Mini-ITX boards are the smallest (170mm x 170mm), but often have to make some sacrifices, such as only a single PCIe x16 port. micro-ATX (mATX) boards are significantly bigger (244mm x 244mm), and can often be found for very affordable prices....
Starting off with the gaming features since this board is part of Gigabyte's Gaming line we have Killer E2200 gaming networking. This high-performance, adaptive gigabit Ethernet controller offers better online gaming and online media performance...
The overheating issue is a concern for benchmarking but with no hard evidence of this happening outside of extreme conditions, it's unfair to be too harsh here as the Z170N-Gaming 5 otherwise performed okay. That said, this is a mini-ITX motherboard so...
This is one of the more affordable 'Gaming' ITX boards using the Z170 chipset at $269 and it's worth every dollar. I was tempted to say that the board was comparatively cheap but there is nothing 'cheap' about the Z170N Gaming 5's design or build...
Before Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge, overclocking your CPU involved changing half a dozen settings to try to obtain the highest clock speed. This was because there were so many different ways to obtain your maximum frequency, things were a bit...
So the Gigabyte Z170N Gaming 5 isn't the first Mini-ITX Z170 board to come through the office. The first was the MSI Wireless AC Pro that I covered. So going into this review I had a good idea of what a Z170 ITX board should have for features, so most...
The Gigabyte Z170N-Gaming 5 and Z170N-WIFI take a decidedly more pragmatic approach. Though based on the same Z170 chipset and mini-ITX form factor, they're more barebones, offering little in the way of extras and premium features. Priced at about...
Siamo giunti al termine della recensione odierna ed è quindi il momento di dare le valutazioni al prodotto. Vi sveliamo subito che la Gigabyte Z170N Gaming 5 ci ha convinto in quasi tutto, e usiamo il quasi perchè per fortuna o purtroppo la perfezione...
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