Tag Archives: Z270

Its the cream of the crop, but its £530, so its not for the faint of wallet. How good is it?

We have been hearing bits of information regarding Intel’s next micro-architecture update for a while now. We are expecting the first ‘Coffee Lake’ CPUs to hit the DIY desktop market in 2018 but it seems those hoping to upgrade and keep their current motherboard may be out of luck. According …

An innovative M.2 heatsink and Dual M.2 ports crammed into the mini-ITX form factor.

Has Gigabyte ticked all the boxes for mini-ITX gamers?

A mid-range Z270 motherboard from MSI. Worth the price if you are a gamer?

Meet MSI's only mini-ITX motherboard for the Z270 chipset.

PC enthusiast memory maker G.SKILL has announced a new line-up of top-tier memory kits for discerning modders and gamers. The Trident Z RGB DDR4-3333MHz 128GB and 64GB retail kits are squarely aimed at the high-end X99 and Z270 motherboards, respectively, currently driving the likes of Intel's Xeon E5 (v3)-series and Kaby Lake …

Three M.2 and Ten SATA ports, three wired networking connections and AC WiFi, ASRock's Fatal1ty Z270 Gaming i7 is connectivity crazy.

Meet the latest Republic of Gamer's motherboard that's torn up the rule book.

There has been so much talk about Ryzen lately that it might be easy to forget that Intel's Kaby Lake processors are still relatively new. With that in mind, there are still new motherboards coming out for the Z270 platform and this week, we have one from ASUS- the ROG …

The first motherboard to have two audio codecs? We take a look at MSI's intriguing Z270 Gaming M7.

How does Gigabyte's take on the mid-range gaming-orientated motherboard stack up to the competition?

Connectivity rich and competitively priced, the ASRock Z270 Extreme4 is magnificently mid-range.

Have Asus just managed to create another award winning motherboard?

Gigabyte take us through all their new and upcoming products

Long gone are the days where to have a powerful gaming PC you needed to have a full-ATX case, with screaming fans and a giant power supply. Today you can get by with something much more compact, like ASRock's new micro-STX DeskMini RX system, which packs high-end graphics with a …

We managed to get some time with MSI's motherboard Guru Joran. He gave us a run down of some of the new features on their Intel Kaby Lake motherboards, as well as a sneak preview of a pair of upcoming AMD chipset motherboards. Single button settings for a DDR4 boost …

MSI's Z270 Gaming Pro Carbon is the company's take on a mid-range motherboard with features that will appeal to gamers. Noteworthy inclusions are a comprehensive set of RGB LEDs spread across the board, a design which caters for dual-GPU gamers, and the company's smart M.2 Shield cooling plate. You can …

UK KitGuru readers, if you are looking for a new motherboard, MSI is currently offering a pretty decent deal for anyone willing to leave it a review. If you buy one of select MSI Z270 motherboards before the 5th February and leave a review, you could earn up to £30 …

Gigabyte is introducing its Aorus brand to the desktop components market in an effort to segregate its higher-end product offerings. Aorus is to Gigabyte what ROG is to ASUS, or at least that's what the board maker is aiming for. We examine the high-end Aorus Z270X-Gaming 7 which is packed …

If you have been keeping up with tech news today, then you probably noticed that the official launch of Intel's new Kaby Lake processors and Z270 platform has taken place. This means we can expect several platform changes, which can affect things like CPU coolers, RAM and power supplies. Fortunately, …

Kaby Lake is upon us. With Intel killing off its Tick-Tock product cycle in 2016, Kaby Lake ushers in the new ‘Optimisation' phase of a Process-Architecture-Optimisation strategy. What does that mean? Kaby Lake is effectively a barely tweaked version of Skylake which uses Intel's optimised 14nm+ process technology resulting in …

The Gigabyte Ultra Gaming motherboard is a fairly new model which was first released for the Z170 chipset shortly after Computex 2016. Only half a year later and Gigabyte has released a Z270 variant of the Ultra Gaming, the Z270X-Ultra Gaming, to coincide with the launch of Intel's new Kaby …

Today sees the launch of Intel's new Z270 chipset and the Kaby Lake CPUs. There's no change to the LGA 1151 socket but the new chipset brings with it additional features that may tempt users into an upgrade over their ageing system. ASRock's Fatal1ty Z270 Gaming K6 sits towards the …

The Maximus IX Formula is the latest top-tier ASUS Republic of Gamers motherboard for Intel's new Kaby Lake CPUs and Z270 chipset. While below the Maximus IX Extreme in the ROG product hierarchy, the Formula is likely to be more popular as it targets a lower price, has a more …

We have two huge CPU launches on the horizon at the moment, with both Intel and AMD debuting new desktop processors in the new year. As you might imagine, this is also quite a big occasion for motherboard makers, who will get the chance to refresh their lineups with new …