Every enthusiast loves building their own PCs. I’m sure most of our readers have their own, custom built PC. Most of which are either mid or full-tower PCs. However, over the last few years, there has been a surge of small form-factor builds and components to the market. Whether it’s due to the rising popularity of LAN parties, or just to save some space on their desk, many people are opting for MATX and ITX form factor builds these days. But, doesn’t cutting down the size of your motherboard cut features and even performance from your system? If you ask Gigabyte, they say no. I’ve always been a fan of their Z series ITX motherboards going back to the Z97N WIFI. The latest in this line-up is the Z370N WIFI. This board comes packed with all the features you’d expect from a Z series motherboard including dual M.2 slots with SATA and PCIe Gen 3 X4 support, USB 3.1 Type-C, RGB Fusion, and Smart Fans 5 to name a few. But you can pack all the features into a motherboard you want, it all comes down to performance. So, we put the Z370N WIFI through our suite of intensive benchmarks. Let’s see how it did.

Review Sample Provided By: Gigabyte

Product Name and Website: Z370N WIFI

Product was given in exchange for work to produce review.

Specifications

CPU Support for 8 th Generation Intel ® Core™ i7 processors/Intel ® Core™ i5 processors/Intel ® Core™ i3 processors in the LGA1151 package L3 cache varies with CPU



(Please refer “CPU Support List” for more information.)

Chipset Intel ® Z370 Express Chipset

Memory 2 x DDR4 DIMM sockets supporting up to 32 GB of system memory Dual channel memory architecture Support for DDR4 4400(O.C.)/4000(O.C.) / 3866(O.C.) / 3800(O.C.) / 3733(O.C.) / 3666(O.C.) / 3600(O.C.) / 3466(O.C.) / 3400(O.C.) / 3333(O.C.) / 3300(O.C.) / 3200(O.C.) / 3000(O.C.) / 2800(O.C.) / 2666 / 2400 / 2133 MHz memory modules Support for ECC Un-buffered DIMM 1Rx8/2Rx8 memory modules (operate in non-ECC mode) Support for non-ECC Un-buffered DIMM 1Rx8/2Rx8/1Rx16 memory modules Support for Extreme Memory Profile (XMP) memory modules



(Please refer “Memory Support List” for more information.)

Onboard Graphics

Integrated Graphics Processor+MegaChips MCDP2800 chip:

1 x HDMI port, supporting a maximum resolution of 4096×2160@60 Hz

* Support for HDMI 2.0 version, HDCP 2.2, and HDR.

(Requires the latest Intel ® graphics driver from the GIGABYTE website.)



Integrated Graphics Processor-Intel® HD Graphics support:

1 x HDMI port, supporting a maximum resolution of 4096×2160@30 Hz

* Support for HDMI 1.4 version and HDCP 2.2. 1 x DisplayPort, supporting a maximum resolution of 4096×2304@60 Hz

* Support for DisplayPort 1.2 version, HDCP 2.2, and HDR.



Support for up to 3 displays at the same time

Maximum shared memory of 1 GB

Audio Realtek ® ALC1220 codec High Definition Audio 2/4/5.1/7.1-channel

* To configure 7.1-channel audio, you have to use an HD front panel audio module and enable the multi-channel audio feature through the audio driver. Support for S/PDIF Out

LAN 2 x Intel ® GbE LAN chips (10/100/1000 Mbit)

Wireless Communication module Intel ® Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, supporting 2.4/5 GHz Dual-Band BLUETOOTH 4.2, 4.1, BLE, 4.0, 3.0, 2.1+EDR Support for 11ac wireless standard and up to 867 Mbps data rate

* Actual data rate may vary depending on environment and equipment.

Expansion Slots 1 x PCI Express x16 slot, running at x16

(The PCIEX16 slot conforms to PCI Express 3.0 standard.)

Storage Interface

Chipset:

1 x M.2 connector (Socket 3, M key, type 2242/2260/2280 SATA and PCIe x4/x2 SSD support) (M2A_32G) 1 x M.2 connector on the back of the motherboard (Socket 3, M key, type 2260/2280 PCIe x4/x2 SSD support) (M.2) 4 x SATA 6Gb/s connectors Support for RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, and RAID 10



Intel® Optane™ Memory Ready

USB

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