Gigabyte brings their new motherboard X99M in market recently. The motherboard will support Intel's 8-core processor and DDR 4 RAM. UK-based technology reporting and reviews website HEXUS report on it.
According to HEXUS, X99M-Gaming 5 motherboard is the world's first mATX mainboard. This motherboard is basically based on the Intel X99 core-logic that is designed for Intel Core i7-5800/5900-series "Haswell-E" high-end desktop central processing units. The mainboard features premium capabilities and can enable compact form-factor systems with extreme levels of performance.
One of the special feature of the motherboard is, updating for BIOS no additional hard disk or RAM is required.
The Gigabyte X99M-Gaming 5 motherboard is equipped with LGA2011-3 socket that supports Intel's latest HEDT chips, four DDR4 DIMM slots, two PCI Express 3.0 x16 slots for graphics cards, one PCI Express x16 slot operating in PCIe 3.0 x8 mode that can be used for the third graphics card or for a high-end PCIe SSD, one PCI Express x1 slot for add-in-cards, one M.2 socket (PCIe 2.0 x2 mode, up to 10Gb/s bandwidth) for SSDs, one SATA Express connector, six Serial ATA-6Gb/s connectors, four USB 3.0 ports, 10 USB 2.0 ports, Gigabit Ethernet (Qualcomm Atheros Killer E2201 chip), 7.1-channel audio (Realtek ALC1150 codec with custom amplifiers) and so on.
As this is an announcement from GIGABYTE's headquarters in Taiwan, we are awaiting information via the US offices for North America pricing. But do not expect it to be affordable. At present this is the only mATX mainboard based on Intel X99 chipset for LGA2011 v3 processors. The current micro-ATX X99 motherboards on the market currently retail for $235, $250 and $260.
GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY Co. Ltd. Is a leading manufacturer of motherboards and graphics cards.
