Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD9 goes 4WAY SLI with GTX 480

[marmott]

Than you miah!

Now I have a dream....with an A0 hand-picked Gulftown, that could do at least 6GHz 3D, so I could really have fun with this one and put it to work... Oh well, dream over, back to my B1 ES =))

Now, I am pretty amazed nobody noticed something very interesting. I wrote about it in my preview. Check the VRM better

is it the same DR Mos thing MSI is using ?

[Hondacity]

the 12+12 ....is nice.....

what about the 35A per circuit? whats the total current supported ?

[miahallen]

is it the same DR Mos thing MSI is using ?

That's what I was thinking too...gone are the mosfets

[Monstru]

Very cool mate

PCI-E disable jumpers would be nice, but external control unit not really needed, they didn't put the buttons under the 4th card like evga did.

Mmmmm, then again, if one was to take the mem cold it could be an issue.

Thx bro. They didn't put the buttons there, but they put the de-bug led there, so with 3 or 4 cards that gets covered. External control unit is not really needed, but it comes in handy in some situations, so why not

Nice 4 X GTX480 Bro

Thank you my friend. Now I only have to do some real single GPU LN2 damage

is it the same DR Mos thing MSI is using ?

what about the 35A per circuit? whats the total current supported ?

That's what I was thinking too...gone are the mosfets

Yes gentlemen, it seems like gone are the mosfets, and in are the integrated driver mos chips. These are not the same chips MSI is using afaik, but it is the same ideea to use DrMos chips instead of regular mosfets. I didn't do the math, but this VRM should be able to take 500W+. I think this is a nice step forward for Gigabyte high-end motherboards!

[Benny Lodewijk]

Nice work m8 ! .....

[stasio]

[Monstru]

Damn that retail box looks yummy. I only have a whitebox

Benny - thank you bro, I saw you really pushed your UD9

[warmage]

nice board , and nice chance to see it befor ordering UD7 !, cant wait now.

is it easy to remove the stock blocks/heatsink ?

[dinos22]

yes it is

[George_o/c]

stasio where can we find more pics of the retail board?

I searched Gigabyte UK forums for a bit, but found nothing.

[stasio]

Soon will be everywhere.

[bobisgod]

what do you mean?

You know how Evga 4 way requires at least 9 case expansion slots and 4way needs 10?
Does the ud9 need these too?

[dinos22]

it's the same size as classi and R3E

[runn3R]

More info about this mobo is available in "product guide" presentation at:
http://forum.giga-byte.co.uk/index.p...3.html#msg8253

[Chrono Detector]

I suppose this board is a XL-ATX like the EVGA Classified 4 way right?

[stasio]

stasio where can we find more pics of the retail board?

I searched Gigabyte UK forums for a bit, but found nothing.

Some details can be see here:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/30931846/G...#fullscreen:on

[George_o/c]

I suppose this board is a XL-ATX like the EVGA Classified 4 way right?

Yes As dinos stated before it's same size as Classified and Rampage 3 Extreme.

Thanks stasio

[Monstru]

Specs, compatible cases list and exact size here.

[Solid Snake]

King Mother Board on X58 Chipset

[stasio]

First release BIOS F1 will be released soon(today).

[Sniper]

HardOCP preview.

[pcaddict]

Very nice (: Maybe getting one if the price is under 350€.. Btw, would P6T7ws run 4-way sli? if 4-way sli only need 2x nf200 chips?

[dpa]

Very nice (: Maybe getting one if the price is under 350€.. Btw, would P6T7ws run 4-way sli? if 4-way sli only need 2x nf200 chips?

I have other reports on that.. seems like the R3E without nf200 can run 4way sli also.

[massman]

Technically you don't need the NF200 to run SLI, Nvidia just sells this chip together with the SLI licences. I guess Asus paid for the licence, but just didn't use the NF200 chip

[marmott]

Very nice (: Maybe getting one if the price is under 350€.. Btw, would P6T7ws run 4-way sli? if 4-way sli only need 2x nf200 chips?

Gigabyte France announced 499€

http://www.pcworld.fr/2010/05/07/mat...8a-ud9/489271/