Gigabyte h170 d3hp review

Gigabyte H170 D3HP technical specifications

Gigabyte H170 D3HP in pictures

The Gigabyte H170 D3HP comes in a solid and robust packaging. Use corporate colors: yellow and black. In the rear area we have all the characteristics of the product.

Once we open the box we find the motherboard with a static bag, we have a very complete bundle:

Gigabyte H170-D3HP motherboard. Back plate. Instruction manual and quick guide. CD with drivers. SATA cables.

The Gigabyte H170 D3HP is an ATX format motherboard with dimensions of 30.5cm x 22.5 cm, so we will not have a problem with mounting it on any ATX tower. The colors that predominate in its design are black for the PCB and black / gold for the heatsinks.

On cooling, it has two robust heatsinks that keep the supply phases and the H170 chipset cool. It incorporates Ultra Durable technology with the highest quality components.

It integrates 4 64 GB compatible DDR4 RAM memory sockets and speeds of up to 2133 Mhz. The board has a double USB 3.0 connection. allowing us to have several ports in our maximum speed tower.

Among its expansion connections we find 2 x16 slots with PCI Express 3.0 bus and compatible with AMD 2 CrossFireX technology. As an extra, it includes one PCI Express x1 connections and three PCI connections.

It incorporates only six 6 GB / s SATA III connections that share up to two 10 GB / s SATA Express. It allows us to perform RAID 0.1 and 5 with multiple hard drives. Meets to spare for mass storage.

It also incorporates an M.2 connection. with a bandwidth of 32 GB / s that will give us the maximum power that we can achieve with these discs. We find a Realtek ALC 1150 that has worked so well in the previous generation.

Regarding sound, it has the ALC1150 chipset with 7.1 channel compatibility. It is well known for its good performance and its incorporation in almost the entire Z170 range. It includes AMP-UPAudio technology with support for 7.1 channels, Two integrated stereo ADCs, 115 dB amplifier with signal-to-noise-reproduction-suppression (SNR) (DAC) and quality 104dB SNR recording (ADC).

Finally I detail the complete rear connections of the Gigabyte H170-D3HP:

2 x USB 2.0.3 x USB 3.0.1 x VGA. 1 x HDMI. 1 x DVI. 1 x USB 3.1 Type-C. 1 x USB 3.1.1 x Gigabit LAN. Digital audio output.

Test bench and tests

TESTING BENCH
Processor:	Intel i5-6600k.
Base plate:	Gigabyte H170-D3HP
Memory:	2 × 8 16GB DDR4 @ 3000 MHZ Kingston Savage
Heatsink	Corsair H100i GTX.
HDD	Samsung 840 EVO 250GB.
Graphic card	Nvidia GTX 780.
Power supply	EVGA SuperNOVA 750 G2

To check the stability of the processor and motherboard, we have performed all tests with stock speed, with Prime 95 Custom and air cooling. The graphics we have used is an Nvidia GTX780, without further delay, let's see the results obtained in our tests with a 1920 × 1080 monitor.

BIOS

Like the Socket 1150 Gigabyte, it has released a very stable BIOS with a large overclocking capacity. Screen freezes or peripheral locks no longer appear. It still maintains all its benefits: fan control, temperature sensor, excellent overclocking capacity and customization of any parameter to our liking.

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Final words and conclusion

Gigabyte H170 D3HP It is an average motherboard, which incorporates excellent components and very efficient cooling. It allows us to connect any processor of the Celeron, Pentium, i3, i5 and i7 range with 64 GB of DDR4 RAM and two AMD graphics cards in CrossFire. Regarding storage, it allows us to connect up to 6 hard drives and incorporates an M.2 connection with a bandwidth of 32 GB / s.

In our tests we have used a high-end i5-6600k processor and the results have been very good. I would have liked to test it with a blocked i3 or i5 processor, but since we did not have them in the workshop (for now) we could not do a more realistic test.

In short, if you are looking for a quality motherboard for less than 120 euros, the Gigabyte H170 D3HP It is a highly recommended option . Although for this price range, it would be interesting to opt for the Gigabyte Z170X-Gaming 3.

ADVANTAGE	DISADVANTAGES
+ ULTRA DURABLE COMPONENTS.	- COULD HAVE A TIGHTER PRICE.
+ REFRIGERATION.
+ STABLE BIOS.
+ 6 SATA CONNECTIONS.
+ M2 CONNECTION.