**Gigabyte G Connector Motherboard Review**

The Gigabyte G Connector motherboard is a solid choice for those looking for a reliable and feature-packed system. As an Intel-based motherboard, it's well-suited for users with Intel processors. One of the standout features of this board is its use of a dedicated Bluetooth stack, which provides a more stable connection than the built-in Intel solution.

The G Connector motherboard also makes use of the CN VI card from Intel, which is bundled with the board. This ensures that the Bluetooth connectivity on the motherboard is seamless and reliable. Additionally, Gigabyte has made sure to place the M2 slot in an optimal location above the graphics card and below the CPU, providing excellent airflow.

**Package Contents**

When it comes to package contents, the G Connector motherboard includes a variety of useful items. The manual, I/O slot cover, Cn VI Intel wireless card with expansion slot breakout adapter, and a set of antennas are all included in the box. The antennas are a notable upgrade over the standard issue antennas that often come with motherboards, providing users with more flexibility and better performance.

**Connectivity Options**

The G Connector motherboard offers a range of connectivity options, including six SATA 6Gb/s ports, two USB 3.1 Gen2 on Type-C ports, one USB 3.1 Gen2 on Type-A port, an extra USB 2.0 header, rs-232 serial, Thunderbolt, and four LED headers for RGB lighting strips. This makes it well-suited for users who need a variety of connectivity options.

**Power Delivery**

The G Connector motherboard features an 8+2 power phase design, which is more than sufficient for most user configurations. While Intel claims that non-K parts have a TDP of 65 watts, this can be misleading, as the actual power consumption will depend on the specific processor and system configuration. The beefy power delivery capabilities on this motherboard help to mitigate this issue.

**Fan Headers**

The G Connector motherboard includes five 4-pin fan headers, including two that are linked for CPU cooling. This provides users with a convenient way to manage their system's fan settings.

**DDR4 DIMM Slots**

One of the notable features of this motherboard is its four DDR4 DIMM slots. While some lower-cost boards may omit these slots in an effort to save money, the G Connector motherboard includes all four slots, making it well-suited for users who plan to upgrade their memory later on.

**Linux Testing and Compatibility**

In terms of Linux compatibility, the G Connector motherboard is a solid choice. However, users should note that if they plan to use multiple PCI slots or peripherals connected directly to the CPU, this may potentially bottleneck their system performance. On the other hand, for most user configurations, this motherboard will perform well.

**Conclusion and Recommendation**

In conclusion, the Gigabyte G Connector motherboard is a great option for users looking for a reliable and feature-packed system. With its solid power delivery, convenient fan headers, and four DDR4 DIMM slots, it's well-suited for users who need a wide range of connectivity options. While it may not be the best choice for those requiring multiple PCI slots or high-end peripherals, it's an excellent option for most users. If you're in the market for a motherboard like this, it's definitely worth considering – and if you're feeling generous, consider showing off your build at the Level 1 Forums!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwell the new low-cost chips for Intel's coffee Lake CPUs are out the new low-cost chipset I should say everybody remembered this diagram from W FCC tech where it's like how this is all going to happen simultaneously the low-cost chipset and the higher cost is e 370 overclocking chip says it's gonna launch at the same time at the beginning of 2018 well that didn't happen what do you get the lower-cost chipsets until April 2018 so yeah this was originally gonna be launched January 1st but here it is the non overclocking mainstream chipset so this motherboard is designed for CPUs so don't end in K so for example you can run the intel i7 8700 6 core and this motherboard at 4.3 gigahertz all day long in fact it was her beau up to thing 4.5 gigahertz at least my 8700 that's what it does the nan k 8700 so yeah 4.3 all cores all six cores and 4.5 on unlike one core hey maybe two cores so if mine does it works pretty well no overclocking on the motherboard support means cost savings $5,200 on your board Intel launched 9k overclocking CPUs in late 2017 but you had to buy that more expensive Z 370 chipset based motherboard because nothing else is available that kind of sucked if you didn't plan to overclock I mean if you were buying that 8700 or the i-5 that are the non K parts the parts they don't end with a K you weren't planning to overclock you had to buy the more expensive motherboard well now lower cost board it's like the Auris gaming three Wi-Fi are entering the market now I also mention there's also the be 360 and h3 10 chipsets these chips as these three chipsets are aimed at lower-cost motherboards and the b-36 th3 10 are aimed at even lower cost motherboards than the h3 70 and they have less PCI Express Lanes and USB connectivity as the cost-saving measure they're the best applications for these boards are for people that don't plan to overclock especially if you're looking at you know say the I Phi CPU it's a six core six thread it doesn't do hot for threading that combined with a less expensive motherboard is a really really good value now back to this board what I get for peripheral connectivity on the H 370 it's a pretty good mix of USB and PCI Express that's fine for most people I think as it turns out it sports 2 USB 3.1 gen2 ports at the back one type A and one type C it also has an additional 4 USB 2.0 ports into USB 3.1 Jim one ports those are the blue ones while we're back here we can also call attention to the combo ps2 mouse and keyboard port DVI and HDMI for the IGP that's built directly into your CPU there's also an analog 7.1 channel audio system as well as Intel Gigabit Ethernet now the biggest connectivity limitation on this board is that you've only got the one PCI Express by 16 slot that's wired directly into the CPU it's always PCI Express by 16 on just about every z3 70 motherboard although not all you're getting your PCI Express by 16 slot can be split in terms of connectivity to the CPU with by 8 by 8 lanes meetings that you've got to peripherals that can talk directly to the CPU and that's great because there's no there's no bottleneck on this motherboard all of the PCIe functions go through the chipset so there are four PCI Express bought one slots and one other armored reinforced by 16 slot that is hardwired to PCI Express box floor so that means no SLI on this motherboard only the primary by 16 slot is actually wired into the CPU and remember all of this on board end to ultimately goes through the chipset to get to the CPU so things like nvme raid just doesn't make sense really not just this motherboard really the Intel platform in general even if you go all the way up to X 299 and the reason for that is because all of that MDOT tooth connectivity goes through the chipset and the chipset only has a total of PCI Express by 4 connectivity so about 32 gigabit per second or 40 gigabits per second if you're counting overhead literally everything so if you've got faster m dot 2 m dot 2 raid on this platform really doesn't make sense and that's ok because the middle one here actually is even wired to PCI press by two it's only it's only got two PCI Express 3.0 lanes that that means it can be paired with something like octane which is only PCI Express by two anyway and finally the last one is a smaller one that's you know physically it's not very long but it's really meant to be paired with the bundled Wi-Fi adapter which is a new thing called CN VI C and VI is a new tech in a nutshell its specialized hardware architecture that moves some of the networking functionality from the wireless card directly onto the CPU now the cool thing about CN VI is that it reduces the cost of the components involved because you don't have to reinvent a network card on an external add-in card you can have that live on the CPU and just doing it all at CPU build time is easier than adding it on a module really the only thing that's on the CN VI card is your Bluetooth radio and your Wi-Fi radio all the other networking bits move to the CPU so that reduces the cost for the wireless card makers which is cool and it also means that the CPU can deal with the Wi-Fi and Bluetooth stack which is maybe better from a driver standpoint when you think about it so it is bundled with the appropriate CN VI card from Intel because it is a it's an Intel thing that we're dealing with here I do want to compliment gigabyte on the placement of the primary m dot 2 as well it's just above the graphics card and below the CPU which is really the best possible place that you could put the m2 in terms of air flow and that name does have the full PCI Express 3.0 by 4 connections so good job gigabyte being a value board there's not really a lot that you get in the box get the manual to get the i/o slot cover you get the aforementioned C n VI Intel wireless card with an expansion slot breakout adapter you get a nice set of antennas look not rubber duck antennas that's one of my big complaints with motherboards come with antennas this type of antenna where you can move it around is a really really good deal versus the antennas just screw in the back of the case because if the antenna is not really getting good signal behind your computer and hint your metal case and your computer is going to block signal this is a much much better setup if you are in the unfortunate position of having to use wireless for your desktop machine get the gigabyte G connector which makes hooking your front panel wires up a little easier get the driver and manual CD 2 SATA 6 cube gigabit per second cables the gigabyte case badge and some FCC information about your wireless module and some MDOT tube mounting accessories as for other connectivity well you do get 6 6 gigabits per second SATA ports from Pennell USB 3.1 gen2 on type c 2 USB 3.1 gen2 on type a that's the standard 30 pin connector an extra USB 2.0 header so you get even more USB 2.0 ports if you need it rs-232 serial Thunderbolt and 4 led headers to analog to digital the LED headers that are analog are for RGB W strips so if you want to use RGB W strips you totally can do that there are a total of 5 4 pin fan headers on this motherboard including two that are linked for CPU cooling so you have CPU primary and CPU opt they're colored and they're conveniently located now even though Intel says that the non K parts have a TDP of 65 watts that's crazy you shouldn't assume that the CPU is only going to consume 65 watts because that's just not even in this true in this universe in this realm of reality so this motherboard has a pretty beefy 8+2 power phase design which is actually really good for the non overclocking CPUs who knows maybe that a W FCC article that we saw earlier closes right now if we're going to see eight core CPUs on the socket pretty soon that would explain the the over-engineering of the vrm component on this particular motherboard of course 4.3 gigahertz on 6 cores on a coffee like on a non K CPU you gotta you gotta work pretty hard to keep that cool so sure that you get a beefy cooler if that's something that you're gonna build also has for ddr4 dimm slots which is something else to look out for lower cost boards might omit two of those slots to save a few bucks and you'll want all four slots if you upgrade your memory later as for linux testing well this is a pretty solid board if you don't need multiple PCI slots and peripherals that are wired directly into the CPU so if you're running like a video capture card in a single in vme it's totally fun and this motherboard if you wanted to run two graphics cards that's gonna be pushing it a little bit more you're going to be more on the decided in video because at secondary graphics cards get connected through the chipset and I might potentially bottleneck if you're pairing that with high speed peripherals like nvme this motherboard does have plenty of connectivity for ordinary use cases especially if you're not planning to overclock it's worth looking at even building a higher-end system with an anon overclocking i7 and a high-end in the ma and a good graphics card would work great with this motherboard so I know it's really really can't fault it it's pretty well put together and I think that this is perfectly fine for most people I really wish that Intel had released the chipset so gigabyte so artists we could have had this motherboard at the beginning of 2018 but hey it's April and if you're looking for a deal this is gonna be pretty good if you decide to pick up one of these or you do a build with one of these show it off in pictures at the level 1 forums I'm Windell I'm signing out and i'll see you there youwell the new low-cost chips for Intel's coffee Lake CPUs are out the new low-cost chipset I should say everybody remembered this diagram from W FCC tech where it's like how this is all going to happen simultaneously the low-cost chipset and the higher cost is e 370 overclocking chip says it's gonna launch at the same time at the beginning of 2018 well that didn't happen what do you get the lower-cost chipsets until April 2018 so yeah this was originally gonna be launched January 1st but here it is the non overclocking mainstream chipset so this motherboard is designed for CPUs so don't end in K so for example you can run the intel i7 8700 6 core and this motherboard at 4.3 gigahertz all day long in fact it was her beau up to thing 4.5 gigahertz at least my 8700 that's what it does the nan k 8700 so yeah 4.3 all cores all six cores and 4.5 on unlike one core hey maybe two cores so if mine does it works pretty well no overclocking on the motherboard support means cost savings $5,200 on your board Intel launched 9k overclocking CPUs in late 2017 but you had to buy that more expensive Z 370 chipset based motherboard because nothing else is available that kind of sucked if you didn't plan to overclock I mean if you were buying that 8700 or the i-5 that are the non K parts the parts they don't end with a K you weren't planning to overclock you had to buy the more expensive motherboard well now lower cost board it's like the Auris gaming three Wi-Fi are entering the market now I also mention there's also the be 360 and h3 10 chipsets these chips as these three chipsets are aimed at lower-cost motherboards and the b-36 th3 10 are aimed at even lower cost motherboards than the h3 70 and they have less PCI Express Lanes and USB connectivity as the cost-saving measure they're the best applications for these boards are for people that don't plan to overclock especially if you're looking at you know say the I Phi CPU it's a six core six thread it doesn't do hot for threading that combined with a less expensive motherboard is a really really good value now back to this board what I get for peripheral connectivity on the H 370 it's a pretty good mix of USB and PCI Express that's fine for most people I think as it turns out it sports 2 USB 3.1 gen2 ports at the back one type A and one type C it also has an additional 4 USB 2.0 ports into USB 3.1 Jim one ports those are the blue ones while we're back here we can also call attention to the combo ps2 mouse and keyboard port DVI and HDMI for the IGP that's built directly into your CPU there's also an analog 7.1 channel audio system as well as Intel Gigabit Ethernet now the biggest connectivity limitation on this board is that you've only got the one PCI Express by 16 slot that's wired directly into the CPU it's always PCI Express by 16 on just about every z3 70 motherboard although not all you're getting your PCI Express by 16 slot can be split in terms of connectivity to the CPU with by 8 by 8 lanes meetings that you've got to peripherals that can talk directly to the CPU and that's great because there's no there's no bottleneck on this motherboard all of the PCIe functions go through the chipset so there are four PCI Express bought one slots and one other armored reinforced by 16 slot that is hardwired to PCI Express box floor so that means no SLI on this motherboard only the primary by 16 slot is actually wired into the CPU and remember all of this on board end to ultimately goes through the chipset to get to the CPU so things like nvme raid just doesn't make sense really not just this motherboard really the Intel platform in general even if you go all the way up to X 299 and the reason for that is because all of that MDOT tooth connectivity goes through the chipset and the chipset only has a total of PCI Express by 4 connectivity so about 32 gigabit per second or 40 gigabits per second if you're counting overhead literally everything so if you've got faster m dot 2 m dot 2 raid on this platform really doesn't make sense and that's ok because the middle one here actually is even wired to PCI press by two it's only it's only got two PCI Express 3.0 lanes that that means it can be paired with something like octane which is only PCI Express by two anyway and finally the last one is a smaller one that's you know physically it's not very long but it's really meant to be paired with the bundled Wi-Fi adapter which is a new thing called CN VI C and VI is a new tech in a nutshell its specialized hardware architecture that moves some of the networking functionality from the wireless card directly onto the CPU now the cool thing about CN VI is that it reduces the cost of the components involved because you don't have to reinvent a network card on an external add-in card you can have that live on the CPU and just doing it all at CPU build time is easier than adding it on a module really the only thing that's on the CN VI card is your Bluetooth radio and your Wi-Fi radio all the other networking bits move to the CPU so that reduces the cost for the wireless card makers which is cool and it also means that the CPU can deal with the Wi-Fi and Bluetooth stack which is maybe better from a driver standpoint when you think about it so it is bundled with the appropriate CN VI card from Intel because it is a it's an Intel thing that we're dealing with here I do want to compliment gigabyte on the placement of the primary m dot 2 as well it's just above the graphics card and below the CPU which is really the best possible place that you could put the m2 in terms of air flow and that name does have the full PCI Express 3.0 by 4 connections so good job gigabyte being a value board there's not really a lot that you get in the box get the manual to get the i/o slot cover you get the aforementioned C n VI Intel wireless card with an expansion slot breakout adapter you get a nice set of antennas look not rubber duck antennas that's one of my big complaints with motherboards come with antennas this type of antenna where you can move it around is a really really good deal versus the antennas just screw in the back of the case because if the antenna is not really getting good signal behind your computer and hint your metal case and your computer is going to block signal this is a much much better setup if you are in the unfortunate position of having to use wireless for your desktop machine get the gigabyte G connector which makes hooking your front panel wires up a little easier get the driver and manual CD 2 SATA 6 cube gigabit per second cables the gigabyte case badge and some FCC information about your wireless module and some MDOT tube mounting accessories as for other connectivity well you do get 6 6 gigabits per second SATA ports from Pennell USB 3.1 gen2 on type c 2 USB 3.1 gen2 on type a that's the standard 30 pin connector an extra USB 2.0 header so you get even more USB 2.0 ports if you need it rs-232 serial Thunderbolt and 4 led headers to analog to digital the LED headers that are analog are for RGB W strips so if you want to use RGB W strips you totally can do that there are a total of 5 4 pin fan headers on this motherboard including two that are linked for CPU cooling so you have CPU primary and CPU opt they're colored and they're conveniently located now even though Intel says that the non K parts have a TDP of 65 watts that's crazy you shouldn't assume that the CPU is only going to consume 65 watts because that's just not even in this true in this universe in this realm of reality so this motherboard has a pretty beefy 8+2 power phase design which is actually really good for the non overclocking CPUs who knows maybe that a W FCC article that we saw earlier closes right now if we're going to see eight core CPUs on the socket pretty soon that would explain the the over-engineering of the vrm component on this particular motherboard of course 4.3 gigahertz on 6 cores on a coffee like on a non K CPU you gotta you gotta work pretty hard to keep that cool so sure that you get a beefy cooler if that's something that you're gonna build also has for ddr4 dimm slots which is something else to look out for lower cost boards might omit two of those slots to save a few bucks and you'll want all four slots if you upgrade your memory later as for linux testing well this is a pretty solid board if you don't need multiple PCI slots and peripherals that are wired directly into the CPU so if you're running like a video capture card in a single in vme it's totally fun and this motherboard if you wanted to run two graphics cards that's gonna be pushing it a little bit more you're going to be more on the decided in video because at secondary graphics cards get connected through the chipset and I might potentially bottleneck if you're pairing that with high speed peripherals like nvme this motherboard does have plenty of connectivity for ordinary use cases especially if you're not planning to overclock it's worth looking at even building a higher-end system with an anon overclocking i7 and a high-end in the ma and a good graphics card would work great with this motherboard so I know it's really really can't fault it it's pretty well put together and I think that this is perfectly fine for most people I really wish that Intel had released the chipset so gigabyte so artists we could have had this motherboard at the beginning of 2018 but hey it's April and if you're looking for a deal this is gonna be pretty good if you decide to pick up one of these or you do a build with one of these show it off in pictures at the level 1 forums I'm Windell I'm signing out and i'll see you there you\n"