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GIGABYTE's Next Gaming 3 Motherboard Pictured

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Here's the first picture of GIGABYTE's upcoming Gaming 3 motherboard. We're not allowed to name the chipset, that's as well-guarded a secret as Coca Cola's recipe, so you'll just have to use your imagination. This socket LGA1151 motherboard, is designed to strike a price-features sweetspot, and supports 2-way NVIDIA SLI and AMD CrossFireX. Built in the ATX form-factor, the board draws power from a combination of 24-pin ATX and 8-pin EPS connectors, and offers a 7-phase CPU VRM. The socket is wired to four DDR4 DIMM slots, supporting up to 64 GB of dual-channel DDR4 memory, and two PCI-Express 3.0 x16 slots (x8/x8, when both are populated). A third PCI-Express x16 slot (electrical gen 3.0 x4), is wired to the PCH, along with three other PCI-Express 3.0 x1 slots.

Storage connectivity includes two 32 Gb/s M.2 slots, three SATA-Express 16 Gb/s, and six SATA 6 Gb/s ports. Among the USB connectivity are two USB 3.1 ports (with at least one type-C port), at least eight USB 3.0 ports (from which four are given out via headers), and a number of USB 2.0/1.1 ports. The AMP-UP audio solution combines a 115 dBA SNR CODEC with ground-layer isolation, an OPAMP tuned for gaming and music, audio-grade capacitors, and EMI shielding. Networking is care of a Killer E2200 chip. Display outputs include D-Sub, DVI, and HDMI. GIGABYTE-exclusive Dual-UEFI BIOS is featured. Also offered is TurboOverclock+, a hardware-based overclock automation and stability testing system. This board will be a part of GIGABYTE's first wave of next-generation motherboards. It will include keys to some cool World of Tanks DLC.



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Aaand there's the VGA port. *puke*

Man that chipset name is obscured SO WELL on that box, nobody could EVER guess what it is.
 
INTO THE TRASH IT GOES

As if the magazine with bullets in it for a heatsink wasn't bad enough on the old boards now we have WoT
 
@Tatty_One - Here is your next motherboard:)
(World of Tanks gamer)
 
that socket xxxx thing kinda let it slip by
 
this is evidently Z170....

****now comes the raid in my house****
 
lol I thought you make the original grey strip transparent for a joke
 
If the PCI-e slots were a solid red it would look better than the "speed racer" stripes, also removing the WoT from the heatsink would be an improvement.
 
If the PCI-e slots were a solid red it would look better than the "speed racer" stripes, also removing the WoT from the heatsink would be an improvement.

Those are not 'stripes' its a metal brace to help keep heavy VGAs from destroying the PCI-e slot. you will notice this on a lot of the upcoming mobos
 
Those are not 'stripes' its a metal brace to help keep heavy VGAs from destroying the PCI-e slot. you will notice this on a lot of the upcoming mobos
They still look like stripes, there's no reason they can't make them the same colour.
 
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