Overclocking Series
The GIGABYTE Overclocking Series motherboards are designed from the ground up for the elite of the enthusiast community, those crazy guys that won't take no for an answer when pushing a board to its performance limits. GIGABYTE continues with their matte black and orange color scheme with this board series, tweaking the board names to sychronize with their video card-base Overclocking Series products. Notice how the boards in this series are now named "SOC" rather than "OC", which stands for "Super OverClock". The board heat sinks have to updated for better cooling potential as well.
Notable Overclocking Series board features include
- 4-way AMD X-Fire and dual-card NVIDIA SLI support
- OC DIMM switch bank to enable/disable individual DIMM slots
- OC PCIe switch bank to enable/disable individual PCIe slots/lanes
- Real-time application of overclocking settings in BIOS
- OC Connect USB blocks located by SATA port block for access to USB ports from front of board
- Redesigned top mounted memory banks for increased stability while overclocking
Z97X-SOC Force motherboard
Z97X-SOC motherboard
Z97X-SOC Force and Z97X-SOC motherboards side-by-side
There is no blur the Z97 on
There is no blur the Z97 on the gaming board :O
Any idea what audio chipset
Any idea what audio chipset is being used on the “AMP-UP Audio” branded boards between the Realtek and Core3D models?
The Core3D uses Soundblaster
The Core3D uses Soundblaster hardware and software, while the Realtek uses Soundblaster software only. More information to come after launch day…
So the “AMP-UP Audio” branded
So the “AMP-UP Audio” branded chip is just a Realtek chip with Creative drivers?
Sort of a hybrid between the “Core3D” branded and non-branded Realtek versions?
I hope they stick with green
I hope they stick with green for their high end gaming series, every other board maker has red.
From what we’ve seen, their
From what we've seen, their high end gaming seires will be Red and Black…
almost missed the threaded WC
almost missed the threaded WC holes on the VRM HS lets hope it not made from ali.
I bet that it is, although
I bet that it is, although most water cooling companies have brass or nickel plating in their water blocks and radiators to prevent the corrosion seen in the early days of water cooling.
It looks like most of these
It looks like most of these boards will have sata express ports. (note the big block of plastic next to the sata blocks) the question is whats connecting to the back end of the ports sata express or sata3.
Stay tuned for the full
Stay tuned for the full reviews in a few weeks once the information embargo has been lifted…
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With all this fancy audio
With all this fancy audio coming to motherboards, when are we going to get back to putting vacuum tubes in the preamp. Remember this bad boy http://dl.maximumpc.com/galleries/dec10_mobos/11_full.jpg