Wow, amazing how many component manufacturers out there steal the naming from MSI, Anyway BioStar announced its latest flagship socket LGA1150 motherboard, the GAMING Z97X. A nice looking board series though.

The board design is brown/gold+black color scheme and comes with a black plastic shroud. 

Expansion slots wise you will get three PCI-Express 3.0 x16 (x16/NC/NC or x8/x8/NC or x8/x4/x4); and three PCI-Express 2.0 x1. Storage is based on six SATA 6 Gb/s, and one M.2 slot. The board is SATA Express compatible, but that connector seems to be doomed even before it peaked. The board is based on a 12-phase VRM power design. Nice to see are USB 3.1 ports these run 10 Gb/s, it has six regular USB 3.0 ports

You get two NICs, one Intel and one Killer E2200. BioStar includes a 5.25-inch "Gaming Commander," which gives you front-panel audio outputs with a volume control, amplifier control, diagnostic LEDs, and a CPU temperature indicator. A bit gimmicky but well ..

On-board you will find a diagnostic LED, power on/reset and OC buttons. The GAMING Z97W seems to be the more budget friendly version, is lacks a third PCIe x16 slot, has a 10-phase CPU VRM and has minor other changes.