We all know the specs of the P67 chipset. There’s no need to go into them again. If you don’t’ google is your friend. I’m here to tell you what is borderline NDA stuff but not enough to get me into trouble with anyway. So with that said what does GIGABYTE bring us with the P67A-UD7 rev1.0?
Well for one, you get everything that a standard P67 motherboard should have. That includes the ability to use the same coolers you did with the LGA1155/x55 platforms. This isn’t an exclusive to GIGABYTE but mandatory for all P67 boards.
So much like many high end P67 boards, the UD7 supports 3-way SLI. However not all boards support a full 16X lanes on each PCI-E slot in 3-way SLI. This board does courtesy of the nf200 chip. Not sure who will be running high end VGA’s on this platform but nice to have regardless.
What GIGABYTE has done unlike anybody else though is fit the board with unprecedented 18-USB connections. Of which 10 are USB3.0 compatible. Indeed 4- of these are by way of headers on the motherboard, but the other 6 are at the rear. So you’ll have access to 6 USB3.0 ports at the rear of the board with an additional 4 USB2.0/eSATA ports. All of these featuring GIGABYTE ON/OFF Charge which allows you to recharge everything you can think of that can be charged with a USB cable. Add that to 6xSATA 6Gbps ports and you have a really great board for connectivity. Moving on to power, like most of the later boards (UD5 and upwards), the UD7 has what GIGABYTE calls “Unlocked Performance” basically this is the ability to turn off OCP for those monster overclocks unlimited by current draw schemes like on other boards. How useful this feature is will depend on the CPUs for the platform, as far as we have heard and know though it won’t be that necessary, at least not right now.
Then to what is the biggest change for GIGABYTE, the company has gone for Black and Gold reminds one of them old ADDIDAS throwbacks. The scheme looks better in the flash than it does in photos and it may take some time getting used to it, but it’s certainly a handsome board.
That’s about all one can say about the P67A-UD7 for now. Intel’s CPU’s should be out early in January and you can look for full reviews at that point. Until then time for some LN2 runs
Last edited by ShockG; 06-12-2010 at 01:51 PM.
Looks......expensive
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ok neo, realistically, can we expect decent clocking performance out of this platform? im hesitant to upgrade from my P55 based system.
Erm, er well, see, er the thing is, well like, I mean that it's not, like what erm wait....
Having spent some time with the platform, clocking it etc... I can't say anything legally or at least publicly about any of it. That includes any opinions I may have about it as a whole.
I can say though the P67A-UD7 is a really really nice board
LOL.
I really like the colours they have gone with. Much better then there old look.
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Some more pics and a video of the board can be found here Overclock3D :: Review :: Gigabyte P67A-UD7 Preview :: Looking Closer
Last edited by jonathankru; 08-12-2010 at 07:41 AM.
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Come now, whats a few details between friends? :POriginally Posted by ShockG
Erm, er well, see, er the thing is, well like, I mean that it's not, like what erm wait....
Having spent some time with the platform, clocking it etc... I can't say anything legally or at least publicly about any of it. That includes any opinions I may have about it as a whole.
I can say though the P67A-UD7 is a really really nice board
Im just concerned about the real overclockability of the entry to mid level chips seeing as ive read a few times that people struggle to get over 110 bclk
110 bclk? Don't you mean 210 bclk?
ShockG, do you reckon it would be worth while to tell people to rather wait a few months and to go for the Socket 1156 solutions rather than going for like a Core i5 760?
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Sandy Bridge overclocking complicated by common base clock - The Tech Report
according to this Intel to Stunt Overclocking on Sandy Bridge CPUs the P series of 1155 chipsets will allow you to clock the cpu , effectively unlocking it.
From info available out there:
BLCK limit 105MHz or lower
4.5GHz or more on air with a multiplier unlocked board
10 - 20% better IPC performance
Subzero doesn't seem to be happening yet
I'm upgrading
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From what I have read
if you're even remotely interested in overclocking you're onna have to go for K series. (2600,2500 whatever)
everything else will just irritate you. It's a stunt that I'm not happy Intel pulled and no matter how they slice it, they've essentially killed overclocking on this platform (mulptiplier adjustment is not overclocking).
Depending on how AMD's AM3+ platform is, it may be a substitute until Intel released the next X58 replacement chipset that allows people to overclock without this massive handicap.
but what about socket 2011? will it be the same as with 1155?
No that will have normal bclk like behaviour (at least for now).
1155 is essentially a mid-range/budget platform that directly replaces x55 and 1156 chips.
All the CPu's have a VGA controller inside. This will not happen for 2011 CPUs
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