Gigabyte to launch massive motherboard?
Is that a UD11 in your box, or are you just pleased to see me?
Not only will Gigabyte's new behemoth seemingly require a colossal case window in order to show it off, but it also appears to need a ridiculously-sized box. Here you can see it being modelled by Gigabyte's deputy director of motherboard marketing, Tim Handley. This is a picture of the retail package. Yes, we're talking about the actual size here.
The word in Gigabyte's office is that this big boy's whopping PCB has been given the internal moniker of 'OMG-ATX' to describe its dimensions. However, its form factor will probably be given a more sensible name when it's finally released.
The motherboard itself hasn't been given an official name yet either, and we had to blur out some of the logos to comply with an NDA. However, we heard a few murmurs in the office about a 'UD11' that could put the company's all-singing-all-dancing (£400) UD9 motherboard to shame.
There's no word on the official specs yet either, although we've heard rumblings about on-board SSDs striped together in RAID 0 configuration, as well as an army of solid state capacitors. Heck, given the size of the box, maybe it will even feature flux capacitors.
On another note, Gigabyte also showed us some of its new G1-Killer range (yes, there's more than one!) of motherboards while we were at its office. We'll have more information on these at a later date.
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Discuss in the forums ReplyIt comes with your own "technician" inside. The mobo itself is just a mini-itx
Original Proof: (if you're reading this on the front page you'll need to drop into the forums to see the pic)
http://forums.bit-tech.net/picture.php?albumid=1063&pictureid=15499
EDIT: Just noticed my bloody camera time is COMPLETELY out by about 8 months!
Next time I'll do a video of it.
Is it me or is there an echo?
In which case this is just a standard size box.
I wonder if it can play Crysis?
An echo...?
an... no.
:D;)
I'm not convinced. The artwork on the box and logo features look exactly like the UD7 and UD7 logos:
http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3646#ov
They're troll faces :D
Nevermind, I've just researched 'dual cpu power'.
Maybe the box has two UD7s in it?
Took me a few seconds ;)
:D:D:D:D:D:D:D
Loving that new 'OMG-ATX' standard. Good giggle.
I'm guessing that Mountain Mods lads cheering for Gigabyte new monstrous MB.
SB is a replacement for S1156. S2011 is the X58/S1366 replacement, due out Q3-ish.
Clock for clock, we're expecting a significant increase over both S1156 and S1366.
Also, I don't see an S1366 hitting 4.5+Ghz stable on air, which has already been shown around the web. So it's not superior in every way.
Series 6 sounds like Sandy Bridge.
Will Gigabyte now have to come up with a chassis that could fit this monster? If their previous chassis are anything to go by, I kinda hope not! Not to say their last ones were bad, they just weren't my cup of tea.
I'm hoping to stick with normal ATX for a fair while yet, these excessive beasts just aren't necessary for my pc needs but it's good they cater for the insane power mad types .
As for price its got to be in the $800-1000 price range, Will it fit in any cases?
Let me guess, expected owners also drive Hummers?
Oh that is the perfect name for the form :):D classic ;).
12x13" IIRC?
EDIT: 305 x 330mm
EDIT again: According to wiki there is a Workstation ATX standard (WATX) at 356 × 425mm (14x17") , but I've never seen a case that would take that.
AND again...
From Wiki:
There is also SWTX, which is 13x18.
Some Super Micro server cases support both it and WTX (SC830 is one of them) and make a great watercooling chassis. That is, if you can find any of them for less than a high end Lian Li or Silverstone, on the plus side, it will likely survive a nuclear war.
WTX was supported by several server chassis makers and builders.
Does anyone else see the irony of a company called Super Micro making the largest computer cases known to mankind? :D