Gigabyte's GA-B75M-D3V Motherboard Exposed

Gigabyte is determined to cover the entire spectrum of motherboard customers, so it has prepared the B75M-D3V, a microATX model.

The newcomer was not so much revealed through an official announcement as it was exposed through a report by VR-Zone. The press release should come at some point down the line.

It is powered by the B75 chipset and, though it can serve anyone well enough, it comes with something called Intel's Small Business Advantage software.

The mainboard has support for Ivy Bridge central processing units and a price of $80, or 60.52 Euro.

In other words, even though it is one of the most affordable 7-Series chipset-based motherboards known, it is not a sign that platforms are getting cheaper.

As VR-Zone points out, the IT segment has become somewhat of a paradox, since motherboards haven't been getting any less expensive even though many of their features are gone, being part of CPUs now.

At any rate, the CPU socket is wired to a pair of DIMM slots, and there is also a PCI Express 3.0 x16 slot there.

A pair of PCI Express x1 slots are present as well, as are two SATA 6.0 Gbps connectors and four SATA 3.0 Gbps ports.

Moving along, Gigabyte tossed in headers for two USB 3.0 ports and four USB 2.0 ports.

As for the I/O panel at the back, it offers four USB 2.0 ports, a PS/2 port, two USB 3.0 ports and a parallel port, plus 5.1-channel audio, Gigabit Ethernet and video outputs (D-Sub and DVI).

The exact time of arrival of the Gigabyte B75M-D3V was not specified, but we assume it will be soon, since the price and more or less everything else has been exposed.

Now we just have to wait and see if anything turns up about this mysterious Small Business Advantage software.

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