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Gigabyte Z170XP-SLI Motherboard Review

Luke Hill August 28, 2015 Featured Announcement, Motherboard

M.2 connector

We use Plextor‘s fast M6e 256GB M.2 SSD to test the speed of a motherboard's M.2 connector. We reviewed the 512GB Plextor M6e (and its PCIe x2 adapter card) HERE. Unfortunately we do not have access to a PCIe 3.0-based SSD to fully test the M.2 connector’s performance limits.

M_2

Gigabyte's M.2 connector, which is capable of providing a 32Gbps link speed, had no problem powering our Plextor M6e PCIe SSD without any slowdowns.

SATA

For SATA 6Gb/s testing we use a Kingston HyperX 3K (SandForce SF-2281) SSD.

SATA

Accounting for degradation in the operating state of our test SSD, SATA 6Gbps performance for Gigabyte's Z170XP-SLI is roughly where would expect it to be for ports fed by the Z170 chipset.

USB 3.0

We tested USB 3.0 performance using the Kingston HyperX 3K SSD connected to a SATA 6Gb/s to USB 3.0 adapter powered by an ASMedia ASM1053 controller.

USB 3

Using our Windows 7 test system, which is soon to be updated, USB 3.0 performance tops out at around 350MBps due to no UASP driver being present inside the older OS.

Audio

We use RightMark Audio Analyzer (RMAA) to analyse the performance of the motherboard’s onboard audio solution. A sampling mode of 24-bit, 192 kHz was tested.

audio

According to RMAA, Gigabyte's audio solution on the Z170XP-SLI is Very Good. Dynamic range and noise level results are particularly strong.

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2 comments

  1. RogerDickerson21
    October 20, 2015 at 4:59 pm

    I fail to see how this board is slower than the other 2 as the frame testing is within margin of error.

  2. Iván Baldo
    February 9, 2016 at 9:23 pm

    When one activates the XMP profile it automatically activates a memory stability option that should be set to normal to regain those 10Gbps extra. I don’t remember exactly how that option is called but just search for a memory related option that says “compatibility” or “stability” and switch it to “normal” instead.

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