GIGABYTE Intel P45 Motherboards: Early Look

[malware]

The title says it all, what's included in this post are pictures of the first Intel P45 powered GIGABYTE motherboards, the GA-P45-DS5 and GA-EP45-DS3P. Intel P45 promises better support for quad-core and 45nm processors and is also built on a 65nm process instead of the 90nm used in previous Intel chipsets. Although these motherboards look identical to their Intel P35/X38 predecessors and does not boast any radical changes in the PCB design and heat-pipe cooling, there're several new features that need to be mentioned. Both motherboards now support on-board power, reset and clear CMOS buttons that are almost identical to those used on the ASUS R.O.G. series motherboards. The GA-P45-DS5 also features ten SATA ports - four of which are from a Silicon Image chip.



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[ShadowFold]

Will these have 16x+16x crossfire or 16x+8x?

 

[malware]

Will these have 16x+16x crossfire or 16x+8x?

It will run in twin PCI-e 8x mode while used in CrossFire.

 

[warup89]

my ABIT has those power, reset..etc buttons, they do come in handy =]

 

[erocker]

Finally, they put the sata ports where they should be!! A fine looking board indeed!

 

[ShadowFold]

It will run in twin PCI-e 8x mode while used in CrossFire.

Well thats cool. Better than 16x + 4x you would think. Tho thats a little less bandwidth so idk. I hope they are around 150$ that would be cool.

 

[[I.R.A]_FBi]

if its pci-e 2.0 8x its more than adequate ...

 

[WarEagleAU]

Personally, I dont care too much for right angled sata ports though I never had one with the right angle sata cables (like I got with my Gigabyte board). I do like the color scheme, it seems Gigabyte has one of the best going.

 

[MiST91]

Will be getting one of these once there released

well, i will be once i upgrade my: PSU, graphics card, case and processor

I have a P35C-DS3R and it is the best board i have ever owned, very impressed with Gigabytes current line of boards, and i hope there new ones are just as well made and thought through

 

[JrRacinFan]

I usually don't comment on a Gigabyte board but man that DS5 looks sooo tempting right now. Mmmmmm ....

 

[tkpenalty]

One P45 DS5 Please

The SATA positioning and the amount are awesome! (I dont even think most fileservers have around 10HDDs )

I reckon Gigabyte should redo the P45 DS4's PCB... move the SATA where the IDE is Gigabyte! Its not that hard!

 

[qwerty_lesh]

does look like theyve taken more ideas from erhm asus then just the clear rtc, ect.. buttons.
mainly the new sata placment on the ds5, i cant see where it mentions the model number on the ds5 can someone point it out for me?
now for gb to release a mobo that has backlit leds on it

 

[VIPER]

Sorry, but you're wrong. They had those buttons far back in time with the G1975X MB. And the "P45-DS5" is written above the SouthBridge. If you want, I will make for you clearer pictures tomorrow.

 

[infrared]

When are motherboard manufacturers gonna put the 24pin power connector at 90 degrees? Would make wiring much easier to keep tidy.

 

[VIPER]

And if your PSU is at the bottom of the case? What would you do?

 

[infrared]

My psu is at the bottom of my case... what difference does it make?

 

[qwerty_lesh]

big freaking deal anyway, gigabyte are releasing basically the same design for most of their motherboards in the ds4 and 5 classes. only some uninteresting changes here. when the hell are they going to smarten up and design their boards so the ram sockets and pci-e sockets are sufficiently far enough away from eachother for you to be able to use ram and good custom cpu coolers on them. plusi i dont like how close any of the pci and pci-e sockets are to eachother, once they get around to making a longer better motherboard instead of aborting the same bloody refrence design onto their customers then i might be happy.

 

[btarunr]

So P45 has PCI-Express 2.0 right? If so, 2x PCI-E x8 2.0 equals 2x PCI-E x16 1.1. Bad news for X38 sales because people just could choose P45 over X38 because 8 PCI-E 2.0 lanes won't bottleneck today's PCI-E 2.0 GPU's. The 2x PCI-E 2.0 x16 that X38 offers isn't utilized by any card any way. The only ones using 2 cards would be ATI users, HD3870 won't bottleneck with x8 PCI-E 2.0, NVidia users can't do multi-GPU on this anyway.

 

[VIPER]

2 new models presented at the biggest IT fair we have these days. After the fair I will "play" with them a little.