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Introduction
2026 has opened up with a flurry of latest motherboard releases featuring AMD Socket AM5. Today, we’re reviewing one among the newest releases from GIGABYTE, the X870E AERO X3D WOOD. The AERO-branded motherboards are generally a singular release per chipset. GIGABYTE has made 11 such boards in the previous few years, and they have a tendency to be more creator-professional oriented in aesthetic. The AERO boards are generally full-featured, have abundant connectivity, and now have a reasonably custom look.
The GIGABYTE X870E AERO X3D WOOD definitely fulfills that checklist. This board has every feature you would squeeze out of the X870E chipset: overclocking potential, gaming lineage, and a genuinely unique aesthetic. GIGABYTE has chosen to emphasise Ultradurable PCB construction, 16 power phases, heatsink design, Gen5 PCIe and M.2, backplate inclusion, and connectivity, together with a really interesting design aesthetic. This motherboard arrives with a price tag of $499 and carries a three-year warranty. We’ll discuss all of the features we are able to to see if the board lives as much as the worth. For a review of the AMD chipset hierarchy, please take a look here.
GIGABYTE X870E AERO X3D WOOD
Packaging and Contents
The motherboard arrived directly from GIGABYTE in a sealed retail box. This box and its construction is a little more rugged than we generally have seen in recent releases. The package overall is kind of heavy. GIGABYTE has chosen to make use of a double-boxed technique to guard the board. The box opens from the front to display the motherboard protected by a small empty carton covering about half the board. This little empty carton serves to guard the lower portion of the board.
Accessories are found underneath the motherboard, which is in a thick anti-static bag. Quite truthfully, the accessories are scarce for $499: two SATA cables, one front panel quick-connector, three packs of rubber bumpers for M.2 slots, the WiFi antenna, and a few booklets. Oh, wait, there’s an “AERO” keychain, too.
