GIGABYTE brings Intel’s Skylake architecture to the SOHO segment with a new offering: the ‘Basin Falls’ single-socket platform for workstations. This new build offers a wealth of I/O options, including multiple PCIe lanes to support graphics, and other add-on card options, as well as direct SATA and USB ports.
GIGABYTE’s precision engineering enables you to fulfil your workstation workload needs with ease.
Intel’s Skylake-W (Basin Falls) platform brings increases in compute, I/O and memory compared to the previous generation. This functionality, with multiple USB and SATA connections from the chipset, allows for:
I/O Options
20% more PCIe lanes gen-on-gen
Extra 16 PCIe lanes from the PCH
Supports USB and SATA connectors
Memory
11% more bandwidth vs. previous generation
4 channels – maximum 2666MT/s at 1DPC or 2DPC
Compute
1S: up to 18 cores; Intel HS Hyper-threading; per core power management
Dense Storage/USB Design
GIGABYTE’s engineers have maximized the storage and external connection scope of this board with 10 SATA ports and 8 USB ports.
SATA Ports
8x SATA from the chipset
2x ‘GSATA’ via the onboard Marvell 9172 SATA controller (from PCIe)
USB Sockets
8x USB 3.0
2x USB 3.1 – one Type ‘A’ and one Type ‘C’
U.2 Connectors
Mini-SAS HD type
PCIe Gen3 x4 (NVMe) connection offering 32Gb/s for high-speed boot