The appearance of Brix mini-PCs last spring was Gigabyte’s debut in this market segment. The first products were elaborated specifically for Intel Ivy Bridge processors. However, the company decided to update the line of ultra-compact PCs with four new models. Entitled GB-BXCE-2955, GB-BXi7-4500, GB-BXi5-4200, and GB-BXi3-4010, the products are characterized by the support of power-efficient Intel Haswell CPUs.



The most efficient model is Gigabyte GB-BXi7-4500 with the integrated Intel Core i7-4500U processor (1.8/3.0 GHz), whereas the least efficient turns to be Gigabyte GB-BXCE-2955, based on Intel Celeron 2955U (1.4 GHz). At the same time, Gigabyte GB-BXi5-4200 is equipped with Intel Core i5-4200U CPU (1.6/2.6 GHz) and Gigabyte GB-BXi3-4010 comes with Intel Corei3-4010U solution (1.7 GHz).


Except for diverse CPUs, all four Brix mini-PCs feature practically analogous specifications:

— dimensions: 114.4x107.6x29.9 mm;

— memory: two DIMM slots, support for 16 …

Introduction


Manufacturers presented a fairly extensive range of motherboards on the Z370, including Gigabyte Z370 AORUS Ultra Gaming. The equipment at the motherboard is the simplest, but Gigabyte still equipped the Z370 AORUS Ultra Gaming very well.



The motherboard offers four DDR4 DIMM slots, three mechanical PCIe 3.0x16 slots and three PCIe 3.0x1 slots, six SATA 6 Gbps ports, two M.2 high-speed slots. There are also seven USB 3.1 Gen1 ports, six USB 2.0 and two USB 3.1 Gen2, so that the USB equipment is decent. Gigabyte installed a gigabit network interface and a good audio subsystem. Below we will take a closer look at Gigabyte Z370 AORUS Ultra Gaming.


Specifications


Socket — LGA 1151

Chipset — Intel Z370

Form Factor — ATX

Voltage Regulator — 10 Phases

Video Ports — DisplayPort 1.2, HDMI 1.4

USB Ports — 10Gbps: (1) Type-C, (1) Type A, 5Gb/s: (5) Type A

Network Jacks — (3) Gigabit Ethernet (1x PCIe share), (2) Wi-Fi Antenna
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