It's An RGB Disco: The GIGABYTE X299 Gaming 7 Pro Motherboard, Reviewed
by Joe Shields on January 26, 2018 8:00 AM EST- Posted in
- Motherboards
- Gaming
- Intel
- Gigabyte
- AORUS
- RGB
- X299
- Basin Falls
- Skylake-X
- Gaming 7 Pro
Gaming Performance
Ashes of the Singularity is a Real Time Strategy game developed by Oxide Games and Stardock Entertainment. The original AoTS was released back in March of 2016 while the standalone expansion pack, Escalation, was released in November of 2016 adding more structures, maps, and units. We use this specific benchmark as it relies on both a good GPU as well as on the CPU in order to get the most frames per second. This balance is able to better display any system differences in gaming as opposed to a more GPU heavy title where the CPU and system don't matter quite as much. We use the default "Crazy" in-game settings using the DX11 rendering path in both 1080p and 4K UHD resolutions. The benchmark is run four times and the results averaged then plugged into the graph.
Our AOTSe testing continues to be a tight-knit dataset with almost 2 frames per second separating things in the more CPU heavy 1080p and less than 1 frame per second in 4K. The Gaming 7 Pro fit right in with 43.7 FPS at 1080p and 35 FPS in 4K UHD.
Rise of the Tomb Raider
Rise of the Tomb Raider is a third-person action-adventure game that features similar gameplay found in 2013's Tomb Raider. Players control Lara Croft through various environments, battling enemies, and completing puzzle platforming sections, while using improvised weapons and gadgets in order to progress through the story.
One of the unique aspects of this benchmark is that it’s actually the average of 3 sub-benchmarks that fly through different environments, which keeps the benchmark from being too weighted towards a GPU’s performance characteristics under any one scene.
Rise of the Tomb Raider results are also remarkably close together with the Gaming 7 Pro delivering 93 FPS at 1080p and 39.9 FPS using 4K UHD resolution.
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tech6 - Friday, January 26, 2018 - link
Welcome to another episode of Pimp my Mobo.I'm sure its a great board but that LED craze cannot end soon enough.
Manch - Friday, January 26, 2018 - link
Yeah, don't care for the RGB crap. I have an corsair keyboard that lights up red for when its dark. That's it.The board feature list is nice but id like to see a compare to the rest of the line up and its competitors.
Can yall add that Joe?
Joe Shields - Friday, January 26, 2018 - link
That is an incredible amount of data entry considering the sheer number of boards on the platform (over 50 IIRC). Between Newegg and the board partner's websites, who both offer 'compare' functionality, should show at least some of what you are looking for.Ian Cutress - Friday, January 26, 2018 - link
It gives me an idea for a project.WithoutWeakness - Tuesday, January 30, 2018 - link
I use the Bench all the time to compare GPUs, especially to get an idea of how high end cards from 3-4 generations ago stack up against newer mid-range cards. If you guys can build a comprehensive tool to narrow down motherboards based on features it would be great. Currently my go-to sites are Newegg and PCPartPicker but having another tool to compliment those would be awesome.Manch - Monday, January 29, 2018 - link
Fair enough. What about a cut down version of just its main competitors? Would that be a small enough list, or is the price point that crowded? You spend a good bit talking about picking a board based on features without making a recommendation so I think a comparo table would be helpful.justaviking - Friday, January 26, 2018 - link
Soon we will need a second power supply in our systems... one we can dedicate to all the LEDs that dazzle us.Beaver M. - Sunday, January 28, 2018 - link
Not to mention extra cooling, because that many LEDs also produce quite some heat.milkod2001 - Friday, January 26, 2018 - link
Yeah it is stupid indeed, you pay extra for something you never asked for. Fortunately you should be able to completely switch all LEDs off if desired.Cygni - Friday, January 26, 2018 - link
I, too, get mad about things that add next to no price to motherboards that I can just turn off and ignore.