Digital Power Design |
Since quite some time Gigabyte equips its
boards with digital power designs. Using Gigabyte's own tuning software you
can for example change voltages in Windows. As you might expect it from
a high-end motherboard, there are only high quality parts used for the
power design. |
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AMP-UP Audio |
Gigabyte equipped this
board with their AMP-UP audio solution. In this case you get a Realtek
ALC 1150 audio chip, that has been combined with an EMI shield. Apart
from that the audio solution has been isolated from the rest of the
motherboard in order to reduce interference even further. Furthermore
there are also high quality capacitors next to the audio chip, helping
to provide richer sound. |
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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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M.2 Support
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The new Gigabyte X99 SOC Force motherboard
features an M.2 slot. This motherboard can be equipped with an SSD in
M.2 format and it is wired directly to the X99 PCH via four PCI Express
Gen2
lanes. In other words up to 20 Gbps can be pushed over the bus through this slot. |
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OC Ignition |
If you activate the OC Ignition, it basically turns on everything on the system but the CPU. In this case for example iRAM is able to preserve memory states and also all fans are running. OC Ignition can be a practical feature if you want to fill up a new custom watercooling solution for example. |
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OC Touch |
OC-Touch enables overclockers to quickly
and easily get more performance out of their system. With the onboard OC-Touch
buttons, users are able to manually increase and decrease the CPU ratio, change BCLK settings, and even change
the
BCLK stepping. These changes can be made at any time whether in the BIOS or
Windows or in real-time without the need for rebooting. In the same area of the board you find voltage measurement
points and connectors. Included in the delivery are voltage
measurement cables to easily connect a voltage read-out device. |
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OC Brace
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Included
in the delivery you find the so called OC Brace. In our opinion this is
one of the most practical new features in a long time. If you attach the
OC Brace to the motherboard, you can then safely install graphics cards
using screws to attach them to the OC Brace. |
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