Connectors and I/O

Totally Gigabyte equipped the Z97X-SOC Force with six angled SATA ports. This is enough for any office setup, gaming system or overclocking setup. Apart from that two SATA 6Gbps ports can be combined to one SATA Express port. Furthermore all SATA 6 Gbps connectors are directly wired to the PCH. 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.



In total you'll find seven fan header on the Z97X-SOC Force 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 seven fan headers are 4-pin PWM and only one is 3-pin. 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 Z97X-SOC Force with a P/S2 connector, four USB 3.0/2.0 ports, four USB 2.0 ports, one gigabit ethernet port, one HDMI connector, a DisplayPort, a DVI and a D-Sub out as well as an optical out and an analogue audio panel.

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