Gigabyte Z270X Gaming 7 Review
Introduction and Technical Specifications
Published: 3rd January 2017 | Source: Gigabyte | Price: £229 |
Introduction
The previous generation of Gigabyte motherboards found them slightly losing their way in our opinion. They had rapidly gone from being amongst the very best to having a few curious design decisions that made them slightly difficult to wholeheartedly recommend.
With the Z270 release Gigabyte have certainly come back with a bang, bringing all of the current in vogue features to the table, building upon the already excellent underlying chipset. We have two of their Gaming range of motherboards in the office, and our full review is going to the always popular Gaming 7. Supporting the full RGB customisation that has rapidly found itself applied to all manner of PC hardware, and combining this with a redesigned heatsink and PCB arrangement, we're sure that Gaming 7 will find favour amongst everyone disappointed with some of Gigabytes recent efforts.
Technical Specifications
The Gaming 7 is replete with all the fashionable technologies and some things unique to the Gigabyte brand. As well as the regular elements of the Z270 chipset - USB 3.1, M.2 NVME, 7th Generation CPU etc - the Gaming 7 has a U.2 connector for even faster storage support, RAID 0 support for the aforementioned NVMe drives and Thunderbolt 3, should you have a Thunderbolt compatible device.
Perhaps the big two changes of the Gaming 7 over the other Z270 motherboards we're looking at today is the inclusion of the KillerNIC networking protocol and the switch from regular RealTek audio to Creative SoundCore 3D. This could very well be enough to tempt the indecisive across to the manufacturer from Xindian District.
Most Recent Comments
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Originally Posted by King of Old School
This board looks bad IMO don't like the colour scheme at all, Every Z270 motherboard i have look at they all look bad expect for one company, What i find funny is there's one brand missing
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Originally Posted by Greenback
Welll obviously you'd not like it as it's not Evga, Tom can only do what his given, if they don't send any to him he can't review them
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Yes i'm aware that TTL doesn't review EVGA product and i remember why he doesn't also there is another motherboard brand he doesn't review either.
It's been over 4 years since TTL has done a EVGA review on video.Quote
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Seems weird that Intel wouldn't even let you give the prices of the Motherboards I would of thought that was down to the manufacturer, I may be cynical but it maybe they are a little worried of what AMD have and the price they go forQuote