GIGABYTE X99, Z97 and H97 Series Motherboards Ready forNew Intel 750 Series PCIe SSDs

GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY Co. Ltd. announcedthat its complete lineup of motherboards build around the Intel^® X99 and 9 Series chipsets is compatible with the recently released 750 Series PCIe SSD drive from Intel^®. The new drives will be available in 400GB and 1.2TB capacitiesand are expected to deliver performance of up to 2.5/1.2 GB/s sequential read/write speeds and up to 440/290k random IOPs, thus making them the highest performing Intel Client SSD. GIGABYTE’s X99 and 9 Series motherboardsare able to take full advantage of the fast transfer speeds of this exciting new storage solution from Intel.

750 Series PCIe SSDs by Intel^®

Using PCIe Gen3 x 4 lanes with the latest and fastest NVMe controller interface, Intel’s storage solution features a level of performancenot achieved by regular SSDs, which are limited by their SATA connection and old AHCI protocol.Compared to the SATA 3 interface which can technically reach up to 6Gb/s, the PCIe Gen 3 interfaceisconsiderably faster as it provides up to 8Gb/s per lane, thereby allowing 32Gb/s of total available bandwidth for the x4 PCIe SSDs.

For GIGABYTE 9 Series motherboards, updates are already available for download on the official GIGABYTE website. Motherboards can also be updated by using the @BIOS utility available in the App Center.