Did someone say kitchen sink? Intel held the high-end desktop crown for a number of generations until AMD came along with Threadripper. That doesn't mean Intel becomes a poor choice overnight, as the company has very firm plans to release consumer processors with up to 18 cores in the near future. Powering all of these Core-X CPUs is a new chipset known as X299, and we put a couple of examples through the wringer when the platform launched in June of this year.

Gigabyte spin-off Aorus is carving out a name for itself as a provider of motherboards that include everything but the proverbial kitchen sink and the motherboard in for review today, the Gaming 7, is no exception.