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Gigabyte is a well-known name in the component industry and for good reason as they have made motherboards and graphics cards for a very long time. Among them some great boards such as the X58 OC board, some great P45 boards and I'm sure many more I'm...
Upon first look the Gigabyte GA-Z97MX-Gaming 5 uses a deep black PCB compared to most standard motherboards that label their PCB as black, only for it to be brown. The board measures 9.6″ X 9.6″ which is the standard for the mATX form factor. Gigabyte's...
Today I take a look at Gigabyte's gaming offering for the mATX market, the Z97MZ Gaming 5. The Gaming 5 is a full featured board with a surprising amount of features in such a small package! The board comes with a LGA1150 socket, 4 DDR3 Dimms and 4...
The Gigabyte Z97MX-Gaming 5 and the Asus Maximus VII Gene boxes.Today, I'm going to examine a pair of microATX LGA1150 mainboards powered by the flagship Z97 chipset. They share a lot of the same features, but aside from that, they're two very...
Just slapping the word “Gaming” on a motherboard does not make it a gaming motherboard. It needs a great design and feature set to go that tailors to the gaming enthusiast. The Gigabyte Z97MX-Gaming 5 does not fail in this regard. The included software...
So far things are looking good for the Gigabyte Z97MX Gaming 5 motherboard. The design, layout and feature set are pretty solid for a gaming board. Just the audio components we are seeing should be worth the price of admission. However, the attention to...
While mini-ITX is the “fashionable” small form factor of choice for most compact system builders, the micro-ATX form factor is still popular as it offers a better compromise between size, features and cost. Unlike mini-ITX motherboards micro-ATX...
Yesterday Intel introduced its new processors which are a refresh of the current Haswell chips. Along with these new processors two new motherboard chipsets are being introduced, the H97 and the Z97. For many of the motherboard manufacturers this is...
Ca fait maintenant un moment que le chipset Z97 est dans la place et GIGABYTE se débrouille pour assez bien l'exploiter sur cette carte qui s'offre du SATA Express et du M.2 (mais pas en même temps) là où certaines cartes ATX manquent de l'un, de l'autre...
"La Gigabyte Z97MX Gaming5 è una scheda madre formato mATX indirizzata al giocatore che vuole costruirsi un sistema dalle dimensioni contenute ma non per questo dalle features limitate. Scheda audio on-board high-end, chip Ethernet Killer BigFoot e tanto...