GIGABYTE X79 Motherboard Spy Pics

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We have a handful of GIGABYTE X79 motherboard spy pics to share with you guys today. The boards you see here are the G1.ASSASSIN 2, X79-UD7, X79-UD5 and the X79-UD3. We'll keep our eyes peeled on the GIGABYTE website for more information on these boards as it comes available. For now, take a look at these.
 
/drool

maybe there will be some incentive, however minuscule, to upgrade :cool:
 
AthlonXP said:
I like the Assassin but the gun is stupid...
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Pew, pew!
Yeah its stupid.
Id rather have the UD5 with 8 slots of ram.
I wonder if there is going to be a mega price premium between four ram slots and eight slot boards.
Looking forward to the 15th of next month for sure.
 
I like the UD3 and UD7 slot layouts the best but neither have 8 ram slots. It seems like I can't find the perfect board lately. No matter what I look at something is missing or wrong.
 
faugusztin said:
First a magazine. Now a gun. What is next ? A sniper scope ? A knife ? A grenade ? :D
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The magazine is fine, I have the z68 Sniper and love it. I like the onboard lan and great onboard sound, clears up spots for better airflow for my video cards.
 
interesting ram layouts, wonder if there is an advantage of placing on the motherboard that way.
 
I just wish the UD5 and UD7 had dual LAN, and the UD7 would have been nicer if it had 8 DIMM of RAM slots. Hopefully a UD9 will come out.
 
JimmayLong said:
interesting ram layouts, wonder if there is an advantage of placing on the motherboard that way.
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I am wondering if, because of the RAM layout, if something large like a D-14 will nix the closest slots like they do on many board already, if your RAM isn't lower profile.
 
JimmayLong said:
interesting ram layouts, wonder if there is an advantage of placing on the motherboard that way.
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I've read several places that they had to separate the RAM channels on the X79 to provide proper power to the modules. Everyone is bitching about it because they don't like the look or because it might interfere with air cooling but it seems to be a necessary technical design.
 
Big heat sinks won't be necessary for these boards. The ivy bridge parts that will go in them are only going to have a TDP of 77 watts. Overclocking them might get you to 130 watts which still doesn't require a MASSIVE cooler to cool.
 
AbsintheCommando said:
The gun/magazine/whatever heatsinks are the stupidest garbage and people who like that should be embarrassed.
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I agree the gun/magazine/whatever heatsinks are stupid, but what interest me the most about the board is the killer nic and x-fi audio built in. I don't have a window on my case so the junk heatsinks won't be seen.
 
I like the memory module symmetry on the UD7, the black/orange Halloween colors, not so much.
 
faugusztin said:
Ivy Bridge has nothing to do with these boards. These are for Sandy Bridge E.
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Except the fact that Ivy will work in these boards when its released and most likely will enable PCIe 3.0 in these boards.

I'll be waiting for Ivy before I buy a motherboard and Ivy so we will see what is out for Ivy if these are not the Ivy chipset.
 
RAM layout is how it is to keep cost down I would assume. There were comments on how the G34 boards were relatively expensive to produce because of the routing of four ram channels to one side of the socket required more layers. Adding a layer to the PCB generally is high cost design choice.
 
DizConnected said:
Except the fact that Ivy will work in these boards when its released and most likely will enable PCIe 3.0 in these boards.

I'll be waiting for Ivy before I buy a motherboard and Ivy so we will see what is out for Ivy if these are not the Ivy chipset.
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Ivy Bridge will not work in these boards. Ivy Bridge-E will. But don't expect Ivy Bridge-E at same time as Ivy Bridge.

Sandy Bridge/Ivy Bridge = LGA 1155.
Sandy Bridge-E/Ivy Bridge-E = LGA 2011.
 
I wonder what other features the top of the line board will have?

Hopefully it comes with decent onboard sound (X-Fi?) and I already spot a Killer NIC.

I'd be willing to sacrifice 4 DIMM slots if it means the board already has all the features built in and I don't need plenty of add-on PCI-E cards.

Or that 8-DIMM board looks like the best bet if you want to add your own stuff.

EDIT:

I see it might come with a Creative X-Fi based sound card built in..

http://www./news/sneak-peak-of-gigabytes-x79-g1-assassin2-motherboard/
 
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The memory banks flanking the CPU is interesting. Not sure if that will be better or worse for CPU fan compatibility.
 
I cant wait to see the benchmarks for this. I am very tempted to go with this chipset next> It should make my Core I5 760 look ancient and very slow even wt stock. If it makes a big difference I will go this route and wont need to OC.
 
N1GHTRA1N said:
I like the UD3 and UD7 slot layouts the best but neither have 8 ram slots. It seems like I can't find the perfect board lately. No matter what I look at something is missing or wrong.
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I'm guessing sticking with 4 slots on the UD7 is meant to allow stability when overclocking.

Some of the major RAM vendors have already indicated users are more likely to find instabilities as they add on RAM on an eight-socket board, especially if they do it in pairs or two quad-kits as opposed to having a matching set of eight that has been tested as a package.

I think Gigabyte is trying to appeal to everyone. The UD3 has four sockets for value (it probably doesn't have the power phases the UD5/UD7 have), the UD5 has eight for those who want a lot of features, the UD7 goes back to four because it's targeted at the top-end overclockers.

P.S. I hope Gigabyte adds Intel or Broadcom NICs on their UD5/UD7 boards. For the price one is paying, it would be a nice upgrade from Realtek.
 
Is anyone else disappointed by the castration of the SAS ports? It looks like Gigabyte put 4 SATA 6G back on some of them, but I liked the idea of 14 storage ports built in, certainly upped the system potential, especially where RAID is concerned. And the next question would be if those extra ports are gimped by their connection speed a la some X58 6G addon ports that were sometimes slower than Intel's 3G. Hmm...hope I don't need to wait until X89...I like the looks of that UD5 board.
 
faugusztin said:
Ivy Bridge will not work in these boards. Ivy Bridge-E will. But don't expect Ivy Bridge-E at same time as Ivy Bridge.

Sandy Bridge/Ivy Bridge = LGA 1155.
Sandy Bridge-E/Ivy Bridge-E = LGA 2011.
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I would expect Ivy Bridge-E to be 1 year away at minimum.
 
the UD3 and UD7 are what i need expansion slot wise, the UD5 is what i need Memory slot wise. :(
 
I've never really read anything recently that commends the killer-nic thing.
 
Why on earth do these have 2 cpu power connections? CPU wattage even oced is down from 1366 and they got by just fine with 1 8 pin.
 
I wish they could of solved the memory link distance issues so the RAM slots could go perpendicular to their designed layout now. could of presented a better cooling path, but not like its going to be big of an issuse.
 
cant wait to see the price of these boards...i thought x58 was expensive when i built but i have a feeling these boards will be quite a bit more than x58......but performance will be astounding ill bet..
intel does things right...love my 1366 setup for now tho....
 
JimmayLong said:
interesting ram layouts, wonder if there is an advantage of placing on the motherboard that way.
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All of the high end X79 boards, regardless of the manufacturer are going to be that way. I believe the low end (1066) can do the old layout. The RAM slots must be equidistant because of trace limitations. All manufacturers boards will be like that.
 
Be aware that the X79-UD7 is XL-ATX form factor and will not fit in most cases! This was the board I was wanting but it will not fit in my Cooler Master ATCS 840. I really like my case, so I guess I'll have to buy a different board.
 
I like the X79-UD7 and everytime I upgrade mobo's I always say I'm going to give Gigabyte a try, but ending up getting the newest Rampage Extreme. Maybe this might be the time for a UD7.
 
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