Gigabyte Remains Mum on P67, LGA 2011
Those looking for specifics on Sandy Bridge or LGA 2011—other than what’s already available online—will have to wait a bit more.
For a media Q&A session held after the GO OC 2010 finals, Gigabyte continued to promote its products and carefully cultivated relationship with the overclocking community. Regarding any future plans however concerning P67 and LGA 2011, details were comparatively sparse—which is to be expected for any company that has to follow Intel’s PR line.
When asked about the reported limitations of P67 in terms of overclockability, a Gigabyte rep said he saw Sandy Bridge as a “mainstream” platform, at least when compared with the P55 and H55 platforms. One thing he could say with certainty was that all Sandy Bridge products from Gigabyte would have at least two holes to accommodate MOSFET cooling solutions—even entry-level products.
Tim Handley, the Deputy Director of motherboard marketing, gently reminded the assembled media that Gigabyte would always feature a “core” motherboard line designed for enthusiasts (recent examples include the UD7 motherboard used for GO OC 2010, and the recently released UD9). Whether or not any future P67 motherboards would fall under this category would depend on Intel’s final specifications for Sandy Bridge. Gigabyte hopes to be more definite by first week of next January, in time for CES 2011.
For LGA 2011 the only specifics we got from the Gigabyte reps was that the maker had already started designing products around the unreleased Intel CPU socket. Engineers have yet to do any significant fabrication tests, but they already have “sketches” to work with. As many already know, LGA 2011 is set for a Q3 2011 released.
A few other points that were shared during the Q&A session: Gigabyte considered GO OC 2010 a success. The company will definitely hold a competition for 2011. Gigabyte will start coloring some of their PCBs (printed circuit boards) matte black, a change resulting from “extensive” internal discussions and a desire to appeal more to system integrators. Regarding P67 and LGA 2011, Mr. Handley insisted that Gigabyte would “be ready in every way” next year.
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Probably not true, but I like the enthusiasm. It does seem to me that the innovation on the CPU/GPU front far outdoes that of motherboards, so even a hollow promise of progress is nice.
I wonder if the X68 chipset will feature a different socket?
So when is SB coming? Not really answered. Will it be OC limited. Rumors at best. Board specifics? Not really. Much info on LGA 2011...none besides general arrival. Come on! I want info gigabyte! Spill it! Then THG can pick it up
"Regarding any future plans however concerning P67 and LGA 2011, details were comparatively sparse—which is to be expected for any company that has to follow Intel’s PR line."
The paucity of information is not Gigabyte's fault.
very good board, hope it's performance too.
I know what my Christmas/New Years present is (with the new ATI card of course)
Another new socket type?! WHYYY!
At least buying AM3 now, will allow me to plug it into a AM3r2, then a Bulldozer...........
thanks AMD for backwards compatibility and
to those who posted 'new socket? WTF!!!!!!' thats old news, it's well known for Intel to do this with every new chip
It'll bring the best performance outta it's CPUs though
hopefully AMD will switch it's mainstream CPUs to LGAs sometime in the future, the sockets doesn't seem as efficient as Land grid arrays
if you want socket longevity and compatibility go with AMD. If you want the latest and greatest performence out of a socket then go with Intel, but expect to replace your socket type a lot sooner then you would with AMD.
Did anyone else prefer the blue board colour?
I wonder if I'll have the financial freedom to afford one of those Intel beauts with a 6xxx ATi card.
What rocks are you people living under. Yes there are two new sockets next year. 1155 and 2011.
Shiza, I hope this doesnt put my i7980X out of business too soon (gaming wise)
hello, its mainstream parts we're talking about
What rocks are you people living under. Yes there are two new sockets next year. 1155 and 2011.
Yes, 1155 for sandy bridge "(m)ainstream" that comes out 4Q10 and 2011 for sandy bridge "(E)nthusiast" that comes out 3Q11.
The only problem I have, is that AMD should have changed its socket type for Bulldozer, but then again the i7 980 was on 1336. Bulldozer 940 to i7 1336 and now i9 2011, AMD needs to up its pins to get more bandwidth. The athlons had 462 pins while the pentium 4s had 478 pins and thats why the amd had the upper hand. Around the same number of pins but better performance. AMD step ur game up. All I own is AMD CPUs and GPUs now, but come on AMD 942 or 943 pins for bulldozer isn't enough!!!!!
Can't wait. I'm in for one.
Did anyone else prefer the blue board colour?
so true so true..
if you want socket longevity and compatibility go with AMD. If you want the latest and greatest performence out of a socket then go with Intel, but expect to replace your socket type a lot sooner then you would with AMD.
^ this is what I was talking about even though I do like the blue..
Intel keeps changing the socket with their new chips. I'm OK with that. But why do they have to change the dang HSF bolt pattern when they change sockets. Call me frugal, but I'd like to carry over as many parts as possible and it seems like a no-brainer.
I agree on the the bolt pattern.
Why only 4 ram slots?
Did anyone else prefer the blue board colour?
I will miss the blue board color I've been using for years...but black mobo = awesome.
I'm looking forward to a matte black board. The color schemes of the latest 4 generations have been questionable at best, and I can't really say I like the way my ex58-ud5 looks.
I'm still using the Pentium 4 3.6 GHz system I built in 2003. I'm guessing the LGA-2011 systems will upgrade USB 2 to USB 3, PCIe-2 to PCIe-3 and obviously will support SATA 6 Gb/s as opposed to the old SATA 3 Gb/s, and DDR3-2666 4 channel memory as opposed to 3 channel memory. I plan to upgrade to LGA-2011 in Q4 2011. I've been waiting 7 years to upgrade - and this will be (finally) the time to do it.
Also, Intel "Taylorsville" 6Gb/s Solid State Drives will be comming in Q1 2011. They will match-up nicely with LGA-2011 systems. I'm hoping it will support 4-drive-RAID-5 and RAID-0.
I agree on the the bolt pattern. Why only 4 ram slots?
Only 4 ram slots on the LGA 1155 I would imagine because they are still only dual channel memory. I believe I read the LGA 2011 is going to be quad channel which means we should see 8 memory slots.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
i believe (from the x78 motherboard photos from MSI released) that they will only have 4 DIMM's. in the pictures there is 2 DIMM's each side of the cpu... and the LGA2011 CPU is going to be big... it requires two clamps to hold it in place, but it has been reporteSubmit my comment d that the 1366 coolers will fit.