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Gigabyte Z170X-Gaming 7 Motherboard Review

3DMark

We used 3DMark‘s ‘Fire Strike Ultra’ benchmark which is designed to be used on high-resolution gaming PCs.

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Sandra Processor Arithmetic

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Sandra Memory Bandwidth

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Gigabyte's Z170X-Gaming 7 motherboard shows good performance in our initial batch of synthetic tests. Chart-topping results are shown in 3DMark and Sandra's memory bandwidth test, the latter of which is typically a strength for Asus motherboards such as the one Gigabyte's part outperforms.

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2 comments

  1. Bought it and am loving it. The one complaint I have is that the mouse lags like hell in UEFI. I haven’t tried a different mouse with it yet though (currently using Cougar 550M). The SB audio is superb.

  2. how the settings for memory on the mainboard? is it stable with xmp auto settings?