Gigabyte Z170-GAMING K3 Socket 1151 Z170 Express DDR4 S-ATA 600 ATX Motherboard

This board is perfect for a budget or mid range PC. The overclocking capabilities of the board are great, you can easily overclock your RAM, GPU and CPU through the BIOS. Which i must say is very easy to navigate. Additionally, the accent red LED's on the motherboard are stunning, they are very bright and compliment the overall aesthetic of the board. The inclusion of a front panel IO sorter was very nice and got rid of the hassle of doing it yourself, likewise all ports were located in great positions for this board.Quick note for first time PC builders, if you have a optical disk drive install the drivers off of the disk provided. As I had to install the drivers to get my Ethernet port to work. Also this board is slim ATX, so you will need to install a extra standoff in the right middle, and take out three other standoffs.

Very solid construction, excellent performance and features for the price. I would be happy getting Gigabyte in the future. Also comes with fancy silver SATA cables x4. The glowing LED strips actually look great if you're into that kind of thing.As other reviewers have noted, if you're putting in RAM faster than 2133mhz, you must go into the BIOS and enable XMP for it to run at the proper speed. There is also a newer BIOS out (F2) to install but this is dead easy, just copy it to a USB stick and let the board do it within BIOS (I remember the old days when you had to load it on a boot floppy and hope).All this and a 3-year warranty.

I'd originally ordered this board to go with an i7-6700K as the processor price had dipped down a bit. However, due to stock issues, the processor was delayed, so I cancelled and went with an i7-7700K and then found I had to upgrade the BIOS on the board first. As of BIOS revision F20 the 7th generation Kaby Lake processors are supported by this board. F21 , currently the latest revision, includes improved XMP profiling. If you don't have an existing Skylake processor then it would make better sense to just go with a Z270 board if you are wanting to run a 7th generation CPU. For a Skylake processor, like the i7-6700K then this board remains a decent choice right out of the box.If you are installing into a new build that will not feature an optical drive then make sure you download the drivers, from the Gigabyte website, onto a USB stick first. Most important is to download the Bigfoot Killer network drivers as Windows 10 will not recognise the motherboard's ethernet adaptor without this driver installed.I was impressed by the quality of the board and the features Gigabyte managed to cram into it. Yes, it's one of the cheaper Z170 boards out there but for the features and impressive LED lighting then it can't be beat.

impressed! - has eveything i need - socket LGA1151 i put a i5-6600k in here with a Corsair H45 liquid cooler and had no issues - managed to OC to 4.3 ghz without issue, raid support in uefi and legacy is helpful and red LED around the edge finishes it nicely. would have given 5 stars but some of the plastic on the board is very weak and only has 2 pci express slots but for the money it is expected.

Great motherboard. It has everything that average gamer will need and it's on the budget (bellow £90).Though if you want to install Kaby Lake or Coffee Lake series processor you will need to update BIOS. You can do it yourself but there is a catch.In order to install Kaby or Coffee Lake you need to update BIOS. In order to update BIOS you must have installed a processor of Skylake or lower architecture. So you need an old processor in order to install new processor. If You don't have it than you can try buy used one on ebay or amazon but it will most likely cost you above £30, and ten you still need to update the BIOS.Other option is to go to your local computer shop and pay them to do it. It cost me £15 (Central Scotland) and the next day I got my motherboard BIOS updated.So all in total this motherboard cost me £105 (£90 for motherboard and £15 for update). Money well spend.

so many problems, should have read reviews ,at present returning to amazon, thank god they have a brilliant returns policy.

Its a good MB however the firmware is so ridiculously out of date. My CPU wasn't able to detect it since the firmware wasn't flashed by the seller to the correct update and I needed to use another MB to achieve this. A terrible oversight to an otherwise excellent product.

Very simple but detailed BIOS, was simple and easy to set up, looks great when the red LED's switch on. I would recommend this motherboard to anyone planning on a budget PC build or looking for something more basic that has great performance and overclocking capabilities at a brilliant price.