[DrNip]

Gigabyte's First Black-PCB Motherboards: P67A-UD5 and P67A-UD7
Here's something you'll need to see to believe: Gigabyte made its first motherboards with black-colored PCBs, breaking away from its blue PCB mold! The company's high-end LGA1155 motherboard lineup includes two models: the GA-P67A-UD5 and the GA-P67A-UD7. Apart from the black-colored PCB, the color scheme also includes graphite-colored heatsinks with a dash of blue (UD5) or with a dash of gold (UD7), black-colored memory and expansion slots, mostly black internal ports and headers. The GA-P67-UD7 uses a 24-phase VRM to power the LGA1155 processor. Its expansion slots include four PCI-E 2.0 x16, there seems to be a PCI-E bridge chip (likely nForce 200 or something from PLX), which lets it run in 2-slot x16, or 4-slot x8 modes. There are two PCI and a PCI-E x1. Connectivity on this includes six SATA 3 Gb/s, two SATA 6 Gb/s internal ports, two gigabit Ethernet, 8-channel HD audio, four USB 3.0 ports, FireWire, and eSATA.

The GA-P67A-UD5 has a 20-phase VRM, a slightly lighter expansion area with three PCI-Express x16 slots (likely x16, NC/x8, x8), the third slot could be electrical x4. Connectivity on this one includes two SATA 6 Gb/s, four SATA 3 Gb/s, two eSATA, 8-channel HD audio, gigabit Ethernet, two USB 3.0 ports, and FireWire. Both motherboards feature Ultra Durable 3 construction. The two could be part of the company's first wave of LGA1155 motherboards.

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Source: Future Looks
posted by btarunr - 7:12 AM

SOURCE:
http://www.techpowerup.com/130958/Gi...-P67A-UD7.html

Oh really....

[Chuchnit]

I still think they are ugly as hell, but it is a 1000% improvement over that ugly ass blue thing they had going on.

[MaadDaawg]

Originally Posted by Chuchnit

I still think they are ugly as hell, but it is a 1000% improvement over that ugly ass blue thing they had going on.

+1

But the 24 phase sounds interesting

[Hondacity]

hmmmm what do you need 20phase for on a non overclockable board..... intel knows how to make hype... maybe these SB series are overclockable...

i like black..its nice...

as for ud5 vs ud7 ...ud5 looks to have more caps......weird

[Chuchnit]

Originally Posted by Hondacity

hmmmm what do you need 20phase for on a non overclockable board..... intel knows how to make hype... maybe these SB series are overclockable...

i like black..its nice...

as for ud5 vs ud7 ...ud5 looks to have more caps......weird

But they will have "K" series chips...

[Hondacity]

http://twitter.com/LegitReviews/status/24425351100

[Chuchnit]

hmmm.... we still need to know if that was just with multiplier or not. 4.9ghz air is still kick ass though.

[DOM]

i think there ugly but like the blk pcb

[Hondacity]

49x100 perhaps

[Chuchnit]

Originally Posted by Hondacity

49x100 perhaps

Wouldn't the clock jitter be retarded with a multi that high?