Motherboard Gigabyte Z170 HD3

[Vittra]

Gigabyte Z170 HD3 (DDR4)
Gigabyte Z170 HD3 (DDR3)

More narrow than a standard ATX board. Budget class, but quite interesting.

First noticed on HWC's review, and they confirmed that:

http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/foru...-gigabyte-z170-hd3-review-ddr3-skylake-3.html

 

[iFreilicht]

Wow I didn't even know boards still came with regular PCI, this one got two. Not sure what there is to like about this board, apart from the massive amount of legacy options. Want Skylake and an M.2 SSD but still need one of them crusty old LPT ports and still got two PCI expansion cards you just can't throw out? This board got your back, but I don't feel this is in the spirit of SFF at all.

 

[Vittra]

This board is marketed towards value, I think it's $110 USD MSRP. It's really only interesting insofar as to it's small width compared to regular sized mATX/ATX boards.. but apparently Gigabyte has done this in the past.

In theory, such a size could be used for a more compact (but feature rich) atx board.

 

[confusis]

I've had numerous MSI, Gigabyte and ASUS boards of this style. I much prefer when they do it to M-ATX boards though