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Gigabyte X99-Designare EX Motherboard Review

Gigabyte X99-Designare EX Motherboard Review The main selling point of the Gigabyte X99-Designare EX is the Thunderbolt 3 via USB Type-C to provide a theoretical bandwidth of up to 40 Gb/s, twice than Thunderbolt 2. To take advantage of this, Gigabyte provided a DisplayPort-In so that you can daisy-chain six Thunderbolt devices and drive a …

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Gigabyte X99-Designare-EX Motherboard Review

Gigabyte X99-Designare-EX Motherboard Review My Core i7 6950X is a 4.3GHz chip day in and day out. The X99 Designare-EX was able to deliver that clock speed from the start. I was hoping that the board would give me just a little bit more, but playing the OC game with a 10 core chip creates …

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