Motherboard producers are not any strangers to adorning their merchandise with outlandish designs to be able to entice a purchaser. From the rugged camo theme of Asus’ early TUF vary of motherboards to the cat-themed enjoyable of Colourful’s Meow vary, they’ll strive something as soon as. The most recent design to catch our eye is the brand new Gigabyte Z790 Xtreme X Ice motherboard, which incorporates suitably icy ‘mist aesthetics’ and an precise gold plated CPU socket.
Sure, simply within the space the place the very last thing you need is any rogue electrical conductivity – thermal conductivity we don’t thoughts, however not electrical – Gigabyte has slapped one of the crucial electrically conductive supplies on the planet. In fact, it’s not like the very best gaming motherboards of the world have CPU sockets constructed from in any other case insulating supplies but it surely’s a stunning addition nonetheless.
The brand new motherboard, revealed by Gigabyte worker Duy Manh on Fb, additionally will get a “restricted version unique gold serial plaque” and can also be joined by a GeForce RTX 4080 Tremendous Xtreme Ice graphics card, with each merchandise becoming into the identical cool white and frosty design scheme. The graphics card additionally will get a plaque however doesn’t embrace another gold components.
A doubtlessly excellent associate to the various white dual-chamber, dual-window circumstances which are so standard as of late – circumstances such because the NZXT H6 Move and Hyte Y70 Contact, these new Gigabyte Xtreme Ice parts additionally embrace “crystalized titanium texture” areas and “iridescent craftsmanship” areas, each of which add a reflective, silvery high quality to the components.
What makes the motherboard particularly so suited to a extremely open view is that it options two sections that utterly cowl its PCB and spare sockets. On the decrease half, the crystallized titanium and iridescent patterns cowl all however one of many PCI-E sockets, together with the SSDs and different connections. There’s additionally a frosted plexiglass plate surrounding the CPU socket, additional overlaying up any ugly PCB, although confusingly it additionally covers over the gold CPU socket.
Talking of which, maybe essentially the most amusing side of getting a gold plated CPU socket is that with the overwhelming majority of CPU coolers, you’re not going to have the ability to see a lot if any of the socket. Nonetheless, we applaud Gigabyte’s efforts at providing one thing decidedly completely different.
The Xtreme Ice vary is ready to be out there in a restricted version run of 300 items and arrive in Q2 2024. We don’t have a sign of pricing but however anticipate the motherboard particularly to be expensive.
If this cool white and gold look isn’t fairly to your style, maybe a Palworld PC is extra to your palette?
