Hardware Gigabyte Z170MX-Gaming 5 Review

How many people out there, who are willing to spend £130 on a motherboard, still require a VGA output?

I can understand it on a budget board, but on a high end board?

 

For mATX, £130 seems reasonably high end.

 

I'd pay £200 for this board if they would only add HDMI 2.

 

It's a CPU FEATURE. Nothing to do with motherboards.
Talk to Intel - they've always been behind on GPU tech. They couldn't even do 4K output over DP properly til Haswell.

 

@Bindibadgi Skylake does support 4K over HDMI 2 using the Alipne Ridge controller. It's only used on 1 Mobo ATM from MSI I think but it's a full ATX though.

 

"Alpine Ridge can also act as a LS-Pcon and convert the DP signal into a HDMI 2.0 signal with HDCP 2.2 support."

"A DP to HDMI 2.0 converter, specifically an LS-Pcon, is required to do the adjustments. We suspect that there will not be many takers buying a controller to do this, given the capabilities and added benefits of the Alpine Ridge controller."

Oh didn't see this before. Shame that TB controllers are extortionately expensive and adding a HDMI port to a board adds $1 in licensing feet to the HDMI group = $$$
Intel classes AR itself as 'premium platform' so you'll only see it on the most expensive boards, or in (rarely available) add-in cards Not sure if ASUS is still doing those for TB3.