Digital Power Design |
Since quite some time Gigabyte has been equipping its boards with digital power designs. On the X99 Ultra Gaming there are only high-end components when it comes to the power design. There are for example PowIRstages from International Rectifier as well as "Dark Solid Caps" offering 10'000 operating hours, which is up to three times as much as what you get from standard caps. In case of the inductors Gigabyte is again using high-quality parts, which in this case come from Coiltronics. |
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High Definition Audio Design |
High Definition Audio Design is Gigabytes interpretation of good onboard audio. In this case there
is a Realtek ALC1150 codec, which has been combined with high-quality capacitors and gold plated connectors. |
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PCIe & Memory Armor |
There are four full size PCIe slots on this particular board, which have been equipped with a steel frame. If you place a large and heavy gaming graphics card, while the board is mounted in a case, you will notice, that over time the slots starts to bend by a little bit. Furthermore, durgin rough transporting it can happen, that the PCIe slot break by the sheer force. In both cases the steel armor should help increasing protection of the PCIe slots. Apart from that also the memory slots received steel frames which helps increasing stiffness and also reduces electrical inteference. |
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M.2 Support
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The new Gigabyte X99 Ultra Gaming motherboard
features two M.2 slot. This motherboard can be equipped with M.2 SSDs and it the slots have been wired directly to the X99 PCH via four PCI Express
lanes. In other words there is up to 32 Gbps of bandwidth per slot. |
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Ambient Surround LED |
This board features complete LED lighting, while Gigabyte illuminates the DIMM slots, the audio solution, a part of the SATA cover as well as parts of the I/O cover. The lighting is entirely customizable and you can even choose from different effects. |
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