Gigabyte X99 SOC Force Review
Published by Hiwa Pouri on 23.09.14Page:
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The Gigabyte X99 SOC Force features an EATX form factor, which means you'll have to make sure, the board fits in your case. Having a look at the design reveals, there is a black matte PCB. Apart from that there are four orange DIMM slots as well as four orange PCI Express x16 expansion slots bringing color to this board. Last but not least there are some more orange lines in the PCH and VRM heatsinks and the PCH cooler even received an orange backlight. Thanks to the EATX formfactor the layout is not overcrowded and the OC buttons in the top right corner as well as the audio solution in the bottom left corner fit nicely.
Gigabyte equipped the X99 SOC Force with a digital 8+4 phase power design. There is a total of eight phases to stably supply the CPU with power and there are chips from International Rectifier controling the signals. In the case of the DIMM slots there are four more phases which are also controlled by chips from International Rectifier.
Totally you'll find eight DIMM-slots on the Gigabyte X99 SOC Force. Officially supported are memory clock speeds of up to DDR4-3000MHz. Should you choose to equip all slots with 8 Gigabyte modules, you can have a maximum of 64 Gigabyte memory on this motherboard. There is also enough space around the CPU socket, to install large CPU coolers.
Southbridge as well as current converters are being held at adequate temperatures via two passive cooling blocks. Both blocks are rather well-sized and they've been connected using a heatpipe. Apart from that the cooling blocks have been very well manufactured. On top of that, the PCH cooler received a backlight, which in our opinion looks really nice.
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