-- GIGABYTE Showcase New Motherboard Technologies at Computex 2011 Industry Tour --

**GIGABYTE Product Manager** · 02-12-2010, 03:54 PM

-- Continues Motherboard Innovation Leadership with Industry-leading CPU Power Delivery Technology on New 6 Series Models --

TAIPEI, Taiwan – December 1, 2010 – GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY Co., Ltd, a leading manufacturer of motherboards, graphics cards and other computing hardware solutions, today unveiled several exciting new technologies during a COMPUTEX TAIPEI 2011 pre-show press conference held at the GIGABYTE head office. The new technologies feature on upcoming GIGABYTE 6 series motherboards (based on Intel® 6 series chipsets) with the purpose of providing Maximum CPU Power for reliable high-performance computing.

Tim Handley, Deputy Director of Motherboard Marketing at GIGABYTE, explained their innovate and disseminate strategy where new innovations are launched on extreme enthusiast models, such as the X58A-UD9 that debuted at Computex 2010, and then make their way down to the high-end and mainstream models. Demonstrating GIGABYTE’s soon-to-be-released flagship motherboard, the GA-P67A-UD7, he highlighted GIGABYTE’s Maximum CPU Power technology with an industry-leading 24 phase power design, an Intel® approved Intersil Voltage Regulator Down (VRD) 12 compliant PWM controller, Dual CPU Power, Driver MOSFETs (the new addition to GIGABYTE’s signature Ultra Durable 3 features), proprietary DualBIOS™ 3TB+ HDD technology,10 USB 3.0 ports (total of 18 USB ports with 8 USB 2.0), 3-Way SLI/CrossFireX support, 3x USB Power, On/Off Charge and more…

“The amount and quality of power is the key to CPU performance, as we demonstrated earlier this year with the industry-leading CPU power design on the X58A-UD9 motherboard that is capable of delivering up to 1500Watts,” commented Tim Handley. “CPU power design improvements on the 6 series motherboards include the Intel® VRD 12 approved Intersil PWM controller chip, as well as high quality Driver MOSFETs that ensure better efficiency with first class system performance and stability.”

New VRD 12 (Voltage Regulator Down) Specification Design
GIGABYTE 6 series motherboards are designed with Intel’s latest Voltage Regulator Down specification (VRD 12) using the Intel® qualified Intersil PWM controller that offers SerialVID (SVID) for transfering power management information between the processor and voltage regulator controller. This allows more robust and efficient signaling control between the CPU and PWM controller, hence delivering a more energy efficient platform.

Maximum CPU Power Delivery
GIGABYTE 6 series motherboards with their unique CPU power design, promise to deliver first class system performance and stability. With up to 24 phase power, Dual CPU Power and Power Phase Boost with Multi-gear Switching, the world’s leading motherboard CPU power technology will soon be available on performance and even mainstream motherboard models instead of only being available on extreme models, as it was been in the past.

Dual CPU Power
GIGABYTE’s proprietary Dual CPU Power technology allows CPU VRM power phases to split evenly into 2 sets of power engines that operate in tandem. This allows 1 set of power phases to rest while the other is active as opposed to a traditional power design where all the power phases are always active. So GIGABYTE Dual CPU Power effectively halves the amount of work done by each set of power phases to significantly increase motherboard durability and reliability.

Driver MOSFETs
By incorporating the MOSFETs and driver IC in accordance with the Intel® Driver-MOSFET specification, GIGABYTE 6 series motherboards allow higher power transfer and increased efficiency at higher switching frequencies to satisfy the power requirements of modern processors. Driver-MOSFETs also help to reduce VRM real estate requirements for a cleaner, less cluttered CPU zone.

GIGABYTE DualBIOS™ with 3TB+ HDD Support
GIGABYTE DualBIOS™ is a patented technology that automatically recovers BIOS data when the main BIOS has crashed or failed. Featuring 2 physical BIOS ROMs integrated onboard, GIGABYTE DualBIOS™ allows quick and seamless recovery from BIOS damage or failure due to viruses or improper BIOS updating. In addition, GIGABYTE DualBIOS™ now supports booting from hard drives that are 3TB (terabytes) or more without the need for partitioning, and effectively provides future-proofing for higher volume single drive data storage.

Keep an eye on the GIGABYTE Tech Daily blog and the official GIGABYTE motherboard website for more information and announcements about upcoming GIGABYTE 6 series of motherboards.

About GIGABYTE Upgrade Your Life
GIGABYTE, headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan, is known as a global leading brand in the IT industry, with employees and business channels in almost every country. Founded in 1986, GIGABYTE started as a research and development team and has since taken the lead in the world's motherboard market. On top of motherboards and graphics accelerators, GIGABYTE further expanded its product portfolio to include notebook and desktop PCs, digital home entertainment appliances, networking servers, communications, mobile and handheld devices, servicing every facet of people's lives at home or business. Everyday GIGABYTE aims to “Upgrade Your Life” with the most innovative designs and impeccable quality and services. Visit www.gigabyte.com.tw for more information.

Oj · 02-12-2010, 04:35 PM

You guys aren't taking up on EFI? That's a major disappointment, I was thinking of the GA-P67-UD5 or UD7 but this might send me in Asus' direction :/

**GIGABYTE Product Manager** · 03-12-2010, 08:08 AM

Hi Oj,

Nothing yet no. Will keep you posted if I hear anything new from the big boys. But honestly though, you are going to change your mind because of a technology that is still in a testing stage and does not provide any big advantage as of yet...?

Oj · 03-12-2010, 02:47 PM

Odd, I thought I posted here. EFI POSTs quicker than the old BIOS, and POSTing currently takes longer than anything else with my machine so it's important to me. New chips come (Sandy Bridge), things get faster, it's all just evolution rather than dropping all the legacy garbage which nobody really needs (revolution). EFI is more exciting to me than Sandy Bridge, which says a lot. I hear Gigabyte IS adopting EFI, possibly with the Z67 chipset so I may just wait for that (I'm not really an Asus fan).

**GIGABYTE Product Manager** · 03-12-2010, 03:43 PM

Oj, i must agree. First of all, kudos for being prepared to wait for a Gigabyte board. I see you are a man with class.

Anything to speed up the 'ol BIOS POST time is an advantage. Will have to see what the boys in Taiwan are going to include in their higher-end chipsets. Although the biggest advantage of EFI is the no-more-limitation on drive partitioning and as you can see on the press release the new boards will all support 3TB and bigger partitions via the BIOS. But, you can count on me sending you a post if we can better your POST...

Oj · 03-12-2010, 03:50 PM

At the moment I doubt there's anything you can do with my MSI board

But yes, I'm excited but will be waiting

Oj · 04-12-2010, 01:41 AM

One thing that's bothering me is your name... As Gigabyte doesn't have an SA office you can't be an official representative but are most probably the supplier. Does Gigabyte know that you are unofficially using their name officially?

**Firestar** · 04-12-2010, 09:25 PM

He is the Gigabyte Product manager at the only official importer of Gigabyte products in South Africa. I'm pretty sure he's allowed to use and advertise the brand in a way that's promoting the brand

**ShockG** · 05-12-2010, 05:27 PM

It's great to have distro's appear on the forum and it helps communication which is always a great thing

However, it isn't right that a local distro says they are GIGABYTE SA, when they are a distributor. ASUS_ZA is ASUS because said person is an employee of ASUS local office not a distributor. NOt the end of the world, but rather appear as the entity you represent and are contracted with because your opinions are not necessarily those of the manufacturer but those of the distributor. That relationship is not one in the same.

Any help a user may need, maybe a distributor issue or a manufacturer issue, in which case only one party is qualified to deal with said issue. For example Imported GIGABYTE products do not concern the distributor, but the manufacturer
Regardless, It's great to have you on board, and things can only get better.

**GIGABYTE Product Manager** · 06-12-2010, 09:43 AM

Hi Oj/ShockG

Thanks for the question. Rectron is the official distributor of Gigabyte in South Africa. In case we do not bring a certain product to South Africa, then no one will be able to buy it locally. This alias' purpose is to promote Gigabyte products by using news articles as we get it from Gigabyte, not to falsely advertise any of Gigabyte's products. If I get a question that we cannot answer we double check it with our Gigabyte vendor in Taiwan.

To clarify our name to the public, we use Gigabyte S.A. as we represent Gigabyte within the South African market. My job is not to promote Rectron to the public, as we do not deal directly with the public. Rather to promote the Gigabyte brand and to provide the public with info as to whether we can import a certain product etc.

Hope this clears things up a bit.

**GIGABYTE Product Manager** · 25-01-2011, 09:46 AM

Hi OJ

Please have a look at the following thread regarding Gigabyte's solution to EFI technology: -- GIGABYTE Hybrid EFI Technology --

Oj · 25-01-2011, 10:56 AM

I did thanks dude, unfortunately that leaves me disappointed. You're changing the technology behind it but clinging to an interface from the 80s

**GIGABYTE Product Manager** · 25-01-2011, 12:26 PM

Gigabyte is planning on changing the interface soon as wel. The reason for using the old interface is because most people are familiar with it.

**WickedMan** · 26-01-2011, 04:56 PM

I think the Hybrid EFI does provide a nice advantage that nobody else will have. Yes its based on the older BIOS platform, so posting is slower, BUT they can backport to a lot of other older boards like P55, X58 etc and support 3TB plus. So that pusheso out the longevity of older boards quite nicely for people that cannot afford new boards and chips if they want bigger drives etc.

Which other vendor is doing that ..... I am also disappointed about the lack of EFI but kudos to gigabyte for getting 3TB support in BIOS

Oj · 27-01-2011, 12:12 AM

Honestly, who boots from a 3TB partition? O.o BIOS supports larger drives, it's Windows that needs them formatted as GPT - from which it cannot boot. There's nothing stopping you from using a 10TB drive formatted as GPT as a data drive, EFI is only required for booting. Again, I ask: How many of you are BOOTING from a 2TB+ C: drive?!

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