Hot Hardware published a review on the Gigabyte X99-SOC Champion & X99 Gaming 5P Haswell E Motherboardsed
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When it launched its initial line-up of Haswell-E based processors and the companion X99 chipset, Intel's motherboard partners hit the ground running with some fairly exciting products. At the time of the launch, we featured a few offerings in our review?you can check them out right here. But, as is sometimes the case, the second wave of products based on a particular technology are sometimes more exotic and may offer features not found on the first release.Gigabyte X99-SOC Champion & X99 Gaming 5P Haswell E Motherboards Reviewed @ HotHardware.com
Such is the case with the motherboards we?re going to show you here from Gigabyte. Although they?re based on the same chipset, the Gigabyte X99-SOC Champion and X99-Gaming 5P are actually quite different. One of the boards is a non-nonsense hot-rod of sorts, targeted at hardcore overclockers, while the other is loaded to the gills with features galore...