GIGABYTE's overclocking line of motherboards has a strong tradition of shattered world records and a host of enthusiastic owners. Reaching at least as far back as the days of Intel's X58 chipset for CPUs based on the Nehelem microarchitecture, the distinctive black and orange motherboards have been a fixture for almost every Intel performance chipset since. From the start they have emphasised pushing the CPU to the highest levels possible, with rock-solid stability and components to match.

Up today is the GA-X99-SOC Force, the latest and greatest of GIGABYTE's Overclocking Series. Based on Intel's X99 Express chipset, it's built to support the new Haswell-E CPUs through the LGA2011-3 socket. However it's also one of the few to additionally support up to 4-way GPU configurations and has been assembled to GIGABYTE's own Ultra Durable standard, which they claim gives it the greatest chance for stable operation at high speeds.