Z170X Series: 100% Gaming for your Intel Sky lake processor

Designed to accommodate 6th generation processors: Skylake and based on the Z170 chipset , the GA-Z170X-Gaming G1 motherboard combines power, stability, versatility, silence for a gaming-oriented configuration. Benefit from all the latest technological innovations and the irreproachable and renowned quality of Gigabyte .

Creative Sound Core 3D audio processor

Being able to locate your enemy, hearing him before seeing him is a real advantage during the game! GIGABYTE brings you the latest in-car audio technology.

The Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming G1 has a Sound Core 3D audio processor with SBX Pro Studio , EAX ADVANCED HD 5.0 ​​and Scout Mode technologies.

For the entire audio circuit, the Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming G1 motherboard uses Nichicon Muse audio capacitors, which deliver the clearest sound possible. In addition, the entire audio part of the motherboard is isolated from the rest of the components, which makes it possible to avoid audio interference during an analog broadcast.

Get one step ahead of your opponents

The Killer E2400 network chip that equips the GA-Z170X-Gaming G1 motherboard is designed to ensure optimal network performance. The Killer E2400 technology developed by Qualcomm Atheros is the fastest network solution ever designed for online gaming, thanks to an innovation that allows to prioritize the network load in game and in general, the bandwidth of your PC.

With the detection and prioritization of online game traffic, you can finally fully utilize the capabilities of your network card , without fear of being kicked out of an online game due to high ping. This helps to manage multitasking actions naturally.

SATA Express and M.2 to the rescue

SSDs have been a real revolution in terms of ease of use. Incredibly faster than traditional hard drives, their access times are almost instantaneous. SSDs are so fast that they are now dangerously close to the practical limits of SATA Revision 3.0 .
To avoid a future write speed bottleneck, SATA proponents have developed SATA Express , a standard that allows both SATA and PCI-Express lines to be used, the latter benefiting from a wider bandwidth, this allows the maximum theoretical throughput to be increased from 6 Gb/s to 10 Gb/s.
The advantage of the SATA Express standard is that it is backwards compatible with SATA Revision 3.0. Don't have a SATA Express SSD yet? No worries, a SATA Express port can accommodate two SATA devices instead of one SATA Express device without any modification.

Compatible with extreme graphics configurations

The GIGABYTE GA-Z170X-Gaming G1 motherboard offers multi-GPU CrossFire and 2-way SLI technologies to allow flexibility and a unique gaming experience at very high resolution without sacrificing performance.

Indeed, these two technologies allow you to combine the power of several graphics cards, in order to benefit from the full potential of all your latest generation video games, even the most demanding ones.