ECS Z370-Lightsaber Review 4

ECS Z370-Lightsaber Review

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Finished Looks


I do like the matte black of the ECS Z370-Lightsaber; it provides a lot of flexibility when choosing other components. The board's layout is efficient and easy to build on.


The ECS Z370-Lightsaber features a semitransparent line that runs along the PCI slots on the left edge of the board with RGB LEDs on the back of the board which shine through. The effect is very cool-looking, but the placement means that a lot of the light is blocked off once any of the PCI slots are populated. Still, points to ECS for not overdoing it, which would have undermined the black aesthetic of the board.

Test System

Test System
Processor:Intel Core i7-8700k
4.7 GHz (Turbo 2.0), 12 MB Cache
Memory:2x 8 GB DDR4 3866 MHz
G.Skill TridentZ F4-3866C18D-16GTZ
Cooling:Alphacool Eisbaer 240
BIOS Version:Z37BF906.BST
Graphics Card:MSI GTX 980 GAMING 4 GB
Harddisk:1x Crucial M4 128 GB SATA 6 Gb/s SSD (OS)
1x Crucial BX200 256 GB SATA 6 Gb/s SSD (Data)
1x Samsung 950 PRO M.2 (NVMe)
Power Supply:Seasonic Prime Titanium 1000 W
Case:Lian Li T60 test bench
Software:Windows 10 Pro 64-bit, NVIDIA GeForce 376.33 WHQL



You get a pretty standard Turbo profile with the default settings on the ECS Z370-Lightsaber. A huge thanks to Seasonic for providing the Prime Titanium PSU.
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