Friday, May 22nd 2015
BIOSTAR Gaming-Z170X Socket LGA1151 Motherboard ES Pictured
Here's the first picture of BIOSTAR's upcoming socket LGA1151 motherboard, the Gaming-Z170X, designed for 6th generation Core "Skylake" processors. This particular board, in its unfinished form, features DDR4 DIMM slots; but there could be other models in the series, with DDR3 DIMM slots. The board could be exhibited without its final PCB color and heatsinks, at the upcoming Computex event. This picture also gives you a glimpse of the Z170 PCH in the flesh.
From the looks of it, the Gaming-Z170X looks pretty feature-packed, offering a 14-phase CPU VRM, three PCI-Express 3.0 x16 slots (x16/NC/NC or x8/x8/NC or x8/x4/x4), and storage connectivity that includes three (yes, three) SATA-Express 10 Gb/s ports, carved out of the board's six SATA 6 Gb/s ports; and two M.2 10 Gb/s slots, with a third mPCIe riser. BIOSTAR's Hi-Fi audio solution, which includes a 600Ω headphones amp, a 115 dBA SNR CODEC, and ground-layer isolation; and Killer E2200 wired networking, along with a handful of USB 3.0 (including some USB 3.1?) ports make for the rest of its modern connectivity.
From the looks of it, the Gaming-Z170X looks pretty feature-packed, offering a 14-phase CPU VRM, three PCI-Express 3.0 x16 slots (x16/NC/NC or x8/x8/NC or x8/x4/x4), and storage connectivity that includes three (yes, three) SATA-Express 10 Gb/s ports, carved out of the board's six SATA 6 Gb/s ports; and two M.2 10 Gb/s slots, with a third mPCIe riser. BIOSTAR's Hi-Fi audio solution, which includes a 600Ω headphones amp, a 115 dBA SNR CODEC, and ground-layer isolation; and Killer E2200 wired networking, along with a handful of USB 3.0 (including some USB 3.1?) ports make for the rest of its modern connectivity.
12 Comments on BIOSTAR Gaming-Z170X Socket LGA1151 Motherboard ES Pictured
Nice board, should overclock well.
It's obvious they left the heat sinks off as they want to have some sort of surprise factor.
The colour reminds me of Asrock boards and the removeable BIOS chip means to me it is made for gamers.
From their website: "The motherboard comes with their new Gaming Commander Box accessory as well as cutting-edge features like USB 3.1"
While this isn't specific to their latest board, it is for their current gaming series, so features will be carried over, possibly improved upon.
if not finalized only God knows what is going to be
In fact, it's (x16/dc/dc) or (x8/x8/dc) or (x8/x4/x4) but yeah, I would expect PCI-E 3.0 for the next couple years. Even when the spec comes out next year, it will take time to develop it.