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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 III

Moving on to the main System menu, we have the ability to check out the current BIOS build, but also adjust the System Language or System Date/Time:

The BIOS menu comes with the usual options regarding the boot of the system; from here we can also adjust the mouse cursor speed:

Next we’ve got the Peripherals menu, which allows us to set the first device to provide display output, enable/disable the Gigabit LAN controller, configure EZ Raid, choose an operation mode for the Ambient LEDs on the motherboard but also enable or disable Intel PTT. Several sub-menus are available here too:

-OffBoard SATA Controller Configuration

-Trusted Computing

-SuperIO Configuration

-Intel BIOS Guard Technology

-Network Stack Configuration

-NVMe Configuration

-USB Configuration

-SATA and RST Configuration

Here are the modes we can configure for the Ambient LED:

The connected PCIe SATA Controllers will be shown in the respective menu if installed:

Trusted Computing area comes with some other specific options:

The SuperIO Configuration menu only allows us to switch the Serial interface on or off:

Next we do have the Intel BIOS Guard Support option:

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