Digital Power Design |
Since quite some time Gigabyte equips its
boards with digital power designs. Using Gigabyte's own tuning software you
can for example change voltages in Windows. As you might expect it from
a high-end motherboard, there are only high quality parts used for the
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AMP-UP Audio |
Gigabyte equipped this
board with their AMP-UP audio solution. In this case you get a Realtek
ALC 1150 audio chip, that has been combined with an EMI shield. Apart
from that the audio solution has been isolated from the rest of the
motherboard in order to reduce interference even further. Furthermore
there are also high quality capacitors next to the audio chip, helping
to provide richer sound. |
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SATA Express |
SATA Express is a new port for storage devices that basically combines two SATA connectors and bundles them. Each SATA Express port has been wired using two PCI Express Gen2 lanes offering a total of 10 Gbps bandwidth. Compared to SATA-III with 6 Gbps bandwidth this is quite an improvement. |
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M.2 Support
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The new Gigabyte X99-UD4 motherboard
features an M.2 slot. This motherboard can be equipped with an SSD in
M.2 format and it is wired directly to the X99 PCH via two PCI Express
lanes, therefore offering x4 bandwidth. In other words up to 10 Gbps can
be pushed over the bus through this slot. |
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