I like this motherboard. But Hynix SSD :-(
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shahidali47
6 Jun 16#3
what's so good about this mobo. I'm looking to upgrade soon. already got the 1080 in reserve
stuartc
6 Jun 161#4
I wish I had have gone for this motherboard rather than the Asus one I bought from Scan. I have had nothing but problems getting it to work properly with my 6700k. :disappointed:
Yaradabbadoo
6 Jun 16#5
I do not recommend this board, I had it and it had many issues, booting from usb did not work I had to remove the cmos battery for it to find the flash drive and also the sound would periodically stop working.
I sent it back for refund and bought a Asus Hero/Alpha no problems now.
Yes it has many features but Gigabyte was not so great at support, and Amazon give 3 year warranty on Asus MB's so I can just return for a new one.
rand0m
6 Jun 16#6
can I ask what's wrong with Hynix SSD?
A couple of years back I would have sworn on Hynix Rams
DatAlbino
6 Jun 162#7
Msi Gaming pro z170 motherboards are cheaper than most and are extremely good, have one myself, of course if you can get free RAM or SSD here then this is better, but for those who want an alternative to the mboard, I highly recommend MSI's z170 series
vulcanproject
6 Jun 161#8
Killer LAN, latest intel USB 3.1 controller. The PCIe lanes means you can install SLI AND still use a 4x PCIe expansion slot, which many cannot.
The audio processor is basically a creative labs chip taken straight off a discrete creative sound card, but it's integrated on this board with an op-amp. No bog standard realtek here. It has some of the best on board sound around.
To put the cherry on the cake this has top benchmarks. There is rarely much in it between boards using the same chipset, but this consistently ranks near the top of this sort of price board.
It's hard to find a better Z170 board especially with intel's USB 3.1 controller for this sort of money. Most of the above mentioned boards do not match all these features, or beat it for overclocking performance.
Spark
7 Jun 162#9
Agreed. I have the gaming m5 board and have no complaints about it so far, unlike the piece of crap Asus ROG board that it replaced. I hated that thing.
ollie87
7 Jun 161#10
Yeah ASUS stuff has been getting progressively worse for a while now. Gigabyte and MSI have definitely overtaken them, with even ASRock nipping at their heels.
ozzy779
7 Jun 16#11
I suggest staying away from GIGABYTE's motherboards - I've had a couple of them, all either arrived broken, or broke within the first week of use. I had to return gigabyte gaming 5 three times, before I finally got a refund, and bought Asus Sabertooth Mark S. Definitely worth the 30 quid more or so.
Spark
8 Jun 16#12
The real issue that I took with the ROG board is that it always just assumed that it was smarter than I was. The included overclocking software was absolutely dreadful but the board was clearly designed around that software rather than allowing experienced and professional users to manually tweak settings themselves.
ollie87
8 Jun 16#13
MSI's tuning stuff is the best I've experienced on Haswell at least. I don't have a Skylake build so can't really comment on any Z170 stuff. But of the three different Z97 boards I've had the MSI one was the best.
Spark
8 Jun 16#14
My board is z170 but I have the non-K 6600 so I haven't really done any tuning yet since any bottlenecking in games has probably come from my 970 rather than the CPU. I may need to look into it when my new 1080 arrives though.
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https://www.shop.bt.com/products/gigabyte-z170x-gaming-7-eu-intel-z170-lga1151-atx-ddr4-usb3-1-ga-z170x-gaming-7-eu-BJTT.html?refs=513540000
and a week ago you could to get £20 steam voucher as well
Not voting...
I sent it back for refund and bought a Asus Hero/Alpha no problems now.
Yes it has many features but Gigabyte was not so great at support, and Amazon give 3 year warranty on Asus MB's so I can just return for a new one.
A couple of years back I would have sworn on Hynix Rams
The audio processor is basically a creative labs chip taken straight off a discrete creative sound card, but it's integrated on this board with an op-amp. No bog standard realtek here. It has some of the best on board sound around.
To put the cherry on the cake this has top benchmarks. There is rarely much in it between boards using the same chipset, but this consistently ranks near the top of this sort of price board.
It's hard to find a better Z170 board especially with intel's USB 3.1 controller for this sort of money. Most of the above mentioned boards do not match all these features, or beat it for overclocking performance.