BIOSTAR Racing Z370GT6 LGA1151 Motherboard Review

Motherboards/Intel S1151 by stefan @ 2018-04-22

With the Z370GT6 LGA1151 board for the newest Coffee Lake Intel processors, BIOSTAR ticks the necessary boxes by including decent overclocking capabilities, a refreshed Racing theme and UEFI interface, but also an easy to use Windows utility. The M.2 slots do support Intel Optane Techology and for the secondary slot the manufacturer has also included a cooling heatsink. The board performance is in-line with the other Z370 models we have tested in the past, which have the latest Intel BIOS fixes applied.

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Product Features Part I

Splendid RACING Style

 

Golden Generation of RGB

 

Gold RACING Armor

I/O Armor strongly protects I/O interfaces and components from static electricity.

Gold Tattoo R

The classic “R” sign on the heatsink shows the strongest spirit of RACING Series.

Gold PCB Treatment

The 3rd-gen RACING Z370 motherboards ascend to a higher level of luxury and fashion for your gaming world!

RGB Rainbow Lighting Effect

10 flashing modes for RGB lighting effect bring you more customization fun.

 

Advanced VIVID LED DJ

 

LED enthusiasts can create their exclusive RACING system to show strong personal style by new VIVID LED DJ with more customizability and options to control three RGB LED lighting zones independently, including audio area and 5050 LED FUN ZONE with two LED headers. Users can control color, speed and brightness via 10 different flashing modes with ease. The advanced VIVID LED DJ utility boasts more possibilities for users to create unlimited creativity with 5050 LED FUN ZONE, which comes with dual RGB LED header configured to install different LED products.

 

Lighting Control

 

Let's party with BIOSTAR VIVID LED DJ!

 

A.I FAN

 

PC enthusiasts can make sure that their gaming system can maintain its best performance while full-load operation and immersive gaming. According to different cooling needs and usage scenarios, users can control speed modes from Quiet to Full On. The new intuitive and easy-to-use A.I FAN utility smartly allows users to have more customizability of fan modes and automatically detects different temperatures to make fan operate at defined speed for optimal cooling performance. Furthermore, hybrid fan headers with A.I FAN UI support both PWM and DC fans for more cooling options.

 

Intuitive RACING BIOS Utility

 

Advanced VIVID LED DJ and A.I FAN utilities are integrated into the completely new 3rd-gen RACING Series BIOS interface to meet different user needs and usage scenarios. The new BIOS UI boasts much more simply intuitive interface designs and system information bar to show instant computing states clearly. Users can adjust settings without having to load Windows.

 

M.2 Cooling Protection

 

RACING Z370GT6 boasts dual M.2 slots and one gold M.2 heatsink featuring ultra-high cooling efficiency to protect the M.2 connector area and the chipset area from thermal problems and extend the M.2 lifespan for long-term and stable operation.

 

5050 LED FUN ZONE

 

The 5050 LED FUN ZONE comes with two 5050 LED headers to bring more colorful lighting options to DIY lovers. RGB enthusiasts can fully enjoy DIY fun of creating their own systems with uniquely and strongly personal style with LED strip, RGB fan or any kind of LED product to adjust system color scheme by Advanced VIVID LED DJ utility. VIVID LED DJ fun, Vivid LED lighting style!

 

Intel Optane Memory Support

 

BIOSTAR 3rd-gen RACING Series motherboards all support Intel Optane memory technology to refresh the performance of your PC. Intel Optane memory can accelerate traditional storage devices to reduce boot times and improve the overall performance, like a brand-new system. This revolutionary memory technology transforms your old PC to a performance monster without expensive SSD.

 

Super Sound

 

Hi-Fi Ground Zone design for exceptional audio experience

 

Double Hi-Fi

 

Unlike the previous design thinking, once again BIOSTAR first to embed "Double Hi-Fi" AMP IC, in addition to retaining the exclusive Hi-Fi high-quality without change. "Double Hi-Fi" has brand new features with plug-and-play headphone to enjoy the same quality of sound; whether the sound source output set in the front or rear can have both high-quality Hi-Fi sound.

 

Blu-ray Audio

 

Upgrading your Audio performance in the easiest way is choosing BIOSTAR ultimate Motherboard. It does support Blu-ray audio DRM (compatible driver/software) and provide the higher audio output of 24 bit/ 192KHz than the 16 bit/ 48KHz from the normal MB. You will experience the high quality sound effect with pure Blu-Ray Audio.

 

Hi-Fi Power

 

Audio power is an important factor in audio quality. Most AV equipment isolates the power supply for each analog and digital signal to gather high-quality sound reproduction. Equipped with BIOSTAR Hi-Fi Power technology, it will utilize audio components with independent power design for a significant reduction in electronic noise and superb sound quality.

 

Hi-Fi Ground

 

BIOSTAR Hi-Fi Ground ( Golden Line ) is noise-blocking multi-layer PCB design to isolates analog audio signals from digital sources. Unique PCB layout is ideal for exceptional clarity and high fidelity sound.

 

Hi-Fi Sound

 

BIOSTAR Hi-Fi series motherboards have a sampling rate of 192kHz/24-bit which delivers a high quality audio through an analog connection to your home theater system, multi-channel speakers and high-end headphone. You can enjoy real Blu-ray grade high-definition sound that you’ve never experienced before.

 

Hi-Fi AMP

 

The built-in amplifier can drive major high-end headphones with over 100dB loads and offer wide bandwidth, low noise, high slew rate and low distortion audio source from front panel I/O. Gaming enthusiasts can enjoy a fuller range of dynamic sound with crisper details and less distortion.

 

Smart Ear

 

Smart EAR is a windows-based audio utility that allows you to easily adjust system volume. With its user-friendly GUI, you can also increase or decrease impedance setting (Low/High Gain) to optimize your headphone performance. You can easily enjoy high-quality and awesome sound.

 

Hi-Fi Resistor

 

Metal-oxide film resistors are made of metal oxides such as tin oxide. The electric characteristics are greater stability and reliability than regular metal film resistors when operating in an extremely broad working temperature range. This special component is used in applications with high endurance audio demands.

 

Hi-Fi Cap

 

BIOSTAR motherboards come with high quality ‘Non-Polarized Electrolysis Electric audio capacitors’ for each audio channel circuit. The customized audio capacitors deliver low noise, low distortion, and wide bandwidth to achieve the highest sound resolution and sound expansion. The critical component will ensure the most realistic sound effects to gaming enthusiasts.

 

Hi Fi 120dB

 

Embrace exceptional sound quality for the win with 120dB SNR and stylish and efficient EMI shield blocks electromagnetic interference to help provide cleaner audio. It has achieved a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of 120dB, yielding almost loss-less audio form rear audio connectors.

 

HDMI 4K2K

 

The new 4K2K resolution enables high-definition image display with four times the resolution of full HD ,4K2K display is faithfully express bright, highly detailed content that fills the entire screen with lifelike images. Connectivity with PCs via a single HDMI cable for displaying 4K2K data.

 

DVI

 

DVI is better than VGA for LCD displays since it is digital while VGA is analog. For LCD displays, the picture is digitized pixel per pixel. Through DVI, the panel gets data for each pixel, so the picture generated in the Graphics device matches the pixels on the panel itself.

 

DX12

 

DirectX 12 introduces the next version of Direct3D, the graphics API at the heart of DirectX. Direct3D is one of the most critical pieces of a game or game engine, and we've redesigned it to be faster and more efficient than ever before. Direct3D 12 enables richer scenes, more objects, and full utilization of modern GPU hardware.

 

ATI CrossFire X™ Technology

 

ATI CrossFireX™ is the ultimate multi-GPU performance gaming platform. With game-dominating power, ATI CrossFireX technology enables two or more discrete graphics processors to work together to improve system performance. It supports up to four ATI Radeon™ HD graphics cards, making it the most scalable gaming platform ever!

 

USB 3.1 Gen 2 Type-A

 

USB 3.1 Gen 2 is a new standard known as SuperSpeed+, in order to highlight the improvement from USB3.1 Gen 1(SuperSpeed) transmission speed. The new standard doubles data transfer rate from 5Gbps to 10Gbps. It is also backward compatible with existing USB3.0 connectors and all the USB 2.0 devices.

 

PCIe M.2

 

PCIe M.2 32Gb/s is the latest storage interface, it delivers the highest bandwidth and lower latency. It's 3 times faster compared with PCIe M.2 10Gb/s.

 

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