Gigabyte aorus z370 ultra gaming review in Spanish (full analysis)

Gigabyte Aorus Z370 Ultra Gaming technical features

Unboxing and design

The Gigabyte Aorus GA Z370 Ultra Gaming comes packaged in a standard-size cardboard box, dominated by a black background alongside the product's silkscreen in large orange letters. On its cover we can see the great variety of certifications it incorporates.

Now we run into the back of it. In it are detailed the main technical characteristics of the motherboard and all its news for this new platform.

Your bundle is made up of:

Gigabyte Aorus GA Z370 Ultra Gaming Motherboard with software and driversInstruction ManualQuick Installation GuideFour SAT cablesBackplateAorus StickerAdapter for control panel cables

The Gigabyte Aorus GA Z370 Ultra Gaming is an ATX format motherboard with dimensions 30.5 cm x 24.4 cm for the renewed LGA 1151 socket. Its design is very minimalist, with a predominance of black and white and orange details. The staging is very good.

View of the rear area of the motherboard.

It seems that the new design of the Aorus series has also taken center stage in the Gigabyte medium ranges. On this new platform you can clearly see where Gigabyte is betting: stability, good components and excellent passive cooling.

The Gigabyte Aorus Z370 Ultra Gaming is divided into two key cooling zones: the most important for its 8 power phases and the second for the Z370 chipset. All its components are supported by Ultra Durable technology, which offers us the greatest stability and the possibility of making a good overclock.

To finish off the motherboard is powered by an 8 pin auxiliary EPS connection and the classic 24 pin ATX. Nothing new in this mid-range?

Thanks to the 4 DDR4 RAM sockets it allows us to install a total of 64 GB with frequencies up to 4000 MHz and compatible with the XMP 2.0 profile. Next to the DDR4 slots we see a USB 3.0 head, connectors to install LED strips and a USB 3.1 connection.

The Gigabyte Aorus Z370 Ultra Gaming 8 has a fairly normal layout. It has a total of three PCI Express x16 connections that allow you to install Nvidia graphics cards on SLI (2 Way) and AMD on CrossFireX (3 Way). Additionally, it has three other PCI Express x1 connections, ideal for expanding with expansion cards.

Nor can we forget the incorporation of Ultra Durable PCIe Armor technology that is responsible for reinforcing the PCI-Express ports so that they can support without any problem the most powerful and heavy graphics cards on the market.

It also inherits from the high-end Double Locking Bracket technology that provides a better grip on the cards for optimal operation. Anti-Sulfur Resistor Design and Ultra Durable Memory Armor technologies protect all major electronic components and DDR4 DIMMM slots from wear and tear so they last like new for much longer.

On the high-speed storage two slots are integrated for the M.2 connection and in this way install any disk of this format: 2242/2260/2280/22110 (42/60/80 and 110mm).

It incorporates a Realtek ALC1220 sound card that combined with excellent components. It provides us with a much more crystalline sound and that allows us to install professional helmets of up to 600Ω, avoiding the typical distortion of sound and low volume.

We continue with the storage and we see a total of 6 SATA III 6 Gb / s ports that allow us to connect SSDs in this format and the classic mechanical hard drives. Although six SATA connections may seem few to us… we believe that together with M.2 connections it is a good opportunity to have an NVMe disk and several SATA to have a high-performance PC.

We detail the rear connections:

PS / 2.DVI-D connectionHDMI portUSB Type-C with USB 3.1 Gen2.USB 3.1 Gen 2 Type-A4 x USB 3.1 Gen 12 x USB 2.0 / 1.1RJ-45 LAN 10/100 / 1000.Optical output Input and output Audio.

Test bench and tests

TESTING BENCH
Processor:	Intel Core i5-8400
Base plate:	Gigabyte Aorus Z370 Ultra Gaming
Memory:	Corsair LPX 64GB DDR4
Heatsink	Corsair H110i
HDD	Samsung 850 EVO 500 GB.
Graphic card	Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti.
Power supply	Corsair AX860i

To check the stability of the i5-8500 processor at stock frequency and the motherboard we have stressed with Prime 95 Custom and air cooling. The graphics we have used is an Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti, without further delay, let's see the results obtained in our tests with a 1920 x 1080 monitor.

BIOS

The BIOS is traced to the one we saw in the Aorus Z370 Gaming 7 both in design and possibilities. It allows us to monitor voltages, temperatures, adjust overclocking values both in the processor and in the RAM memories. Once testing with both i5-8400 and i7-8700k, we can say that it is a very good mid / high range motherboard.

Final words and conclusion about Gigabyte Aorus Z370 Ultra Gaming

The Gigabyte Aorus Z370 Ultra Gaming is a very good motherboard and it incorporates everything we need for the eighth generation of Intel Coffe Lake processors : design, stability, overclocking capacity and a vitaminized sound for the most gamers.

We recommend reading our guide to the best motherboards on the market.

In our tests we have been able to verify its stability with the i5-8400 in stock values and an 11GB GDDR5X Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti graphics card. The results are very good and it is close to the Gaming 7 + i7-8700K set.

Details such as the sound card with Japanese capacitors, full of highly useful rear connections and a super stable BIOS, would make us opt for it.

At the moment it is available in the main online stores and its price ranges from 188 euros. Although we believe that it should be positioned at 160 euros , since in this way it would be a top seller.

ADVANTAGE	DISADVANTAGES
+ CARE AND MINIMALIST DESIGN.	- THE PRICE COULD BE MORE ADJUSTED.
+ QUALITY PASSIVE REFRIGERATION.	- WE MISSING A WIFI CONNECTION.
+ HIGH DURABILITY COMPONENTS.
+ IMPROVED SOUND CARD.
+ M.2 CONNECTIONS.