Two Gigabyte AM4 motherboards have been pictured

[WYP]

Two Gigabyte AM4 motherboards have been pictured, showcasing what we can expect from AMD low-mid range AM4 products.



Read more on Gigabyte's pictures AM4 motherboards.

 

[Kushiro]

What about my PCI slot

Still got an old sound card that uses it

 

[AlienALX]

Gigabyte cutting it to the bone. No VRM cooling, so this board will not work with the decent Zen chips. I'd say that is a £45 board.

 

[Kushiro]

I thought this one was the budget one? It would be understandable that it didnt cool them.

 

[WYP]

I thought this one was the budget one? It would be understandable that it didnt cool them.

Yeah, these are likely budget-oriented boards for prebuilt systems and budget-oriented PCs.

If it is not intended for overclocking additional cooling isn't entirely necessary.

 

[grec]

Surely AM4 launches alongside Bristol Ridge, rather than Zen?, meaning these boards should hit the market fairly soon.

 

[Dicehunter]

What's with the VGA on the I/O ? We back in 2000 ? ^_^

 

[AlienALX]

What's with the VGA on the I/O ? We back in 2000 ? ^_^

Zen is an APU.

 

[NeverBackDown]

Zen is an APU.

No Zen is an architecture and a CPU only.
Bristol Ridge is an APU based off Excavator, but on the AM4 platform. So having video IO on the back is needed.

APUs based off Zen won't come till end of next year. But then it will be called something else at that time with a different codename

 

[Kushiro]

What's with the VGA on the I/O ? We back in 2000 ? ^_^

Believe it or not, even certain modern gaming notebooks come with VGA. Looking at you Gigabyte!!! Seems really stupid to include a VGA instead of an extra DP or something..

 

[Dicehunter]

Believe it or not, even certain modern gaming notebooks come with VGA. Looking at you Gigabyte!!! Seems really stupid to include a VGA instead of an extra DP or something..

Yeah plus monitors supporting VGA are slowly being phased out.

 

[NeverBackDown]

Yeah plus monitors supporting VGA are slowly being phased out.

This isn't for gaming. This really for budget businesses where they hold onto there old crap forever. Which means VGA.

 

[Kushiro]

This isn't for gaming. This really for budget businesses where they hold onto there old crap forever. Which means VGA.

Gigabyte had the audacity to include it on a HIGH END GAMING NOTEBOOK though!!

 

[NeverBackDown]

Gigabyte had the audacity to include it on a HIGH END GAMING NOTEBOOK though!!

Meh wouldn't bother me tbh as long as it had HDMI and 3 USB ports