Just one little grammar error to nit pick about: "which we expect will become more apparently as Gigabyte packs" the inclusion of the ly on the end of this word is inappropriate. Other than that, interesting read.
I honestly prefer black or dark colors, it's much easier to blend into a colored build. Though I think they coulda snuck their light blue onto one set of RAM slots.
I dont really like the internal sata ports being converted to esata and stuck on the I/O port. The esata breakout bracket gigabyte used was more flexible, although i guess slightly messier if you did want to use esata.
Even with a pci-e raid controller, im still using 8 mobo sata ports, and it seems the UD7 is the only board that has that many.
edit: and yeah, i also liked their blue boards better.
oh god thank you, now i will finally be able to buy gigabyte boards. the old washed white-blue color was by far the worst color choice ever made on a motherboard imho.
i like how they are going with the designs but i think it is too much black tbh. i think they should have put more colour on the heatsinks and coloured the ram slots and pci slots. it is a move in the right direction. i hope they have scraped the yellow sata cables as well, as that really annoyed me they where just so ugly
Ive always heard Gigabyte boards were stable and OCed like a dream but I instantly ignored them because they looked so bad. Now that they have a new coat of paint I might have to check them out.
I still see blue accents but looks like anodised blue which is cool :D, I like the look of the UD4, would fit in perfect with my next project, so I'm glad I've held out for my next system, matt black with silver & blue accents is a great move for gigabytes colour scheme (I really like it) :).
And damn that UD7 looks very kicka$$, please be standard ATX & not the silly e-atx or xl-atx, it's decided I want one of those UD7's for my next project .
So P67 provides native USB3 but these things have no more SATA provision (6 or otherwise) than current alternatives. There goes one argument for me upgrading....
U.U a socket change? 6 USB3? Who needs that? Maybe 6 SATA3 for solid state disks. RAID capable of course. This generation of intel MBs is stupid. No even better performance! at least GB is still making good looking MBs =/
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Even with a pci-e raid controller, im still using 8 mobo sata ports, and it seems the UD7 is the only board that has that many.
edit: and yeah, i also liked their blue boards better.
http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/1592/p67aud7.jpg
I think is awful that the less expensive has the sata up-facing, but given the chance I'm affraid I'd pay the premum.
SCHWING !!
http://images.ientrymail.com/webpronews/article_pics/waynes-world-schwing.jpg
And damn that UD7 looks very kicka$$, please be standard ATX & not the silly e-atx or xl-atx, it's decided I want one of those UD7's for my next project .
Dam I need that in the build I'm doing right now, that colour scheme is perfect.
Galaxy has heard ya.
http://vr-zone.com/articles/perfect-christmas-gift-galaxy-geforce-gtx-460-with-white-pcb/10193.html
Oh, definitely. The white motherboards with red highlights were amazingly pretty, I still consider them to be some of the best looking boards :)
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