****Gigabyte Z97X SOC Force****

Nice looking board and well priced. Considering a move to z97 and devils canyon myself. Haven't been that impressed with the current hw chips.
 
Multi-GPU Support
Support for 4-Way Crossfire
Support for 2-Way SLI


So you can have 4 amd cards, but only 2 NVidia cards, why is that then:confused:

I only complain as I have two titan blacks for it, and I may later need a third.
 
Sli requires a minimum of 8x on each PCI lane, crossfire doesn't have such limitations so would run 3/4 cards at 8/8/4 or 8/4/4/4.

You need to stump up the extra on a plx board to get 3 & 4 way sli from 1150.
 
nice motherboard indeed but for the 1st time ever i will be going from atx to micro atx for my next (haswell refresh) build so sadly no more gigabyte motherboards for me as they don't seem to make feature rich micro atx boards like they do with their atx boards,msi seems to be the best choice when it comes to micro atx so i really hope their motherboards are as reliable as gigabyte's. there is also asus with their micro-ATX Maximus VII Gene board.
 
altrewin said:
So what's the difference between this one and the non-force then? On Z87 the force has the PLX chip needed for quad-sli.
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The current Z87 x oc is the lower priced board which will be superceded by this model, i suspect gigabyte will be releasing a Z97 version of the PLX enabled model which will fall into the £300.00+ category, it's main competitor will be the Asus ROG maximus VII extreme.

as905 said:
there is also asus with their micro-ATX Maximus VII Gene board.
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Gene does look like a nice board, though im holding out to see what the Z97 formula and extreme are like.
 
Earlier in the week when Ocuk listed all of the giga z97 boards there was no obvious direct oc-force replacement. The only board above £300 was a 'G1' board at £349.99 which I suspect is the sniper replacement which also features plx.

100% going Asus on z97, have a read up on the maximus 7 hero for some ~£160 awesome, a really feature packed board for the price. Personally I'll be throwing my money at an m7f/m7e
 
pgi947 said:
Personally I'll be throwing my money at an m7f/m7e
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Im hoping that the m7f looks the same as the current 6 version, if devils canyon worked on Z87, (which is looking doubtful) id simply just replace the cpu as my current one is a bit poor. It's that or new platform or source a decent 4770k.
 
From the you tube previews I have noticed that the Z97X-SOC Force and Z97X-SOC do not have an M.2 slot.

The most of other Gigabyte Z97 boards and the ROG boards do. I do not know how popular this socket/feature will be but it would have been nice to have it on the SOC boards, perhaps by removing one of the PCI slots.
 
setter said:
Im hoping that the m7f looks the same as the current 6 version, if devils canyon worked on Z87, (which is looking doubtful) id simply just replace the cpu as my current one is a bit poor. It's that or new platform or source a decent 4770k.
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Not overly bothered on looks I just want a board thats going to have a solid bios behind it and not be temperamental, which points me towards a high end Asus board, be it the m7f, m7e or z97-ws!
 
Author_25 said:
From the you tube previews I have noticed that the Z97X-SOC Force and Z97X-SOC do not have an M.2 slot.

The most of other Gigabyte Z97 boards and the ROG boards do. I do not know how popular this socket/feature will be but it would have been nice to have it on the SOC boards, perhaps by removing one of the PCI slots.
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The boards being more aimed at nebchers etc they probably not fussed about m.2.

Did you notice the rear of the SOC boards? SMT mounted DIMM slots, the only Z97 boards to have this.
 
Apart from the Sata-Express and native M.2 support Z97 holds zero interest for me.
For all I care Z97 can go take a face first swan dive off the empire state building.
Bring on Z107.
 
Will the Z87 boards be compatible with the Haswell refresh chips?
I'm quite happy with my Z87X-OC at the minute but am tempted by a Haswell refresh if they sort out the TIM/solder issue as has been rumoured.
 
The hw refresh are compatible with z87, though theese are non k chips with the same paste as current haswells. Later next month the improved Tim 4790k is released, this will work on z97 boards but as yet no one knows for sure if they will work on z87.
 
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