GIGABYTE Intros H170-Gaming 3 D3 Motherboard for Budget Upgrades

[btarunr]

GIGABYTE introduced the H170-Gaming 3 D3 motherboard to help you better spread your upgrade budget. Say you just bought a fast 16 GB dual-channel memory kit recently, to use on your older machine, and want to upgrade to Core "Skylake," choosing a DDR3-based socket LGA1151 motherboard will let you spend the money saved on buying a DDR4 memory kit on a better processor. The H170-Gaming 3 D3 is built in the ATX form-factor, taking in power from 24-pin ATX and 8-pin EPS power connectors. It uses a 7-phase VRM to condition power to the CPU. The CPU is wired to four DDR3 DIMM slots, and one PCI-Express 3.0 x16.

Other expansion slots include a PCI-Express 3.0 x16 (electrical gen 3.0 x4, wired to the PCH), and two each of PCIe 3.0 x1 and legacy PCI. Storage connectivity includes two M.2 32 Gb/s slots, two SATA-Express 16 Gb/s, and six SATA 6 Gb/s. USB connectivity includes eight USB 3.0 ports (four on the rear panel, four by headers). Display outputs include one each of HDMI, DVI, and D-Sub. The AMP-UP onboard audio solution combines a 115 dBA SNR 8-channel CODEC with ground layer isolation, audio-grade capacitors, and a user-replaceable OPAMP chip. Networking is care of Killer E2200 NIC. UEFI dual-BIOS makes for the rest of it. Expect this board to be priced around $100-$120.



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[Batou1986]

Why is PCI making a come back all the sudden with the new intel chipsets ?
Previously the trend was 1 or none now I'm seeing boards with two or three

 

[RejZoR]

I'm surprised they haven't used IDE and floppy connector as well...

Dear god, please make PCI and PS/2 ports die already.

I was looking at 400+ € gaming boards that still had retarded PS/2 on them because it's suppose to make things smooth. Erm, USB already does 1000Hz polling!?

 

[IvTK]

It's Gigabyte GA-H170-Gaming 3 DDR3 (rev. 1.0), actually

 

[Chaitanya]

I'm surprised they haven't used IDE and floppy connector as well...

Dear god, please make PCI and PS/2 ports die already.

I was looking at 400+ € gaming boards that still had retarded PS/2 on them because it's suppose to make things smooth. Erm, USB already does 1000Hz polling!?

USB doesnt support full n-key rollover and critically it lacks hardware interrupts which are useful for overclockers and programmers . PCI is also still in use across the industry and many users still have old PCI soundcards. If certain technologies are not useful for you doesnt mean they are useless for everyone.

 

[Drone]

USB doesnt support full n-key rollover and critically it lacks hardware interrupts which are useful for overclockers and programmers . PCI is also still in use across the industry and many users still have old PCI soundcards. If certain technologies are not useful for you doesnt mean they are useless for everyone.

Well said! Simply put: don't like = don't buy it.

 

[RejZoR]

When simpl yput means you have to exclude 3/4 of high end boards because of such stupid legacy nonsense, it's not so simply anymore as "if you don't like it, don't buy it"...

 

[Ferrum Master]

I've read the nic badge on the mobo as Hitler not killer lol

 

[Uplink10]

Expect this board to be priced around $100-$120.

Budget upgrade is more under $100 range close to $80. Paying more than $100 for a H and Z motherboard is already too much and in the end you are stuck with CPU that has only 16 PCIe lanes which is pathetic. Price per what you get is really high when it comes to motherboards above $100.
I do not know what $150 motherboard has that motherboad under $100 doesn't have.

USB doesnt support full n-key rollover and critically it lacks hardware interrupts which are useful for overclockers and programmers .

Isn't that the job of the OS?

PCI is also still in use across the industry and many users still have old PCI soundcards.

I think that people who need old PCI card in the industry would just buy older but new motherboard and not a new one.

As for the PCI cards, time moves on and you can put the old sound card in a new PC but that sound card is pretty old and as times go on you need to buy new hardware, new CPU for new socket and new sound card for PCIe.
Why would someone complain about at least 8 year old (since PCIe has been out for quite some time) PCI card not fitting in a new motherboard? it is to be expected.

 

[btarunr]

Budget upgrade is more under $100 range close to $80. Paying more than $100 for a H and Z motherboard is already too much and in the end you are stuck with CPU that has only 16 PCIe lanes which is pathetic. Price per what you get is really high when it comes to motherboards above $100.
I do not know what $150 motherboard has that motherboad under $100 doesn't have.

It's budget in that you spend $100 and keep your old DDR3 memory, compared to buying a $120-ish DDR4 motherboard and spending $70-$120 on new memory.

 

[Ferrum Master]

It's budget in that you spend $100 and keep your old DDR3 memory, compared to buying a $120-ish DDR4 motherboard and spending $70-$120 on new memory.

Well memory is memory, they don't die easy and doesn't get cheaper also... actually if would sell some of my DDR3 sets now I would make profit as they cost more now lol.

As for the PCI cards, time moves on and you can put the old sound card in a new PC but that sound card is pretty old and as times go on you need to buy new hardware, new CPU for new socket and new sound card for PCIe.

The PCI works via ASMEDIA PCIE-PCI hub, PCI is tight latency port actually... Really don't know how it would play with sound cards, as they need low latency. I suspect there would be some sort of funny issues.

 

[Chaitanya]

Budget upgrade is more under $100 range close to $80. Paying more than $100 for a H and Z motherboard is already too much and in the end you are stuck with CPU that has only 16 PCIe lanes which is pathetic. Price per what you get is really high when it comes to motherboards above $100.
I do not know what $150 motherboard has that motherboad under $100 doesn't have.


Isn't that the job of the OS?


I think that people who need old PCI card in the industry would just buy older but new motherboard and not a new one.

As for the PCI cards, time moves on and you can put the old sound card in a new PC but that sound card is pretty old and as times go on you need to buy new hardware, new CPU for new socket and new sound card for PCIe.
Why would someone complain about at least 8 year old (since PCIe has been out for quite some time) PCI card not fitting in a new motherboard? it is to be expected.

Sound cards are just one of the old add-in cards that people are using. when it comes to industry serial interface(RS232, RS485, RS422) cards, proprietary interfaces cards, etc are just a few reasons why PCI is still in use.

Budget upgrade is more under $100 range close to $80. Paying more than $100 for a H and Z motherboard is already too much and in the end you are stuck with CPU that has only 16 PCIe lanes which is pathetic. Price per what you get is really high when it comes to motherboards above $100.
I do not know what $150 motherboard has that motherboad under $100 doesn't have.


Isn't that the job of the OS?


I think that people who need old PCI card in the industry would just buy older but new motherboard and not a new one.

As for the PCI cards, time moves on and you can put the old sound card in a new PC but that sound card is pretty old and as times go on you need to buy new hardware, new CPU for new socket and new sound card for PCIe.
Why would someone complain about at least 8 year old (since PCIe has been out for quite some time) PCI card not fitting in a new motherboard? it is to be expected.

Sound cards are just one of the old add-in cards that people are using. when it comes to industry serial interface(RS232, RS485, RS422) cards, interfaces cards for proprietary hardware, etc are just a few reasons why PCI is still in use. I have a client who purchases PCs regularly for their furnaces and their interface card used to connect PC with furnace is still a PCI card.

 

[Ferrum Master]

Sound cards are just one of the old add-in cards that people are using. when it comes to industry serial interface(RS232, RS485, RS422) cards, interfaces cards for proprietary hardware, etc are just a few reasons why PCI is still in use. I have a client who purchases PCs regularly for their furnaces and their interface card used to connect PC with furnace is still a PCI card.

Well FTDI works much better than most PCI cards actually... at least they have them drivers....

 

[Chaitanya]

Well FTDI works much better than most PCI cards actually... at least they have them drivers....

we did try FTDI once, but the biggest issue was unlike the fixed address on serial ports with USB ports the Windows used to change address of attached device on reboots which caused the software to malfunction. Any ways PCI is not going to die anytime soon, unless the majority of industrial applications are rewritten to add support for USB/PCI-e interface.

 

[peche]

If certain technologies are not useful for you doesnt mean they are useless for everyone.

wise words...!

I've read the nic badge on the mobo as Hitler not killer lol

so ... not just me and my sight problems played a trick on the photo!

It's budget in that you spend $100 and keep your old DDR3 memory, compared to buying a $120-ish DDR4 motherboard and spending $70-$120 on new memory.

DDR3 can lasts 2 years more, so ... this definitively will be budget saver!

 

[Uplink10]

Sound cards are just one of the old add-in cards that people are using. when it comes to industry serial interface(RS232, RS485, RS422) cards, proprietary interfaces cards, etc are just a few reasons why PCI is still in use.

They had enough time to release a new PCIe card and as I said they can use older (<2014) and not new (>2015) motherboards. There also really is not any application that would require the new motherboard coupled with PCI card.