Gigabyte AORUS Z270X Gaming 9 LGA 1151 Motherboard

Features

Supports 7th/ 6th Generation Intel® Core™ Processors

Dual Channel Non-ECC Unbuffered DDR4, 4 DIMMs, DDR4 4133+(OC)

Intel® USB 3.1 Gen 2 with USB Type-C™ and Type-A

4-Way Graphics Support with Dual Armor and Ultra Durable™ Design

EKWB G-Frost Hybrid Water Block

Triple NVMe PCIe SSDs in RAID 0 Support

Dual NVMe PCIe Gen3 x4 U.2 Connectors

Dual Ultra-Fast M.2 with PCIe Gen3 x4 & SATA interface

Intel® Optane™ Memory Ready

Creative Sound Blaster certified ZxRi 120dB+ Audio

Killer DoubleShot-X3™ Pro for the best networking experience possible

USB DAC-UP 2 with Adjustable Voltage

RGB FUSION with Multi-Zone LED Light Show design

Swappable Overlay for Accent LED

Smart Fan 5 features Multiple Temperature Sensors and Hybrid Fan Headers

2 External Thermistors Headers with 2 Included Thermistors

Extreme 40 Gb/s Thunderbolt™ 3

Integrated HDMI 2.0 Support

GIGABYTE UEFI DualBIOS™ with Q-Flash Plus USB Port

APP Center Including EasyTune™ and Cloud Station™ Utilities

Overview

RGB FUSION

Set the Color that Matches Your Style

AORUS' 200 series motherboards boast the most advanced LED system in the market today. With more customizability than ever and a convenient and intuitive UI thanks to the RGB Fusion App, you'll have a blast making your AORUS your own. LED enthusiasts now have even more options with the ability to customize multiple zones independently. For a more functional use, the bright and vibrant LEDs can be configured to display the PC's temperature or load. For even more LED goodness RGBW strips are now supported for more true and vibrant whites.

Smart Fan 5

With Smart Fan 5 users can ensure that their gaming PC can maintain its performance while staying cool. Smart Fan 5 allows users to interchange their fan headers to reflect different thermal sensors at different locations on the motherboard. Not only that, with Smart Fan 5 more hybrid fan headers that support both PWM and Voltage mode fans have been introduced to make the motherboard more liquid cooling friendly.

Specification

CPU      

Support for 7th and 6th generation Intel® Core™ i7 processors/ Intel® Core™ i5 processors/Intel® Core™ i3 processors/Intel® Pentium® processors/Intel® Celeron® processors in the LGA1151 package

L3 cache varies with CPU

(Please refer "CPU Support List" for more information.)

Chipset 

Intel® Z270 Express Chipset

Memory              

4 x DDR4 DIMM sockets supporting up to 64 GB of system memory

* Due to a Windows 32-bit operating system limitation, when more than 4 GB of physical memory is installed, the actual memory size displayed will be less than the size of the physical memory installed.

Dual channel memory architecture

Support for DDR4 4133(O.C.) / 4000(O.C.) / 3866(O.C.) / 3800(O.C.) / 3733(O.C.) / 3666(O.C.) / 3600(O.C.) / 3466(O.C.) / 3400(O.C.) / 3333(O.C.) / 3300(O.C.) / 3200(O.C.) / 3000(O.C.) / 2800(O.C.) / 2666(O.C.) / 2400 / 2133 MHz memory modules

Support for ECC Un-buffered DIMM 1Rx8/2Rx8 memory modules (operate in non-ECC mode)

Support for non-ECC Un-buffered DIMM 1Rx8/2Rx8/1Rx16 memory modules

Support for Extreme Memory Profile (XMP) memory modules

(Please refer "Memory Support List" for more information.)

Onboard Graphics            Integrated Graphics Processor+Intel® Thunderbolt™ 3 Controller:

1 x Intel® Thunderbolt™ 3 connector, supporting DisplayPort and Thunderbolt™ video outputs and a maximum resolution of 4096x2304@60 Hz

* Because of the limited I/O resources of the PC architecture, the number of Thunderbolt™ devices that can be used is dependent on the number of the PCI Express devices being installed. (Refer to Chapter 1-7, "Back Panel Connectors," for more information.)

* Support for DisplayPort 1.2 version.

Integrated Graphics Processor-Intel® HD Graphics support:

1 x DisplayPort, supporting a maximum resolution of 4096x2304@60 Hz

* Support for DisplayPort 1.2 version.

Integrated Graphics Processor+MegaChips MCDP2800 chip:

1 x HDMI port, supporting a maximum resolution of 4096x2160@60 Hz

* Support for HDMI 2.0 version. (Requires the latest Intel® graphics driver from the GIGABYTE website.)

Support for up to 3 displays at the same time

Maximum shared memory of 1 GB

Audio    

Creative® Sound Core 3D chip

2 x JRC NJM2114 and 1 x TI Burr Brown® OPA2134 operational amplifiers

Support for Sound Blaster ZxRi

High Definition Audio

2/5.1-channel

Support for S/PDIF Out

LAN       

2 x Killer™ E2500 LAN chips (10/100/1000 Mbit)

Wireless Communication module             

Killer™ Wireless-AC 1535

Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, supporting 2.4/5 GHz Dual-Band

Bluetooth 4.1

Support for 11ac wireless standard and up to 867 Mbps data rate

* Actual data rate may vary depending on environment and equipment.

Expansion Slots

2 x PCI Express x16 slots, running at x16 (PCIEX16_1, PCIEX16_2)

* For optimum performance, if only one PCI Express graphics card is to be installed, be sure to install it in the PCIEX16_1 slot; if you are installing two PCI Express graphics cards, it is recommended that you install them in the PCIEX16_1 and PCIEX16_2 slots.

2 x PCI Express x16 slots, running at x8 (PCIEX8_1, PCIEX8_2)

* The PCIEX8_1 slot shares bandwidth with the PCIEX16_1 slot and the PCIEX8_2 slot with PCIEX16_2. The PCIEX16_1/PCIEX16_2 slot operates at up to x8 mode when the PCIEX8_1/PCIEX8_2 is populated.

(All of the PCI Express x16 slots conform to PCI Express 3.0 standard.)

2 x PCI Express x1 slots

(All of the PCI Express x1 slots conform to PCI Express 2.0 standard.)

Storage Interface             Chipset:

1 x M.2 connector (Socket 3, M key, type 2242/2260/2280/22110 SATA and PCIe x4/x2 SSD support) (M2M_32G)

1 x M.2 connector (Socket 3, M key, type 2242/2260/2280 SATA and PCIe x4/x2 SSD support) (M2P_32G)

2 x U.2 connectors

3 x SATA Express connectors

6 x SATA 6Gb/s connectors (SATA3 0~5)

Support for RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, and RAID 10

* Refer to "1-12 Internal Connectors," for the installation notices for the U.2, M.2, and SATA connectors.

ASMedia® ASM1061 chip:

2 x SATA 6Gb/s connectors (SATA3 6, 7), supporting AHCI mode only

Multi-Graphics Technology         

Support for NVIDIA® Quad-GPU SLI™ and 4-Way/3-Way/2-Way NVIDIA® SLI™ technologies

Support for AMD Quad-GPU CrossFireX™ and 4-Way/3-Way/2-Way AMD CrossFire™ technologies

USB        Chipset+Intel® Thunderbolt™ 3 Controller:

1 x USB Type-C™ port on the back panel, with USB 3.1 Gen 2 support

1 x USB 3.1 Gen 2 Type-A port (red) on the back panel

Chipset+Realtek® USB 3.1 Gen 1 Hub:

4 x USB 3.1 Gen 1 ports available through the internal USB headers

Chipset:

5 x USB 3.1 Gen 1 ports on the back panel

4 x USB 2.0/1.1 ports available through the internal USB headers

Internal I/O Connectors

1 x 24-pin ATX main power connector

1 x 8-pin ATX 12V power connector

1 x CPU fan header

1 x water cooling CPU fan header

4 x system fan headers

2 x system fan/water cooling pump headers

1 x I/O shield audio LED power connector

2 x RGB (RGBW) LED strip extension cable headers

3 x SATA Express connectors

8 x SATA 6Gb/s connectors

2 x M.2 Socket 3 connectors

2 x U.2 connectors

1 x front panel header

1 x front panel audio header

2 x USB 3.1 Gen 1 headers

2 x USB 2.0/1.1 headers

1 x Trusted Platform Module (TPM) header

1 x Clear CMOS jumper

2 x temperature sensor headers

1 x power button

1 x reset button

1 x Clear CMOS button

1 x ECO button

1 x OC button

2 x audio gain control switches

2 x BIOS switches

Voltage Measurement Points

Back Panel Connectors  

1 x PS/2 keyboard/mouse port

2 x MMCX antenna connectors (2T2R)

1 x HDMI port

1 x DisplayPort

1 x Thunderbolt™ 3 connector (USB Type-C™ port, with USB 3.1 Gen 2 support)

1 x USB 3.1 Gen 2 Type-A port (red)

5 x USB 3.1 Gen 1 ports

2 x RJ-45 ports

1 x optical S/PDIF Out connector

5 x audio jacks (Center/Subwoofer Speaker Out, Rear Speaker Out, Line In/Mic In, Line Out, Headphone)

I/O Controller    

iTE® I/O Controller Chip

H/W Monitoring              

Voltage detection

Temperature detection

Fan speed detection

Overheating warning

Fan fail warning

Fan speed control

* Whether the fan (pump) speed control function is supported will depend on the fan (pump) you install.

BIOS     

2 x 128 Mbit flash

Use of licensed AMI UEFI BIOS

Support for DualBIOS™

Support for Q-Flash Plus

* The USB flash drive used must be a USB 2.0 flash drive.

PnP 1.0a, DMI 2.7, WfM 2.0, SM BIOS 2.7, ACPI 5.0

Unique Features              

Support for APP Center

* Available applications in APP Center may vary by motherboard model. Supported functions of each application may also vary depending on motherboard specifications.

3D OSD

@BIOS

AutoGreen

BIOS Setup

Color Temperature

Cloud Station

EasyTune

Easy RAID

Fast Boot

Game Boost

GIGABYTE HW OC APP

ON/OFF Charge

Platform Power Management

RGB Fusion

Smart Backup

Smart Keyboard

Smart TimeLock

System Information Viewer

USB Blocker

USB DAC-UP 2

V-Tuner

Support for 3TB+ Unlock

Support for Q-Flash

Support for Xpress Install

Bundle Software             

Norton® Internet Security (OEM version)

Intel® Optane™ Memory Ready

Operating System           

Windows® 10 64-bit (for 7th Generation Intel® Processors)

Windows® 10 64-bit / Windows® 8.1 64-bit / Windows® 7 32-bit / 64-bits (for 6th Generation Intel® Processors)

* Please download the "Windows USB Installation Tool" from GIGABYTE's website and install it before installing Windows 7.

Form Factor       

E-ATX Form Factor; 30.5cm x 26.4cm

Box Contents     

GA-Z270X-Gaming 9 motherboard

Motherboard driver disk

User's Manual

Quick Installation Guide

Six SATA cables

I/O Shield

One Wi-Fi antenna

One Wi-Fi antenna retention cover

One GC-SLI23P SLI bridge connector

One 3-Way SLI bridge connector

One 4-Way SLI bridge connector

One 2-Way CrossFire bridge connector

Two RGB (RGBW) LED strip extension cables

One Accent Lighting LED Strip

Two thermistor cables

One G Connector

Two Velcro Cable Ties

One pack of back I/O dust covers

Remark

Due to different Linux support condition provided by chipset vendors, please download Linux driver from chipset vendors' website or 3rd party website.

Most hardware/software vendors may no longer offer drivers to support Win9X/ME/2000/XP. If drivers are available from the vendors, we will update them on the GIGABYTE website.