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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 IV

Network Stack can be either enabled or disabled:

NVMe installed devices will be also shown in the dedicated menu, if installed:

USB Configuration menu does show some specific options:

SATA and RST Configuration menu allows us to work with the SATA controller options:

The main Chipset menu allows us to enable or disable other interfaces such as the Integrated Graphics, Audio Controller and more:

The Power Menu is filled with the usual Power Management options:

The Save & Exit menu does allow us to save, discard or load factory defaults; we do also have several slots to our disposal for saving and loading different profiles:

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