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The Overclocker magazine, i4memory forums and Team Australia bring you a sneak peak at a few GIGABYTE 6 series motherboards that will support the new 2nd Generation IntelŪ Core™ processors (codenamed Sandy Bridge).
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Read the full story at http://teamau.net/327 with a host of higher res shots and specifications
Wow, much improved color scheme!
Indeed, looks much better!
I like the black scheme, though the lower end motherboards are still going to be their current baby blue scheme. I would have thought Gigabyte's P6x series would all be black.
Erm, why 2x PCI slots? o.O
Don't like the dark colour scheme, Gigabytes blue + white is fresh, clean and easily identifiable.
Don't like the S-ATA placement
Full ATX layout is un-necessary? Could get everything comfortably into a matx form factor? :)
i am a bit emotionally attached to the blue and white also, but it could be pink for all i care, as long as performance is there
No pastels is nice.
I like the last gens look more evga already has this scheme goin.
hehe I can see dinos in his pink swimsuit benching with a pink motherboard. :p:Quote:
Originally Posted by youngpro
WTF GIGABYTE
stick with the blue. even though it is ugly as hell, its someting different. along with asus's brown M4A79T(the pcb is black but there are so many copper wires visible it looks brown)
Pink is an idea ..Quote:
Originally Posted by youngpro
For be honest, when build, the blue is not so bad ... But the black is better
anyway
I m affraid the 2 last SATA will be condamned by a long card ( 5870 -5970 ) ...
They should have put them at 90°C --- But well that's just the entry level
that is a strange low-mid end board. gigabyte continues to be a bit schizo.
its got a fancy color scheme, sata3, and usb3 onboard...
but then they've got :banana::banana::banana::banana: small pcie ports and have skimped on the back ports. those blocks of 2 usb can hold 4 usb. and there is only one nic.
if you are going to get such a :banana::banana::banana::banana:ty atx board you probably only need a matx board, don't you
but then you're stuck, because most matx boards are even :banana::banana::banana::banana:tier, with crippled back ports because of the waste of space video outputs
Wow, the layout of the mATX version is just FANTASTIC! It allows us to use a high-end VGA, a pci-e sound card and a low-end VGA for physx, yeah! Now lets just hope they bring a higher-end one on the mATX factor and Ill be set.
i hope im not making an ass of myself by asking
why xfire support and no sli support?
Awesome cooler design. It looks so damn nice.
Nice sata port placement....NOT! PCI slots....? At least the IDE is off the board and I do like the color change very much.
I need at least one PCI slot so I'm glad those stays. Wonder what color they'll try next time.
PCI slots these days :down:
Still missing 2 PS2 ports. :(
Come on, how many boards have more than 10 USB on the back?Quote:
Originally Posted by bamtan2
And it's a UD3R, no one can expect dual NIC.
hmm no LED poster for error code trouble shooting?
Why is it so hard for Gigabyte to create a good PCIe/PCI layout.
these are low-end boards...Quote:
Originally Posted by Splave
look for the UD5 or UD7
http://www.ingame.de/files/2010/09/ga-p67-a-1.jpg
Now that UD7 is a good looking board IMO.
oh lord..ud9 pricing? lol
That baby blue color scheme was the main reason i have never bought Gigabyte boards.
yay, now MSI and Gigabyte have blue/black colour scheme ... And the high-end ones will be black like EVGA
that one looks decent.i still liked the newer P55 and x58 gigabyte boards when they ditched the 3+ color schemeQuote:
Originally Posted by Chri$ch
and just had the solid blue and white.in my opinion that was good looking and it distinguished itself from the other
MB vendors.now that they are going with black it kind of gets blurred with the rest of the MB's.
so many black MB's now.but maybe gigabyte can still stand out with the black silver and gold look,and of course
as long as they perform like or better than the current gigabyte P55 and X58's then im fine with whatever the color them:D
It could've been sad to see the distinctive blue PCB gone but these look reeeeally good. No doubt this will help sway many whom black PCB is a must and have disregarded GB products for this reason alone in the past.
Just a little remark though: I'd prefer not having the "Ultra Durable" slogan displayed so prominently on the faux NB sink (or anywhere else on the mobo for that matter). It feels like something you'd more likely see written on a pack of condoms than a high end motherboard.:p:
The main reason why I bought my R3E was for the slot layout. Its the only board I've seen that has perfect slot placement IMO.
One problem is that most boards dont have a full PCI-E slot in the top space due to needing room for the NB heatsink, and the heatsink usually prevents being able to install a long soundcard like the Titanium HD I just got in the top slot. On the R3E, it fits in nicely with two graphics cards, each of which still have a 3 slot space for decent airflow.
I really wish there were more boards with the R3E layout.
I really want a red and white color scheme like what shappire did back in the P4 days, it was sick, white PCB with red slots and heatsinks.
oh about time!!! now i could actually considering buying a Gigabyte Board. finally it looks like a MOBO not a something you see in a toddlers play room.
about time Giagbyte, i love the heat-sinks to, boards are looking good.
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Originally Posted by dctokyo
Because my sound card in 1 & my TV card in the other.Quote:
Originally Posted by zalbard
:rofl: good ideaQuote:
Originally Posted by chuchnit
Where do I get the "none" EVGA-edition..... Black theme, no thanks, give me my blue Gigabyte :)
Personally I give a damn about the colors, I would pick even if it was pink (well that would be sexy in it's own way too or funny if nothing else) as long as it performs great, has a reasonable layout and price. Would gladly see them improve EasyTune software as well. I still associate Gigabyte with the blue PCB color though, not the light blue and would be nice to see something mixed with that too.
Perhaps I've been brainwashed by the old rainbow colored color scheme though. xD
these day's the newest sound card's & TV card's are PCIe 2.0 x1 or PCIe 2.0 x4Quote:
Originally Posted by Final8ty
what the :banana::banana::banana::banana:? why is everyone talking about the colors..i thought this was a computer forum, not a fashion design forum. jesus shouldnt we be asking why there is only one 8pin for the cpu or some other :banana::banana::banana::banana:, like how many jiggawatts we can pump through this thing? quad channel ram, dual channel ram, VRM????? GAH@
woman: do you like these black shoes?
other woman: oh no those look like JC boots not KL boots!
woman: yeah your right wth! i so hate the blue black scheme
other woman: yeah i sure hate those colors to! why doesnt it look like the old boots!
(conversation sounds like this thread, and goes on forever, too, wasting everyones time)
we need a white colour based board, GIGA! why not change to white?!
i would prefer 24phase
It was rumored that SB will be announced on CES 2001 (January 6-9). I hope there will be immediate availability since mass production was already started.Quote:
Originally Posted by BiTurboW12
I'm hoping for a SB processor and board in time for christmas... I'm willing to bet december 21st is when SB will be available on newegg
I won't use a motherboard if it clashes to my system. :p: I just bought a Maximus III Gene for my HTPC to replace my current Gigabyte H55 board. I had to sleeve a different power supply in red as the current blue didn't match. :ROTF:Quote:
Originally Posted by Computurd
@lowfat-i believe ive seen your system with some water cooled gpus right>? was that you with the tri-sli? looked slick as hell i'll give ya that :) enough that i recall it!
mine do tend to look like mad scientist experiments...but i kinda pride myself on that:bsod:
are these s1155?
wheres s2011 mobos?
This is brilliant!!! I have a black & white PC with a funky colored Gigabyte DS3 board, this will be perfect!:up:
Been reading the comments about the colors.
Hey,I like the blue and white myself but the black works also.
When push comes to shove what should matter is performance not color and Gigabyte has been doing pretty damned well with their boards the last 18-24 months.
I've worked with a X58 UD3 and UD7 now and they are top notch IMO and you know I don't like single socket boards..:rofl:
Much better! I love the color scheme and the SATA port placement is very good.Quote:
Originally Posted by Chri$ch
I like the board! :up:
WOOOOOOWWW! That looks like a MOTHERBOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOARD!!
nvm.
I dig the color scheme :) Got a MSI P55-GD65 myself and I always had black mainboards. Although I prefer orange/black (ASUS P5W-DH) :drool:
Why do you need two PS/2 ports? Almost all PS/2 mice these days are worthless, and it still has a single PS/2 port so you can run old school classic keyboards like IBM Model Ms.Quote:
Originally Posted by [XC] Synthetickiller
USB uses resources, benching with PS/2 I believe can sometimes give higher points. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by [XC] Lead Head
At least, that's what I've heard. ;)
ud7 looks gorgeous, lots of ports on the back which is good.
wow, what`s happened to Giga ? The new PCB instead awfull one! Perfect :up:
is this for the new 1155s? Will these also run the high end sb chipsets which will come out in 2011??
I think the reason it comes down to aesthetics now is that all mobos are pretty much the same now and the same price......
Are you sure? In the hundreds of hours under subzero I have never insulated that area?Quote:
Originally Posted by BiTurboW12
I may have a misconception about socket 1155, but don't all cpu's for this socket have onboard video? If so, why does only the matx version have video outputs?
I now see that they are using the P 'series' chipsets which don't support video output. Correct?
Maybe they will release some S1155 chips w/o onboard video. That would be nice for overclockers.
Indeed, P67 miss FDI so it won't support integrated graphics. H67 will. But IGP won't affect overclocking since it has separate (from cpu) bclk multiplier.Quote:
Originally Posted by trueblue
Sure it uses resources, but it only made a difference back in 2001...Quote:
Originally Posted by BeepBeep2