Z97 chipset, i7-4790k CPU, and vt-d/(Intel Virt Tech) MoBos?

[BattleBrother]

Folks,

If you could give this a serious read. I'm in the process of planning and analysis... Have a old comp for home and games (comming up on 6 years). I really need an upgrade. Of course, I've kind of gone down the rabbit hole.

I'd like some good idea what is what.

I've fallen in love with the GA-Z97X-Gaming G1 (yeah, dont really need the wifi black, however the integrated surrounding cpu water block is a great feature).

However, it has kind of shook me up the various developments in not having to dual-boot, keeping my tech skills fresh and the possibility to have room to overclock, upgrade and passthru devices things would be fantastic.

So, looking at the specs of the Devil's Canyon/Haswell refresh.

The i7-4790k

http://ark.intel.com/products/80807/Intel-Core-i7-4790K-Processor-8M-Cache-up-to-4_40-GHz

has the ability to be overclocked... and/or left at default and has VT-d tech.

so reading all the head spinning info about what is compatible versus not-compatible.

I see here on the Gigabyte site.

http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4963#ov

the manual for the GA-Z97X-Gaming G1 (p.s. also compared this mother board versus the EVGA Classified and this board rocks)

In the manual for the GA-Z97X

http://download.gigabyte.us/FileList/Manual/mb_manual_ga-z97x-gaming-g1_e.pdf

pg 53-55 section 2-5 BIOS Features
53 screenshot of VT-D tech option
55 Intel Virtualization Technology.(Note)
Enables or disables Intel® Virtualization Technology. Virtualization enhanced by Intel® Virtualization
Technology will allow a platform to run multiple operating systems and applications in independent partitions.
With virtualization, one computer system can function as multiple virtual systems.
(Default: Enabled)


tl;dr

So folks please tell me, is VT-D really included on the GA-Z97X-Gaming G1? is this just filler for the manual? 

Is VT-D(a.k.a. Intel Virt Tech) included on any of the Gigabyte Z97 boards?

Sincerely,
BattleBrother

p.s. Damn PCPartPicker is worse then cookieclicker.

[autotech]

Well yes but it also depends on the CPU you use. I have that motherboard and a 4790k and have vt-d enabled and works well.

[Emaku]

@autotech how did things work out? Did you get the card and did it have VT-d?

This card got a marvell controller and they don't follow the pci standard which cause problem for IOMMUs. The Linux kernel bugzilla got a description of the problem: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42679

Kernel 3.16 contain the commit cc346a4714a59d08c118e8f33fd86692d3563133 which tries to work around the problem but I don't know if it works as well. Xen and other solutions also needs to implement some kind of workaround if you plan to use them.

[autotech]

Already have both boards and yes has worked fine for me on both 1 has the 4790K the other has an i5 4670k.