FRONTPAGE GIGABYTE Z270X-Gaming SOC Motherboard Review

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Today's newest victim for the torture table is*GIGABYTE's*new Z270X-Gaming SOC, their flagship overclocking motherboard. This board has one job, and only one job, to be as fast as physically possible while pushing your CPU as far as possible. There's notably fewer features than the Z170X-SOC Force, though, because GIGABYTE has gone back to the roots of the extreme overclocker with this board. If anything can handle the punishment, it'll be this board.

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Nebulous

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• Jul 19, 2017

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Great review Austin! Sad about it's "meh" performance for a SOC board.

 

ATMINSIDE

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Definitely disappointing that a lower board overclocked the same processor further...

 

Robert17

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• Jul 19, 2017

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Nice work Austin. Good perspective. Thanks.

 

ATMINSIDE

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Thanks Robert

 

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So more voltage did not help to overclock past 5.0Ghz?

 

ATMINSIDE

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No, it did not. Nor did any ideas from Sofos and Gigabyte.

 

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wingman99

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Good review. Well that is interesting that a more expensive overclocking motherboard does not overclock as high as the Gaming 8 with the same CPU.