Gigabyte GA-X99-Gaming 5P Champion

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Stock performance, Overclocking potential, Board aesthetics, Illuminated rear panel shield, Board cooling and heat pipe design / layout, CPU socket layout and spacing, UEFI BIOS design and usability, CMOS battery placement, Quality of integrated Creative...

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Complexities encountered with dialin of base overclock, Odd ATX12V power connector implementation requiring 1to3 power adapter

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Last revision on May 28, 2016

Reviewers Liked

Stock performance, Overclocking potential, Board aesthetics, Illuminated rear panel shield, Board cooling and heat pipe design / layout, CPU socket layout and spacing, UEFI BIOS design and usability, CMOS battery placement, Quality of integrated Creative

Reviewers Didn't Like

Complexities encountered with dialin of base overclock, Odd ATX12V power connector implementation requiring 1to3 power adapter

Expert reviews and ratings

Gigabyte uses a three-pronged approach to attracting Haswell-E buyers to its X99-based motherboards. First, its Ultra Durable boards cater to the widest cross-section of potential buyers, with models ranging from the budget-oriented X99-UD3 up to the...

By The Tech Report on July 23, 2015

The X99-Gaming 5P lives up to the lofty expectations set by GIGIBYTE for this board by including it in their newly minted Champion Series. This board is almost perfect from the aesthetic and design perspective with its gamer-centric red and black theme...

By PCPer on May 22, 2015

The GIGABYTE X99-Gaming 5P brings a lot of features that will appeal to the gaming and overclocking crowd. If you load the motherboard up with 4-way SLI/Crossfire, you'll have more bandwidth available than a lot of competitor boards offer. Couple that...

By overclockers.com on March 24, 2015