Product Showcase - overall presentation

Product Showcase - overall presentation

The board is based on a 12+2 power phase design and cooled by aluminium heat sinks. There’s no cooling fan. The motherboard has a dual Ethernet jack and wireless LAN function courtesy of Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX200.

The motherboard provides:

• PCI-Express4.0 (x16) x1,
• PCI-Express4.0 (x8/x16 shape) x1,
• PCI-Express3.0 (x4/16 shape) x1
• Support for AMD Quad CrossFireX™ and CrossFireX™

The board has been tested and passed the NVIDIA Quadro QVL test, and as such is guaranteed to work with workstation graphics cards.

For storage, you get:

• 4 x SATA3 6.0 Gb/s Connectors, support for RAID (RAID 0, RAID 1 and RAID 10)
• 1‎ x M.2 connector (M2A_CPU), integrated into the CPU, supporting Socket 3, M key, type 2242/2260/2280/22110 SSDs:

3rd Generation AMD Ryzen™ processors support SATA and PCIe 4.0 x4/x2 SSDs

3rd Generation AMD Ryzen™ with Radeon™ Graphics processors support SATA and PCIe 3.0 x4/x2 SSDs

• 1 x M.2 connector (M2B_SB), integrated into the Chipset, supporting Socket 3, M key, type 2242/2260/2280/22110 SSDs:

Supporting SATA and PCIe 3.0 x4/x2 SSDs

Internal connectors include:

• 1 x 24-pin ATX main power connector
• 1 x 8-pin ATX 12V power connector
• 1 x CPU fan header
• 1 x water cooling CPU fan header
• 4 x system fan headers
• 2 x system fan/water cooling pump headers
• 2 x addressable LED strip headers
• 2 x RGB LED strip headers
• 1 x CPU cooler LED strip/RGB LED strip header
• 2 x M.2 Socket 3 connectors
• 4 x SATA 6Gb/s connectors
• 1 x SATA DOM power connector
• 1 x front panel header
• 1 x front panel audio header
• 1 x USB 3.2 Gen 1 header
• 2 x USB 2.0/1.1 headers
• 1 x Trusted Platform Module (TPM) header (2x6 pin, for the GC-TPM2.0_S module only)
• 1 x serial port header
• 1 x Clear CMOS jumper
• 2 x temperature sensor headers
• 1 x Q-Flash Plus button

On the rear IO you'll spot:

• 1 x PS/2 keyboard/mouse port
• 1 x DisplayPort In port
• 1 x HDMI port
• 2 x SMA antenna connectors (2T2R)
• 2 x USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A ports (red)
• 2 x USB Type-C™ ports with Titan Ridge (USB 3.2 Gen2 support)
• 4 x USB 3.2 Gen 1 ports
• 2 x USB 2.0/1.1 ports
• 2 x RJ-45 ports
• 1 x optical S/PDIF Out connector
• 5 x audio jacks

On what is a pretty stacked rear panel, there are two Thunderbolt/USB 3.2 G2 Type-C ports which include support for DisplayPort inputs owing to the presence of an Intel Ridge Thunderbolt 3 controller, with a further two USB 3.2 G2 Type-A, four USB 3.2 G1 Type-A, and two USB 2.0 ports, so there’s plenty of options here. Thinking of consumers using Ryzen APUs with integrated graphics, GIGABYTE has included  DisplayPort 1.4 and HDMI 2.1 video outputs.
As for the network features, you’ll find an Intel AX200 Wi-Fi 6 interface and a pair of Intel Gigabit Ethernet controllers. A Realtek ALC1220-VB HD audio codec drives the five 3.5 mm audio jacks and S/PDIF optical output, while a PS/2 keyboard and mouse combo port allows users to connect legacy peripherals

The onboard audio is based on the ALC1220-VB audio codec. Some of the features:

• Support for DTS:X® Ultra
• High Definition Audio
• 2/4/5.1/7.1-channel
• Support for S/PDIF Out

    As for memory support:

• 3rd Gen AMD Ryzen™ Processors: Support for DDR4 5200(O.C.) / 5000(O.C.) / 4866(O.C.) / 4600(O.C.) / 4400(O.C.) / 4000(O.C.) / 3600(O.C.) / 3333(O.C.) /3200/2933/2667/2400/2133 MHz memory modules
• New Generation AMD Ryzen™ with Radeon™ Graphics processors: Support for DDR4 5400(O.C.) / 5200(O.C.) / 5000(O.C.) / 4866(O.C.) / 4600(O.C.) / 4400(O.C.) / 4000(O.C.) / 3600(O.C.) / 3333(O.C.) /3200/2933/2667/2400/2133 MHz memory modules

You have 4 banks, supporting up to 128 GB of system memory. There’s also support for ECC Un-buffered DIMM 1Rx8/2Rx8 memory modules.