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SuperMicro C7Z270-CG Z270 LGA1151 Motherboard Review

Motherboards/Intel S1151 by stefan @ 2017-01-19

SuperMicro has made improvements over their first generation of overclocking consumer boards incorporating the Z170 chipset; the C7Z270-CG board does sport a cleaner design but maintains the same nice black/green color scheme. This board was also thought for people that have a transparent side panel so they have added extra LED lighting near the audio interface on the PCB, but also on the PCH cooler. It incorporates a fresh UEFI interface with a ton of available options and we were able to overclock both 6600k and 7600K quite a bit by maintaining safe voltage and temperature levels.

Packaging, A Closer Look Part I

SuperMicro has been hard at work developing consumer motherboards integrating the brand-new Z270 chipset from Intel and having support for both Skylake and Kaby Lake processors. In this article we will concentrate our view upon the C7Z270-CG motherboard, which seems to borrow some of the packaging elements we have also found along with the C7Z170-OCE model. The product ships inside a custom designed cardboard enclosure, which imitates brushed aluminum on the top layer:

On the bottom area, the manufacturer has placed a photo of the product and explains its main interfaces:

Let’s remove the top layer and see what we’ve got:

The bottom area of the box also contains a product description, but also the technical specifications:

After lifting the top cover, we will get to see the motherboard, which is wrapped inside an anti-static bag:

The bottom layer contains the documentation, along with the rest of the bundle:

The manual is well detailed with both photos and drawings:

Besides the installation disk and the I/O shield, we will get five additional black re-sealable pouches:

In four of the black pouches, we will find a SATA cable, in red color, so not a color match with the motherboard scheme:

The last pouch does have a SLI bridge:

The supplied I/O shield does have a black layer in front, with explanations of each available interface:

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