Previously, we caught a few pictures and details on the upcoming Z170 chipset. Gigabyte finally unveils their next generation Z170 motherboard that will targeted at professional overclockers – Z170-SOC Force. This powerful motherboard offers strong CPU and memory VRM, and yet offers a connectivity loadout that’s in league with “gaming” class motherboards. There will be a 24-pin ATX, 8-pin EPS, 4-pin ATX and 6-pin PCIe power connectors that will give you extra voltage to your component that eventually will increase the overclocking potential.
In addition, Gigabyte also prepares a CPU socket is wired to four DDR4 DIMM slots that capable supporting up to 64 GB of dual-channel DDR4-3200 memory. A thoughtful from Gigabyte to include a 24-phase VRM powers for the CPU and it has heatsink that is made to ready for liquid cooling. 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.
The motherboard has three M.2 slots (32Gb/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 (one type-A, one type-C). You definitely will be a surprise when you know how many USB ports there will be on this motherboard, eight USB 3.0 ports. Display outputs include one each of DVI, HDMI and mini-DisplayPort. Besides that, the motherboard also features Gigabit Ethernet and GIGABYTE’s latest generation AMP-UP audio solution.
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We expect there will be more details going to surface soon and stay tuned for the latest update.