Gigabyte Z170X-Gaming 7 Owners Thread.

stulid · 24 Jun 2016 at 19:09

Setting LLC to high will send Vcore higher than you think you've set.

For example if I set Vcore to 1.35V and LLC to high, CPU-Z reckons its 1.39V under load.

leerogers00 · 24 Jun 2016 at 19:35

stulid said:
Setting LLC to high will send Vcore higher than you think you've set.

For example if I set Vcore to 1.35V and LLC to high, CPU-Z reckons its 1.39V under load.

Haha well mine won't even get to Windows so I'll knock that on the head

Type_R · 26 Jun 2016 at 14:30

So I am thinking of going down the Skylake route for a much overdue PC at home (Currently running a 1090T).

I have in my sights the OCUK 6700K/Gigabyte Gaming 7 Mboard combo at the discounted price of £446.

I currently have a Asus Essence ST audio card. Can I assume the mboard sound will be good enough to sell this on?

stulid · 26 Jun 2016 at 14:42

I would expect the sound card to still be superior.

But the Creative onboard sound of this board may just satisfy you.

Type_R · 26 Jun 2016 at 14:44

stulid said:
I would expect the sound card to still be superior.

But the Creative onboard sound of this board may just satisfy you.

Thanks, it's not a deal breaker just would help to convince me to splash out!

Has there been any updated on the BIOS UI? Every review seems to complain about it!

stulid · 26 Jun 2016 at 14:48

Nope, still looks like the pictures in the opening post.

Type_R · 26 Jun 2016 at 14:57

stulid said:
Nope, still looks like the pictures in the opening post.

Thanks for the rapid reply! I think I will go for it

zedninja · 27 Jun 2016 at 15:00

A certain retailer that rhymes with Flan is reporting this as 'End of Life/Discontinued' - is that an issue, is there a newer model out there I should be looking at?

maklabouhlel · 27 Jun 2016 at 15:20

zedninja said:
A certain retailer that rhymes with Flan is reporting this as 'End of Life/Discontinued' - is that an issue, is there a newer model out there I should be looking at?

No sign of this.

zedninja · 27 Jun 2016 at 15:21

Might be looking at an older revision or something.

GIGA-Man · 27 Jun 2016 at 17:22

zedninja said:
A certain retailer that rhymes with Flan is reporting this as 'End of Life/Discontinued' - is that an issue, is there a newer model out there I should be looking at?

There was an EU model that was Z170X-Gaming 7 EU, it had a different box design. The stock of the EU has now run out so now there is just the Z170X-Gaming 7. Same exact board just the box design is different… Could be that which Flan picked up on maybe but the board is live and will sell for ages yet….

zedninja · 28 Jun 2016 at 08:55

GIGA-Man said:
There was an EU model that was Z170X-Gaming 7 EU, it had a different box design. The stock of the EU has now run out so now there is just the Z170X-Gaming 7. Same exact board just the box design is different… Could be that which Flan picked up on maybe but the board is live and will sell for ages yet….

Thanks for clearing that up.

Type_R · 28 Jun 2016 at 15:17

Got it today! Absolutely loving it!

The sound is pretty good...so the Essence STX is on sale now!

Will try some OCing tonight on the 6700K see where we get to.

I actually quite like the minimalistic BIOS!

Type_R · 28 Jun 2016 at 16:54

Quick question guys...I am using a RAID 0 setup so when I fire the machine up it comes to the Intel RAID BIOS utility, then I get the full screen Gigabyte logo (press Del to enter etc) but then I get a flashing cursor. The cursor lasts for about 10 seconds before Win 10 loads? Its as if its waiting for something to load/be detected. Is this normal? My MSI would go straight from BIOS screen to Windos logo.

stulid · 28 Jun 2016 at 17:26

Check the boot order etc and set it to only what has windows on.

Any other boot devices in the options maybe try disabling them so it only goes to the boot drive 1st.

Type_R · 28 Jun 2016 at 17:51

stulid said:
Check the boot order etc and set it to only what has windows on.

Any other boot devices in the options maybe try disabling them so it only goes to the boot drive 1st.

Worked a treat! Disabled all boot devices except the RAID hard drives!

Type_R · 29 Jun 2016 at 12:46

Is the Killer NIC faster/better than using the Intel NIC?

Simon Belmont · 29 Jun 2016 at 13:10

Type_R said:
Is the Killer NIC faster/better than using the Intel NIC?

I've found no difference. Either one is fine.

Type_R · 29 Jun 2016 at 13:47

Simon Belmont said:
I've found no difference. Either one is fine.

Thanks, I've just had a look at the literature and the specs are identical. I wonder if the Killer NIC is supposed to have lower overheads...for gaming?

Bloomfield · 29 Jun 2016 at 14:03

The Killer one comes with software that you can use to set different priorities to games and apps and stuff, so you could set your torrents to low priority while you have you game to max priority, and a Twitch stream or something to medium and it should in theory prioritise in that order so that the game and video work fine if you have the bandwidth for both even if you haven't set a limit on your torrent.

No idea how well it works in practice though.

I have my internet using the Killer one atm, just because that's the one that I happened to plug it into rather than thinking it's better though

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