Digital Power Design |
Since quite some time
Gigabyte has been equipping its boards with digital power designs. On
the Z97X-UD3H there are only high-end components when it comes to the
power design. There are for example PWM controllers from PowIRstage as
well as ICs from Interantional Recitifier. Other than that there are
"Black Solid Caps", which offer 10'000 operating hours, which is up to
three times as much than what you get from standard caps.
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Easy Tune
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Easy Tune is more or less a
combination of hardware and software. Via the software you can control
the different fans attached to the motherboard and you also get direct
access to the UEFI BIOS. Other than that it's possible to overclock you
system from within Windows. |
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M.2 Support
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The new Gigabyte Z97X-UD3H motherboard from MSI features an M.2 slot which is placed between the two PCIe slots. This motherboard can be equipped with an SSD in M.2 format and it is wired directly to the Z97 PCH via two PCI Express lanes, therefore offering x2 bandwidth. In other words up to 10 Gbps can be pushed over the bus through this slot, almost doubling the performance compared to the SATA-III port. |
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SATA Express |
SATA Express is a new port for storage devices that basically combines two SATA connectors and bundles them. Each SATA Express port has been wired using two PCI Express Gen2 lanes offering a total of 10 Gbps bandwidth. Compared to SATA-III with 6 Gbps bandwidth this is quite an improvement. |
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Cloud Station
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Cloud Station is a software suite from Gigabyte, which is
supposed to link smartphones/tablet with computers and provide
additional features:
- HomeCloud: Filesharing between computer and smartphone/tablet
- HotSpot: computer can be turned into a wireless access point
- Gigabyte Remote: remote control mouse, keyboard as well as Windows
Media Player via smartphone/tablet
- Remote OC: overclocking via smartphone
- Auto Green: activate energy saving options via smartphone
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