Gigabyte GA-X99 Gaming 5

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Good layout, Competitive street price, Looks the business

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BIOS seems over elaborate, Fan control not the best, HEXUS.where2buy, The Gigabyte X99Gaming 5 is available to purchase from Scan Computers, HEXUS.right2reply, At HEXUS, we invite the companies whose products we test to comment on our articles. If any co...

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Good layout, Competitive street price, Looks the business

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BIOS seems over elaborate, Fan control not the best, HEXUS.where2buy, The Gigabyte X99Gaming 5 is available to purchase from Scan Computers, HEXUS.right2reply, At HEXUS, we invite the companies whose products we test to comment on our articles. If any co

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GIGABYTE is a brand most computer enthusiasts should recognize. GIGABYTE was founded in 1986 and has grown into a company with over 7,000 employees and annual revenue of approximately 1.7 billion dollars. GIGABYTE started making motherboards and like its...

By HardOCP on January 15, 2015

The Hardware.Info Price comparison tool at the moment has a total of 30 X99 boards, out of the 30 we have now tested 20 motherboards. This should give us a good view on what is on the market and what are the best choices at the moment. We are basing...

By uk.hardware.info on October 27, 2014

A new generation of Intel Extreme processors with a new socket (LGA 2011-3) means a new batch of motherboards to go along with them, and Gigabyte has a whopping eight X99 boards aimed at the PC gaming...

By PC Gamer on October 23, 2014

Intel recently released the Haswell-E CPUs and the X99 chipset to go along with it. Gigabyte has released their line of X99 to the masses with eight new boards. Gigabyte's GA-X99 Gaming 5 is in the lower mid-range of the new board lineup, and has some...

By vrworld.com on September 15, 2014

Another good-looking motherboard is the GA-X99-Gaming 5. Gigabyte has told us it's keen to claw back some of Asus's market share and judging by its offerings so far it's certainly on the right path. The GA-X99-Gaming 5 sits in the mid-range of its current lineup, with several boards above and below in terms of price....

By Bit-tech.net on September 09, 2014

Intel has introduced their new high-end Haswell-E CPUs, click here for our extensive review . The new high-end processors make use of a new socket, Socket 2011 v3, and have to be paired with a new chipset, Intel X99. More than enough reason for several...

By uk.hardware.info on September 04, 2014

Intel's new “Haswell-E” high-end desktop platform recently launched with the Core i7 5960X 8 core CPU leading the way - be sure to check our review of that right here . To accompany Intel's new Haswell-E CPUs we have a brand new platform based on the X99...

By eTeknix on September 02, 2014

It would be fair to say that in terms of raw CPU performance in the high end of the market Intel hasn't had much to worry about in recent times. Their X79/i7 based builds have offered fantastic results for those who work in multi-threaded applications...

By HardwareHeaven on August 29, 2014

Gigabyte jumps on the Intel X99 and Haswell Extreme bandwagon by releasing a multitude of high-end boards. Taking up the mid-range space is the X99-Gaming 5, available from £200, and it packs quite a punch with a Core i7-5960X in the socket. Layout is...

By HEXUS.net on August 29, 2014

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