Asus z170 premium review in Spanish (full analysis)

You know a lot about the ROG series or the PRO series, Asus Deluxe, but of the Z170 generation little has been said about the Asus Z170 Premium motherboard. And it is that we are in front of some of the best options that Asus offers for design, connectivity and overclocking capacity. Don't miss our review!

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Asus Z170 Premium technical characteristics

Unboxing and design

The Asus Z170 Premium is presented in a full color box. On its cover we find an image of the product, large letters and the great variety of certificates it incorporates.

Already in the back we have all the most important technical characteristics detailed. Without a doubt, we must stop to read it to learn everything that this magnificent motherboard brings.

Inside we find the following bundle

Asus Z170 Premium motherboard. Back plate. Instruction manual and quick guide. Installation kit for Intel processors. CD disk with drivers. SATA Cable set. Screw to connect M.2 disk and its PCIe adapter. U.2 adapter. Back plate filter SLI cable Quick charge and NFC.

The Asus Z170 Premium is an ATX format motherboard with dimensions of 30.4 cm x 22.4 cm for the LGA 1151 socket . The board has a design that reminds us a lot of the Asus Z170 Deluxe with its matte black PCB color and silver / white heatsinks.

Beautiful view from the back.

The motherboard features two zones with cooling: power phases and Z170 chipset. It has nothing more and nothing less than 16 power phases supported by Digi +, TurboV (TPU) and Asus PRO CLOCK technology. What does this whole set of technology do? offers us the best experience, durability and overclocking possibilities on a high-end board.

Nor can we forget the incorporation of 5X Protection II technology: Network with overload protection, voltage protection, stable power supply, overcurrent protection and stainless steel I / O.

Another fact to keep in mind that the motherboard has an LED lighting system with six schemes to choose from:

Static: Always on Breathing: Slow cycle on and off Strobe: On and off Color cycle: Goes from one color to another Music effect: Responds to the rhythm of music CPU temperature: Changes the color according to the load of the CPU

Detail of the 8-pin EPS connection.

It has 4 available 64 GB compatible DDR4 RAM memory sockets with frequencies up to 4000 Mhz and compatible with the XMP 2.0 profile.

The Asus Z170 Premium presents a very good layout since it allows us to connect two Nvidia graphics cards in SLI or three AMDs in CrossFireX. It has a total of three PCIe 3.0 to x16 slots and four PCIe 3.0 connections at x1 speed.

It is also important to know that it incorporates a slot for the M.2 connection to install any disk of this format and type 2242/2260/2280/22110 (42/60/80 and 110mm). There is an option to additionally install another M.2 connection via PCI Express with the bandwidth multiplied up to 32 GB / s.

As its name "Premium" indicates, we have a complete pack of accessories, among them the NFC EXPRESS 2 and wireless charger. With them we can interact with our PC and our smart devices wirelessly and efficiently with NFC Express 2 and Wireless Charger. Asus uses the slogan “Touch it to control your PC or charge your mobile device, as if by magic. The cables are from the last century. ” .

It incorporates an improved 8-channel Realtek ALC1150 sound card sound card. Among its most interesting features is the compatibility with amplifiers for headphones and high impedance speakers.

Regarding storage, it has six 6 GB / s SATA III connections with RAID 0.1, 5 and 10 support and two shared connections of SATA Express and one SLOT U.2 connection.

Finally we detail the rear connections. Point out that we have two 10/100/1000 Gigabit LAN connections signed by Intel I219V and I211-AT + Bluetooth V4.0. In addition, it incorporates two USB Type-C connections and USB 3.1 connections.

1 x DisplayPort. 1 x HDMI. 2 x Network (RJ45). 1 x S / PDIF optical output. 2 x USB 3.1 (teal blue) Type A. 2 x USB 3.1 Type C. 2 x USB 3.0 (blue).2 x USB 2.0.1 x ASUS Wi-Fi GO! module (s) (Wi-Fi 802.11 a / b / g / n / ac and Bluetooth v4.0.1 x I / O 8 audio channels.

Test bench and tests

TESTING BENCH
Processor:	Intel i7-6700k.
Base plate:	Asus Z170 Premium.
Memory:	2 × 8 16GB DDR4 @ 3000 MHZ Kingston Predator.
Heatsink	Corsair H100i V2.
HDD	Samsung 850 EVO 500 GB.
Graphic card	Nvidia GTX 1070.
Power supply	EVGA SuperNOVA 750 G2

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To check the stability of the i7-6700k processor at 4500 MHZ and the motherboard we have stressed with Prime 95 Custom and air cooling. The graphics we have used is an Nvidia GTX 1070, without further delay, let's see the results obtained in our tests with a 1920 x 1080 monitor.

BIOS

Like the ROG series, the Asus Z170 Premium BIOS are super stable and efficient for this new generation. It allows us to monitor temperatures, control temperatures, manage the lighting of the motherboard and its effects, easily overclock, have multiple profiles and have our favorite options saved. The best Z170 BIOS? Possibly!

Final words and conclusion about Asus Z170 Premium

The Asus Z170 Premium is one of the best motherboards that in the absence of a PLX chip to have four graphics cards, nowadays it is no longer necessary, it would be the best motherboard of all. Among its most important features we find that it supports last batch processors: i7, i5, i3, Pentium and Celeron supported with 16 power phases, compatible up to 64 GB DDR4 at 4000 MHz, 2 Way SLI or 3 Way CrossFire-X and card improved sound.

Among its extras we find the possibility of two M.2 disks, compatibility with disks with U.2 connectivity, SATA connections, SATA Express, Bluetooth V4 connectivity , NFC, Wireless Fast Charging and much more… it is one of the most complete boards in connections and accessories.

In our we have been able to overclock the i7-6700k up to 4500 MHz with a very low voltage (less than 1.2V) and without any vdroop together with 3200 MHz memories. The tests in games are really good?

It can currently be found available in online stores like Amazon for a price of 380 euros. Yes… it is a somewhat high price and that if it were close to 300 euros it would be a TOP Sales in PC Enthusiasts.

ADVANTAGE	DISADVANTAGES
+ BRUTAL AESTHETICS.	- PRICE… SOMETHING HIGH, BUT IT IS A TOP OF THE RANGE.
+ AMAZING COMPONENTS.
+ REFRIGERATION AND RGB LIGHTING.
+ GREAT OVERCLOCK CAPACITY.
+ MANY CONNECTIONS AND ACCESSORIES.