Tuesday, April 13th 2010
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Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD9 Pictured
Gigabyte's upcoming extreme high-end motherboard that made news for being the foundation of some world-record overclocking feats based on the Core i7 980X EE processor, the GA-X58A-UD9, has finally faced the lens. The picture reveals a beastly-looking socket LGA-1366 motherboard featuring a very strong VRM and full-on PCI-Express connectivity. The CPU is powered by what appears to be a 24-phase VRM, which draws power from two 8-pin connectors. It is wired to six DDR3 DIMM slots for triple-channel memory.
The heatsinks over the CPU VRM are connected to the those over the chipset with heatpipes, the heatsink over the X58 chipset has a fusion cooler which can provide water-cooling, as well as attach to a Silent Pipe heatsink block. The heatsink over the ICH10R southbridge is about as big as the ones on the UD5, Extreme, and UD7 models. We expect there to be one or two nForce 200 bridge chips over the two x16 links from the X58 chipset, giving out a total of four x16 links. All 7 expansion slots are PCI-Express x16, looking at the three blocks of external PCI-E lane switches, there indeed are three x16 links split between six slots, and the 7th being a full x16 slot. So the electrical configuration could be x16/x8, x8, x16/x8, x8, x16/x8, x8, x16, for the seven slots.Connectivity features include six SATA 3 Gb/s from the ICH10R, two additional controllers giving out four additional SATA ports (color-coded white), of which at least two are 6 Gb/s, an IDE connector, 8+2 channel audio, two gigabit Ethernet interfaces, FireWire, USB 3.0, and a number of USB 2.0 ports. Since the GA-X58A-UD9 is already available with some professional overclockers, market availability doesn't look far away.
Source:
XtremeSystems Forums
The heatsinks over the CPU VRM are connected to the those over the chipset with heatpipes, the heatsink over the X58 chipset has a fusion cooler which can provide water-cooling, as well as attach to a Silent Pipe heatsink block. The heatsink over the ICH10R southbridge is about as big as the ones on the UD5, Extreme, and UD7 models. We expect there to be one or two nForce 200 bridge chips over the two x16 links from the X58 chipset, giving out a total of four x16 links. All 7 expansion slots are PCI-Express x16, looking at the three blocks of external PCI-E lane switches, there indeed are three x16 links split between six slots, and the 7th being a full x16 slot. So the electrical configuration could be x16/x8, x8, x16/x8, x8, x16/x8, x8, x16, for the seven slots.Connectivity features include six SATA 3 Gb/s from the ICH10R, two additional controllers giving out four additional SATA ports (color-coded white), of which at least two are 6 Gb/s, an IDE connector, 8+2 channel audio, two gigabit Ethernet interfaces, FireWire, USB 3.0, and a number of USB 2.0 ports. Since the GA-X58A-UD9 is already available with some professional overclockers, market availability doesn't look far away.
60 Comments on Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD9 Pictured
Wait the pictures in black and white, how come?
*Sigh*
More pastel colours?
Thats not right ;)
For some reason i don't have any confidence in them even if their PCB is made of 1cm solid copper, packed with 100 phases and uses diamond made capacitors.
slot 1 - x16/x8 = GeForce GTX 480 Hydro Copper @x16
slot 2 - x8 = Raid Card @x8
slot 3 - x16/x8 = GeForce GTX 480 Hydro Copper @x16
slot 4 - x8 = Killer Xeno NIC card @x1
slot 5 - x16/x8 = GeForce GTX 480 Hydro Copper @x16
slot 6 - x8 = Sound Card @x1
slot 7 - x16= GeForce GTX 480 Hydro Copper @x16
1 - A black design :respect: would be nice (out with the blue :eek: )
2 - Why gigabyte does not give us a northbridge waterblock with G1/4 :rockout: threads? Why the hell impose a 3/8" :banghead: connection on high end? Jezzzz.
@Topic
Is there really any substantial differences between a UD5/UD7/UD9 in terms of overclocking performance on a non extreme level , I seriously believe not but someone please prove me wrong.
Anyway here is the full color pics:
www.atomicmpc.com.au/Gallery/171976,gigabyte-x58a-ud9-motherboard.aspx
99% of X58 board will do 4ghz especially wth a DO chip
I have no bias to any particular brand. I just found that Gigabyte is just better for the x58 platform, much like I found Asus to be the overall best with s775.
www.atomicmpc.com.au/Gallery/171976,gigabyte-x58a-ud9-motherboard.aspx/1
If you put into Google "squealing X58" you'll see just about every post related to Gigabyte boards and i know people personally who have RMAd because of squealing UD3/UD5 boards.
Too risky for me cos i hate noisy PCs.