Humidity can play havoc on a motherboards circuitry. GIGABYTEs glass fabric PCB design helps protect against electrical shorts due to humidity by reducing the gaps in spacing between PCB filaments. GIGABYTE Ultra Durable 4 Classic motherboards feature high ESD resistance ICs which help protect the motherboard against electrostatic discharge. GIGABYTE uses all solid caps & low RDS (on) MOSFETs which are rated to work at higher temperatures, providing up to 50, 000 hour component lifespan. Intel Rapid Start technology gets your device up & running faster from even the deepest sleep. With Intel Rapid Start technology the previous session resumes to the exact as it was, so that applications are still in the same state & no application data is lost. The GIGABYTE motherboard is fully configured to provide gamers with the latest Gen. 3 PCI Express technology, delivering maximum data bandwidth for forthcoming discrete graphics cards. GIGABYTE motherboards boast Super Speed USB (Universal Serial Bus) 3.0 technology made possible through an additional onboard host controller. With superfast transfer rates of up to 5 Gbps, users are able to experience a theoretical 10x improvement over USB (Universal Serial Bus) 2.0. in addition, backwards compatibility with USB (Universal Serial Bus) 2.0 assures users of long term use of their legacy USB (Universal Serial Bus) 2.0 devices.