[Update] Gigabyte’S X299 Aorus Gaming Motherboard Solely Supports Kaby Lake-X

No dear for Skylake-X.

From exceed to bottom, all of Intel's Core X-series processors role the same LGA 2066 socket, thence inward theory you lot could commencement your high-end desktop (HEDT) construct amongst a relatively affordable Kaby Lake-X flake together with upgrade to beefier Skylake-X CPU downward the line. In practice, it won't e'er endure that straightforward, equally evidenced past times Gigabyte's X299 Aorus Gaming motherboard—apparently it won't play dainty amongst Skylake-X.
Right at that spot on the motherboard's production page inward big, bold letters at the top, Gigabyte states inward no uncertain terms, "Supports Intel Core i7-7740X together with Core i5-7640X (4 cores) processor only." Clicking on the Support tab together with expanding the CPU back upwards listing reveals the same thing.
By limiting back upwards to only 2 processors, Gigabyte is essentially cutting off the upgrade path to a higher destination CPU amongst a large roadblock. Perhaps a hereafter BIOS update could knock it down, but anyone eyeing upwards this board should assume that it's for a one-off build.
That's non necessarily a bad thing, depending on how you lot approach your build. If you're the type who typically upgrades your CPU together with motherboard at the same time, together with thence this is no large deal.
As far equally features go, this is otherwise a fleshed out motherboard, albeit amongst 4 DDR4 DIMM slots (supporting upwards to 64GB of DDR4-4133 RAM) rather than viii (Kaby Lake-X solely supports dual-channel retention configurations). It has 3 PCIe 3.0 x16 slots together with 2 PCIe x1 slots, together with tin adjust 2 M.2 NVMe or SATA SSDs together with upwards to viii SATA 6Gbps drives.
The nurture I/O panel contains the next connectors:

• 1 x PS/2 keyboard/mouse port
• 2 x USB 3.1 Gen 2 Type-A ports (red)
• 6 x USB 3.1 Gen 1 ports (5Gbps)
• 1 x RJ-45 port (GbE LAN)
• 6 x good jacks

There are equally good headers for additional USB 3.1 Gen 1 together with USB 2.0 ports.
Other amenities include Intel Optane Memory support, RGB lighting, a dual BIOS configuration inward illustration something goes terribly wrong, together with an onboard amplifier for headphones.
Pricing information is non available at this time. That's a shame because it's arguably the around of import item here, considering this motherboard solely supports 2 processors.

Thanks PC GAMER