Gigabyte Announces the GA-Z87X-OC Motherboard

By Tarun Iyer
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Gigabyte's first LGA1150 motherboard is still in development, but already boasts an impressive set of features.

Gigabyte has taken the wraps off its flagship model for the 4th Generation of Intel CPUs, the Z87X-OC, which is still in development and is currently without a finalized color scheme or any heatsinks for the PCH or VRM. As the name suggests, the board is designed for overclockers and is powered by a 8-phase VRM, which draws power from a 4-pin ATX and 8-pin EPS connector in addition to the standard 24-pin ATX connector. 

The GA-Z87X-OC features 8 channel HD audio, 4 DDR3 DIMMs supporting a maximum of 64 GB of memory, three PCIe 3.0 x16 slots (x16/NC/NC, x8/NC/x8, x8/x4/x4), two legacy PCI and a PCIe 2.0 x1 slot. With regards to connectivity, the board features 9 USB 3.0 ports, one of which is wired as a Type-A, which allows Windows 7 / 8 to be run off a compatible USB 3.0 flash drive, six SATA 6 Gb/s ports, a PS/2 connector and gigabit ethernet.

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31 Comments Comment from the forums
  • rmpumper
    64 GB of RAM? There are no 16GB sticks on sale.
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  • JebbyC
    What's the 4th PCIe x16 slot?
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  • fusionlance
    rmpumper64 GB of RAM? There are no 16GB sticks on sale.Before you know it we'll be counting RAM in TB. My 1st PC in 1999 was only 64MB!!
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  • youssef 2010
    Nice board
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  • annymmo
    No dual gigabit ethernet?
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  • excella1221
    10443568 said:
    64 GB of RAM? There are no 16GB sticks on sale.
    Maybe it's a sign that 16gb sticks are just around the corner. :P
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  • bryonhowley
    fusionlanceBefore you know it we'll be counting RAM in TB. My 1st PC in 1999 was only 64MB!!My first PC had 4MB and at that time I thought that was alot! Infact at that time we were still trying to fit every thing in the first 640k ram. I still remember my Autoexe and Config files I had to setup because each game back then needed different things in order to run. Boy those were the days one game needed cd-rom drivers the next would not run with them.
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  • christop
    Sweet!!
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  • dingo07
    bryonhowleyMy first PC had 4MB and at that time I thought that was alot! Infact at that time we were still trying to fit every thing in the first 640k ram. I still remember my Autoexe and Config files I had to setup because each game back then needed different things in order to run. Boy those were the days one game needed cd-rom drivers the next would not run with them.I remember paying about $100 for 2 MB or RAM for my 386 back in the day when I was playing Falcon 3.0 - yes those were the days!

    This looks like a nice board - can't wait to build a LGA1150 system
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  • amoralman
    Rings a bell??

    DEVICE=C:\windows\HIMEM.SYS /testmem:off
    DOS=HIGH,UMB
    LASTDRIVE=z
    COUNTRY=049,850,C:\windows\COMMAND\country.sys
    SHELL=c:\4dos\4dos.com c:\4dos /p /e:1024
    DEVICE=C:\windows\EMM386.EXE noems d=64 x=a000-c7ff i=c800-f7ff x=f800-ffff
    rem DEVICE=C:\windows\EMM386.EXE 28000 ram d=64 x=a000-c7ff frame=c800 i=d000-f7ff x=f800-ffff
    DEVICEHIGH=c:\utils\TEAC_CDI.SYS /D:TEAC
    DEVICEHIGH=C:\utils\eansi.sys
    Reply