Gigabyte Z370 Aorus Ultra Gaming - The Worst Motherboard there is?

Aug 13, 2018
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Hello community,

A few months back I bought the Gigabyte Z370 (the rev 1.0 not the 2.0) on release before any reviews were made. Now after going through the forums I see a lot of complains about this board. Breaking quickly is the main reason. I run an i5-8600k on it and I have this tear in my head that the board is just gonna die and take the CPU with it. Which I really don't want.
Are people just overreacting or did I really just buy the worst mainboard in the Z370 selection especially now that it's discontinued and only the 2.0 is avaible which should be better than the original one, but having the same price.
Should I just contact my retailer and maybe try to exchange this one for the 2.0 Version?
I really need help and I am really worried since I dont really want this to break only after a year of use.
 

Barty1884

Retired Moderator
The board isn't going to die & take your CPU with it.

The VRM is underwhelming & had some QC issues at launch. It really shouldn't have been pitched as a $180 board at launch - it's a fairly entry level "Z" board. Almost as if it should've been a B360 or H370, but those chipsets weren't released.

I wouldn't look to push an overclock on it, personally - although it's probably ok for a minor OC.


If your retailer will let you exchange, sure - go for it.
I doubt they will though.
 

Eximo

Titan
Ambassador
You are generally only going to see bad reviews for things from customers, people that have no issues will not report that. I've not heard anything in particular about that board, what is your source?

I doubt you would be allowed to just exchange it, would have to be something demonstrably wrong.