News - Gigabyte teases Sandy Bridge motherboards

[HEXUS]

Trio of boards ready and waiting for Intel’s next-gen CPUs.

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[GheeTsar]

I like the all black colour scheme.

Will they have EFI though?

[BullDogg]

Will they have EFI though?

No idea. Gigabyte was pretty closed lipped on these boards, literally providing only basic info and some press shots.

[Platinum]

Meh, waiting on the enthusiast socket 2011 chips

[badass]

Meh, waiting on the enthusiast socket 2011 chips

Pretty annoying that. You have to choose between ridiculous overkill (4 memory channels on a desktop FFS) or castrated (how many PCIe lanes?) with nothing in between.

[semo]

though disappointingly the second slot will be electrically limited to PCIe 2.0 x4 in a dual-card configuration

well what did you expect from Intel's mainstream crap

[Terbinator]

well what did you expect from Intel's mainstream crap

x8 ?

[semo]

I don't know what Intel are thinking with their nerfed peripheral interconnects since their H5x chipsets. DMI... really?

If you want bundles of PCIe traffic, your best bet is AMD or the aged X58 platform

[Terbinator]

I don't know what Intel are thinking with their nerfed peripheral interconnects since their H5x chipsets. DMI... really?

If you want bundles of PCIe traffic, your best bet is AMD or the aged X58 platform

It's a key way to differentiate between platforms - not to mention x8/x8 CFX/SLI is only marginally slower than full x16.

[Platinum]

Pretty annoying that. You have to choose between ridiculous overkill (4 memory channels on a desktop FFS) or castrated (how many PCIe lanes?) with nothing in between.

Indeed, and already owning a i7 920 these are no real upgrade for me, downgrade in every way infact other than the CPU performance, (Dual channel memory, less PCI-E lanes ect)

[semo]

It's a key way to differentiate between platforms - not to mention x8/x8 CFX/SLI is only marginally slower than full x16.

Platinum summed up pretty well what I was trying to say. Features like HT and turbo are a good way to differentiate but nurfing the internal interconnect and few other things is not excusable... especially bad for H55 owners who bought a platform that was outdated from day one (low number of PCIe lanes, not official USB/SATA 3 support, obsolete platform only after a year or so)

[kalniel]

Platinum summed up pretty well what I was trying to say. Features like HT and turbo are a good way to differentiate but nurfing the internal interconnect and few other things is not excusable... especially bad for H55 owners who bought a platform that was outdated from day one (low number of PCIe lanes, not official USB/SATA 3 support, obsolete platform only after a year or so)

H55 does exactly what it set out to do. No more, no less. If you want high number of PCI-E lanes or a longer lasting platform then there were other alternatives.

[ehhhhhhh]

If one uses a longer graphics card which is quite common nowadays, then it will block most of the SATA ports....that is why I had to get rid off my asus mb....I thought at least the guys at Gigabyte have some common sense.