Gigabyte X870 / B850 Aorus Stealth Ice Pioneering a New Era of RC PC Building Experience

[TheLostSwede]

GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY Co. Ltd, the world's leading computer brand, continues to redefine DIY PC building with its innovative Project STEALTH, first introduced in 2022. The Project STEALTH concept was the industry's pioneer in adopting reverse-connector motherboards for a cleaner, more streamlined assembly. Now, responding to the growing demand for all-white and cableless PC builds, GIGABYTE launches the STEALTH ICE Series, featuring the AMD X870 and B850 chipset motherboards.

Beyond aesthetics and easier assembly, GIGABYTE ensures that the Project STEALTH build is highly compatible. In addition to supporting its own chassis lineup (GIGABYTE C500P STEALTH Series), GIGABYTE has partnered with over 10 renowned case manufacturers, including Corsair, Cooler Master, Fractal Design, Phanteks, and more, to provide reverse-connector-ready cases across more than 25 models. This makes the GIGABYTE Project STEALTH Series the most compatible, the most widely supported and flexible solution in the market for cableless PC builds.





Premium power, Top-tier design
X870 AORUS STEALTH ICE supports AMD 9000/ 8000/ 7000 Series with a high-performance architecture designed for enthusiasts. Equipped with a robust 18+2+2 (SPS 80 A) VRM design drive the Ryzen 9 9950X3D with ease, delivering full performance without compromise.



X3D Turbo Mode: Unleashing Gaming Potential
Unleash up to 18% better gaming performance instantly. GIGABYTE's X3D Turbo Mode optimizes AMD Ryzen cores and power automatically—just click and play.

D5 Bionic Corsa: Redefining Memory Overclocking
AI-powered D5 Bionic Corsa pushes DDR5 to 8200 MT/s. Forget trial-and-error; one click gives you fast, stable overclocking with zero effort.

Aesthetic Excellence: White Motherboard Options
X870 / B850 AORUS STEALTH ICE offers sleek all-white boards with full power inside—perfect for clean, stylish PC builds that don't sacrifice performance.



EZ-DIY Friendly Design and Comprehensive Connectivity
We're proud to introduce the all-new M.2 EZ-Flex feature, making its debut on our latest motherboards. This patented, reengineered flexible baseplate is positioned at the lower-left M.2 slot and intelligently adapts to both single-sided and double-sided SSD. It ensures optimal contact with the heatsink, significantly improving thermal conductivity and reducing SSD temperatures by up to 12°C. M.2 EZ-Flex combines outstanding thermal performance with flexible hardware support in one innovative solution.

The new DriverBIOS function offers seamless wireless connectivity right out of the box—no need to install Wi-Fi driver additionally, it's integrated in the BIOS. Furthermore, it features an expanded 64 MB BIOS capacity, doubling the previous size to support more complex firmware and future updates.

Build faster and easier than ever with tool-free installation across other fantastic EZ-DIY features including WI-FI EZ-Plug, PCIe EZ-Latch Plus, M.2 EZ-Latch Click, M.2 EZ-Latch Plus, and the EZ-Debug Zone. With the X870 / B850 AORUS STEALTH ICE, PC building becomes smoother, cleaner, and frustration-free.

The X870 / B850 AORUS STEALTH ICE feature full-bandwidth PCIe Gen 5 x16 slots for coming Gen 5 graphics cards and Gen 5 M.2 SSD connections across multiple form factors, ensuring compatibility with a wide range of system configurations. Advanced wireless connectivity options include 5G LAN & Wi-Fi 7, coupled with GIGABYTE's innovative directional high-gain antenna, The power and thermal design has been meticulously crafted, utilizing top-tier materials and featuring ten times larger cooling surface heatsinks to ensure optimal performance and stability.

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[Wirko]

RC PC? Are eight loud fans in the right locations enough to make a radio-controlled octacopter out of my PC?

 

[TheLostSwede]

RC PC? Are eight loud fans in the right locations enough to make a radio-controlled octacopter out of my PC?

I think RC is meant to stand for Reverse Connector, but yeah...

 

[Caring1]

Okay, RC stands for Remote Controlled, lets not get carried away stealing acronyms and confusing consumers.

 

[rv8000]

So they’ll release multiple btf boards but can’t be assed to release a Tachyon? I can’t imagine the number of units they’d sell for either are wildly different…

 

[dj-electric]

Using the B650E Stealth ICE so far. Its been doing its job.

 

[Gmr_Chick]

Some good looking boards.

 

[mechtech]

Call me old fashioned but I never was a fan of a big plate covering up the cmos battery etc. I think the board itself is the work of art.

 

[_roman_]

B650E Stealth ICE was on sale a few hours ago. I looked at the mainboard manual.
wifi and ethernet on the same bus. Such an unclear mainboard manual. Somewhere hidden I saw than another HDMI connector for an inside case display.

gigabyte has for the B650E Stealth ICE the worst manual ever. 180€ on amazon.de yesterday.

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.. ensuring compatibility with a wide range of system configurations.

NO

• Some of my M2 NVME will mechanically not fit. They were sold with many years of warranty and have their own m2 nvme cooler. Nearly similar performance as the KC3000
• Only one ethernet port.
• No DP Connector for the Monitor to switch over to this board.
• wrong connectors on the wrong side - Stealth is easily overseen. as it could also been the nonsenese which is always written on it. stealth legend, steal legend, gamers edition, prime, gaming, republic of nerds, .... // It's clearly not stated BTF - wrong side connector mainboard.
• HDMI belongs on television or maiboards for television rooms. Most proper Graphic cards have most often many dp connectors and for some reason most of the time one or maybe two hdmi connectors.

Build faster and easier than ever with tool-free installation across other fantastic EZ-DIY features including WI-FI EZ-Plug,

Am I allowed to hit that person who wrote that marketing text please in the face?

How is a mainboard mounted in a case? Do I need screws and a screwdriver?
How is a graphic card mounted in the case? Screwless?
How is a cpu air tower cooler mounted? AIO mounted?
Case FANS mounted?
3.5" SATA HDD
2.5" SATA based SSD or HDD

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I assume below the plastic cover are the m2 nvme. I'm quite sure many users will hve to remove the graphic card first to access the m2 nvme than. That is not a toolless change of nvme. Remove cables, screws. Gigabyte itself refuses RMA when the graphic card pcb has too many scratches, from too many put in and put out cycles from the graphic card slot. Also it should be noted, that the graphic card slot, according to several topics here only allows 10 times put in or put out cycles. (feel free to increase 10 to 30 or 40 ... that is basically nothing)