GIGABYTE Announces ‘Future Proof’ 9 Series Ultra Durable Motherboards – May 22, 2014– Taipei, Taiwan (Techreleased) – GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY Co. Ltd., a leading manufacturer of motherboards and graphics cards launched earlier this month their new 9 Series motherboards based on the Intel® Z97/H97 chipsets with support for 4th and 5th generation Intel® Core™ processors. Today, GIGABYTE […]
GIGABYTE Announces ‘Future Proof’ 9 Series Ultra Durable Motherboards – May 22, 2014– Taipei, Taiwan (Techreleased) – GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY Co. Ltd., a leading manufacturer of motherboards and graphics cards launched earlier this month their new 9 Series motherboards based on the Intel® Z97/H97 chipsets with support for 4th and 5th generation Intel® Core™ processors. Today, GIGABYTE introduces several new additions to the Ultra Durable™ motherboards family.
“With these new 9 Series Ultra Durable motherboards, we’re making sure that costumers can rely on GIGABYTE’s trusted quality and have a PC platform that will last, no matter what the future technological evolutions might be.” commented Henry Kao, Vice President of GIGABYTE Motherboard Business Unit. “In addition to supporting future 5th generation Intel Core CPUs, we are also adding several features normally reserved for our higher end motherboards including high quality audio, networking and onboard overclocking, ensuring our customers will have a ‘future-proof’ platform.
GIGABYTE 9 Series Ultra Durable™ Motherboards
Launching with 17 new models, GIGABYTE Ultra Durable™ 9 series motherboards sport innovative features geared to provide high end performance, a safer computing experience and killer good looks. Including the latest transfer technologies such as SATA Express and M.2 connectivity, exclusive high-end audio features with the Realtek ACL 1150 115dB SNR HD audio, Killer E2200 advanced gaming networking, gold plated hardware connectors and a unique appealing design, the 9 Series Ultra Durable™ boards are the PC DIY’s enthusiast must have motherboards.
Dual Thunderbolt™ 2 – The Fastest Connection to Your PC Just Got Faster
The new Dual Thunderbolt™ 2 controller from Intel® builds on the success of previous revisions, adding channel bandwidth aggregation to facilitate single channel transfer speeds of up to 20 Gbps, compared to a max of 10 Gbps on previous designs. This allows for incredible data transfer speeds when using high performance storage devices, while also supporting daisy-chaining of up to 12 devices and triple digital display support.
Extreme Multi-GPU Support
Flexible graphics capabilities supported for either 3-Way CrossFire™ or 2-Way SLI™ action, delivering the ultimate in graphics performance for gaming enthusiasts who demand the highest frame rates without compromising on resolution.
M.2 Onboard Connector
GIGABYTE 9 series Ultra Durable™ motherboards come equipped with an onboard M.2 slot, providing users PCI-Express connectivity for SSD devices. Delivering up to 10 Gb/s data transfer speeds, M.2 offers users considerably faster storage performance than current mSATA and even SATA Revision 3 (6Gb/s) storage devices.
SATA Express Connector
GIGABYTE Ultra Durable™ motherboards feature an onboard SATA Express connector which provides performance far superior to that of current SATA technologies. SATA Express features data transfer rates of up to 10Gb/s, considerably higher than SATA Revision 3 (6Gb/s), which won’t bottleneck faster NAND flash technologies in cutting edge SSDs. SATA Express combines the benefits of PCI-Express and SATA to provide much higher bandwidth, allowing SATA Express based drives to perform at similar speeds as PCI-Express based drives.
Also included is the cFos Speed feature, a network traffic management application which helps to improve network latency, maintaining low ping times to deliver better responsiveness in a crowded LAN environment. cFos Speed works in a similar way to an OS driver, monitoring network traffic packets at the application layer, allowing optimization and improved network performance for specific applications.
The ALC1150 provides ten DAC channels that simultaneously support 7.1-channel sound playback, plus 2 channels of independent stereo sound output (multiple streaming) through the front panel stereo outputs. Two stereo ADCs are integrated and can support a microphone array with Acoustic Echo Cancellation (AEC), Beam Forming (BF), and Noise Suppression (NS) technologies. The ALC1150 incorporates Realtek proprietary converter technology to achieve Front differential output 115dB Signal-to-Noise ratio (SNR) playback (DAC) quality and 104dB SNR recording (ADC) quality.
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