If you ask a PC enthusiast to name brands of gaming motherboards they may well list ASRock, Asus, EVGA, Gigabyte and MSI, however they are unlikely to mention SuperO. Supermicro is known and respected for its Server and Workstation hardware whereas its SuperO brand for gaming products are more obscure. The SuperO C7Z370-CG-IW is Supermicro’s first Gaming Mini-ITX board and it has that extra frisson of interest as very few people will know the name.
This motherboard uses the Z370 chipset to support the desktop 8th Gen. Coffee Lake family of CPUs along with a single graphics slot, two desktop DDR4 DIMMs and a pair of smart aluminium heat sinks on the chipset and VRMs.