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Adding to the list of Z270 motherboards for Kaby Lake, this time from Gigabyte and Biostar. Starting with Gigabyte's Z270 motherboards, we have the Aorus Line up. The Aorus was first introduced with their laptops and now they have continue to use the name with their boards. The Aorus is most likely Gigabyte's version to Asus ROG. No official specs from Gigabyte.

Next up is Biostar with their Racing Z270 Racing series. Some of the features found on their boards are, M.2 cooling where a thermal solution such as thermal pad and heatsink can be installed on to a M.2 drive to aid in cooling, and Intel X550 10Gigabit lan. Not many boards have 10GbE lane, expect for those crazy expensive workstation grade ones. For Biostar to add that in a mainstream board, that's a plus. Both Gigabyte and Biostar boards will have RGB LED, with Biostar having some exclusive features like Vivid LED Armor and 5050 LED Fun Zone.

 

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https://www.techpowerup.com/228505/first-gigabyte-aorus-branded-motherboard-teased-probably-z270

https://www.techpowerup.com/228529/biostar-reveals-new-features-of-its-upcoming-motherboards

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More RGB... yay.

More white please.

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1 minute ago, Prysin said:

i really like the looks of that AORUS board

Finally a new white one that doesn't have gaming in huge letters all over it.

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Just realized where they got the LED ideas from

 

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6 minutes ago, TidaLWaveZ said:

Finally a new white one that doesn't have gaming in huge letters all over it.

i wish Gigabyte made GPUs matching their boards. BUt the only way you can color match their GAMING series boards is to buy a fucking ASUS Turbo maxwell card (puke)

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1 minute ago, Prysin said:

i wish Gigabyte made GPUs matching their boards. BUt the only way you can color match their GAMING series boards is to buy a fucking ASUS Turbo maxwell card (puke)

Yeah all the turbos i've seen are hideous.

 

I understand the distaste for so many LED's but that's one thing that RGB led's help with. Pair RGB with an all white or black shrouded mobo and you're pretty much set for any GPU.

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That biostar has 6 pci slots?  For a i7 non enthusiast cpu? The 7700k will still have 16 lanes right?

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19 minutes ago, TheGlenlivet said:

That biostar has 6 pci slots?  For a i7 non enthusiast cpu? The 7700k will still have 16 lanes right?

PLX chips are a thing that exists

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41 minutes ago, TheGlenlivet said:

That biostar has 6 pci slots?  For a i7 non enthusiast cpu? The 7700k will still have 16 lanes right?

The 7700k has 16 lines itself, plus an extra 24 lanes on the PCH if it's using z270 (z170 has 20 lanes).

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Excellent. Someone tag me please when ASRock drops some badass new OC formula boards.

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What's up with the DIMM slots?

 

AMD had better come hard with Zen, or I might just go with Intel again...

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4 minutes ago, Trik'Stari said:

What's up with the DIMM slots?

 

AMD had better come hard with Zen, or I might just go with Intel again...

Metal reinforcing, aka a huge gimmick.

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10Gb lan, interesting.

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22 hours ago, TheGlenlivet said:

That biostar has 6 pci slots?  For a i7 non enthusiast cpu? The 7700k will still have 16 lanes right?

Just noticed something. They are copying the design of the Asus X99 Deluxe where the one of the slots is missing. Therefore no 4 way GPU which seems to be a waste if  they do have a PLX

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Never thought BioStar would be the one with non-vomit inducing aesthetics when I looked at the thread title.


Gigabyte wtf r u doing

It's wrong

stahp

 

Edit: Got to love the 6 full size PCIe slots on the BioStar one

But is that E-ATX? If yes, then ew

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Looks sick. Very sick.

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On 12/9/2016 at 7:00 PM, NumLock21 said:

Just realized where they got the LED ideas from

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:D Although this whole recent trend in hardware feels to me more like

 

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2 minutes ago, SpaceGhostC2C said:

:D Although this whole recent trend in hardware feels to me more like

 

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But can Las Vegas run Crysis at 25fps fully cinematic?

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