When it launched its initial line-up of Haswell-E based processors and the companion X99 chipset, Intel's motherboard partners hit the ground running with some fairly exciting products. At the time of the launch, we featured a few offerings in our review?you can check them out right here. But, as is sometimes the case, the second wave of products based on a particular technology are sometimes more exotic and may offer features not found on the first release.

Such is the case with the motherboards we?re going to show you here from Gigabyte. Although they?re based on the same chipset, the Gigabyte X99-SOC Champion and X99-Gaming 5P are actually quite different. One of the boards is a non-nonsense hot-rod of sorts, targeted at hardcore overclockers, while the other is loaded to the gills with features galore...