Gigabyte Z77X-UP4 TH Preview
Published by Marc Büchel on 26.02.13Page:
Conclusion
| Allgemein | + | - | |
| The first impression we got from the Gigabyte Z77X-UP4TH is good. We liked the decent design. There are no fancy and flashy colors. Instead Gigabyte chose a black PCB and mixes it up with two grey DIMM slots and some more grey and a little blue on the heatsinks. A closer look show that the manufacturer has been saving money in not equipping this board with lots of features. This is the reason why Gigabyte has been able to price this board highly competitive. Something we would wish to be changed, concerns the mSATA port. We would love to see it have a SATA-III interface, since meanwhile there are quite a few good mSATA drives out there that support the latest SATA standard. | -
Design - mSATA port |
- mSATA doens't support SATA-III | |
| Layout | + | - | |
| Basically the Gigabyte Z77X-UP4TH's Layout has been very well thought. Once more practical are the angled SATA connectors. Unfortunately there are no power and reset buttons and there is also no debug LED. In case of this board this isn't a big minus, since it is well priced and it's been designed to fit the needs of well performing office and multi media PCs. Something that needs to be mentioned is the fact that only the first of the three full size PCI Express x16 slots has been wired with all 16 lanes. The second slot is attached using eight lanes and the third full size slot has been attached using four lanes. On the other hand there are the two Thunderbolt port located at the I/O panel which allow attaching ultra fast peripherals. These two ports are also the reason that less than usual PCI Express lanes have been wired to the expansion slots. | - Angled SATA connectors- Space around the CPU socket- 2 x Thunderbolt | -
No Power/Reset-Button onboard - No Debug display |
| 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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Author: m.buechel@ocaholic.ch
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