Anschlüsse und I/O

Totally Gigabyte provided the Z68X-UD7-B3 with eight angled SATA ports which should be enough for any office PC or gaming system. You'll also find practical onboard power- and reset-buttons. Gigabyte even thought of a debug display which is very useful if you should once have issues with one of the components in your system. It is quite common that the last PCI-Express x16 slot is also the expansion slot the closest to the bottom edge of the board. That has the consequence that the connectors at this place aren't accessible anymore. With the UD7 Gigabyte took this into account and placed the last PCI-Express x16 slot as the second last expnsion slot and therefore there wont be any complications.

  

Totally you'll find eight fan headers on the Gigabyte Z68X-UD7-B3 which is more than enough, to provide a well equipped midrange or even a high-end-system with fresh air. The fanheaders are located around the CPU and their also spread over the whole board which makes them easily accessible from any position in an enclosure.

  

Looking at the external connectors directly at the back-panel Gigabyte provided the Z68X-UD7-B3 with a PS2 mouse/keyboard connector, six USB 3.0/2.0 ports, a firewire port, tow eSATA ports, two gigabit ethernet port, a SPDIF and coaxial optical out as well as an analogue audio panel.