Testseek.com have collected 43 expert reviews of the Gigabyte Z170X-Ultra Gaming and the average rating is 89%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Gigabyte Z170X-Ultra Gaming.
August 2016
(89%)
43 Reviews
Average score from experts who have reviewed this product.
GIGABYTE's Z170X-Ultra Gaming is a feature-loaded product at a very fair price. At $170, it offers Thunderbolt 3 with 100W USB Power Delivery 2 support, U.2, M.2, Intel NIC, and a sleek heat sinks/shield design. My biggest gripe with the product is that...
The Gigabyte Z170X-Ultra Gaming checks all the cool boxes. It's bad and it is black. Granted it did not exactly excel is any of our tests, but it always performed admirably. Long gone are the days were there is significance in generally testing anyways. T...
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Published: 2017-01-04, Author: E. , review by: anandtech.com
In order to bring U.2 support to the Z170 while keeping the final cost reasonable, GIGABYTE had to make certain sacrifices. PCIe lane sharing aside, the company had to remove certain features that sopme people might take for granted on motherboards this e...
Stock performance, Board aesthetics, layout, and design, Price, LED placement, Motherboard manual details and quality, UEFI BIOS design and usability, Intel GigE network controller performance, M.2 port placement
Lack of RGB LEDs, Overclocking performance, Odd surface mounting for SATA ports 4 / 5
GIGABYTE's Z170X-Ultra Gaming motherboard has quite a bit going for it, including design and aesthetics, stock performance, and price. The board is a solidly designed product with looks and performance that should appeal to any gamer. Its black and red ae...
Published: 2016-11-01, Author: Jeremy , review by: funkykit.com
Z170 Chipset, LED Lighting, Price, Performance, Useful Software, User Friendly Software
In conclusion, this motherboard is an excellent full-featured, overclocking motherboard that has all of the basic essentials that a hardcore gamer or entry-level enthusiast could ask for. If you are craving high-end performance without sacrificing warrant...
The Gigabyte Z170X-Ultra Gaming is a tough motherboard, which has as highlight (no pun intended) the “Ambient surround LED” red illumination. However, even if its name suggests the opposite, it is simpler (and less expensive) than the Gigabyte Z170X-Gamin...
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Published: 2016-08-17, Author: Ron , review by: modders-inc.com
The Z170X-Ultra Gaming motherboard leaves an odd feeling in me after testing; that somehow the name does not quite describe it fully. Sure it has the red LEDs (perhaps too many) draped across a black conservatively styled layout for contrast and gamer-ag...
Abstract: Gaming is a large part of the enthusiast hardware world and is often mistaken to be the same thing. While it is true that gamers will go to great lengths to get the best performance from their system that doesn't always include overclocking, in fact somet...
Abstract: The Z170 chipset was a big deal when it was released (a little less than a year ago) because it introduced DDR4 to mainstream Intel processors and significantly increased the number and speed of the PCIe lanes from the chipset. Specifically, Z170 more tha...
Good Overclocking Features and Ability, Darth Vader Looks, Red, Red, Red Lighting, Up to 2-Way SLI
No Debug LED Readout
The Gigabyte Z170X-Ultra Gaming checks all the cool boxes. It's bad and it is black. Granted it did not exactly excel is any of our tests, but it always performed admirably. Long gone are the days were there is significance in generally testing anyways. T...
