Gigabytes Z87X OC Force - £100 off until Monday the 4th!!

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Hows this for an absolute beast of a price! :o

Gigabyte Z87X-OC Force Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard @ £364.99 inc VAT

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GIGABYTE 8 series motherboards debut a number of exclusive new and improved features that are esigned specifically to help enthusiasts and overclockers not only get the most performance from their hardware, but also the absolute most enjoyable OC experience.


CPU
- Support for Intel® Core™ i7 processors/Intel® Core™ i5 processors/Intel® Core™ i3 processors/Intel® Pentium® processors/ Intel® Celeron® processors in the LGA1150 package
- L3 cache varies with CPU
- (Please refer "CPU Support List" for more information.)

Chipset
- Intel® Z87 Express Chipset

Memory
- 4 x 1.5V DDR3 DIMM sockets supporting up to 32 GB of system memory
- * Due to a Windows 32-bit operating system limitation, when more than 4 GB of physical memory is installed, the actual memory size displayed will be less than the size of the physical memory installed.
- Dual channel memory architecture
- Support for DDR3 1600/1333 MHz memory modules
- Support for non-ECC memory modules
- Support for Extreme Memory Profile (XMP) memory modules
- (Please refer "Memory Support List" for more information.)

Onboard Graphics Integrated Graphics Processor:
- 2 x HDMI ports, supporting a maximum resolution of 4096x2160
- * Support for HDMI 1.4a version.
- 1 x DisplayPort, supporting a maximum resolution of 3840x2160
- * Support for DisplayPort 1.2 version.
- Maximum shared memory of 1 GB

Audio
- Realtek® ALC898 codec
- High Definition Audio
- 2/4/5.1/7.1-channel
- Support for S/PDIF In
- Support for S/PDIF Out

LAN
- 2 x Intel® GbE LAN chips (10/100/1000 Mbit)
- Support for Teaming

Wireless Communication module
- Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, supporting 2.4/5 GHz Dual-Band
- Bluetooth 4.0, 3.0+HS, 2.1+EDR

Expansion Slots
- 3 x PCI Express x16 slots, running at x16 (PCIEX16_1~3)
- * For optimum performance, if only one expansion card is to be installed, be sure to install it in the PCIEX16_2 slot.
- 2 x PCI Express x16 slots, running at x8 (PCIEX8_1~2)
- * The PCIEX8_1 slot shares bandwidth with the PCIEX16_1 slot and the PCIEX8_2 slot with PCIEX16_3. The PCIEX16_1/PCIEX16_3 slot will operate at up to x8 mode when the PCIEX8_1/PCIEX8_2 is populated.
- (The PCIEX16 and PCIEX8 slots conform to PCI Express 3.0 standard.)
- * The PCIEX16_2 slot will become unavailable when an expansion card is installed in the orange PCI Express x16 slot.
- 2 x PCI Express x1 slots
- (The PCI Express x1 slots conform to PCI Express 2.0 standard.)

Multi-Graphics Technology
- Support for 4-Way/3-Way/2-Way AMD CrossFire™/NVIDIA® SLI™ technology

Storage Interface
Chipset:
- 6 x SATA 6Gb/s connectors (SATA3 0~5) supporting up to 6 SATA 6Gb/s devices
- Support for RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, and RAID 10
Marvell® 88SE9230 chip:
- 4 x SATA 6Gb/s connectors (GSATA3 6~9) supporting up to 4 SATA 6Gb/s devices
- Support for RAID 0, RAID 1, and RAID 10

USB
Chipset:
- Up to 2 USB 3.0/2.0 ports (available through the internal USB header)
- Up to 6 USB 2.0/1.1 ports (2 ports on the back panel, 4 ports available through the internal USB headers)
Chipset + 2 Renesas® uPD720210 USB 3.0 Hubs:
- Up to 8 USB 3.0/2.0 ports (6 ports on the back panel, 2 ports available through the internal USB header)


Internal I/O Connectors
- 1 x 24-pin ATX main power connector
- 1 x 8-pin ATX 12V power connector
- 1 x 4-pin ATX 12V power connector
- 1 x PCIe power connector
- 10 x SATA 6Gb/s connectors
- 1 x CPU fan header
- 1 x water cooling fan header (CPU_OPT)
- 7 x system fan headers
- 2 x heatsink fan connectors
- 1 x front panel header
- 1 x front panel audio header
- 1 x S/PDIF Out header
- 1 x S/PDIF In header
- 2 x USB 3.0/2.0 headers
- 2 x USB 2.0/1.1 headers
- 1 x serial port header
- 1 x Clear CMOS jumper
- 1 x power button
- 1 x reset button
- 1 x Clear CMOS button
- 1 x Gear button
- 1 x OC Turbo button
- 1 x OC Tag button
- 1 x OC Trigger switch
- 1 x OC Ignition button
- 1 x OC PCIe switch
- 1 x CPU BCLK Down button
- 1 x CPU BCLK Up button
- 1 x CPU Ratio Down button
- 1 x CPU Ratio Up button
- 1 x onboard voltage measurement module
- 2 x BIOS switches

Back Panel Connectors
- 1 x PS/2 keyboard/mouse port
- 1 x optical S/PDIF Out connector
- 2 x HDMI ports
- 1 x DisplayPort
- 6 x USB 3.0/2.0 ports
- 2 x USB 2.0/1.1 ports
- 2 x RJ-45 ports
- 6 x audio jacks (Center/Subwoofer Speaker Out/Rear Speaker Out/Side Speaker Out/Line In/Line Out/Microphone)


Was £464.99 Inc. VAT

Only £364.99 inc VAT.

ORDER NOW


Kick ass! :cool:
 
Does it heck! :p Most feature rich and insane board for Z87 on the market by far. £100 off is RAM for your new build or an SSD. Either way I wouldnt say no to such an awesome bit of kit if I was in the market :)
 
Skimmed thread title and thought "£60 for the board I want? Must buy now...". Come into thread and spot "OC Force". Silly me lol
 
All i require from a motherboard as a gamer are PCI-E slots (at least 1 full x16 slot), USB ports (i'd say at least 4) and a few SATA ports ;). Gamers don't need expensive motherboards unless they plan on achieving some extreme overclocks or run triple/quad graphics cards. A gamer should really spend the extra cash on a decent GPU as the main priority and then the CPU (that's my opinion anyway :D).
 
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why would you need this over a normal OC board? its £200 more... what makes it worth £200 more (£300 when not on offer?)
 
Id rather my Asus Maximus VI Formula, at least it comes with a ready-to-watercool mobo block :P

That is one expensive mobo!
 
I'm guessing this is Gigabytes offering to take on the ROG boards that OC'ers use, it's no gamer board (the G1 is) for many of the reasons already mentioned (and price tag), although colour scheme is quite cool!?

Would be great to see what some of the Enthusiast/LN2 guys think of this board as that seems to be the market its aimed at? Price tag is around the MAX VI E, XPower and G1. Although interesting to note this board has HDMI & DP for onboard gfx, no DVI (same as the Sniper).

Andrew the 'summary' on the website lists it as having 2 PCI slots (it has none) and only 1x Gbit LAN (it has 2).
 
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As said its for "real" overclockers which means 99.9% need not apply to asking "why do much". Its almost a case of "if you have to ask you cant afford" but instead on "not afford" it should read "if you have to ask you shouldnt buy one".

Its a high end board to overclock, run MORE THAN 2 overclocked cards on etc. The OC options, memory tweaking and overall tweaking of the board far surpasses that of pretty much anything else you can buy bar perhaps the Maximus 6 Extreme and depending on what your doing this board is either going to be better for the job or worse.

The Z87X-OC is an overclockers board for those who like to overclock and get the most from a system. It is not a benchers board, its a cheap alternative so you can build a system with an "OC" board thats orange saving you a few hundred to spend elsewhere.

See this as a no expense spared option :)
 
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