Tuesday, April 13th 2010
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.
60 Comments on Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD9 Pictured
I've never had a squealing problem with any of my Gigabyte boards.
Yeah, and I have only used 1 board from them. :laugh:
It also looks like Gigabyte has done quite a few changes over time, least not to the PWM area
I have customers STILL on Socket A AMD Gigabyte boards running strong almost 8 years later, and I cant wait for my NEXT Gigabyte Board.
Great bios, very stable board, you can overclock like hell, it won't even flinch. these boards can take a beating.
I love it.
I might even be tempted to buy this UD9, I really want to try it out.
Looks like they really tried to map this one out carefully.
EDIT: LULZ, black and white photo = FAIL or just fooled me!
so i'd give this board a miss, unless theirs a better digital tv card out there
(waits for quotes about other pci express tv cards :D)
like it says though it's for the hardcore gamer probably with a shed load of cash and 5 gtx 480's :eek:
From: www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2010/04/12/new-socket-to-replace-lga1366-due-in-2011/1
If this will turn out true, I'll be wating for the new socket! I heard they want to name it Socket R and not X68!
And I want this board now, dammit. Anybody want to buy an X58-UD5? lol.