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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.

The BIOS Interface Part II

The memory sub-timings can be also customized in the highest detail:

The Advanced Voltage Settings menu does present us with four separate sub-sections:

-Advanced Power Settings

-CPU Core Voltage Control

-Chipset Voltage Control

-DRAM Voltage Control

The Advanced Power Settings menu allows adjusting the Loadline Calibration, but comes with less aggressive options versus the SOC Force:

The CPU Core Voltage Control area allows the user to set a manual voltage for the processor, adjust the voltage for the integrated graphics, VCCIO, System Agent or can adjust the CPU Core PLL Overvoltage:

The Chipset Voltage Control menu allows us to adjust the PCH Core voltage setting:

From the DRAM Voltage control menu, we can adjust DRAM-specific voltages:

Moving back to the PC Health Status menu, we can see the live system voltages, along with the Case Open status:

The Miscellaneous Settings menu does come with two more settings we can enable or disable:

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