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every once in a while I fall in love with the motherboards design my first was the saber-tooth z1 70s from a Seuss mothered in a white camouflage PCB and packed with features on the Intel platform the second was the recent ooh gigabyte a X 370 gaming k7 motherboard on the Rison platform and virtually every feature imaginable and look sharp in any case but this year the gigabyte Z 270x design air is one heck of a motherboard that does not break the bank I typically find a motherboard review videos a bit odd apart from overclocking potential which should be the same for pretty much every motherboard within that same chipset and features which you can find on any website including gigabytes own website for the motherboard what else is there to talk about in a video like this but with this board I haven't hesitated to make a video overclocking it's great 5 gigahertz on the i5 7600 K with zero stability issues and apart from standard sky and cable a CPU support the design air also packs a few unique features including front USB 3.1 support support for Intel obtain if you are really into that sort of thing of beastly onboard audio chipset fully integrated RGB LED arrays more on that here in a sec and a dual BIOS setup in case you're into some dirty overclocking this is a full sized ATX motherboard which means that it will consume all nine of your cases stand off save may be the one in the middle that's just used for guidance if you're worried about fan support always something and I look forward a motherboard that I'm picking there are five dedicated fan hubs with both PWM and voltage support that's pretty much standard at this point I would like to have seen maybe one or two more that would definitely eliminate the need for a fan hub if you're worried about packing a ton of fans into your PC boards like these seem to have all the bells and whistles not just the good looks you'll find dedicated diagnostic LED support for ram frequencies above 4 gigahertz and a sweet silver alloy PCB a trademark of the z2 70 X design air I must confess I thought it'd be a bit wider especially considering gigabytes own ad use the words quote pure white to describe it definitely not white my walls are white this motherboard is not I will say though that this will still turn quite a few heads motherboards nowadays are pretty much just they they're not meant to be aesthetically pleasing because most of the time you can't see them so I will say that with the right color combination for the entire build this motherboard will be an excellent complement I think any silver case would look really good with the silver PCB I mean look all the way around the board it's all silver everything you can think of it's not a capacitor some kind of hinge is completely silvered out the last physical mention here should be rear i/o support again you can read this on any web site understand that but apart from standard DVD and HDMI ports you'll find a single USB type-c port for USB 3.1 genuine ports a single 3.1 gen2 interface two USB 2.0 headers an rj45 port 7.1 surround sound support with an optical interface and a good old ps2 keyboard mouse connector for old-school fun I find these things hilarious and cool is same time on modern motherboards I'm glad this one includes one now by this point you might be wondering what on earth I have planned for this beautiful board I will not let something like this just sit and collect dust so you guessed it right I will be throwing it into another custom loop PC build I've got quite a surprise in store for all of you we'll break it down into maybe three parts it'll be a very long expensive build probably very complicated most custom new builds are but I think that the looks are definitely going to pay off the plan involves an i7 7700 K custom cooled GTX 10 atti 32 gigabytes of ddr4 loads of primo chill custom Luba gear in a special case I'll be honest I haven't decided on one yet oh and Tony over at virility once again hooking us up in the studio with some super cool custom sleeve cables these are silver and purple so I guess that kind of reveals the color scheme I'm going for here a silver build with some purple accents including what I expect to be purple fluid we're gonna see what we can do with primo chills current offerings and I think the cables if you get the cables right the PC just looks ten times better in my opinion Tony's not let us down to date he is super awesome check out his channel linked in the video description so if you've got anything special planned for your next PC build like I do and want intel on your side the Z 270x design air is next to none well almost next to none I'm not going to lie it follows a similar color scheme as the ms:i titanium z2 70 motherboard I can't go without mentioning that but this is a huge catch by the way this one from gigabyte costs much less and packs nearly the same amount of features into an identical form factor that's right gigabyte has completely wiped out MSI's titanium motherboard line-up with this price point super awesome glad to see that kind of competition it means the lower prices for you you have any questions or concerns can be posed in the comments below as always you can find a link to the motherboard showcased in this video in the video description that is tied to my Amazon affiliate link gives me a small kickback it lets me make more videos like these push out more reviews for all of you to kind of just dive in to decide what you want for your next PC build this is science studio thanks for learning with