The current generation of processors of the Core 6000 series, also known as Skylake, partly due to the support for rapid and economical DDR4 memory needs a new base and new chipsets.
The current generation of processors of the Core 6000 series, also known as Skylake, partly due to the support for rapid and economical DDR4 memory needs a new base and new chipsets.
The current generation of processors of the Core 6000 series, also known as Skylake, partly due to the support for rapid and economical DDR4 memory needs a new base and new chipsets.
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In addition to the increased CPU power, the clearly bored graphics unit and the DDR4 support the CPUs themselves, the new series chipsets 100 (?? ?? Sunrise Point) offer some significant improvements. Instead of the previous eight PCI Express 2.0 lanes provides the Z170 chipset as top model now a full 20 lanes that are also with PCIe 3.0 still about twice as fast.
It is important that, among other things for the equipment with M.2 slots that now – depending on the motherboard – can contain up to three slots, each with four PCIe 3.0-lines, where it previously was only one slot, which in most cases was connected only with two data lines. This allows having a bandwidth of approximately 4 GB / s per slot, the use of several extremely fast M.2 SSDs and enables bypassing the slower SATA 6G standards, there are still up to six times. Even with USB 3.0 A lot has changed, from a maximum of 14 USB ports now support up to 10 fast 3.0 standard and not only at most 6. Overall, a Skylake CPU together with a series-100 chipset a very modern and well-equipped platform.
When Gigabyte Z170X-Designare is a very well equipped Z170 gaming mainboard in ATX format illustrating especially for fast quad-core processors the Core i7 or Core i5 series an ideal base – as Z170 board supports it of course also overclocking of CPUs of the K-series, which feature a freely selectable multiplier. The black-blauee Gamer Board with large black heatsinks and blue accents has four DIMM slots for DDR4 memory in fast dual-channel mode. For graphics cards provides the board a PCIe 3.0 x16 slots ready supported the board both NVIDIA SLI and AMD CrossFireX technology. With two additional slots in x16 format are connected with four or eight lanes to the chipset, for additional plug-in cards are three PCIe x1 slots.
If a graphics card is present, can be thanks to the integrated graphics processor a Skylake CPU monitors connected directly to the back of the motherboard – this stand with HDMI and DisplayPort two ports. The motherboard convinced moreover, among other things with impressive LED lights, each one M.2- and U. 2-slot, two USB 3.1 ports (type C), six USB 3.0 slots, two times SATA Express, six times SATA 6G, a TPM header, five fan connectors and Realtek ALC1150 Audio controller for fabulous sound and extensive features for overclocking.
Technical details:
Format: ATX
Color: Black, Blue
Chipset: Intel Z170 ( Sunrise Point)
Socket 1151 (?? for Intel CPUs the 6 core generation Skylake )
RAM: 4x DDR4 (max 64 GB; regularly 2.133 MHz, via OC to 4000 MHz.)
Dual-Channel
Slots (physically):
2x PCIe 3.0 x16
1x PCIe 3.0 x16 (electrical x8)
1x PCIe 3.0 x16 (electrical x4)
Compatible Multi-VGA configurations: Quad-GPU SLI and Quad-GPU CrossFireX
3x PCIe x1
Internal connections:
6x SATA 6G (of which 2 by SATA Express)
2x SATA Express
1x M.2
1x U. 2
1x RGB LED header
2x watercooling fan header
3x System fans
1x Thunderbolt add-in card connector
1x front panel header
1x Front panel audio header
1x S / PDIF out header
4x USB 2.0 / 1.1 (two header)
2x USB 3.0 / 2.0 (a header)
1x Trusted Platform Module (TPM) header
1x Clear CMOS button
1x Clear CMOS jumper
1x Power Button
1x reset button
External connections:
1x PS / 2 keyboard / mouse
2x USB 3.1 (Type-C)
4x USB 3.0 / 2.0
2x USB 2.0 / 1.1
1x HDMI
1x DisplayPort
1x mini-DisplayPort In
2x RJ-45 LAN port
1x S / PDIF (optical)
5x audio (7.1, Realtek ALC 1150)
Power supply:
1x 24-pin EATX 12V
1x 8-pin ATX 12V
