Gigabyte X99 Gaming G1 Makes an Appearance

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 08/11/2014 11:23 AM | source: | 3 comment(s)

With so many motherboard manufacturers spilling the beans Gigabyte figured, hey let's do that as well. Below the fold you can check out a photo of the upcoming X99 based Gigabyte X99 Gaming G1. As they say themselves on Facebook "GIGABYTE is working hard on it's next line-up. Here is the world first look at X99! "

X99 is developed for the 6 and 8-core DDR4 supporting Haswell-E" HEDT platform and is based on socket LGA2011-3 (this one is incompatible with the current LGA2011 btw). The motherboards based on X99 can support a whopping five PCI-Express 3.0 x16 which can be arranged in these slot configurations, x16/NC/x16/NC/x8, or x16/NC/x8/x8/x8 and yeah, even x8/x8/x8/x8/x8. A 4-way multi-GPU setup suddenly became very sexy.

X99 will bring a whopping 10-port SATA 6 Gb/s storage controller supporting RAID RST and SRT and SSD TRIM on RAID 0 configurations.

The motherboard seems to offer:

Four PCI-Express 3.0 x16 slots (x16/NC/x16/NC or x16/NC/x8/x8 or x8/x8/x8/x8)
Ten SATA 6 Gb/s
one SATA-Express 10 Gb/s
M.2 slot
802.11 ac WLAN, Bluetooth 4.0, and gigabit Ethernet (Qualcomm Killer E2200).
Sound Core3D audio solution

Anyway, have a peek:

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cyclone3d
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#4891790 Posted on: 08/11/2014 04:23 PM

The pic shows 4x PCIe x16 slots, yet in the post, it says in a couple places that there are 5 PCIe x16 slots.

vajoiner
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#4891821 Posted on: 08/11/2014 05:18 PM

ones on the back

mohiuddin
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#4891839 Posted on: 08/11/2014 06:12 PM

ones on the back

Lol, how's that possible?

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