the lineup. Its large triple-fan cooler is adorned with LEDs, naturally, but in addition has the identical crystallized titanium touches and 99 p.c AU gold serial quantity. The followers use a double ball bearing system for effectivity and the outer followers rotate reverse to the middle one, which Gigabyte claims “reduces turbulence and increases air pressure.”

Gigabyte

Gigabyte

Gigabyte

Like the motherboard, the GPU has a tiny built-in LCD, which sits on the highest of the shroud to face out of a case with a tempered glass facet panel. You can set it to show the GPU temperature, or customized textual content or a looping GIF for optimum memetic potential.

Both the Aorus Z790 Xtreme X Ice motherboard and the Aorus GeForce RTX 4080 Super Xtreme Ice 16G graphics card are stay on the Gigabyte promotional website, however don’t appear to have hit retailers but. That ought to provide you with time to pawn most of your possessions and/or limbs, in preparation for the inevitably excessive (and as but unrevealed) worth tags.