UD3R - New Revision 1.6 ?

Considering the amount of people that buy the Gigabyte UD3R I would have thought that there would have been more intrest in the new revision ?

Maybe people are happy to pay £130 for a discontinued Revision. :)
 
Official DDR3 2100 support in 1.6 vs official DDR3 2000 support in 1.0. It's not unusual for Gigabyte to do multiple hardware revisions on popular boards as the suppliers of a given componant improve/revise spec or price/availability changes between runs.
 
I've got one, but I seem to be the only person with 6GB fitted and windows 7 64bit show 4 GB usable.
I couldn't find any difference between them other than it has 1.6 stamped on the board.
 
The first gen of gigabyte X58 boards top out around 220 bsck without hardware modification. The second revision UD3R should be good to about 230/235 if the cooling is sufficient.
Second generation boards for the rest of the range are due in the future but aren't out yet.

I stress that 220x21 is 4.6ghz, so the 220 limit just doesn't matter unless you're under very good cooling as the chip wont go any higher. If you're running phase you're probably not too worried about taking a soldering iron to the board, so the UD5 is still a good option.
 
I'll never understand why the UD3P never made it to the UK ?!?

I was looking to buy a UD3 board to replace my Asus p5Q Deluxe.

I heard that Gigabyte are superb boards, and I'm getting a little tired of Asus tbh. All the UD3 mobo's i've compared on the gigabyte website all have the same sound controllers and hardware controllers unlike the stuff that asus cobbles together - the only thing i'm finding difficult is learning all the nomenclature UD3 P/L/R/LR etc.

I suppose though, with the UD3P using ddr3 if it was availiable, one would ask whether to go for an i5 or i7 instead.

Also Gigabyte boards make very good hackintoshes... so i've heard!
 
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