Monday, April 14th 2008
GIGABYTE Intel P45 Motherboards: Early Look
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.
bit-tech.net, XFastest Forum
18 Comments on GIGABYTE Intel P45 Motherboards: Early Look
well, i will be once i upgrade my: PSU, graphics card, case and processor :cry:
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 ;)
The SATA positioning and the amount are awesome! (I dont even think most fileservers have around 10HDDs :laugh:)
I reckon Gigabyte should redo the P45 DS4's PCB... move the SATA where the IDE is Gigabyte! Its not that hard!
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 :laugh: :roll: