Gigabyte showcases new Infinity products for its 40th anniversary — X870 Infinity Next halo motherboard boasts metal 3D-printed elements, Aero Wood goes dark, MicroATX Stealth boards, Infinity-style GPUs extend down the product stack

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Metal 3D printed heatsinks on motherboards, more wood, infinity cooling extends down the RTX line, oh my.

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Gigabyte’s press event at Computex 2026 showed off a slew of new items, including a monster 1,600W power supply, new monitors, AIOs, keyboards, motherboards, graphics cards, and a whole lot more we won't list in this article.

On the motherboard side of things, one of the first things it showed off is the X870 Aorus Infinity, sporting a unique two-DIMM design with the socket rotated 90 degrees and the two DRAM slots running above it. This design allows for ultra-high DDR5 performance, reaching a blazing 11,400 MT/s with a low CL24 rating. The E-ATX board has several buttons for overclocking and looks like a virtual twin to their overclocking board, the X870 Tachyon Duo X Ice. Pricing and availability were not mentioned (for any item) at the event.

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The real star of the motherboards is the X870 Infinity Next. This halo board has a unique appearance thanks to the advanced 3D metal printing technology used to design the heatsinks, which resemble the pores of lava rock (or even a sponge) more than traditional metal blocks. The rocket thruster-grade thermal materials boast up to 44% greater cooling surface area than traditional designs.

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It’s not all about the looks and cooling, though. This board is built like no other, offering 64 power phases using newly designed MOSFETs with Quad OptiMOS technology MOSFETs supporting up to 5,120A total current (so 80A each), almost double that of the next highest motherboard. Additional details are scarce, but this has to be one of the freshest, coolest-looking designs I’ve ever seen on a motherboard. This board is not cheap to produce, over $3,000, so it will only be in the hands of a few fortunate souls when it moves to mass production. Sadly, we haven't seen the board in person yet, and we’ll add better photos of this beast later once we see it at their booth.

The next motherboard they showed off was the X870E Aero X3D Dark Wood. As the name suggests, it’s an Aero X3D Wood, but with a darker-colored synthetic wood material for an elegant look and a real wood feel. Gigabyte also expanded the Stealth series (back-connector) motherboards with the world’s first gaming B850 MicroATX boards: the B850M Aorus Stealth and the Stealth Ice (white). Shrinking the boards down lets you get that stealthy, clean look in a smaller chassis, and if we’re lucky, they should cost less since they are based on the B850 chipset and are smaller. ALBM - Infinity GPUs

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Last but not least, the Infinity cooling architecture found on the flagship Aorus RTX 5090 Infinity video card expands down the product stack. It is now available in RTX 5080, 5070 Ti, and 5070 flavors, keeping the same Windforce Hyperburst cooling design (said to deliver much more airflow than standard hollow-out and non-hollow-out cards), a hidden power connector, and a unique appearance compared to most that are simply cuboid. If you’re a fan of the wood look on the Aero boards, Gigabyte has you covered, also showing off the Aorus RTX 5080 Infinity Wood that takes the Infinity design and adds walnut ‘wood’ accents to match motherboards.

Gigabyte had a lot to show off at Computex 2026. While there was a new AI ecosystem, most of it was for consumers like us, which is nice to see compared to the AI-laden showcases at recent trade shows.

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Joe Shields
Joe Shields
Staff Writer, Components

Joe Shields is a staff writer at Tom’s Hardware. He reviews motherboards and PC components.

3 Comments Comment from the forums
  • das_stig
    $3G on a motherboard, good luck, only so many rich clueless Muppets out there!
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  • thesyndrome
    Would the RAM being positioned directly above the CPU socket potentially cause heat buildup in the RAM?

    I'm no expert by any means whatsoever, so I may be completely wrong about this, but after reading the article I thought about where my RAM is currently positioned: vertically aligned on the right hand side of the motherboard, on the opposite side to the CPU socket and PCI-e slots (also opposite side form the PSU), meaning it's far from the rising heat of those 3 components.
    This design shows the RAM aligned horizontally above the CPU socket, meaning not only is it now in the path of the rising heat, but it also has a wider surface area to catch the heat due to being horizontal instead of vertical.

    Like I said: I'm no expert at all, but reading the article and thinking about how some RAM sticks come with their own heatsinks these days made me wonder if this positioning for speed will hurt the longevity of the memory sticks?
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  • BillyBuerger
    thesyndrome said:
    Would the RAM being positioned directly above the CPU socket potentially cause heat buildup in the RAM?
    Yes, heat rises. But it only takes a small amount of airflow to make it go down if you want it. The amount of heat rising into the memory would be minor if even noticeable. It might actually be better there as many GPUs blow their heat up through the card which then blow right over the normal memory location which probably heats up memory more then this arrangement.

    I didn't actually notice the rotated CPU/memory at first. You don't see this often on modern motherboards. I have a very old Socket 754 board with this arrangement. It actually worked really well as I stuck this system in an old Dell Precision workstation case where the power supply hung over the top of the motherboard . Moving the CPU a little lower like this allowed an old 80mm tower heat sink to just fit below the PSU. And since AMD sockets are directional, this 90 degree change meant that it was pointed to the back of the case. Very specific use case but there are definitely some advantages to arranging the motherboard like this. Probably the biggest draw back is that there is only room for two slots like they use here. But you get the best performance from using a single dim per channel so using 4 dim slots isn't ideal anyways.
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