Gigabyte h370 aorus gaming 3 wifi review in Spanish (full analysis)

The mid-range and entry-level motherboards for the Intel Coffee Lake platform have finally arrived, something that will make choosing one of these chips much more attractive in order to mount a new PC. Gigabyte H370 Aorus Gaming 3 Wifi is one of the best proposals that the market offers us with an attractive lighting system, and components of the best quality to last us for many years. Discover all its characteristics in our analysis in Spanish.

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Gigabyte H370 Aorus Gaming 3 Wifi technical characteristics

Unboxing and design

The Gigabyte H370 Aorus Gaming 3 Wifi motherboard It is offered with the usual brand presentation, we find the product in a cardboard box with a high quality design and a print based on the manufacturer's corporate colors.

This box details all the most important specifications of the motherboard in several languages, including Spanish.

Once we open the box we find the base plate protected by an anti-static bag to avoid any type of damage. Along with the plate we have the documentation and all the accessories.

Gigabyte H370 Aorus Gaming 3 Wifi is built with an ATX form factor, which has made it possible to integrate a large number of ports and connections so that you do not lack anything. To give compatibility to the Intel Coffee Lake processors, an LGA 1151 socket has been placed next to an H370 chipset. This is the mid-range chipset that maintains multi-GPU support but loses the ability to overclock, this is intended for users who are looking for a high-performance platform but with a more adjusted selling price than the top of the range Z370.

View of the rear area of the motherboard.

Surrounding the socket we find the VRM consisting of 8 + 2 power phases, this system is manufactured with the highest quality Ultra Durable components, which makes its operating temperature lower so that the motherboard lasts us longer.

The H370 chipset does not allow overclocking , despite this Gigabyte has mounted a power supply for the processor of the best quality. Two large heatsinks are placed on top of the VRM to prevent overheating.

On both sides of the socket we find four DDR4 DIMM slots in total, these will allow us to mount a maximum of 64 GB of DDR4 memory in dual-channel configuration. to get the most out of the processor. The H370 chipset supports maximum speeds of 4000 MHz for great performance.

We continue with the presence of two PCI Express 3.0 x16 slots, these will allow us to mount a maximum of two graphics cards to achieve the best performance in the most demanding video games. These slots are reinforced in steel to be more resistant and to be able to support without problems the weight of the most powerful and heavy graphics cards on the market. With this we will not have problems to build a very high performance team in the most demanding games of the coming years.

We now look at the storage of the Gigabyte H370 Aorus Gaming 3 Wifi, this motherboard includes two M.2 32 Gb / s slots for the installation of SSDs compatible with the NVMe protocol.

In addition, they include the Thermal Guard heatsink to prevent overheating and that they can maintain their maximum performance for longer.

Six SATA III 6GB / s ports have also been included for traditional hard drives. At this point it should be noted that the H370 chipset maintains compatibility with Intel Optane and with RAID technology.

Gigabyte H370 Aorus Gaming 3 Wifi includes a high quality ALC1220-VB sound engine, it offers headphone amplifier up to 10 / 114dB (A), so you can achieve the best performance with your high-end gaming headset. This sound system is located in a separate section of the PCB to reduce interference, and is manufactured with high-quality components such as Japanese capacitors.

The next point to address is connectivity. This motherboard includes an Intel Ether LAN network interface with CFOS Speed technology, which is responsible for reducing the latency of the network connection to improve overall performance, it also prioritizes video game related packages so you can get the best experience in your games. Intel CNVi 802.11ac Wave2 2T2R WiFi technology has also been integrated so you can surf at full speed without the hassle of cables. Finally, bluetooth 5.0 ensures compatibility with all kinds of wireless devices.

Gigabyte H370 Aorus Gaming 3 Wifi implements Smart Fan 5 technology to monitor the temperature of the processor and thereby adjust the speed of the fans intelligently, thanks to which we will obtain the best compromise between silence and cooling capacity.

Finally, we highlight the RGB Fusion LED lighting system, this is configurable in 16.8 million colors and supports multiple light effects. Gigabyte has placed diodes in the heatsinks and DDR4 DIMM slots for spectacular static.

Test bench and tests

TESTING BENCH
Processor:	Intel Core i7-8700K
Base plate:	Gigabyte H370 Aorus Gaming 3 Wifi
Memory:	Corsair Vengeance 32GB DDR4
Heatsink	Corsair H115
HDD	Samsung 850 EVO 500 GB.
Graphic card	Nvidia GTX 1060
Power supply	Corsair AX860i.

To check the stability of the i7-8700k processor in stock values and the motherboard we have stressed with Prime 95 Custom and air cooling. The graphics that we have used is an Nvidia GTX 1060, without further delay, let's see the results obtained in our tests with a 1920 x 1080 monitor.

BIOS

Nothing to envy BIOS to any Gigabyte Z370 motherboard. Although the overclocking options are reduced only to the activation of the XMP profile. For the rest, he is exactly like his older sisters. Good work Gigabyte!

Final words and conclusion about Gigabyte H370 Aorus Gaming 3 Wifi

The Gigabyte H370 Aorus Gaming 3 Wifi is one of the first motherboards with the H370 chipset that we have tested and the result has been great. It has all the ingredients to succeed: good components, striking aesthetics, good cooling and great stability.

In our tests we have used an i7-8700k, although we would have liked to analyze one of Intel's new reframes, along with a 6 GB GTX 1060 that gives such good performance in 1920 x 1080 pixel resolution. As expected the result is really good.

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Its price in store will oscillate approximately 114 euros. If you don't need the full potential of a Z370 motherboard and are looking for something more "measured", this Gigabyte H370 Aorus Gaming 3 Wifi It is a great purchase option. What do you think of this new generation of motherboards? Was it what you expected? ?

ADVANTAGE	DISADVANTAGES
+ DESIGN AND COMPONENTS
+ WIFI CONNECTION + IMPROVED SOUND + HEATSINK IN THE FIRST M.2 NVME.
+ RGB LIGHTING
+ COMPATIBLE WITH THE NEW GENERATION OF NO-K PROCESSORS
+ IDEAL FOR ADJUSTED BUDGETS