ECS Z170-CLAYMORE (Intel LGA-1151)

cadaveca · Dec 4, 2015

After skipping Intel's X99 Express platform, ECS is back to enthusiast-focused board products using Intel's Z170. The ECS Z170-CLAYMORE is a weapon built for today's gamer arsenal, carrying Realtek's latest "Dragon" LAN controller not seen on these pages before.

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McSteel · Dec 4, 2015

Nice review as always, but I do have a correction suggestion:

Article said:
With 10 ports in total (six USB 2.0, two USB 3.0, and two USB 3.1)

Looking at the photos, shouldn't that be 4xUSB2, 4xUSB3 and 2xUSB3.1 ?

Not that bad of a board for the price, but not the best out there either...

Rais · Dec 4, 2015

count can include onboard connectors?

bug · Dec 4, 2015

.net framework 3.5, wow...
I guess they used it so that their software runs on both Win7 and Win10, but it's a real cheap way to save a few bucks.

vega22 · Dec 4, 2015

or make money by expanding user base?

45 second post sounds wrong, like the bios needs work too :/

shame as that is the 1st ecs mobo i have liked the looks of since they did that purple thing years ago xD

FordGT90Concept · Dec 4, 2015

bug said:
.net framework 3.5, wow...
I guess they used it so that their software runs on both Win7 and Win10, but it's a real cheap way to save a few bucks.

3.5 I believe goes back to Vista. Windows 7-10 use 4.# which is the same lineage (security updates should have all Windows 7 computers running 4.6 by now).

I didn't know ECS was still around.

Ruru · Dec 4, 2015

Looks great when compared with those all-looking-the-same "gaming" motherboards since this clearly has some of that classic ECS look on it.

Jetster · Dec 4, 2015

I like the name

thebluebumblebee · Dec 4, 2015

Jetster said:
I like the name

Tick-tock, tick-tock, for 45 seconds, tick-tock, tick-tock

FreedomEclipse · Dec 5, 2015

I find it hilarious that they are trying to get in the 'in crowd' by pasting the word L337 on their board. I guess 'OMG SO MLG' and '360 Noscope' Is printed on the underside of the PCB somewhere and a remix of snoop doggs 'smoke weed everyday' plays for 30 seconds when you hit the power button to boot the system up.

::EDIT::

and also.... No SLi Support??? Alrighty then.

Frick · Dec 5, 2015

Looking at the dedicated GPU marketshare not including SLI seems pretty damned daft to me. Most people don't go multi I know, but now they don't even have the option.

FreedomEclipse · Dec 5, 2015

Frick said:
Looking at the dedicated GPU marketshare not including SLI seems pretty damned daft to me. Most people don't go multi I know, but now they don't even have the option.

yeah they do actually - According to ECS, the board supports crossfire.

The only caveat being if that you have to get rid of your Nvidia card and buy an AMD card if you are running one.

SmokingCrop · Dec 5, 2015

45 seconds post time? Lol.
I can easily start up and shutdown my pc twice in that time (gigabyte GA-Z77X-D3H + windows 10 x64)..

Oh well, you can't even buy ECS in Benelux so I don't care much.

CoolZone · Dec 6, 2015

The board does not allow manual voltage adjustments for the CPU unfortunately and will automatically adjust itself depending on the CPU speed you set. Also, the stock voltage for the CPU in stock form is pretty high.

carloz · Dec 8, 2015

6th Gen K7S5A. NO Thank You Sir!

cadaveca · Dec 8, 2015

CoolZone said:
The board does not allow manual voltage adjustments for the CPU unfortunately and will automatically adjust itself depending on the CPU speed you set. Also, the stock voltage for the CPU in stock form is pretty high.

I'll assume that it was your email I got, and unfortunately when I tried to reply your server denied it. I ahd no such problems, but it isn't very promising to hear you had problems.

CoolZone · Dec 9, 2015

cadaveca said:
I'll assume that it was your email I got, and unfortunately when I tried to reply your server denied it. I ahd no such problems, but it isn't very promising to hear you had problems.

That is quite peculiar since my server is based on Gmail.

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ECS Z170-CLAYMORE (Intel LGA-1151)

cadaveca

My name is Dave

McSteel

Rais

bug

vega22

FordGT90Concept

"I go fast!1!11!1!"

Ruru

S.T.A.R.S.

Jetster

thebluebumblebee

FreedomEclipse

~Technological Technocrat~

Frick

Fishfaced Nincompoop

FreedomEclipse

~Technological Technocrat~

SmokingCrop

CoolZone

carloz

cadaveca

My name is Dave

CoolZone

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