MB-GZ270XG8 Review

Gigabyte aorus ga-Z270-Gaming8: all-in-one LGA 1151 (sKylake/ Kabylake) Motherboard, with Bitspower G-Chill hybrid VRM water block + RGB LED (6 zones/ 8 programmable sections/ 8 colour schemes, swappable accent overlay, 2x RGBW-strip header & lighting control), 8x hybrid smart fan connectors + 9x temperature sensors + metal shielding on 3xPCi-E + memory slots, anti-sulfur resistor design, 3D UEFi dual BiOS, diagnostic LED for cpu/mem/vga/hdd failure, front panel i/o G-Connector, High-bandwidth (HB) SLi bridge, 40Gb/sec Thunderbolt 3, turbo B-Clock, 15µ gold plated cpu pins - Intel H270 chipset, 4x dual channel DDR4 4133(O.C)/2133 with XMP up to 64Gb, 12x SATA6G (2x 16Gb/sec SATA-express) + 2x U.2 (2.5" NVMe) + 2x 32Gb/sec M.2/NGFF type2280 (PCI-e/ SATA/ optane mode) SSD socket with raid 0/1/0+1/5/10, on-board triple-display VGA with triple-output (DP+HDMi+thunderbolt) + Creative sound core 3D 5.1 HD audio with optical s/pdif out + Creative SBX Pro Studio + Nichicon audio capacitors + AMP-UP upgradable TI Burr Brown OPA2134 OP-AMP + USB DAC-UP 2 + on-board Gain Boost selector switches + dedicated bigfoot Killer E2500 gaming Gigabit LAN + Intel Gigabit LAN + Killer 2.4/5GHz dual band 802.11AC 867Mbps WiFi + Bluetooth 4.1; 2x pci-e (1x) + 4x pci-e 16x (@16x+8x+4x+4x) for Quad-GPU SLi/CrossFireX, with 1x type-C USB3.1/thunderbolt + 1x USB3.1 type-A + 5x USB3.0, 1x PS2 - atx