Connectors and I/O

Totally Gigabyte equipped the Z87X-OC with six angled SATA ports. This is enough for any office setup, gaming system or overclocking setup. You'll also find practical onboard power- and reset-buttons in the top right corner of the board. There is even a debug display. Furthermore in this area of the board there are voltage read out points as well as Gigabytes OC-Touch buttons which allow an overclocker to change the multiplyer, BLCK as well as voltages on the fly.



Totally you'll find eight fan header on the Z87X-OC which is more than enough, to provide a well equipped high-end or overclocking-system with fresh air. It is also very practical that six out of these eight fan headers are 4-pin PWM and only two are 3-pin headers. In this case it's really easy to change rotation speeds from within the BIOS or Windows. The fan headers are located around the CPU socket as well as spread over the motherboard.



Looking at the external connectors directly at the back-panel Gigabyte equipped the Z87X-OC with a P/S2 connector, six USB 3.0/2.0 ports, two USB 2.0 ports, one gigabit ethernet port, two HDMI connectors, a DisplayPort as well as an optical out and an analogue audio panel. Additionally you find the OC Ignition button, which we already presented on the features page.

Page 1 - Introduction	Page 4 - Layout
Page 2 - Specs and Delivery	Page 5 - Connectors and I/O
Page 3 - Features	Page 6 - Conclusion

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