Preview: Gigabyte GA-X79-UD3
Published by Marc Büchel on 19.01.12Page:
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| The GA-X79-UD3 is the second board from Gigabyte that has been developped with overclocking in mind. Form an optical point of view this thing really looks great. We like the black and orange design. It's kind of aggressiv but still the colors suite nicely, especially on the matte black PCB. Because Gigabyte decided to make use of an XL-ATX PCB there is plenty of space to arrange all the different components and chips very well. On the other hand you'll have to check if this board really fits into your case if you should be thinking about buying this thing. What we also like very much is the delivery. There even is a Quad-SLI-Bridge. Furhtermore Gigabyte even put a WiFi PCI card into the box which can also handle Bluetooth 4.0 and comes with two additional antennas. | -
Design - Layout - 4 x PCI Express x16 Slot - 10 SATA Ports |
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Generally the Gigabyte
GA-X79-UD3s Layout has been very well thought. Once more practical are
the angled SATA connectors. Unfortunately there are no power- and reset-buttons.
Furhtermore there is also no debug display which might be very useful in case you should
have issues with a component in your system or the board itself. On the
other hand you find a total of four PCI Express x16 slots (x16 / x8 /
x16 / x |
- Angled SATA connectors - Space around the CPU socket |
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. The last of these slots also is the last expansion slot
onboard. This means, if you should plan to install a dual slot GPU in
this slot, then the connectors at the bottom edge of the board will be
inaccessible. | Page 1 - Introduction | Page 4 - Connectors and I/O |
| Page 2 - Specifications / Delivery | Page 5 - Conclusion |
| Page 3 - Layout |
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