Poll: So what P67 motherboard are you thinking of buying?

[shephga]

I bet you love going to work everyday to play with all the new gear....jealous I am

 

[scrlk]

^ Same.

Is anyone else quite annoyed about Gigabyte's stupid SATA port placement on anything less than the UD4? Seems like you have to pay extra for right angled SATA ports now :/

 

[1Day]

The GA-P67A-UD7, for me it is worth every penny. One has already got my name on it.

But for everyday use or gaming I would go for the GA-P67A-UD3 board.

 

[Rofflay]

Nice boards guys!

Sabertooth looks nice but don't think it will do much for my sideways tower cooler.. Pretty much no airflow to the MB then... :/

Looks like Gigabyte have a good range going . I like the thicker copper PCB.

there is airflow do you see the little square in the middle? you unscrew it and insert an 80mm fan which blows the air down under the plastic vest and around the board!

 

[Skilty]

The engineering sample I have got is a BIOS version not UEFI however I could go into stock and look at one for you......

But that is naughty!

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr now that just ain't fair!!!

 

[stevewah]

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2010/12/21/gigabyte-to-launch-massive-motherboard/1

Look at the size of it!!! must be good!!!

nice board and very big box lol

 

[gropingmantis]

Is no one doing UEFI Sandy Bridge boards??

 

[LaurenceGough]

there is airflow do you see the little square in the middle? you unscrew it and insert an 80mm fan which blows the air down under the plastic vest and around the board!

Guess so but would rather just make use of all my case fans and the high air flow in that . I suppose it is useful for the extreme overclockers who need the extra forced channel cooling (with the extra fan) .

 

[Troezar]

Is no one doing UEFI Sandy Bridge boards??

Look at the picture further up the thread

 

[gropingmantis]

Look at the picture further up the thread

Is that UEFI? It says BIOS. Or am I being stupid.

 

[3vil Tom]

It looks awesome whatever it is!

 

[Helios1234]

Ignore double post

 

[Helios1234]

Is that UEFI? It says BIOS. Or am I being stupid.

Yep that is UEFI but they've stuck with the BIOS name just because that's what we are used to I suppose.

It's pretty intuitive to work with and very smooth but the functionality is very similar to the regular BIOS. I'd take UEFI any day though so I hope the Gigabyte boards come bundled with it.

I know Foxconn are meant to have UEFI as well at some point. It seems to me that ASUS are the most prepared for this launch.

 

[mishima]

Yeah they certainly are. I've had no problems with their Sandy Bridge offerings so far but for other brands I can't say the same.

For those who haven't yet used/seen UEFI you are going to love it! It's amazing....

 

[littlepuppy]

The ASus is nice and ROG tastic but for the price, the UD7 is campion and looks sooo sexy!

GB deffo seem to have improved the appearance

 

[bee]

yeah if gigabyte don't support uefi then i'm gonna have to switch back to asus this time, any idea what sort of ballpark figure the cheapest one with sli support will cost? and will it have a pci slot? oh and ye what's the score with the coolers, 1156/1366 coolers will fit?

 

[littlepuppy]

is UEFI all that, if you can still ge the board to do what you want does it matter what it looks like? Id take unix over windows any day

 

[LaurenceGough]

Yeah even though UEFI is great I don't think it's a reason to pick it over another board..

I do hope that Gigabyte will use UEFI though.

 

[mmj_uk]

An Asus of some kind for me.

 

[NathWraith]

Is that UEFI? It says BIOS. Or am I being stupid.

You are confused. BIOS's as we know them are are called Legacy BIOS, the new UEFI is called UEFI BIOS.

That is why it still says BIOS. As it is a BIOS of the UEFI variety