[PConline evaluation] Biostar's motherboard has always been a pragmatic, low-key impression of the Beastmaster, the product is not bad, but often lacks a bit of design, leading to difficult to stand out in this homogenization era that has been upgraded to the face value must fight. The last generation of the 100 series officially launched the Race series design to surprise me a bit. By the 200 series, it still followed the Racing style, but the gameplay has been innovative. Let's take a look at this Biostar Z270GT4.
Out of the box: gifted 5050 interface fan is interesting
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Motherboard front
The PCB design of the motherboard is exactly the same as last year's generation. Both are racing flag styles of the Racing series and are M-ATX type. So at first glance it would look like a model like the B150/B250. Fortunately, there are stickers to read the model number. Z270GT4.
LED fan supplied with the board
The fan has three interfaces, two of which are power supply ports, an optional on-board interface or a large D port on the direct power supply for power supply, and the other interface is connected to the motherboard's 5050 interface to achieve synchronization of the motherboard LED lighting effects.
RACING Design South Bridge Heat Sink
PCIe slot
Since it is M-ATX form factor, the number of PCIe slots will be less than that of ATX form factor motherboards, thus providing two PCIe 3.0x16 slots and two short X1 slots.
M.2 SSD interface
The motherboard provides a 2280-size M.2 SSD interface with a maximum bandwidth of 32Gb/s, which is much faster than SATA SSD.
SATA 3.0&U.2 interface
In addition to the M.2 SSD interface, the motherboard side is equipped with a new type of U.2 SSD interface, but currently there are not many U.2 SSD products. In contrast, the M.2 SSD is more suitable for players to play. .
Onboard I/O interface
I/O interfaces are all conventional interfaces. There is a USB 3.1 A&C interface with a set of ASM solutions. The speed is very fast (depending of course, your U disk or mobile hard disk can run so fast haha). By 2017, if the Z270 motherboard If you do not have a USB 3.1 interface, you can't just say it.
The motherboard price is also very competitive, only 999 yuan, also sent an original Racing full-color LED fan, can increase the cooling capacity of the chassis, combined with Biostar's software has a good playability.
â— LED touchpad onboard button, LED fan lights up:
CPU power supply module
Biostar Z270GT4 uses 4+3 digital power supply, and one side is also equipped with thermal armor with controllable LED lights. The 4+3 phase power supply is mainstream in the Z270 and can be overclocked by a small amount.
4×DDR4 memory slots
LED touch onboard keys
Four keys from left to right are energy saving mode, acceleration mode (one-key automatic overclocking), reset button, and power button.
After the motherboard is connected to the power supply line
The POWER key will enter the flashing mode, reminding you that you can click on the power button and it will turn on when you click on it.
HiFi audio module
HiFi is Biostar's hard work and success for the past few years. Combining its software can give you a good enjoyment of hearing.
5050 RGB LED interface (fan only)
This interface is only responsible for the fan's LED power supply and color control circuit. If you do not connect another fan power supply line, the fan will only light but the blades will not turn.
Dual BIOS design
Network card protection chip
Intel Gigabit LAN
ASM1543 USB 3.1 Solution
The USB 3.1 A&C interface mentioned earlier is controlled by this chip. The maximum bandwidth is 10Gb/s and the speed is fast.
LED CPU power supply heat sink
Fan & Heatsink & Audio Module Lighting Linkage
After dismantling, you can see the Biostar Z270GT4's materials in the mainstream Z270 motherboard is quite satisfactory, but it is also very trendy with an LED fan with high playability, and also designed on the motherboard can be The controlled LED lights bring a lot of points to the motherboard.
â— Biostar Z270GT4 light machine: light effect software is very easy to play
M.2 SSD: Samsung 960EVO 1TB Graphics NVIDIA TITAN X (Pascal)
Fritz Chess Benchmark
CineBench R15 x64
WinRAR 5.12
3D game performance test:
3DMARK Fire Strike Extreme
Disk read-write test:
AS SSD Benchmark 1.6
Full load temperature test:
Prime95
This test will use Biostar Z270GT4 motherboard equipped with i7-7700K, memory for dual-channel DDR4, graphics cards use the current graphics card emperor NVIDIA TITAN X, the purpose is to determine whether the motherboard can play a full performance of the hardware.
CPUZ
i7-7700K's highest multiplier is 45, which is the highest frequency of 4500MHz, and Z270 motherboard can be overclocked, of course, we test the main frequency, so they are not overclocked.
BIOS: RACING Custom Style
Main interface
The BIOS is identical to the RACING series of motherboards in the 100-series era, and the ease of use is also very high.
Advanced Features
Lightning interface options
Chipset function options
Startup item
In general, such a page is the highest practical frequency.
Overclocking options
Direct digital keyboard input number can adjust the frequency
Now the BIOS of each manufacturer is very easy to use, just click the numeric keypad to adjust the frequency, simple and easy to understand, allowing more white players to experience the fun of overclocking.
Save option
Since the Intel Z270 chipset does not add a lot of new features over the previous generation, the BIOS of the motherboard makers does not need to change drastically at present. In addition to using the BIOS, you can avoid bugs, and you can cultivate the habits of fans to increase their stickiness. .
Benchmark performance test:
By comparing ASUS ROG's hot-selling motherboard Z270F, it can be found that the performance of the two are very consistent in the silent state, indicating that Biostar Z270GT4 can stably play the performance of all the hardware on the motherboard.
Motherboard temperature test:
In the temperature test section, we mainly examined the problems of the CPU power supply of the mainboard. This part of the temperature is the place where the main board generates a large amount of heat, and it is also the key to the stability of the mainboard. We used the Fluke Ti25 thermal imager to test and recorded two data when idle (CPU, video card is empty) and full load (CPU full, video card is empty).
Idle temperature (left), full load temperature (right)
After our finishing, the motherboard fever comparison as shown below:
When the test room temperature is about 21 °C, Biostar Z270GT4 full load temperature is only 59 °C, in the mainstream positioning of the motherboard is a relatively good temperature control level, so even if you want to overclock there is still a certain space, but need to match a little better CPU heatsink.
â—Additional testing: motherboard with software
RACING GT
Download this software through the official website or the CD-ROM that comes with the motherboard. This software is available exclusively on Biostar motherboards.
system message
Many software information and operating status can be seen through the software, which overlaps with the functions of the CPU-Z.
Audio Control Interface
Colorful LED lighting effect
This effect is controlled by the software. Since the fan is connected to the 5050 interface, it can be linked with the lighting effect on the motherboard.
There are various blink patterns, such as rainbow lights, breathing lights, and more.
Hardware detection
Overclocking options
This software has concentrated many functions together, and its size is not big, so it's worthy of praise.
â—PConline evaluation room summary:
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This Biostar Z270GT4 is still very good, reasonable prices, solid workmanship materials, enough number of interfaces, the competitiveness is still very strong.
Price screenshot
Currently, there are only 919 yuan for member discount prices. For players who value prices and have limited budgets, it is indeed a board worth choosing.
In terms of expansion interfaces, the number is not large but some of them have been given, such as the current mainstream M.2 SSD interface, USB 3.1 interface, 4 memory slots, and U.2 interfaces that are not necessarily used. There are no shortages.
In terms of playability, an LED fan is also provided along with the motherboard, and the LED light design of the motherboard itself allows the player with a light effect to enjoy a small addiction. And count the price of LED lights, equivalent to more than 800 will be able to win this piece of Z270.
The temperature control aspect is also good and excellent. At least if it is not overclocked, it is absolutely safe. Even if it is summer, it will not be unstable.
M.2 SSD: Samsung 960EVO 1TB Graphics NVIDIA TITAN X (Pascal)
Fritz Chess Benchmark
CineBench R15 x64
WinRAR 5.12
3D game performance test:
3DMARK Fire Strike Extreme
Disk read-write test:
AS SSD Benchmark 1.6
Full load temperature test:
Prime95
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