Connectors and I/O

Totally Gigabyte equipped the Z97X-UD3H with six angled SATA ports. All of them are directly wired to the PCH. Additionally you find a SATA-Express port as well as an M.2 slot. Any office setup, gaming system or multimedia computer can therefore be provided with plenty of drives. Compared to the predecessor there are no onboard power and reset buttons and there is also no debug LED. On the predecessor there were even voltage measuring points. Overall we think it's a reasonable descision from Gigabyte to strip this model down to the features, which are really necessary and not making it almost a twin brother of the Z97X SOC Force.


Totally there are five fan headers on the Z97X-UD3H, which is more than enough, to provide a well equipped office, multimedia or gaming system with fresh air. The fan headers are located around the CPU socket as well as spread over the motherboard. Furthermore there are only 4-pin headers. If you're using fans with 4-pin connectors, you can adjust fan speeds via Easy Tune software.



Looking at the external connectors directly at the back-panel Gigabyte equipped the Z97X-UD3H with a P/S2 keyboard as well as a P/S2 mouse connector, four USB 3.0/2.0 ports, four USB 2.0 ports, one gigabit ethernet port, an HDMI connector, a VGA header, a DVI port as well as an optical out and an analogue audio panel.

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