Connectors and I/O

In total, Gigabyte equipped the Z370 AORUS Gaming 3 motherboard with six SATA 6Gbps connectors, which have all been natively wired to the PCH and two of them are straight and not angled. Above the first PCIe x16 slot there is the first M.2 slot and on top of the second full size PCIe slot, there is the second M.2 x4 Gen3 slot. With this motherboard you get one PCIe x16 Gen 3.0, one PCIe x4 Gen 3.0 and four PCIe x1 Gen 3.0 slots. The full-length slots are reinforced and run in an x16/x4 configuration allowing AMD CrossFire but not SLI as NVIDIA requires an x8 speed on the slot. Unfortunately there are no practical onboard power- and reset-buttons on this board but at least there are few diagnostic LEDs that can help in the case of a failure.



There is a total of five fan headers on the Z370 AORUS Gaming 3 which is enough, to provide a well equipped ATX system with fresh air. The headers have been located close to the CPU as well as spread over the board. Other than that it's a good thing that all of them feature four pins, which allows for rpm regulation in BIOS as well as under Windows. Furthermore there is a plethora of additional headers you find listed below:

Lighting

• 2 x digital LED strip power select jumpers
• 2 x RGB (RGBW) LED strip headers
• 2 x digital LED strip headers

Fan headers

• 1 x CPU fan header (4-pin PWM)
• 2 x system fan headers (4-pin PWM)

Watercooling connectors

• 1 x water cooling CPU fan header (4-pin PWM)
• 1 x system fan/water cooling pump header (4-pin PWM)

Additional connectors

• 1 x USB 3.1 front panel connector

Connectors

• 1 x PS/2 keyboard/mouse port
• 1 x OCSW button
• 1 x HDMI port
• 1 x USB Type-C port, with USB 3.1 Gen 2 support
• 1 x USB 3.1 Gen 2 Type-A port (red)
• 4 x USB 3.1 Gen 1 ports
• 2 x USB 2.0/1.1 ports
• 1 x RJ-45 port
• 6 x audio jacks

Page 1 - Introduction	Page 11 - SiSoft Sandra 1
Page 2 - Specs and Delivery	Page 12 - SiSoft Sandra 2
Page 3 - Features	Page 13 - UC Bench
Page 4 - Layout	Page 14 - Super Pi 1M
Page 5 - Connectors and I/O	Page 15 - Right Mark Audio Analyzer
Page 6 - BIOS	Page 16 - Crystal Disk Mark 5
Page 7 - Test setup	Page 17 - Power Consumption
Page 8 - Preview / Gallery	Page 18 - Performance Rating
Page 9 - 3D Mark	Page 19 - Price Comparison
Page 10 - Cinebench R15	Page 20 - Conclusion