Supermicro C7Z170-SQ

In this review we test the SuperMicro C7Z170-SQ motherboard. Probably many of you never even heard of SuperMicro ? See, this brand is predominantly active in the server market. And in our server-stack... Product Showcase

Our first Supermicro Intel Z170-based motherboard review comes in the form of the C7Z170-SQ. It impresses for its value for money.

We review the Supermicro C7Z170-SQ motherboard intended at consumer/ gaming projects on a budget

SUPERMICRO C7Z170-SQ Motherboard Review Introduction

ASRock, MSI and Supermicro offered up their Z170 Extreme6, Z170A Gaming M7 and C7Z170-SQ (respectively) for our initial Z170 motherboard roundup.

Hitting the mid-high end market hard is the Supermicro C7Z170-SQ. Taking inspiration from the past a

Introduction SuperMicro isn't that much of a household name in today's market, you get swamped by all of the advertisements from Gigabyte, ASUS and similar. But turn back the calendar and everyone and their friend at least knew the name. Focusing primarily on the server and business market, SuperMicro doesn't really cross the consumer line on a large-scale, but when it does we get server quality and performance at a much user-friendly level. If you take a look back through the years of motherboard design, SuperMicro was quite late to adopt any special colour schemes or unique heat sink designs, the