Gigabyte announces the z270

Gigabyte continues to expand its catalog of motherboards for the Intel Skylake and Kaby Lake platform, this time we have the Z270-Designare which is built with an attractive PCB with gray tones to provide a different aesthetic to most of the options on the market.

Gigabyte Z270-Designare: features and price

The new Gigabyte Z270-Designare motherboard is built with an ATX form factor to give discerning users an excellent choice within the mainstream range of 6th and 7th generation Intel Core processors. The board uses a 24-pin connector and an 8-pin connector to power its powerful 7-phase power VRM, which ensures remarkable electrical stability for higher overclock margins. Surrounding the socket we find four DDR4 DIMM slots with support for a maximum of 64 GB of memory in dual chanel configuration to get the most out of the processors.

The games will be able to build a very capable team with video games thanks to the presence of two PCI-Express 3.0 x16 slots, with which we will be able to install up to two graphics cards in x8 operating mode. It also features a PCI-Express 3.0 x16 slot with x4 electrical operation and three PCI-Express 3.0 x1 slots for expansion cards.

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The characteristics of the Gigabyte Z270-Designare continue with the presence of six SATA 6 Gb / s ports, four of which can be converted into two SATA Express ports, one M.2 32 Gb / s port and one U.2 32 slot. Gb / s so it is very well served in the field of storage. We continue with video outputs in the form of HDMI and DVI, six USB 3.0 ports, an Intel Gigabit Ethernet controller, a high-quality audio system 115 dBA SNR CODEC with headphone amplifier and independent section of the PCB.

It is expected for a price of approximately $ 170.

Source: techpowerup