When it comes to motherboards, it's quite rare to see manufacturers try something unusual, and if you browse the market, you'll be swamped by a sea of very familiar layouts and configurations. But for its newest Intel Z890 offering, Gigabyte has chosen to do things rather differently, and you can thank the serious overclocking crowd for that.
At first glance, the Gigabyte Z890 Aorus Tachyon Duo X Ice might just come across as a normal, white-coloured Intel motherboard. But then you'll notice that the DRAM slots are in the 'wrong' position, as are the primary M.2 SSD connectors. The CPU power sockets are in an odd place, too, and the rear IO panel looks incredibly sparse for a modern motherboard.
However, the Aorus Tachyon Duo X Ice (I am not writing all that out again) isn't a 'normal' mobo, and the reason for the funky DIMM position is that it sports Gigabyte's D5 Duo X technology, which "revolutionizes memory performance through four breakthrough technologies, delivering traditional 4-slot maximum capacity using only 2 DIMM slots while unleashing extreme overclocking potential."...
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