Gigabyte Reveals 3 New Sandy Bridge Mobos

[exfileme]

Here's a sneak peak at three upcoming Sandy Bridge motherboards from Gigabyte.

Gigabyte Reveals 3 New Sandy Bridge Mobos : Read more

 

[christiangordon]

I can't wait to see these new chips benchmarked

 

[dogman_1234]

FINALLY!

 

[rwpritchett]

Gigabyte looks good in black... it's so slimming.

Looking forward to SB. I hope some mini-ITX boards are in the works.

 

[hellwig]

2xPCIe x16 @ 1x16 and 1x4? Not good, hopefully they'll have better boards available at launch, you know, for people who actually want to use SLI/Crossfire. More companies should use those open-ended x4 slots if they only wired the second slot as an x4. Sure, I can read the specs and see its only x4, but I think they're being slightly dishonest including a full-sized x16 slot that is only wired for x4.

 

[AMW1011]

[citation][nom]hellwig[/nom]2xPCIe x16 @ 1x16 and 1x4? Not good, hopefully they'll have better boards available at launch, you know, for people who actually want to use SLI/Crossfire. More companies should use those open-ended x4 slots if they only wired the second slot as an x4. Sure, I can read the specs and see its only x4, but I think they're being slightly dishonest including a full-sized x16 slot that is only wired for x4.[/citation]

If your really in need, I wouldn't worry about it too much, a GTX 480 is barely bottlenecked by X4:
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/NVIDIA/GTX_480_PCI-Express_Scaling/24.html

That said, I would still want x8/x8. Then again, I'm sitting this one out as SB doesn't really have anything over my i5 750 for my uses, so there is no point. Epic upgrade for C2Q users though.

 

[padlius]

I can wait. Looks shit, it could be like 1355 or 1555. i7 or i9.

 

[Guest]

Does it have UEFI?

 

[jomofro39]

^+1 for benchies! Exciting times.

 

[deuketc]

I like the new black color scheme!

 

[ares1214]

Well thats disappointing to see x16 x4 for the lanes. Oh well. I wonder where these fall in pricing and if its high, middle, low end. But i do like the black colour scheme!

 

[ultameca]

Props to Gigabyte for making a black motherboard, please make more.

 

[jomofro39]

[citation][nom]ack[/nom]Does it have UEFI?[/citation]
DualBIOS, it has TWO BIOS! GAR!

 

[Jung]

Dual channel DDR3?

 

[JD13]

Wait 2 years......
There is no reason to upgrade every 6 months just to keep up with the market. My last computer lasted me 5 years & it still works fine.
I'm not about to toss my P6X58D-E MB /i7 980X combo to the curb yet.....

 

[hogan773]

I thought SB was triple channel memory. No?

Also I thought all SB chips had integrated graphics, so why does only 1 of 3 of these mobos have graphics and related output connectors? Do the other two just "waste" the SB capability?

 

[quantum mask]

don't see a difference between the first two.

 

[dalethepcman]

These are the midrange products based on the p67, im waiting for the x68. For anyone complaining about lack of features this would be why.

 

[Onus]

Without prices, there's no way to judge the value of these.

 

[jfby]

The new level to the 1366 will probably be triple channel RAM.

 

[tx-jose]

so the new sandy bridges are still going to utilize DDR3?? sweetttt bet we are gunna se some hellatious overclocks!!!!

 

[hogan773]

[citation][nom]hogan773[/nom]I thought SB was triple channel memory. No?Also I thought all SB chips had integrated graphics, so why does only 1 of 3 of these mobos have graphics and related output connectors? Do the other two just "waste" the SB capability?[/citation]

Oops my bad - I re-read the Anandtech preview and I see that the initial SB is still dual-channel RAM.

I also don't understand the following quote from the Anandtech article

"At launch we’ll have P67 and H67 based motherboards, both of which are in testing right now. A quarter later we’ll see value H61 motherboards added to the mix.

With P67 you lose integrated graphics but you gain the ability to run two PCIe x8 cards off of the CPU. You also get fully unlocked memory multipliers with P67, whereas H67 is locked to whatever official DDR3 speeds Intel supports with Sandy Bridge (currently DDR3-1333)."

Why do you have to "lose" the integrated graphics on the P67 chipset? So if I want to use the integrated graphics then I must buy the H67 mobo, but if I later change my mind and want to run 2 graphics cards, I'm out of luck because the H67 mobo only has 1 PCI 16x slot?

 

[invlem]

... you mean SATA 3.0 and USB 3.0 aren't native to this Chipset?

Severely disappointed, I expected the SATA and USB ports to be all native 3.0

 

[azgard]

Aren't the high end they plan on releasing supposed to support quad channel memory now?

 

[exodite]

[citation][nom]hellwig[/nom]2xPCIe x16 @ 1x16 and 1x4? Not good, hopefully they'll have better boards available at launch, you know, for people who actually want to use SLI/Crossfire.[/citation]
S1155 is the mainstream platform.

While there's likely to exist a fair few motherboards with x8/x8 or higher configurations once the platform is actually available it's worth noting that dual-GPU solutions are far from mainstream.