Gigabyte has quickly added a new motherboard to its catalog using the Z370 chipset for Intel’s Coffee Lake processors. This is the Z370N Wifi, which has a mini-ITX format of 17 x 17 cm. Also, that includes wifi connectivity 802.11 ac and Bluetooth 4.2. It has two memory banks for up to 32 GB DDR4 at 4400 MHz through XMP.
Gigabyte unveils the Z370N WIFI motherboard
The board is powered by a 4 + 4-pin EPS connector and has a regular power supply for the processor. Also, it includes a PCIe 3.0 x16 graphics card slot, four SATA3 ports, six USB 3.0 rear, one USB 3.0 type C, two Ethernet with Intel chip, two HDMI and one DisplayPort. The three 3.5mm connectors are for an audio system that uses a Realtek ALC1220 codec.
It also includes two M.2 slots in this small format – one behind the plate. And one below an integrated heat spreader – two 3-pinheads – one with higher feed, e.g., for liquid cooling -, and head for RGB led strips. Its price will be around 160 euros.
Features Z370N Wifi from Gigabyte
| Basic characteristics | |
|---|---|
| Dimensions | 17 x 17 cm |
| Form Factor | mini-ITX |
| Plinth | LGA 1151 |
| CrossFire | CrossFire |
| PCIe Slots | 1x PCIe x16 |
| Audio | ALC1220 from Realtek |
| Ethernet | 2x Intel Ethernet |
| Consumption | 6 W |
| Presentation date | Sep 25, 2017 |
| illumination | RGB |
| Chipset | |
| Chipset | Z370 by Intel |
| Max. USB 2.0 | 4 |
| Max. USB 3.0 | 10 |
| Max. SATA 3 | 6 |
| RAID | 0, 1, 5, 10 |
| Overclocking | CPU + GPU + RAM |
| Memory | |
| Memory banks | 2, double channel |
| Memory max. | 32GB |
| Types | DDR4 |
| Max. Speed | 4400+ MHz |
| Rear connectors | |
| Audio connectors | 3 |
| DisplayPort | 1 |
| HDMI | 2 |
| USB 3.0 | 7 |
| USB type C connectors | 1 |
| PS / 2 | 1 |
| Bluetooth | 4.2 |
| Wifi | 802.11 ac |
| Ethernet | 2 |
| Max. screens | 3 |
| Connectors on board | |
| USB 2.0 | 1 |
| USB 3.0 | 1 |
| SATA 3 | 4 |
| M.2 | 2 |
| Thunderbolt 3 | 1 |
| Front USB 3.1 | 1 |
| With 4 pins | 2 |
| With RGB led strips | 1 |
| Front connector | 1 |
| Front audio | 1 |