Intel® Thunderbolt™ 3 Certified Motherboard

Powered by Intel's own Thunderbolt controller the new Thunderbolt™ 3 protocol, which is available over a USB Type-C™ connector on the back I/O of the GIGABYTE Z170X-Ultra Gaming, brings an unprecedented single-wire bandwidth of up to 40 Gb/s -- twice more than the previous generation of Thunderbolt! This incredible increase in bandwidth is also accompanied with support for different protocols such as Mini DisplayPort 1.2 and USB 3.1, which is backwards compatible with USB 3.0 and USB 2.0, opening up a world of new possibilities.

• Chipset: Intel® Z170 Chipset
• CPU: Supports 6th Generation Intel® Core™ Processor
• Memory: 4 DIMMs, Dual Channel DDR4, supports up to 64 GB
• Thunderbolt™ 3 Port (40Gbps)