Gigabyte X79S-UP5 WiFi Intel LGA 2011 @ techPowerUp

The Gigabyte Ultra Durable 5 technology was announced at Computex this year and the new technolgoy has sparking a total refresh of the entire Gigabyte product line. 

Got a ton of hard drives, and not enough ports? Looking to buy a RAID card, and found the $400+ pricing too much? What if you could get a motherboard, and a RAID controller, for less than a RAID card itself? Gigabyte says you can! The Gigabyte X79S-UP5 WiFi is no normal LGA2011 board - fitted with an Intel C606 chip instead of a standard Intel X79 Express, this Workstation product not only has eight SAS ports, but also everything else you need to build your own supercomputer.

Before LGA2011 was publically available Intel made it clear that if a board was using the retail chipset you could not enable the onboard SAS controller.  The X79-UP5 with C606 Workstation chipset is the Gigabyte work around to this limitation.  

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