It was not joke. Gold and titanium will appear in our PCs
According to GIGABYTE, the computer can also be prestigious. This is evidenced by new computer components equipped with real gold accessories.
At the beginning of April, unofficial information appeared on the Internet that GIGABYTE is getting ready to premiere unique computer components. As part of a gaming brand AORUS a motherboard and a graphics card with extreme specifications were planned and with the addition of real gold.
A very limited number of equipment will be available for sale
Although for some people it looked like an April Fool's Day joke, the Taiwanese officially announced new parts today. We're talking about a great-looking, limited and very expensive set for Intel and NVIDIA fans.
GIGABYTE AORUS Z790 Xtreme X Ice it's a CD format E-ATXwhich is equipped with a socket LGA 1700 for 12th, 13th and 14th generation Intel Core processors. Here we get four banks for DDR5 memory with the maximum frequency up to 8266MHz and capacity up to 192 GB. The CPU socket is gold-plated.
Also worth mentioning is the extensive I/O panel double Thudnerbolt 4Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 5.3 wireless connectivity, 10 Gigabit network controller Marvell AQtion AQC107 or finally top sound layer based on DAC in the form of ES9280AC supported by two ES9080 systems.
The described motherboard also offers: built-in display placed on the heatsink of the power section, huge cooling for SSD PCI Express 5.0 x4 or decorations made of crystallized titanium. What's more, the manufacturer promises that their refined BIOS allows you to reach up to 6.3 GHz on Intel Core i9-14900KS processors.
GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 4080 RUPER Xtreme Ice is a graphics card with dimensions of 357 x 166 x 75 millimeters. It was decided here three 110 mm fans, steam chamber and twelve heat pipes. This allows us to offer a clock speed of 2700 MHz, instead of the reference 2550 MHz.
Apart from that, it is still in the same white color scheme with crystallized titanium decorations. There were golden accents, incl nameplate made of gold and built-in LCD screen that can display information about the GPU and user texts, images and animations.
The release date and suggested prices remain unknown. We only know that it will be very expensive, and both components will only be available as part of a limited set. There are rumors of 300 or 500 pieces worldwide.
