{"id":54176,"date":"2013-05-23T14:29:40","date_gmt":"2013-05-23T12:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=54176"},"modified":"2013-05-23T14:30:52","modified_gmt":"2013-05-23T12:30:52","slug":"gigabytes-z87-lineup-in-detail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/54176-gigabytes-z87-lineup-in-detail","title":{"rendered":"Gigabyte’s Z87 lineup in detail"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’ve already checked out the lineups from ASRock<\/a>, MSI<\/a> and ASUS<\/a>. Now its the second-largest manufacturer’s turn and Gigabyte has some tricks of its own. All of the boards are compatible with Intel’s Haswell processors and feature the new LGA1150 socket.<\/p>\n

Intel’s Haswell is the fourth-generation of Intel’s Core architecture and mixes in some new features, more power saving hardware and better integrated graphics. It requires a new socket (LGA 1150) and works with DDR3 RAM as usual.<\/p>\n

The new Z87 chipset offers a lot of new features and ports, including upgrading all SATA ports to SATA 6GB\/s speeds, more USB 3.0 front-panel headers, and extra PCI-Express 3.0 adaptability, giving some lower-end boards the ability to run two PCI-Express slots in x8\/x8 mode for more dual-graphics performance.<\/p>\n\n\t\t