GA-X58A-UD9 Pictured

[ottoyu34]

I'm guess it's blue and white


More info

http://www.techpowerup.com/119991/Gi..._Pictured.html

[Russian]

Can anyone find the original EXPreview link?

[lkiller123]

Can anyone find the original EXPreview link?

Here you go. The picture is not supposed to be colored.

[H2O]

Looks like it should be a great board for folders. If GB price this right, it would be a great alternative to the Classified 4-way and the P6T7.

[Russian]

Here you go. The picture is not supposed to be colored.

Thank you very much.

[[XC] Synthetickiller]

10 sata, all pcie, built in NB WCing. Just funny how they kept the floppy

[MrDiaz]

Why can't there be at a board in full grey scale, this kicks major ass!

[eternal_fantasy]

But will it have the legendary 36 phase VRM????? Everyone knows more = better.

[Russian]

Anyone want to comment on the genius placement (and use) of that IDE connector? ahhahaha

[Chrono Detector]

The board looks nice, but its kinda odd that Gigabyte put the SATA3 ports close to the ATX connector instead of being near the other SATA ports. And yeah, Gigabyte should really get rid of those old obsolete IDE ports, nobody uses them anymore especially on a high end enthusiast board.

[ottoyu34]

I'm looking at the 2nd molex connector at the bottom, likely for power using 3-4 video cards.
But if I have a 4th dual slot video card. it will block the that molex connection. Can't they have 45degree ones?

[570091D]

lol, after seeing their other "24 phase" boards i can't help but imagine that this is not a product of engineering, but rather the spawn of marketing. i wonder if this one has mosfets on the back too....

"everyone else has a board with two 8-pin connectors, we need one too!"

edit: i just noticed the ATI logo silk-screened on the board, so that probably rules out an NF200 to power the extra pci-e slots. i wonder how much bandwith they support and where they're getting it.

[dinos22]

lol, after seeing their other "24 phase" boards i can't help but imagine that this is not a product of engineering, but rather the spawn of marketing. i wonder if this one has mosfets on the back too....

"everyone else has a board with two 8-pin connectors, we need one too!"

edit: i just noticed the ATI logo silk-screened on the board, so that probably rules out an NF200 to power the extra pci-e slots. i wonder how much bandwith they support and where they're getting it.

Are you sure about that mate? Please read this article to get a better understand of motherboard power circuitry...it's not all marketing

http://cde.cerosmedia.com/the_overcl...12.cde/page/13

I cant go into features but there is a reason for everything that manufacturers implement on their boards ok including some things you mention


btw guys for more photos check out the thread i created recently......there's a lot of photos on the last few posts

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=248891

[Kayx]

More info @ Atomicmpc - http://www.atomicmpc.com.au/Review/1...-x58a-ud9.aspx

Including some pics of the board in colour.

[Mats]

So is there a name for that form factor?

[570091D]

Are you sure about that mate? Please read this article to get a better understand of motherboard power circuitry...it's not all marketing

http://cde.cerosmedia.com/the_overcl...12.cde/page/13

I cant go into features but there is a reason for everything that manufacturers implement on their boards ok including some things you mention


btw guys for more photos check out the thread i created recently......there's a lot of photos on the last few posts

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=248891

okay, explain this to me: the msi eclipse has 1/4 the number of phases as the gigabyte ud7 but it has an identical efficiency curve. i can't see any reason for the high number of vrm phases, and this isn't the first gigabyte board to impliment this, can you explain? why does this board have 2 molex connectors when the 1156 model has only 1?

i'm not trying to troll, if there is a good reason for these things i would like to know. thanks.

[[XC] gomeler]

okay, explain this to me: the msi eclipse has 1/4 the number of phases as the gigabyte ud7 but it has an identical efficiency curve. i can't see any reason for the high number of vrm phases, and this isn't the first gigabyte board to impliment this, can you explain? why does this board have 2 molex connectors when the 1156 model has only 1?

i'm not trying to troll, if there is a good reason for these things i would like to know. thanks.

The MSI X58 Eclipse also has a penchant for burning up.. I agree the UD7 has a silly amount of fets/chokes but you definitely won't warm any of them up much past ambient. Sadly the board has OCP issues, hopefully the UD9 is good to go.

[ottoyu34]

so is there a name for that form factor?

e-atx

[dinos22]

if you read the article you will realise that every manufacturer uses their design to tune the power circuitry their own way basically. It's not just about the number of phases but also how it's tuned. GIGABYTE chooses those designs because they think it works best and the review seems to indicate that they made a good decision.

Are you talking about 4pin molex connctors on the board....more power bro when you start smashing the GPUs with LN2 and high volts

GIGABYTE started going overboard with power design because in early X38 stages TEAM.AU were hammering the boards so hard they were giving in under extremely stressful conditions with monster volts...now there is some overcompensation there but it helps with general reliability too

Chris OCP mod should remove the issues. Cookie has posted about it already in Charles' thread

[Greenfox]

this and REIII should be good choices

[570091D]

if you read the article you will realise that every manufacturer uses their design to tune the power circuitry their own way basically. It's not just about the number of phases but also how it's tuned. GIGABYTE chooses those designs because they think it works best and the review seems to indicate that they made a good decision.

Are you talking about 4pin molex connctors on the board....more power bro when you start smashing the GPUs with LN2 and high volts

GIGABYTE started going overboard with power design because in early X38 stages TEAM.AU were hammering the boards so hard they were giving in under extremely stressful conditions with monster volts...now there is some overcompensation there but it helps with general reliability too

Chris OCP mod should remove the issues. Cookie has posted about it already in Charles' thread

i did in fact gather that, i guess my point is that there are other (very good) ways of insuring clean power delivery without crouding the socket and increasing the price of the board. it seems to me like the took the easy "let's just add more" approach rather than design a new pwm circuit for the application (evga classified). also, correct me if i'm wrong, but the gigabyte solutions only have 6 "true" phases because of the pwm controller (in the same way asus only has 4 "true" phases). i understand that spreading the load out over 24 mosfet/cap circuits lowers the load on each component and the temperature of the component, but i can't help but feel that the base of the system remains unchanged.

but then, who am i to argue with world records...

btw, i wasn't refering to the 4-pin, but i did notice that in your pics (with the 4 gfx cards) it goes unused.

[Mats]

e-atx

No that's the workstation form factor. Same width as ATX but longer.
This seems to be 9 slots maximum, only 7 used, and Foxconns similar form factor had 10 slots.

Edit: It's XL-ATX. Matching cases have 10 slots to make room for a dual slot card in the last slot.

[dinos22]

when specs get received you will see why it's necessary to have dual 8-pins

you are right about the power circuitry and being high end boards those extras dont really increase the cost much but what they do is spread the load very well and reduce temps at std cooling........it's not a lazy design as i said before. This is a decision made a long time ago from product performance standpoint and it works well....What Gigabyte has done is strengthened the core power and reduce the issues they had during our beta testing many years ago

they did use the molex actually in 4way but not sure if they used both or not....

i benched superpi myself mainly so i didnt really care about that

[Chrono Detector]

Does this board have 24 power phases or what? Because I can see 15 so far on that picture, or unless there is more power phases underneath that MOSFET cooler

[eternal_fantasy]

Does this board have 24 power phases or what? Because I can see 15 so far on that picture, or unless there is more power phases underneath that MOSFET cooler

http://www.atomicmpc.com.au/Gallery/...rboard.aspx/25