Gigabyte Z97X-SOC Force Review

Published by Hiwa Pouri on 10.06.14
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Features

8 Phase Power Design

Since quite some time Gigabyte has been equipping its boards with digital power designs. With the Z97X-SOC Force they are very proud about their solution which is using components from International Rectifyer (IR3553 and IR3563B) and each phase offers up to 60A. Additionally Gigabyte makes use of special black capacitors which are rated a 10'000 hours at 105°C.
 

OC Ignition

If you activate OC Ignition basically everything on the system turns on but the CPU. In this case for example iRAM is able to preserve memory states and also all fan are running. It can also be a practical features if you want to fill up a new custom watercooling solution.
 

OC Touch

OC-Touch enables overclockers to quickly and easily get more performance from their system. With onboard OC-Touch buttons, users are able to manually raise and lower the CPU ratio, change BCLK settings, and even change the BCLK stepping. These changes can be made at any time whether in the BIOS or Windows or in real-time without the need for rebooting, so users can quickly fine-tune to find their CPU’s maximum frequency. In the same area of the board you find voltage measurement points and connectors. Included in the delivery are twelve voltage measurement cables to easily connect a voltage read-out device.
   

OC Brace

Included in the delivery you find the so called OC Brace. In our opinion this is one of the most practical new features in a long time. If you attach the OC Brace to the motherboard, you can then safely install graphics cards using screws to attach them to the OC Brace.
     

SATA Express Connector

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.
     

Killer E2201

Gigabyte equips their gaming motherboards with an E2201 Killer NIC. This chip is capable of providing features like traffic shaping on application level, which can help realizing a smoother online gaming experience.


Page 1 - Introduction Page 14 - SiSoft Sandra 2
Page 2 - Specs and Delivery Page 15 - UC Bench
Page 3 - Features Page 16 - Super Pi 1M / 32M
Page 4 - Layout Page 17 - wPrime 1024M Multi Core
Page 5 - Connectors and I/O Page 18 - Cinebench
Page 6 - BIOS Page 19 - Bioshock: Infinite
Page 7 - Test setup Page 20 - Metro Last Light
Page 8 - Preview / Gallery Page 21 - Sleeping Dogs
Page 9 - 3D Mark Page 22 - Power Consumption
Page 10 - 3D Mark 11 Page 23 - Performance Rating
Page 11 - 3D Mark Vantage  Page 24 - Price Comparison
Page 12 - PC Mark 7 Page 25 - Conclusion
Page 13 - SiSoft Sandra 1  




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