Gigabyte Z170X-Gaming 7 Owners Thread.

Not sure on the difference but this gaming 7 one is a very good mobo. I did a lot of research and kept coming back to this board. It would seem Asus and MSI dropped the ball with there latest range.

I am quite a noob and have asked many a question in this thread. Thank God Stu is here !

Bit recommend the board. With a solid bios
 
Vertigo1 said:
Sorry to be a dufus but this thread is as good a place as any.

I'm possibly looking to upgrade soon and have always had Gigabyte motherboards but their current range of Z170 boards leaves me baffled.

Can anyone summarise (or point to somewhere which does) the differences between the various boards? Part of me says to just get something high-end and bonkers like this one but am I just wasting money unnecessarily?
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Maybe list everything you need?

Size of board
SLI or Crossfire
RGB colour etc
Number of SATA+USB, m.2 or u.2 etc.
Good onboard sound or average
Budget (what you would prefer to spend rather than just spend for the sake of it)
 
stulid said:
Maybe list everything you need?

Size of board
SLI or Crossfire
RGB colour etc
Number of SATA+USB, m.2 or u.2 etc.
Good onboard sound or average
Budget (what you would prefer to spend rather than just spend for the sake of it)
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Going to hijack the question as I'm in the same boat.

For me its:

Size of board - ATX
SLI or Crossfire - Neither, but I have an AMD card so Crossfire just in case
RGB colour etc - Don't care about RGB lighting
Number of SATA+USB, m.2 or u.2 etc. - Wouldn't mind at least one 3.1 USB, otherwise 5/6 USB 3.0? Don't need tons of Sata ports. I imagine I'll go PCI-E storage next time round
Good onboard sound or average - Average, I have a dedicated sound card
Budget - Not more than I have to. Would like to get a reasonable O/C out of it.
 
Klo said:
Going to hijack the question as I'm in the same boat.

For me its:

Size of board - ATX
SLI or Crossfire - Neither, but I have an AMD card so Crossfire just in case
RGB colour etc - Don't care about RGB lighting
Number of SATA+USB, m.2 or u.2 etc. - Wouldn't mind at least one 3.1 USB, otherwise 5/6 USB 3.0? Don't need tons of Sata ports. I imagine I'll go PCI-E storage next time round
Good onboard sound or average - Average, I have a dedicated sound card
Budget - Not more than I have to. Would like to get a reasonable O/C out of it.
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Maybe this,

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/giga...cket-1151-ddr4-atx-motherboard-mb-530-gi.html

If your after a 6600K its also in a bundle - https://www.overclockers.co.uk/giga...-6600k-bundle-20-pounds-saving-bu-021-gi.html
 
stulid said:
Maybe list everything you need?
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Sure :)

Size of board Standard (Micro-ATX?)
SLI or Crossfire Not required
RGB colour etc Not fussed
Number of SATA+USB, m.2 or u.2 etc. Only need a few SATA/USB, nothing out of the ordinary. Do want ideally a couple of m.2 slots for fast SSDs
Good onboard sound or average Currently using a SB X-Fi but ideally want to replace with onboard sound. Needs to be decent for gaming etc but not audiophile quality
Budget (what you would prefer to spend rather than just spend for the sake of it) £100-£150 ish
 
Vertigo1 said:
Sure :)

Size of board Standard (Micro-ATX?)
SLI or Crossfire Not required
RGB colour etc Not fussed
Number of SATA+USB, m.2 or u.2 etc. Only need a few SATA/USB, nothing out of the ordinary. Do want ideally a couple of m.2 slots for fast SSDs
Good onboard sound or average Currently using a SB X-Fi but ideally want to replace with onboard sound. Needs to be decent for gaming etc but not audiophile quality
Budget (what you would prefer to spend rather than just spend for the sake of it) £100-£150 ish
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Sounds like you want a Gaming K3, a board ATX in size (which I think is standard rather than mATX) and will run a single card only (it does support crossfire but at 16X/4X rather than 8X/8X) a single m.2 and some SATA and USB.
 
Hey Everyone,

I have a question about XMP profiles and our board.
I have been looking at trying to get my CPU temps down a little as the highest temps i have seen in gaming according to HWMonitor (Max Column) have hit 72°C degrees. However it only seem to spike this high when opening a program, never the less id like to get it down a tad.

So today i just disabled my XMP profile from 3200Mhz 1.35, to default 2133Mhz 1.20 and my temps dropped by 10°C load, highest temp after a couple hours of gaming was 59°C.

My question is..... is it possile to manually set the RAM like could i set it to 3000Mhz to try and get the temps down a little and keep up performance or is setting the RAM like a on or off setting?
Just looking for advice guys should i keep it on and have temps going up to 72°C or turn it off and have lower temps :confused:

My CPU Overclock 4.4GHZ @ 1.345 Vcore

Here is my exact RAM kit....

http://gskill.com/en/product/f4-3200c16d-16gtzb
 
mickyflinn said:
What cooling do you have for your cpu and case ? have you tried backing down the voltage on you overclock.
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Hi mickyflinn,

I have the Corsair H80i V2 and i have tested the overclock using Intel XTU and Cinebench, Lowest i can get the Vcore is 1.345 @ 4.4Ghz with out a bluescreen.

Edit: I have a Haf 912 Plus Case
 
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I just overclocked with the standard feature in the bios to 4.5 and did not touch the voltage. Temps have never gone over 60 degs under gaming.

Upping the voltage always ups the temps
 
_Jimlad_ said:
I just overclocked with the standard feature in the bios to 4.5 and did not touch the voltage. Temps have never gone over 60 degs under gaming.

Upping the voltage always ups the temps
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Hi Jimlad,

I wanted to learn about how to overclock i guess thats why i done the manual overclock, however i did try leaving the CPU core voltage on Auto and the temps were higher :eek:

I just wanted to know if there is a possibility of adjusting the RAM manually.

My RAM standard setting is 2133Mhz @ 1.20V Highest Temps = 59°C

XMP Enabled is 3200Mhz @ 1.35V Highest Temps = 72 °C

Is there a way of say setting my Ram @ 3000Mhz @ say 1.30V (Temps ?? Would be intresting to see)

Or can this not be done?. I don't know about RAM settings maybe this would make the RAM unstable?
 
Yeah I don't really know enough about offsetting. But you really want to be in a situation where you are running the memory at the correct Hz and adjusting the overclock around that.
 
_Jimlad_ said:
Yeah I don't really know enough about offsetting. But you really want to be in a situation where you are running the memory at the correct Hz and adjusting the overclock around that.
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Yeah i hear you, im just not sure what setting is best.....

Standard RAM setting = Max Temp 59°C (Lower Performance??)
XMP Setting = Max Temp 70-72 °C

:confused:
 
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