Gigabyte Z170-Gaming K3 LGA1151 Motherboard Review

Motherboards/Intel S1151 by stefan @ 2016-12-15

The Gigabyte GA-Z170-Gaming K3 motherboard was built from scratch for the mainstream segment but this does not mean that it is not a capable product: it is packed with support for some of the latest technologies as USB 3.1, metallic shielding over the main PCI-E slot, a Gen3 x4 M.2 connector for installing additional storage, 2 SATA Express connector(plus two regular SATA 3), one ALC1150 HD Audio codec with built-in rear audio amplifier, a Killer E2200 Gigabit LAN adapter for minimizing in-game lag and more.

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Extra Applications Part I

The Gigabyte motherboard is accompanied by a lot of application modules, all which are accessible from the APP Center hub, which must be installed first:

 

 

 

3D OSD application can show us system monitoring details in real time and its settings can be configured via the different available tabs:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BIOS version can be checked out via the @BIOS utility and here we can also flash a new version, save the available one on file and more:

 

 

 

 

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