SB Gigabyte boards look fantastic!

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finally, after pestering gigabyte for sleek looking motherboards that dont look like lego, it seems that they have finally listened.

Gigabyte's First Black-PCB Motherboards: P67A-UD5 and P67A-UD7

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Here's something you'll need to see to believe: Gigabyte made its first motherboards with black-colored PCBs, breaking away from its blue PCB mold! The company's high-end LGA1155 motherboard lineup includes two models: the GA-P67A-UD5 and the GA-P67A-UD7. Apart from the black-colored PCB, the color scheme also includes graphite-colored heatsinks with a dash of blue (UD5) or with a dash of gold (UD7), black-colored memory and expansion slots, mostly black internal ports and headers. The GA-P67-UD7 uses a 24-phase VRM to power the LGA1155 processor. Its expansion slots include four PCI-E 2.0 x16, there seems to be a PCI-E bridge chip (likely nForce 200 or something from PLX), which lets it run in 2-slot x16, or 4-slot x8 modes. There are two PCI and a PCI-E x1. Connectivity on this includes six SATA 3 Gb/s, two SATA 6 Gb/s internal ports, two gigabit Ethernet, 8-channel HD audio, four USB 3.0 ports, FireWire, and eSATA.

The GA-P67A-UD5 has a 20-phase VRM, a slightly lighter expansion area with three PCI-Express x16 slots (likely x16, NC/x8, x8), the third slot could be electrical x4. Connectivity on this one includes two SATA 6 Gb/s, four SATA 3 Gb/s, two eSATA, 8-channel HD audio, gigabit Ethernet, two USB 3.0 ports, and FireWire. Both motherboards feature Ultra Durable 3 construction. The two could be part of the company's first wave of LGA1155 motherboards.
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heres hoping the next gen high end boards have a similar look.
 
Any idea when end users will be able to buy a SB CPU and Board as online it seems to be mixed saying early next year but some have suggested that desktop may be in time for Chrismas ?
 
Much much better might need some adjustments but me likey, athlough I wouldn't say their current ones look bad they do have that sort of childish look, whereas most of their customers are gamers, enthusiasts or technology people.
 
tbh i quite liked the blue/white scheme. Had all the asthetics ready to drop a certain 790GX board in, which then mysteriously disappeared off the face of the earth when i got round to buying.

So now im all black/yellow with copper sinks and White LEDs...
 
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