Gigabyte Aorus Z270X-Gaming 5

The eagle has landed.

Introducing the Aorus brand to Gigabyte’s gaming-orientated motherboard lineup, the Aorus Z270X-Gaming 5 puts a confident foot forward. Boasting an effectively muted, but not dull, visual appearance with well implemented RGB lighting highlights, the Aorus Z270X-Gaming 5 demonstrates maturity and sophistication mixed with lively intent and purpose.

Ensuring the new Aorus branding doesn’t introduce all show with no go, the benchmark figures show the second highest total podium finishes across the scorecard. Excelling very well in the broad testing PCMark08 and highly intensive computational loads of Cinebench and the HWBot X265 benchmark, while consistently placing high across the rest of the benchmarking suite, it’s hard to ignore the performance delivered by this well priced and featured motherboard.

As previously mentioned, the muted aesthetic palette brings to life the potential for individual flare through RGB lighting. The Gaming 5 is also the only motherboard in the roundup to feature an onboard RGBW header for external LED lighting that includes a white (W) channel. This is a positive specifically for those wanting to achieve bright colours or white light that can otherwise be washed out with hues of blue, purple and pink sneaking into what should be white light.

Packed with expansive storage solutions, including U.2 and SATA-Express along with the expected SATA and M.2, strong performance and convincing looks, the Aorus Z270X-Gaming 5 is not just a good foot forward but also one that lands with confidence.