Gigabyte Z370 AORUS Gaming 3 Review
Published by Luca Rocchi on 23.01.18Conclusion
| General | + | - | |
| It's quite obvious that the Gigabyte Z370 AORUS Gaming 3 is a product where the vendor is aiming for an attractive price point. This motherboard features a great looking design, which has been kept in black and red. Apart from that there are features like two M.2 slots, several 4-pin PWM header and a decent audio solution. The Gigabyte Z370 AORUS Gaming 3 is currently listed on Geizhals for 133 Euro, which is perfectly reasonable considering the feature list. | -
Design - Layout - Features - 2 x M.2 x4 Slot |
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| Layout | + | - | |
| The layout of the Gigabyte Z370 AORUS Gaming 3 has been well thought. This model features four angled SATA connectors and two straight SATA ports, which can be found in the bottom right corner. Since the Z370 AORUS Gaming 3 is a mid-range motherboard, it's no surprise that there aren't any power- and/or reset-buttons. Apart from that we like the placement of the full-sized PCI-Express slots and they are equipped with metal reinforcement plates. There is a total of two full sized PCI Express slots and four PCIe x1 slots. In addition there are two M.2 slots. | - Space around the CPU
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- No power/reset-button onboard | |
| Performance | + | - | |
At the moment our test setup includes four motherboards but during the next weeks we will add more models. Calculating the average of all benchmarks results we ran, we see that this board scores 3rd. If we check a bit closer, we see that the Gigabyte Z370 AORUS Gaming 3 is about 2,8% slower than the ROG STRIX Z370-I Gaming in 3D Mark benchmarks. Furthermore, speaking about 2D performance, we see a good result for the Gigabyte motherboard in RightMark Audio Analyzer. On another note, we had at energy efficiency where this board scores 1st. The only flaw that we have seen regards the VRM temperature. Since Gigabyte is using a push-pin system on the heatsinks, the temperature ramps up quite easily with the CPU overclocked and some heavy load. |
- 2D Performance |
- VRM temperature | |
| Overclocking / BIOS | + | - | |
| Gigabyte has put a lot of time and effort into making their BIOS look nicer and more user friendly. Especially when we compare this version of Gigabyte BIOS to the first UEFI BIOS from Gigabyte, it simply cannot be compared, since the two are worlds apart. What's almost self-explanatory is that you get a lot of tuning and tweaking options in order to optimize the system towards your needs. We also like the entry screen which displays a lot of useful information. Apart from that overclocking our test CPU to 5 GHz was straight forward and there were no issues whatsoever. | - Sheer amount of
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| Recommendation | + | - | |
| The Gigabyte Z370 AORUS Gaming 3 is a well equipped Z370 motherboard. At the moment this board isn't so quick according to our 2D and 3D benchmarks. We expect a better BIOS from Gigabyte that can improve the overall performance of this motherboard. On top of that it comes with a decent feature set and a price of 133 Euro excluding shipping costs, which makes it definitely affordable. | - Price | ||
| Rating | |||
| We give the Gigabyte Z370 AORUS Gaming 3 excellent 4 out of 5 stars. | |||
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