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    News - GIGABYTE claims industry's first two-ounce copper-layered motherboards

    GIGABYTE's Ultra Durable 3 series motherboards are to feature a pair of two-ounce copper layers that promise to dramatically lower temperature.
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    Re: News - GIGABYTE claims industry's first two-ounce copper PCB

    So it's a 4oz copper PCB then? 2x2oz.

    Looks like a nice board in that graphic. No legacy connectors, decent but not over the top cooling on the power rails and chipset.

    Always liked Gigabyte and now have three gigabyte boards in systems at home. not had a single problem with them

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    Re: News - GIGABYTE claims industry's first two-ounce copper PCB

    I'd love to know what parts will be reduced in temperature by 50c!!

    Interested to see some reviews. Maybe Gigabyte are set to peak in the motherboard market.

    ABit are pretty much gone, Asus went downhill a year or so ago IMO.......So there is room for a new big player, both Gigabyte and Biostar seem to be getting a bit of a cult following.....interesting times
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    Re: News - GIGABYTE claims industry's first two-ounce copper PCB

    Reduces temps by up to 50% perhaps?

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    Re: News - GIGABYTE claims industry's first two-ounce copper PCB

    I went with DFI for my current board, and given their past achievements, should be a decisive force in the mobo market...

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    Re: News - GIGABYTE claims industry's first two-ounce copper PCB

    DFI have a history of making boards that are extremely fiddly to overclock, I've even had a couple myself and found out the hard way.

    They may have gotten better in that respect but many people have been burnt by them in the past.
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    Re: News - GIGABYTE claims industry's first two-ounce copper PCB

    Gigabyte boards have been progressing for quite a while now and are now becoming more and more popular due to their performance and of course pricing. There's a crunch going on so people are trying to save as much as they can really.

    If only they didn't use a colour scheme that screams out "fisher price - my first motherboard"

    Yes, I know it's a small issue, but I like to have my systems glowing with LED lights, UV lights and what not so getting a motherboard which has a neutral colour scheme is part of what I look for within the features.

    I guess I could always get a black marker and colour in the garishly coloured RAM slots, PCI-E slots and PATA/SATA ports

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    Re: News - GIGABYTE claims industry's first two-ounce copper PCB

    had around 20 different motherboards over the years and gigabyte were always the ones that i managed to blow up without so much as touching.Using an Asus board now and so much better than any gigabyte ive had.
    Also if anything on a board is getting to temps where it can be reduced by 50 degrees then its wayyy to hot in the first place

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    Re: News - GIGABYTE claims industry's first two-ounce copper PCB

    I would think the 50C temperature drop would be for the copper itself... running at 1333Mhz FSB and 5Ghz HT3.0 must bring temperatures on those copper layers to above 80C easily. Increase the size of the pathways in which the information travels without increasing the speeds = massive temperature drops, so although it wouldn't drop temps by 50C anywhere you or I could measure I bet it does within the PCB layers.

    In terms of quality of the motherboards from Gigabyte I'd say they are the best in the market right now. You always have a group of people who have bad luck with a brand name and my bad luck comes with Asus... thankfully Gigabyte are proving an excellent competitor and even find themselves doing better than Asus with performance.

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    Re: News - GIGABYTE claims industry's first two-ounce copper PCB

    i liek GB as much as the next person, but i dont like their non exact value OCing, and ASUS for me have the best board in terms of layout and OCing.
    but each to their own

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    Re: News - GIGABYTE claims industry's first two-ounce copper PCB

    A cat amongst the pigeons!

    Any sort of push toward a new type of hardware is a good thing, this look great.
    Not have much experience with Gigbyte since my old one blew after a week but I have heard very positive things.

    Asus beware, hopefully pricing schemes will exemplify this.

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    Re: News - GIGABYTE claims industry's first two-ounce copper PCB

    Always interesting to see somebody introducing new technology to the consumer market

    In regard to
    Quote Originally Posted by GIGABYTE
    the innovation will lower temperatures in specific motherboard areas by up to 50°C.
    it is probably in regard to some very specific hot spots, and isn't suprising really. They've halved the thermal resistance of parts of the motherboard that take a constant load, meaning heat disipation is improved, and that would have the knock on effect of everything else running a bit cooler.

    If it works well I hope they roll it out into things like laptops etc.

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