Description

• 3x USB power boost

  Gigabyte motherboard features a 3x USB power boost, delivering greater compatibility and extra power for USB devices. Gigabyte's unique USB power design is also able to efficiently regulate output over the full voltage range, which greatly enhances USB device compatibility. In addition, dedicated lower resistance fuses ensure lower voltage drops, and provide more stable and plentiful power delivery.

• On/off charge technology

  Gigabyte on/off charge technology allows you to charge your iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch regardless of whether your PC is on, in standby mode or even off. A derivative of Gigabyte's highly acclaimed 3x USB power feature, on/off charge enables devices to draw more current from Gigabyte motherboard USB ports than standard USB ports allow, so that charging from your PC can be as fast as with a charger.

• Core Boost support

  Gigabyte's Core Boost technology provides an easy way for users unlocking the CPU's hidden cores via the EasyTune6 utility. Without any complicated setting needed in BIOS, users can experience a phenomenal performance upgrade right away.

• Supports 45 nm AMD AM3 CPU

  This motherboard features split power plane, 3+1 phase VRM to support AMD's 45 nm AM3 Athlon II/Phenom II series processors, delivering greater performance enhancements and the ultimate in hardware scalability.

• PCI Express interface

  PCI Express interface provides scalable bandwidth for multi-purpose usage. PCI-E x16 interface doubles the bandwidth of graphics interface of previous generation thus delivering the utmost gaming experience. PCI-E x1 interface provides twice the bandwidth of PCI interface up to 250 Mbps for I/O peripheral devices.

• Supports dual channel DDR3 1333+

  Experience the advanced technology of DDR3 1333+ memory, featuring faster speeds and higher data bandwidth, which delivers superior performance for the most demanding applications.

• SATA 3 Gbps and RAID

  This platform supports reliable storage solution for enhanced data protection and data accessing performance. Serial ATA 3 Gbps is firstly introduced in this platform to provide blazingly 3 Gbps bus bandwidth thus higher disk performance. The NVIDIA RAID allows multi-disk designs to be set up as RAID 0, 1, based on users' priority of protection/ performance. This NVIDIA RAID function makes the RAID even more accessible by introducing the Windows-based facility.

• High definition audio

  Experience home theater-quality sound with your PC using high definition audio for enhanced multi-channel audio, improved voice and communication input, and multi-streaming capability.

• DualBIOS - patented dual hardware BIOS protection

  DualBIOS is a Gigabyte patented technology that automatically recovers BIOS data when main BIOS has crashed or failed. Featuring 2 physical BIOS ROMs integrated onboard, Gigabyte DualBIOS allows quick and seamless recovery from BIOS damage or failure due to viruses or improper BIOS updating.

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