Pros: Price, 8 DIMM slots, 4 PCIe 16X (length, not all wired) slots.

Cons: This motherboard died shortly after purchase, does not work at all. No response, tested with other good components (power supply, ram), nada, tested all other components in another MB, all worked as expected.
So I e-mail tech support for their message stating that "If you need faster service, please contact our customer service representative via email". I don't get a response at all... Nothing.. No response (How about you remove this message from your RMA site, as it isn't helpful to your customers who do exactly as asked and hear nothing back).
So I then call in, and they can't help me at all, and explain that they're busy. Not much they can tell me, maybe call back in a couple of days.
Useless!
So, I just wait while my motherboard is dead, and I'm out a working system because of Gigabyte's lack of quality with this board!

Other Thoughts: Regretting my purchase, don't plan to purchase a Gigabyte product again.

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 134144 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

Pros: A lot of features for the $$
While working it worked well

Cons: This board completely died after about 3 months, however prior to dying (the week before) my primary video card suffered its wrath and had to be RMA'd! At first I just thought the video card died, so I bought a new one. Then one week later this board is dead, DEAD, no flashing LED on the NIC, and my power supply making a faint tick, tick, tick. Tried with another known good PSU, same tick, tick, tick. Removed all unneeded components, swapped items, etc... it was completely dead.
So I send it in, and e-mailed them as requested on their RMA site for "if you need faster service" as I'm pretty down without this board. I don't get a response in my email, so I call to find out what kind of lead time, and what they could do to get this fixed faster (it's real dead, I doubt they're fixing this board, it sure would be quicker to just send me a new one!). I feel as if I am disturbing the "kid" on the other end. He says "we're really busy right now, they're backed up, it'll likely take at least two weeks to get this repaired, however you can call back next week, maybe Wednesday to see". So that call was SUPER useful, huh!?@@@!
Add to that my video card that died a week earlier was also a Gigabyte.. Yep, I don't think they're fixing that anytime soon either.
This was completely unhelpful, and (personally) I could give a **** if they're backed up, quit making faulty products and you won't have this issue, OR hire more people and manage your responsibility to fix your products quicker.

Other Thoughts: I used to be a big Gigabyte supporter, they were my "go to" purchase for motherboards (even used to recommend them). However this is very likely my last purchase from them as the reviews clearly show that this motherboard has issues, and on top of that the service center is not up to the task of making it any better!
If I had the opportunity to make my motherboard purchasing decision over again, I would have chosen an ASRock or Asus product over this Gigabyte board.

Pros: - Looks sleek

Cons: The board does not POST with multiple sticks of RAM installed, or with just one stick of RAM in slot DIMM-1B (the recommended slot). The board does function properly with one stick of RAM in slot DIMM-1A, but not with more than one stick of RAM in alternate slots.

Manufacturer Response:

Dear Customer,

Thank you for your comments. We apologize for your difficulty with your GIGABYTE product.
Please check and make sure there is no bent pin on motherboard in CPU socket.
Please contact us at newegg-support@gigabyteusa.com with the case number 133941 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

Pros: its yellow that's it..

Cons: -came with buggy bios.
-stared to randomly freeze a within a week
-Gigabyte Customer Service is a piece of THE WORST

Other Thoughts: I put together my new pc and it seemed that everything was running just fine. I was happy that i wasn't having issues like everyone else who has reviewed this Mobo. Then I made the biggest mistake and sent in my rebate. About a week after doing that the pc starts having random crashes. Not Even Blue screens just straight black. I then started to test every component. After a week of testing everything I came to the conclusion that it was a faulty Mobo. I tried to RMA with newegg but no luck since i had sent in the Rebate and there was no upc. I had to go dirrectly to Gigabyte then. At first the insulted me by saying that all the test I had done before were probably ran wrong then sent me directions on how to test the components. They were the exact same way I tested it initially. I finally got an RMA approval on the 4th and sent in my board on the 5th. They showed to have received the board on the 8th of the month. I waited to see an update on status on their site and nothing happened for two weeks, When I called they finally told me that the were gonna be testing it on the 22nd. That's a two whole weeks of it just sitting around. I called back on the 24th and they told me it was a defective item that they should be mailing a replacement in one to two days. I finally thought there was a light at the end of the tunnel. It is now the 29th a week later and no status update on the site so I call again. They first give me the run around by transferring to different departments and when I ask for help they keep telling me I called the wrong department call again to the right one. Although they were the ones transferring the call. I finally get some one who will look at the order and he tells me they are waiting for replacements for the dead mobo. So they don't know how long that will be and no update can be given.......... I'm beyond annoyed at this point and am willing to pay to upgrade to a higher model they do have. The Customer Service rep says they don't do such a thing and tells me I have to wait longer for the replacement followed by "have a good day" and hanging up........

TLDR; worst customer service ever, been a month of waiting with no results of defective product from manufacture.

STAY AWAY FROM THIS COMPANY AT ALL COST. I WILL NEVER BUY FROM THEM AGAIN

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 133944 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

Pros: A lot of high-end hardware on this motherboard including quad-GPU capability, eight USB 3.0 ports, up to six drives in a RAID configuration, M.2 for both a drive and a Wi-Fi/Bluetooth add in card and headphones amplifier. All digital power design that utilizes International Rectifiers PowlRstage MOSFETs and 4th generation Digital PWM controllers. The board itself is built like a tank and has a very desirable look. One of most affordable X99 motherboards you can purchase.

Cons: The BIOS leave a lot to be desired. Simply put its a mess. The board occasional refuses to boot and instead sits in a boot loop before the bios even loads until i remove power from the PC and try to turn it on again. Occasionally the USB ports don't work on boot. Of course you don't know this till the computer is fully booted and the devices connected to them just seem to have dissipated from the computer. My keyboard and mouse are USB so i had to pull the power cord to correct that to.

Other Thoughts: When it works this is a great board with a lot of high-end features packed on it, but like with most affordable boards, certain compromises have to be made to keep it affordable. Most of the cost cutting measures are extras like built-in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth and on-board On/Off and reset buttons. On the surface and on paper this is an absolute bargain for a X99 motherboard but once you actually get around to using it you realize that there was a lot more compromised than just a few features which become apparent with all of the software issues. Until there is a revision and Gigabyte can iron out the issues I can not recommend this as your next purchase.

Pros: Wish I had something to put.

Cons: Overclocking Nightmare
Windows constantly having issues since using.

Other Thoughts: Do not buy this product. Look for something else. I have had issue after issue with the board. Take your money and buy a different brand. Gigabyte had a great graphics card I bought, but this board is nothing but trouble.

Pros: -Not a bad port layout
-Easy to understand handbook
-Lots of connections

Cons: -Dead on arrival.

Other Thoughts: -Will update if RMA board isn't DOA.

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 133316 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

Pros: Fast shipping and awesome product. I knew that this board had extra cpu pins for stable overclocking outside of intel’s specs but I didn’t know that it had a switch that can you can choose whether you want your cpu to be running on those extra pins or not. Pretty cool feature for overclocking

Cons: only one of the M.2 slots can give you 10Gb/s transfer and the other is for a wifi card but it still gave me pretty good performance

Other Thoughts: I'd recommend this board if you're willing to put a bit of tech knowledge to work. This board has a lot of great features and is capable of a lot of things that really impressed me for a sub $200 board.

Pros: Pretty glad I went with this board bought it last week when there was a $30 rebate off of it so I splurged a bit more on the CPU rather than just going with the standard 5830K. This worked out for me because I purchased 2 GTX 970's and this allowed me to SLI with both cards running at x16 PCIe Gen 3. One of the main reasons that pushed me to purchase this board is the Overclocking capabilites this board has a special socket that allows us to overclock this board to the next level. I've never overclocked before but with the special socket i was able to get up to 4.2 GHz (Stock 3.5 GHz) on a liquid cool setup.

Cons: System seems dull with just the yellow lights, not a big deal as I have 2 cards so I don't really have the chance to see it.

Other Thoughts: A must have for all enthusiasts if you are planning to build a new PC this is definitely the way to go. You won't regret it when you are installing the latest games, just installed COD and its smoothhh.

Pros: my system was crashed due to power outage and something happened also killed setting and thank this, this board got dual BIOS, my life saver. i will only buy gigabyte board in the future just for this feature.

Cons: it has saved my data, what else.

Other Thoughts: All the fancy features not mean anything if it doesnt survive and save my data.