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GIGABYTE GA-Z97X-Gaming GT LGA 1150 Intel Z97 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard

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  • Core i7 / i5 / i3 / Pentium / Celeron (LGA1150)
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GA-Z97X-Gaming GT
Intel® Z97 Chipset

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  • Supports 4th and 5th Generation Intel® Core™ processors
  • Creative SoundBlaster X-Fi MB3 gaming audio suite
  • AMP-UP Audio technology with exclusive upgradable OP-AMP
  • Audio Noise Guard with LED path lighting
  • Dual DAC-UP USB ports
  • Gold plated display and audio ports
  • High end Nichicon audio capacitors
  • Realtek ALC1150 115dB SNR HD Audio with Built-in rear audio amplifier
  • Killer™ E2200 gaming networking platform
  • Extreme gaming 4-way graphics support
  • SATA Express support for 10Gbps data transfer
  • Long lifespan Durable Black Solid caps
  • APP Center including EasyTune™ and Cloud Station™ utilities
  • GIGABYTE UEFI DualBIOS™

Overview

G1™ Gaming Motherboards

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G1 audio

GIGABYTE AMP-UP Audio™ Technology

GIGABYTE G1™ Gaming motherboards are equipped with the GIGABYTE exclusive AMP-UP Audio Technology, which provides the industry's highest level of onboard audio features and technologies. With GIGABYTE AMP-UP Audio, gamers and audiophiles are able to experience crisp, ultra realistic sound effects while gaming, and the richest possible sound experience when listening to their favorite music and movies.

GIGABYTE Exclusive: Upgradable OP-AMP

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Customizable
+ Users can choose audio quality based on individual listening preferences.
+ Wide availability of additional OP-AMPs.

Low Cost Way to Dramatically Improve Audio Quality
+ Improve audio dynamics and overall sound-quality with little cost.
+ No need for expensive speakers or high-end audio equipment.

Well Known Hi-Fi Class OP-AMP: TI Burr Brown OPA2134

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Exclusive onboard "Gain Boost" selector switches
+ Select either standard 2.5X or high-amplification 6X mode.
+ 6X mode is ideal for high impedance speakers and headphones


Realtek ALC1150 115dB SNR HD Audio

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The ALC1150 is a high-performance multi-channel High Definition Audio Codec that delivers an exceptional audio listening experience with up to 115dB SNR, ensuring users get the best possible audio quality from their PC.

The ALC1150 provides ten DAC channels that simultaneously support 7.1-channel sound playback, plus two channels of independent stereo sound output (multiple streaming) through the front panel stereo outputs. Two stereo ADCs are integrated and can support a microphone array with Acoustic Echo Cancellation (AEC), Beam Forming (BF), and Noise Suppression (NS) technologies. The ALC1150 incorporates Realtek proprietary converter technology to achieve Front differential output 115dB Signal-to-Noise ratio (SNR) playback (DAC) quality and 104dB SNR recording (ADC) quality.


Additional Sound Blaster X-Fi MB3

GIGABYTE G1™ Gaming motherboards also include Sound Blaster X-Fi MB3 software suite. Sound Blaster X-Fi MB3 software suite is a powerful audio platform offering premium audio quality, effects and features for gamers. It features SBX Pro Studio™ suite of technologies, which is designed to give you the fullest audio experience.

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High End Audio Capacitors

GIGABYTE G1™ Gaming motherboards use high end, Japanese branded Nichicon audio capacitors. These professional audio capacitors deliver the highest quality sound resolution and sound expansion to create the most realistic sound effects for professional gamers.


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Gold Plated Audio Hardware

GIGABYTE motherboards pack top quality gold plated audio and HDMI connectors for improved connectivity and long lasting durability. Gold has superb signal conductivity and will not tarnish over extended periods of use. The Audio controller is also shielded by a gold plated cover which eliminates electrostatic interference.


Dual DAC-UP USB Ports

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Clean, Low-Noise Power for Your Digital-to-Analog Audio Converter
Featuring dual USB 2.0 ports, GIGABYTE USB DAC-UP provides clean, noise-free power delivery to your Digital-to-Analog Converter. DACs can be sensitive to fluctuations in power from the other USB ports, which is why GIGABYTE USB DAC-UP takes advantage of an isolated power source that minimizes potential fluctuations and ensures the best audio experience possible.

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Dedicated Audio Hardware Zone

  • Separation on the PCB layer protects the board's sensitive analog audio components.
  • Separate analog and digital ground to protect against Electromagnetic Interference (EMI).
  • LED trace path lighting illuminates to show the separation of the PCB layers.

Locating the right and left audio channels on separate PCB layers, GIGABYTE 9 Series G1™ gaming motherboards are able to eliminate channel crosstalk and maintain the best audio quality.

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Networking

Killer™ E2200 Gaming Network

No Lag, Just Frag!
GIGABYTE G1™ Gaming motherboards feature the Killer™ E2200 from Qualcomm Atheros, a high-performance, adaptive Gigabit Ethernet controller that offers better online gaming and online media performance compared to standard solutions.


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Performance
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Extreme Multi-GPU Support

Flexible graphics capabilities supported for either Four-Way CrossFire™ or Four-Way SLI™ action, delivering the ultimate in graphics performance for gaming enthusiasts who demand the highest frame rates without compromising on resolution.


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SATA Express Connector

GIGABYTE motherboards feature an onboard SATA Express connector which provides performance far superior to that of current SATA technologies. SATA Express features data transfer rates of up to 10Gbps, considerably higher than SATA Revision 3 (6Gbps), which won't bottleneck faster NAND flash technologies in cutting edge SSDs. SATA Express combines the benefits of PCI-Express and SATA to provide much higher bandwidth, allowing SATA Express based drives to perform at similar speeds as PCI-Express based drives.


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GIGABYTE App Center Including EasyTune™ and Cloud Station™ Utilities

GIGABYTE APP Center gives you easy access to wealth of GIGABYTE apps that help you get the most from your GIGABYTE motherboard. Using a simple, unified user interface, GIGABYTE APP Center allows you to launch all GIGABYTE apps installed on your system.
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GIGABYTE's EasyTune™ is a simple and easy-to-use interface that allows users to fine-tune their system settings or adjust system and memory clocks and voltages in a Windows environment. With Smart Quick Boost, one click is all it takes to automatically overclock your system, giving an added performance boost when you need it the most.


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GIGABYTE Cloud Station™ is composed of several GIGABYTE's unique apps that allow your smartphones & tablets to communicate, share resources, and control desktop PCs via wireless connection.


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looks

All New Heat Sink Design

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4K Ultra HD Support

4K Resolution is the next technological milestone in high-definition content delivery, utilizing approximately 4,000 pixels on the horizontal axis, more than four times today's standard HD pixel density. GIGABYTE motherboards provide native 4K support with integrated Intel® HD Graphics via HDMI.


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HDMI™ - The Next Generation Multimedia Interface

HDMI™ is a High-Definition Multimedia Interface which provides up to 5Gbps video transmitting bandwidth and 8-channel high quality audio all through a single cable. Able to transmit superior, uncompressed digital video and audio, HDMI™ ensures the crispest rendering of digital content up to 1080p without the quality losses associated with analog interfaces and their digital-to-analog conversion. In addition, HDMI™ is compatible with HDCP (High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection), allowing the playback of Blu-ray/HD DVD and other protected media content.


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GIGABYTE OPT Fan Support

Many of today's 3rd party water cooling systems require CPU fan power support for both the cooling fan and the water pump. GIGABYTE 9 Series motherboards feature OPT fan support, an additional CPU fan pin header that can be used to connect a water pump and configured for continuous full speed operation. The OPT Fan is also useful for high performance coolers employing two fans.


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Five-Time (15µ) Gold Plated CPU Socket Design

GIGABYTE 9 Series motherboards come equipped with a gold plated CPU socket, which means that enthusiasts can enjoy absolute reliability and longevity for the CPU socket overtime, without having any concerns about corroded pins and bad contacts.


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  • * The entire materials provided herein are for reference only. GIGABYTE reserves the right to modify or revise the content at anytime without prior notice.
  • * Advertised performance is based on maximum theoretical interface values from respective Chipset vendors or organization who defined the interface specification. Actual performance may vary by system configuration.
  • * All trademarks and logos are the properties of their respective holders.
  • * Due to standard PC architecture, a certain amount of memory is reserved for system usage and therefore the actual memory size is less than the stated amount.

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Warranty

  • Limited Warranty period (parts): 3 years
  • Limited Warranty period (labor): 3 years


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  • randy z.
  • 10/14/2014 8:51:33 PM
  • Tech Level: Somewhat High
  • Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
  • Verified Owner

1 out of 5 eggsBIOS DOA, Newegg refuses to replace

Pros: None. Board was DOA and Newegg is blaming me.

Cons: Dissapointed in this board. Like others who have reviewed it, my motherboard came with a defective primary BIOS. The only way to get the board out of a boot loop was to disable dual BIOS and enable the secondary BIOS.

Sent the board back to Newegg via RMA and they emailed me saying the pins on the motherboard are bent and they are sending me back the unfixed / unreplaced/ broken board.

Manufacturer Response:

Dear Randy,

Thank you for your comments. We apologize for your difficulty with your GIGABYTE product. Please contact us at newegg-support@gigabyteusa.com with the case number 115020 in the e-mail subject line. We will provide personalized service and analysis to help solve your issue ASAP. If the matter is urgent, please send us your contact number, and we will contact you.

GIGABYTE VIP Support Team

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  • Forrest H.
  • 8/7/2014 2:05:18 PM
  • Tech Level: Somewhat High
  • Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
  • Verified Owner

4 out of 5 eggsSolid board

Pros: - Good looks

- Even the box it came in was pretty nice, plastic rather than cardboard.

- Gigabyte's UEFI interface is getting better and better, it's still not quite as good as Asus's latest, but it works well and is easy to navigate

- Supports up to four video cards with the PLX chip

- Plenty of ports for extra fans and such

- Plenty of USB 3.0 ports both internal and external.

Cons: - It's not cheap

- No Sound Blaster hardware on this board, you get the SB software suite, but the audio is handled by the Realtek ACL1150, which is fine as far as on-board sound goes

- The first PCI-E X16 slot is positioned high on the board, if you used a closed loop liquid CPU cooler, this can cause a problem with radiator mounting locations with some cases. Depending on the case the radiator mounting location may result in the radiator blocking the top PCI-E X16 slot

- defaults to way too much CPU voltage with the i7-4790k, every with the latest F5 BIOS. At stock clocks it defaulted to 1.39v. That's ridiculous. I dialed it back to 1.28 volts at 4.7 Ghz and it's stable and runs significantly cooler, though the i7-4790k tends to run hot anyway.

- replaceable OP AMP is pretty gimmicky

Other Thoughts: I've used Gigabyte boards exclusively for my last 3 builds and the last few builds I've done for other people. They perform well and are built pretty well too. The GA-Z97X Gaming GT has some minor issues, but overall it's a pretty good board so far.

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  • Michael D.
  • 8/3/2014 8:41:31 PM
  • Tech Level: Somewhat High
  • Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
  • Verified Owner

4 out of 5 eggsGreat Board; Poor Linux Audio Quality

Pros: This is an update to my previous review...

Gigabyte responded promptly to my negative review and worked with me on troubleshooting. It turns out the board does NOT have defective audio as it works correctly in Windows 7.

Cons: The audio quality under Linux Mint 17 (Ubuntu 14.04, kernel 3.13) is extremely poor to the point of being unusable. So far this board is the only system on which I have experienced these audio problems, so it does not seem to be very common. I found numerous workarounds to similar-sounding issues, however none of these yielded any perceptible change in audio quality.

Gigabyte was unable to provide any support outside of Windows 7, 8, and 8.1. This is very disappointing to me. I doubt that I will purchase Gigabyte products in the future.

Other Thoughts: I wish NewEgg would allow a review to be modified.

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  • Michael D.
  • 7/24/2014 7:46:17 PM
  • Tech Level: Somewhat High
  • Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
  • Verified Owner

1 out of 5 eggsTerrible Audio

Pros: This board is beautiful to look at, and meshes well with the overall red color them of my components and LEDs. I haven't experienced any stability problems, although my initial attempts at over-clocking yielded no boot up (which is easily resolved)

Cons: The audio quality is the worst I have ever heard out of a computer. Both my high-quality analog speakers and my bluetooth headset experience the exact same problem - noisy, crackly, staticy audio. Worse, it works both directions - in hangouts everyone is complaining that they are getting loads of static from my end. The audio capabilities of this board sound good on paper and I am horribly disappointed.

The bios is a pain. I have found lots of suggestions online on how to work around this issue, only to discover the necessary settings don't exist on this board's bios. There are also 4 different management interfaces based upon your goals. They seem to interact strangely, atlhough I haven't figured out exactly what gives.

Also, Gigabyte's support system is terrible. I still haven't been able to file a ticket. You must provide loads of information including make, model, and specs of every component of your build in addition to the BIOS version and serial number of your motherboard. In short, plan on opening your case and visiting your bios to fill this out -- do it from a different computer or like me you'll get halfway through the process and have to restart.

Other Thoughts: The two most important criteria for a product are:
1. Does it work?
2. Can I use it for its intended purpose?
3. Will its useful life be enough to recuperate the cost to purchase?

This board fails at #2. It is a gaming board with unusable audio.

Manufacturer Response:

Dear Customer,

Thank you for your comments. We apologize for your difficulty with your GIGABYTE product. Please contact us at newegg-support@gigabyteusa.com with the case number 112231 in the e-mail subject line. We will provide personalized service and analysis to help solve your issue ASAP. If the matter is urgent, please send us your contact number, and we will contact you.


GIGABYTE VIP Support Team

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  • Eli R.
  • 7/7/2014 2:01:35 PM
  • Tech Level: High
  • Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
  • Verified Owner

5 out of 5 eggsGreat board, once I got some things worked out.

Pros: Awesome board. It has all of the features I wanted.

Cons: I think it shipped with a corrupted bios image, but I was able to get it working by switching the switch to the 2nd bios.

Other Thoughts: Not really a con, but the bios is really hard to figure out. The search feature is really neat, but once you figure out to hit f2, all of the features that you can't find, show up.

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  • David S.
  • 6/14/2014 3:03:54 PM
  • Tech Level: Somewhat High
  • Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
  • Verified Owner

5 out of 5 eggsGreat Motherboard

Pros: This is the only motherboard I can find that can run all 4 PCIe 16 slots at 8x in this price range. The cheaper Gigabyte Gaming boards run at 8/4/4 which you can't do SLI if you use all the slots.

Cons: I wish it used the Creative Core chip that the more expensive Gigabyte Gaming motherboards use.

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  • gabriel a.
  • 5/27/2014 8:58:51 AM
  • Tech Level: High
  • Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
  • Verified Owner

1 out of 5 eggsBad Customer Service - Defective products

Pros: The specs of the motherboard as detailed by the manufacturer are impressive (if you are able to make them work...)

Cons: The motherboard was defective which is much more difficult to isolate and define than a DOA. Specially with the lame support for Gigabyte who closes any ticket after posting a useless comment. So they can have a good ticket closing record... Maybe
After trying to create an RMA for the motherboard which was also unsuccessful as the website app was telling me that the motherboards was out of warranty (it seems that this product only has a couple of days of warranty), I decided to exchange this motherboard with an ASUS Maximus VII Hero.
Good job Gigabyte, you just lost another customer!

Other Thoughts: Excellent support from Newegg, the exchange policy and willingness to help you out are outstanding, great job !!!

Manufacturer Response:

Dear Customer,

Thank you for your comments. We apologize for your difficulty with your GIGABYTE product. Please contact us at newegg-support@gigabyteusa.com with the case number 110196 in the e-mail subject line. We will provide personalized service and analysis to help solve your issue ASAP. If the matter is urgent, please send us your contact number, and we will contact you.

GIGABYTE VIP Support Team

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  • Julio R.
  • 5/18/2014 6:44:33 AM
  • Tech Level: High
  • Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
  • Verified Owner

5 out of 5 eggsGreat board!

Pros: In usual Gigabyte fashion, this board looks and acts the part. Very high quality components and nice layout. The on-board LED readout is a throwback to early 90's system boards and very useful in diagnosing issues. There's even a power button right in the MB so you can test outside a case.
The Burr-Brown opamp audio was an awesome surprise. This is the same component they put on high-price studio recording consoles and it sounds great.

Cons: The connectors at the front of the board would be better if they were mounted facing up instead of forward. Still reachable but could be improved.

Other Thoughts: I've been using Gigabyte MB for over 15 years and have had a good experience with them. The Bill-Of-Materials on these boards is quite high so the asking price is very reasonable. The cost can be further improved if they stop including the SLI PCB with this MB. Not everyone needs a 2x, 3x and 4x SLI option yet all of those circuit boards and cables are included here.

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