11/15/2011 06:00:00 PM
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Together with the G1.Assassin 2 from the G1-Killer series of gaming motherboards, Gigabyte has also made official the X79-UD7 board that is designed to come as the company's flagship LGA 2011 solution.
Just by taking a look at this new Gigabyte offering it becomes clear that the motherboard has taken a lot of design cues from the previous X58A-OC that was specially built for extreme overclockers.
What this means is that the X79-UD7 uses not only the same black and orange color scheme as its predecessor, but also incorporates some of its advanced overclocking features.
Most of these were grouped in the lower right corner of the board, where Gigabyte placed a series of voltage read points, controls for adjusting the processor ratio and BCLK on the fly, as well as dip-switches to change the PWM frequency.
In addition, power to the CPU is delivered through a 20-phase VRM that uses POSCAP low-profile capacitors, while the additional juice required by 4-way GPU setups is delivered through a series of angled SATA power plugs placed on the lower side of the board.
Outside of the four PCI Express x16 slots, the rest of the expansion options available in the X79-UD7 include three PCIe x1 slots, four SATA 3Gbps ports, as well as six SATA 6Gbps ports.
Moving to the rear I/O bracket, we find all the usual connector including a pair of USB 3.0 ports and 7.1-channel audio with digital S/PDIF out, but also a special OC button and a CMOS reset switch.
Two more USB 3.0 ports are available through an on-board header that is placed right between the bottom DIMM sockets and the BIOS POST display.
Sadly, Gigabyte hasn't provided us with any info regarding the price of this motherboard or the date when this will become available in retail.
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