It has been a while since anything GIGABYTE has graced us with its presence at Overclockers.com, but it has come back with a vengeance in the form of their top of the line X99 overclocking motherboard - the X99 SOC Champion. You may remember a news article we published a couple weeks back outlining some of the features the new Champion series motherboards offer, such as faster XMP profile support (up to 3400 MHz!), all digital PWM, Realtek ALC1150 audio, and the Killer E2200 NIC, etc. The X99 SOC Champion has most of those features (some being reserved for the gaming crowd like the Killer NIC), and we get to play around with some of these features today. We have previously looked at many of its direct competitors in the market, but now its time to see if the X99 SOC Champion can rise above the rest!