a sneak peek at Gigabyte's 6 series motherboards

[youngpro]

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 Intel® Core™ processors (codenamed Sandy Bridge).



Read the full story at http://teamau.net/327 with a host of higher res shots and specifications

[Mungri]

Wow, much improved color scheme!

[zalbard]

Indeed, looks much better!

[Chrono Detector]

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.

[zalbard]

Erm, why 2x PCI slots? o.O

[K404]

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?

[youngpro]

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

[Budwise]

No pastels is nice.

[Glow9]

I like the last gens look more evga already has this scheme goin.

[chuchnit]

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

hehe I can see dinos in his pink swimsuit benching with a pink motherboard.

[stangracin3]

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)

[Lanek]

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

Pink is an idea ..

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

[bamtan2]

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 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 ty atx board you probably only need a matx board, don't you

but then you're stuck, because most matx boards are even tier, with crippled back ports because of the waste of space video outputs

[prava]

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.

[Manicdan]

i hope im not making an ass of myself by asking

why xfire support and no sli support?

[RejZoR]

Awesome cooler design. It looks so damn nice.

[Sadasius]

Nice sata port placement....NOT! PCI slots....? At least the IDE is off the board and I do like the color change very much.

[RPGWiZaRD]

I need at least one PCI slot so I'm glad those stays. Wonder what color they'll try next time.

[dctokyo]

PCI slots these days

[[XC] Synthetickiller]

Still missing 2 PS2 ports.

[Mats]

those blocks of 2 usb can hold 4 usb. and there is only one nic.

Come on, how many boards have more than 10 USB on the back?
And it's a UD3R, no one can expect dual NIC.

[Splave]

hmm no LED poster for error code trouble shooting?

[lowfat]

Why is it so hard for Gigabyte to create a good PCIe/PCI layout.

[Chri$ch]

hmm no LED poster for error code trouble shooting?

these are low-end boards...

look for the UD5 or UD7

[chuchnit]

Now that UD7 is a good looking board IMO.