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Gigabyte Z97X-SOC FORCE Motherboard Review

Motherboards/Intel S1150 by leeghoofd @ 2014-07-22

Gigabyte continues to release new products in their orange themed overclocking motherboard series. The first of the OC series was the immaculate X58 OC motherboard, a trimmed down on features board, however purely designed to provide the ultimate overclocking experience. Sadly the X58 OC board arrived just a tad too late on the market to become a major selling product. Nevertheless a trend was set: deliver affordable, yet customized for maximum tweaking potential motherboard series. Other brands had similar overclocking friendly boards yet retailing at far more elevated prices. The predecessor, the Z87X-OC was one of the most utilized overclocking boards during the last year according statistics expert Massman from HWBot.org. Gigabyte had to live up to its name and make the Z97X-SOC FORCE as good or preferably even better…

BIOS Screenshots

Gigabyte has improved its UEFI Bios and made it a bit more intiutive. Especially the new frontpage makes it all a bit easier to navigate. The added memory presets are a very good starting point for the memory OCer to maximize his benchmark scores. Take note these are very tight and might require manual intervention to properly function with your favorite hardware.

For those that still prefer the old school Classic Bios, just press F2 and find one of the easiest and fastest BIOSes to wade through of 2014.

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