Connectors and I/O

Totally Gigabyte equipped the Z87X-OC with six angled SATA ports. This is enough for any office setup, gaming system or overclocking setup. You'll also find practical onboard power- and reset-buttons in the top right corner of the board. There is even a debug display. Furthermore in this area of the board there are voltage read out points as well as Gigabytes OC-Touch buttons which allow an overclocker to change the multiplyer, BLCK as well as voltages on the fly.



Totally you'll find eight fan header on the Z87X-OC which is more than enough, to provide a well equipped high-end or overclocking-system with fresh air. It is also very practical that six out of these eight fan headers are 4-pin PWM and only two are 3-pin headers. In this case it's really easy to change rotation speeds from within the BIOS or Windows. The fan headers are located around the CPU socket as well as spread over the motherboard.



Looking at the external connectors directly at the back-panel Gigabyte equipped the Z87X-OC with a P/S2 connector, six USB 3.0/2.0 ports, two USB 2.0 ports, one gigabit ethernet port, two HDMI connectors, a DisplayPort as well as an optical out and an analogue audio panel. Additionally you find the OC Ignition button, which we already presented on the features page.

Page 1 - Introduction	Page 14 - SiSoft Sandra 2
Page 2 - Specs and Delivery	Page 15 - UC Bench
Page 3 - Features	Page 16 - Super Pi 1M / 32M
Page 4 - Layout	Page 17 - wPrime 1024M Multi Core
Page 5 - Connectors and I/O	Page 18 - Cinebench
Page 6 - BIOS	Page 19 - Bioshock: Infinite
Page 7 - Test setup	Page 20 - Metro Last Light
Page 8 - Preview / Gallery	Page 21 - Sleeping Dogs
Page 9 - 3D Mark	Page 22 - Power Consumption
Page 10 - 3D Mark 11	Page 23 - Performance Rating
Page 11 - 3D Mark Vantage	Page 24 - Price Comparison
Page 12 - PC Mark 7	Page 25 - Conclusion
Page 13 - SiSoft Sandra 1

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