Product Showcase
Here we stumble into the some buttons - here you can clear CMOS, reset and power on/off straight jacked in at the PCB.
Let's move onwards to the left side where we stumble into a bunch of SATA connectors and zoom in a little. The motherboard features six right-angle SATA 6G ports which are supplied by the chipset and they support AHCI and RAID 0/1/5/10. In addition to the regular SATA III ports, colored in grey are two additional SATA 3 (6 GBit) ports. In the middle an additional ATX4P to power a HDD/SSD from.
The connector here in the right/middle is the new form factor USB 3.0 internal header. Here you can connect extra brackets or other USB3.0 connector solutions. Connect say a USB 3.0 bracket and you gain another two USB 3.0 ports.
Gigabyte makes use of 2 x Etron EJ168 chips which allow Up to 4 USB 3.0/2.0 ports (2 ports on the back panel, 2 ports available through the internal USB header).
On the lower side we see a bunch of connectors for addition USB ports etc, also audio headers. Audio is handled by Realtek's 889 codec allowing 8 channels of audio, pretty much the standard these days on motherboards. We would like to see some more development done on the audio side of motherboards and move away from Realtek.
Slot connectivity wise you'll spot six PCI Express x16 slots and one PCi slot.
- 2 x PCI Express x16 slots, running at x16 (PCIEX16_1, PCIEX16_2) (Note 3)
- 2 x PCI Express x16 slots, running at x8 (PCIEX8_1, PCIEX8_2) (Note 4)
- 2 x PCI Express x16 slots, running at x4 (PCIEX4_1, PCIEX4_2)
(All PCI Express slots conform to the PCI Express 2.0 standard.)
So yeah, the board has many features and hosts other unusual features missing is a UEFI (GUI BIOS), for the freaks... it has 4 fan headers which we find on the low side.
