Gigabyte GA Z97X-SOC Force. Socket 1150. - REFURBISHED

Building on the success of the GIGABYTE Z87X-OC motherboard, the most overclocked motherboard on HWBOT.org during 2013, GIGABYTE has released two new Z97-based overclocking motherboards, the Z97X-SOC FORCE and the Z97X-SOC. . With a unique set of overclocking features and state-of-the-art hardware design, GIGABYTE 9 Series Overclocking motherboards will allow even the most novice users to achieve Overclocking of Champions.

GIGABYTE 9 Series Overclocking Motherboards feature optimized support for 4-way with AMD CrossFire ™ or 2-way with Nvidia SLI setups. This extreme design facilitates a more streamlined multi-graphics overclocking experience, where the first 3 slots enjoy the bandwidth coming directly from the CPU and the fourth slot accommodates the PCIe lanes that come from the Intel® PCH z97.

GIGABYTE 9 Series motherboards all enjoy an International Rectifier® component-based CPU power design that includes both industry-leading PWM digital controllers and PowIRstage ™ chips. These components are 100% digital and offer incredible precision in delivering power to the most demanding and energy sensitive components, allowing you to enjoy the best possible performance from the new generation of Intel® Core ™ processors.

GIGABYTE boards feature an integrated SATA Express connector that provides far superior performance over current SATA technologies. Among the features of SATA Express is a data transfer rate of up to 10 Gb / s, considerably higher than that of SATA Revision 3 (6Gb / s), which will not bottleneck against very fast NAND flash technologies present in the latest SSDs. SATA Express combines the benefits of PCI Express and SATA to provide much higher bandwidth, allowing SATA Express-based disks to operate at speeds similar to PCI Express disks.

Highlights...

* Supported memory types: DDR3-SDRAM, Memory slots type: DIMM, Memory channel support: Dual.
* Processor family: Intel, Compatible processor: Celeron, Core i3, Core i5, Core i7, Pentium, Processor socket: Socket H3 (1150).
* Supported hard drive interfaces: SATA.
* HDMI version: 1.4a.
* Component for: PC, Motherboard component family: Intel, Motherboard IC: Intel Z97.