Out of the box performance of almost all motherboards based on a particular chipset is almost identical, give or take a couple of points. Thus manufacturers look for alternate ways to attract a consumer- some focus on price while others focus on features. Now features can be divided into two: non-specific features like Serial-ATA, onboard NIC etc. that any manufacturer can implement on their boards and manufacturer-specific features like MSI’s DLED or ASUS’ Q-Fan. These are features that you’ll only find in a specific manufacturers models and this is something that a lot of motherboard manufacturers focus on as it makes their product unique amongst others.

Gigabyte’s most famous feature has been their dual BIOS and it’s been a while since we’ve seen something innovative from them. Sure, they’ve been creative with the use of colors for different onboard components but we haven’t really seen any new hardware specific feature from them. Well, the waiting period has finally ended as Gigabyte releases their Granite Bay chipset motherboard with something called DPS- the Dual Power System