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Just got my hands on the new top end X58 board from Gigabyte, the X58A-UD7.
Been looking forward to this, really want to do some testing with a SATA3 6Gb HDD.
I'm going to be away for best part of two weeks, so most of the testing is just going to have to wait till I'm back. But what I can say for sure is, like their previoue X58 range, it's a dream to overclock, just soo simple.
Though there is a bug in the bios thats reading my cpu wrong. I'm using a W3570, yet it says it's a W3565 and will not give me a multi over 23 (even a W3565 has a 24) I see TURN & BURN had the same kind of issue with the F2 bios, I'll need to try the beta and see if it helps me.
But for now, lets have a look at the board.
The standerd white and blue type box we have come to see from their X58 and P55 range.
The board itself
Socket area.
What I really want to look into, SATA2 and SATA3 6Gb ports.
GSATA3_6 and GSATA3_7 (the first 2 white ports after the blue ones) are the connectors using the Marvell 9128 chip, to give the board SATA 6Gb/s.
The backpanel, lots going on here.
1 x PS/2 keyboard port
1 x PS/2 mouse port
1 x coaxial S/PDIF Out connector
1 x optical S/PDIF Out connector
1 x clearing CMOS button
2 x IEEE 1394a ports
4 x USB 2.0/1.1 ports
2 x USB 3.0 ports
2 x eSATA/USB Combo connectors
2 x RJ-45 port
6 x audio jacks (Center/Subwoofer Speaker Out/Rear Speaker Out/ Side Speaker Out/Line In/Line Out/Microphone)
Standerd lot of accessories.
And here is the drive I'll be testing with, the new Seagate Barracuda XT 2TB SATA3 6Gb Hard Drive.
Here's a shot of the board with tri crossfire setup.
W3570 @ 4300Mhz, 3 X 5870's 1000/1300
Been looking forward to this, really want to do some testing with a SATA3 6Gb HDD.
I'm going to be away for best part of two weeks, so most of the testing is just going to have to wait till I'm back. But what I can say for sure is, like their previoue X58 range, it's a dream to overclock, just soo simple.
Though there is a bug in the bios thats reading my cpu wrong. I'm using a W3570, yet it says it's a W3565 and will not give me a multi over 23 (even a W3565 has a 24) I see TURN & BURN had the same kind of issue with the F2 bios, I'll need to try the beta and see if it helps me.
But for now, lets have a look at the board.
The standerd white and blue type box we have come to see from their X58 and P55 range.
The board itself
Socket area.
What I really want to look into, SATA2 and SATA3 6Gb ports.
GSATA3_6 and GSATA3_7 (the first 2 white ports after the blue ones) are the connectors using the Marvell 9128 chip, to give the board SATA 6Gb/s.
The backpanel, lots going on here.
1 x PS/2 keyboard port
1 x PS/2 mouse port
1 x coaxial S/PDIF Out connector
1 x optical S/PDIF Out connector
1 x clearing CMOS button
2 x IEEE 1394a ports
4 x USB 2.0/1.1 ports
2 x USB 3.0 ports
2 x eSATA/USB Combo connectors
2 x RJ-45 port
6 x audio jacks (Center/Subwoofer Speaker Out/Rear Speaker Out/ Side Speaker Out/Line In/Line Out/Microphone)
Standerd lot of accessories.
And here is the drive I'll be testing with, the new Seagate Barracuda XT 2TB SATA3 6Gb Hard Drive.
Here's a shot of the board with tri crossfire setup.
W3570 @ 4300Mhz, 3 X 5870's 1000/1300
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