With more USB 3.0 ports than ever before (up to 10 on the Z68X-UD7-B3), GIGABYTE Z68 series motherboards offer extremely fast connectivity for portable flash and external backup drives (up to 10x USB 2.0 speed). For a significant performance boost during daily operations, configure your PC with a SATA 6Gbps hard drive as your Operating System and application drive. Combined with SATA 6Gbps, GIGABYTE XHD Technology offers a performance boost of up to 4x that of SATA 3Gbps through a simple and intuitive utility, allowing you to boot-up your system and launch applications faster than you ever thought possible.

3TB+ HDD support is an essential new feature for 2011, and has been one of the most talked about technologies accompanying the launch of the new Socket 1155 6 series motherboards. GIGABYTE not only supports booting from 3TB+ HDDs on all Currently Shipping motherboards, through GIGABYTE's unique Hybrid EFI Technology. Hybrid EFI Technology combines the benefits of GIGABYTE's mature BIOS platform including stability and compatibility with 3rd party products with 3TB+ HDD support from EFI technology, allowing GIGABYTE to offer the best of both worlds.

GIGABYTE DualBIOS™ is a patented technology that automatically recovers BIOS data when the 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. In addition, GIGABYTE DualBIOS™ now supports 3TB+ (terabyte) hard drive booting without the need for partitioning, and enables more data storage on a single hard drive.

Automated Dual Protection Against BIOS Failure

What if the BIOS Fails?
Have you ever been in the middle of a BIOS update and then had it fail for some reason? Or how about executing some applications only to find out that you’ve been infected by some new virus that completely blows away your BIOS? Without the BIOS working the motherboard is basically not functional at all. Can you imagine the time and effort to get your motherboard fixed?

GIGABYTE Dynamic Energy Saver™ 2 incorporates a host of intelligent features that use a proprietary hardware and software design to considerably enhance PC system energy efficiency, reduce power consumption and deliver optimized auto-phase-switching for the CPU, Memory, Chipset, VGA, HDD and system fans with a simple click of a button.

GIGABYTE Smart 6™ is designed with user-friendliness in mind, and offers a combination of 6 innovative software utilities that provide easier and smarter PC system management.

GIGABYTE thought long and hard about this and came up with a solution that will allow you to not only monitor your system settings while running VGA benchmarks in full screen mode, but also overclock your system from pretty much anywhere. This breakthrough application is called GIGABYTE Cloud OC and it gives you real time access to overclocking and system monitoring with the help of virtually any internet connected device such as an iPad, iPhone, notebook PC, netbook, or any smart phone with a browser. Please note that both the system and the device need to have either an internet or a Bluetooth connection.

GIGABYTE Hotkey OC brings a new experience level to overclocking by allowing you to seamlessly change between different overclocking settings through customizable keys on your keyboard. What makes Hotkey OC even better is that it can be done on-the-fly while you’re running a benchmark, so you can change multiple overclock settings as the benchmark runs through different tests.