Layout

At a first glance the Gigabyte X99M-Gaming 5 leaves a very good impression with its good looking design. The manufacturer decided to go for a combination of black and red with some white accents, which suites nicely and in the end you get an aesthetic looking product. The layout itself is well thought and there is for example plenty of space around the CPU socket to install even todays largest CPU coolers. The fact that there are SATA connectors which have been angled by 90 degrees allows for an easy installation of oversized graphics cards. Meanwhile Gigabyte is using very similarly shaped cooling blocks on all motherboards in order to unify the design language. The only thing that gets changed is the color.





The Gigabyte X99M-Gaming 5 comes with a digital 6+4 phase power design, whereas the CPU is backed up by six phases and the memory by four. Like we've already explained on the features page Gigabyte is making use of an extensive solution. Regarding the CPU VRM there are IR3556 phases from International Recitifier, wheras every single phase can cope with up to 50A load. There are also inductors from Coiltronics, which go by the name FLAT-PAC 76A. These coils filter the VRM signal before it gets filtered again by a set of nine 10k black caps from Chemi-Con.
A quick look at the power stage, that is taking care of the DIMM slots reveals there are two IR3570A chips, offering 3+2 phases and they're being combined with four IR3553, which can be loaded with up to 40A. This is definitely more than sufficient for a DRAM power stage.





On trouve quatre slots DIMM sur la X99M-Gaming 5 d'Gigabyte. Les modules officiellement compatibles sont les : DDR4 3000 (O.C.) / 2800 (O.C.) / 2666 (O.C.) / 2400 (O.C.) / 2133 (O.C.). Il y a assez d'espace entre les slots DIMM et le socket pour ne pas rencontrer de problème de compatibilité avec les plus larges ventirads. Notons aussi que la carte mère est au normes Intel XMP 2.0.


Le PCH et et les VRM sont refroidis par deux systèmes séparés. Pour les VRM on a deux dissipateurs connectés par un caloduc qui permet de maximiser le transport de la chaleur. Le poids de cette carte est assez élevé, en partie à cause de ses dissipateurs. Subjectivement parlant, un poids élevé et le premier indicateur de matériel de qualité.

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Page 2 - Spécifications / Bundle	Page 5 - Connectique et I/O
Page 3 - Features	Page 6 - Conclusion