Intel® X79 Platform Highlights The new Intel® X79 processor platform combines a number of new technological advances that makes it the most powerful platform on the market today.

The latest Intel^® 2nd Gen Core™ i7 processors feature a new integrated memory controller that supports four channel DDR3 memory for the first time. Offering unrivalled memory performance with incredible potential data bandwidth, GIGABYTE X79 series motherboards give you the ultimate performance for today’s memory-intensive applications. Furthermore, the GIGABYTE X79-UD5 supports up to eight DIMMs via eight memory slots for maximum capacity memory configurations.

GIGABYTE X79 motherboards take advantage of the most comprehensive PCI Express data bus ever seen on a desktop PC platform. The Intel ^® X79 platform integrates all PCI Express lanes in to the CPU, resulting in lower latency and even faster performance for the latest discrete GPU and multi-GPU configurations.