Wednesday, July 22nd 2015
GIGABYTE Z170-SOC Force Motherboard Pictured
Here are some of the first pictures of GIGABYTE's flagship socket LGA1151 motherboard targeted at professional overclockers, the Z170-SOC Force. Built in the standard ATX form-factor, this board offers strong CPU and memory VRM, and yet offers a connectivity loadout that's in league with "gaming" class motherboards. To begin with, the board draws power from a combination of 24-pin ATX, 8-pin EPS, 4-pin ATX, and 6-pin PCIe power connectors. A 24-phase VRM powers the CPU, its heatsink features preparation for liquid cooling. The CPU socket is wired to four DDR4 DIMM slots (supporting up to 64 GB of dual-channel DDR4-3200 memory).
Expansion slots include four PCI-Express 3.0 x16 (electrical x16/NC/NC/x4 or x8/NC/x8/x4 or x8/x4/x4/x4); and three PCI-Express 3.0 x1. Storage connectivity includes three M.2 slots (32 Gb/s), three SATA-Express 16 Gb/s ports, and a total of eight SATA 6 Gb/s ports. USB connectivity includes two USB 3.1 ports (two type-A, from which one converts to type-C if it's populated), eight USB 3.0 ports (four on the rear panel, four by header), and a number of USB 2.0/1.1 ports, including two type-A ports near the SATA ports (could help serve as "front-panel" ports in bench-type case setups). Display outputs include one each of DVI, HDMI and mini-DisplayPort (which likely also means availability of Thunderbolt 20 Gb/s). Gigabit Ethernet and GIGABYTE's latest generation Amp-Up audio solution make for the rest of it. A plethora of onboard OC control options are available. Find more pictures at the source.
Source:
ITfree4u
Expansion slots include four PCI-Express 3.0 x16 (electrical x16/NC/NC/x4 or x8/NC/x8/x4 or x8/x4/x4/x4); and three PCI-Express 3.0 x1. Storage connectivity includes three M.2 slots (32 Gb/s), three SATA-Express 16 Gb/s ports, and a total of eight SATA 6 Gb/s ports. USB connectivity includes two USB 3.1 ports (two type-A, from which one converts to type-C if it's populated), eight USB 3.0 ports (four on the rear panel, four by header), and a number of USB 2.0/1.1 ports, including two type-A ports near the SATA ports (could help serve as "front-panel" ports in bench-type case setups). Display outputs include one each of DVI, HDMI and mini-DisplayPort (which likely also means availability of Thunderbolt 20 Gb/s). Gigabit Ethernet and GIGABYTE's latest generation Amp-Up audio solution make for the rest of it. A plethora of onboard OC control options are available. Find more pictures at the source.
32 Comments on GIGABYTE Z170-SOC Force Motherboard Pictured
And what is this "soc force" meant to mean? It's sounds awfully a lot like "suck force" => I would understand this kind of texts on vacuum cleaner but not on a motherboard...
And what's with the awful orange color?
And wtf are you supposed to do with those buttons on the motherboard once you have built your computer and it's inside a case?.... or they think people shouldn't use cases for their computer? And then again this awful washed out orange color forces you to use case ... without a window!
VRM waterblock prefitted.... NICE!!!!
But.....
24 phase VRM?????
doesn't it seem GIGABYTE used lower-quality VRMs?
I think all the random covers on this board will make insulating for LN2 a pain.The OC touch buttons are nice because you don't need to install any in OS OC utilities and they give you the ability to swap the CPU from low clocks to high clocks manually which is great for LN2 since you don't want to run 6Ghz when you're making your screenshot/opening the benchmark/tweaking the OS.
www.maximumpc.com/gigabyte-teases-upcoming-z170-chipset-motherboards/
Then again i would still pick what ever one had best options \ price for me how ever it looked.
I like the ASRock boards more once again looks wise although i wish they would do more gold\black micro boards
As far as Asrock goes..I haven't had ANY board BUT Asrock for a Very long time...shortly after they began..in the early 2000's...I remember they're support was basically Google Translate. it wasn't fun.
somehow i miss simple board
Deemon get yourself a decent ITX.
Yes, a VGA port. On a "gaming" motherboard. In 2015.