Gigabyte GA-Z270X Gaming 5 Review

Posted on: 01/06/2017 08:04 PM

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Hilbert please start addressing the PCI-E allocation when using M.2 drives on these motherboard reviews. This particular board is atrocious and we wouldn't have any idea unless I found reviews elsewhere!

To use the bottom M.2 drive requires you to disable two SATA ports.

Using the top M.2 drive takes out the bottom PCI-E 3.0 x4 slot.

For the remainder, you're stuck with the mostly useless U.2 slot and now four SATA Express SATA ports, and you lose another of those SATA ports if you use one of the PCI-E x1 slots.

This is way more important than seeing that every motherboard performs within 0.001% of each other in gaming benchmarks.

Posted on: 06/09/2017 06:26 PM

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you did not mention the bad software or the LED lights that is different colors. I asked Gigabyte about how to fix my light:

Question: Hei
When the light is set to white, parts of the card light green

the lights are set to white and static in the basic settings.


Hello,

Sorry but this is an issue with the motherboard design. It's recommend manually to adjust the colour accordingly. We will implement this RGB on our next series motherboard.

6/8/2017 4:14 PM

it is not possible to adjust the color accordingly, as long as i cant change the deferent zones independently.I can change to a different color bout then it still have to different colors.
so that helped me a lot.

If anyone wants to se the software serch for "Gigabyte's software: AppCenter and apps - SUCK- This is why" and you will se. It has not been improved.