Sneak Peak: Gigabyte X79 Motherboards

October 25, 2011 Joe Shields Motherboards, News 26

After getting our whistles wet with the first of two new CPU launches this year, it’s about time to at least take a look at some boards from the Intel side of the house. Gigabyte has sent us pictures of their upcoming X79 based motherboards which are based on Socket 2011 and support the, hopefully soon to be released, Sandy Bridge-E CPUs.

Gigabyte X79 Motherboards
Gigabyte X79 Motherboards

 

Here is a closer look at the 4 models:

Gigabyte X79 G1 Assassin / X79 UD7

Gigabyte X79 G1 Assasin2
Gigabyte X79 G1.Assasin2

Gigabyte X79 UD7
Gigabyte X79-UD7

 

Gigabyte X79 UD5 / X79 UD3

Gigabyte X79 UD5
Gigabyte X79-UD5

Gigabyte X79 UD3
Gigabyte X79-UD3

 

You can see Gigabyte is ready with its major line up for the gamer (G1 Assassin2), enthusiast (UD7), midrange (UD5), and budget (UD3) market. Notice how the UD7 only has 4 slots for memory…? It looks like that board means business outside of its highlighter/pumpkin orange color scheme, which I actually like. The UD5 shows 8 DIMM slots for adding even more memory.

We just need a CPU to fill that monster socket!! Is anyone else getting excited about this release and these boards? Post up in the comments thread and let your voice be heard!

~Earthdog

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#1 Oct 25, 2011

I like the new board design, with the RAM sockets separated... Gives it a cool look... Sockets are getting bigger rather than smaller with this new technology...

I'm extremely looking forward to the GPU technology, and @ 22nm. I'm excited to see how much they can cram into that... 4 and 6 cores chips coming..

i7-3820 Quad core (3.6ghz) L3 cache 10MB $294
i7-3930K 6 core (3.2Ghz) L3 cache 12MB $583
i7-3960X 6 core (3.3Ghz) L3 cache 15MB $999

These CPU's will be like the 655K, no cooler is included...

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#2 Oct 25, 2011

Another thread here discussing the pics also noted the new Digital PWM chips in use:
http://www.overclockers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=689757

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#3 Oct 25, 2011

Good to see the actual manufactures releasing some info. :)

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#4 Oct 26, 2011

I can already see there will be problems with those boards and clearance between the RAM and any aftermarket CPU cooler.

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#5 Oct 26, 2011

Why would the UD7 have 4 DIMM slots and the lower end boards have twice as much?

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#6 Oct 26, 2011

I'm extremely looking forward to the GPU technology, and @ 22nm. I'm excited to see how much they can cram into that... 4 and 6 cores chips coming..

It will be 32nm chip technology, Ivy Bridge will be 22nm

So no quad channel RAM after all?

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#7 Oct 26, 2011

Why would the UD7 have 4 DIMM slots and the lower end boards have twice as much?

I'm guessing they put 8 DIMMs only on the UD5 to give people a reason to buy it.

G1 = audio/nic
UD3 = budget
UD5 = workstations that need tons of RAM
UD7 = OCing

So no quad channel RAM after all?

On boards with only 4 DIMM slots, I'm expecting quad channel if you fill all 4 DIMMs, and dual channel when using the matching colored DIMM slots. At least I hope that's how it is. I haven't heard anything about quad channel being removed.

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#8 Oct 26, 2011

I'm guessing they put 8 DIMMs only on the UD5 to give people a reason to buy it.

G1 = audio/nic
UD3 = budget
UD5 = workstations that need tons of RAM
UD7 = OCing

On boards with only 4 DIMM slots, I'm expecting quad channel if you fill all 4 DIMMs, and dual channel when using the matching colored DIMM slots. At least I hope that's how it is. I haven't heard anything about quad channel being removed.

That sounds right. Most aren't going to use 8 DIMM slots. With 4 you can still get to 16gb of ram rather cheaply, and keep quad channel. 8gb for even less.

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#9 Oct 26, 2011

Old news for me I have been staring at these boards for about 2 weeks now, cannot wait, but I'm going to wait for Nvidia Kepler to come out until I build my PC

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#10 Oct 27, 2011

Yes this is true and yes it is still quad channel as far as I know. Seems like an oversight on GB's part to not give the UD7 8 dimms though. What about RAM cache? RAM disk? We all know the performance that brings. :shrug:

I'm guessing they put 8 DIMMs only on the UD5 to give people a reason to buy it.

G1 = audio/nic
UD3 = budget
UD5 = workstations that need tons of RAM
UD7 = OCing

On boards with only 4 DIMM slots, I'm expecting quad channel if you fill all 4 DIMMs, and dual channel when using the matching colored DIMM slots. At least I hope that's how it is. I haven't heard anything about quad channel being removed.

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