News Gigabyte X58A-UDP7 shot leaked

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2010/04/15/gigabyte-x58a-udp7-shot-leaked/1

An image purporting to be a shot of an as-yet unannounced Gigabyte motherboard featuring seven PCI-E x16 slots has found its way onto the Internet.

 

Looks like a good board for a serious folding machine - one of these and seven GTS250's? Pretty good combo.

 

For when I absolutely, positively have to use 7 watercooled GTX480's .. Oh wait.

 

I can't even imagine how MANY power supplies you'd need for that. But I'd sure love to see one system like that. ^^

 

When 4 PCI-E slots just isn't enough.

 

Shame it wont fit in most chassis though, that things longer than the standard ATX spec.

 

The ATX Spec size mobo's have the space for 7 expansion slots, they just used 7 PCI-E slots in this one.....

 

Well.. look how low the PCI-E slots sits, on most (or atleast some) boards the top PCI-E slot sit right under the IO ports.

It sure won't fit my chase, but who would use a standard case when they can afford/have the need for such a board.

 

Will be happy when we finally have nothing but PCIe slots....

 

PCI-E mounted CPU ofc!

 

What DBA said, this board could potentially have 9 slots, its defiantly longer than the ATX spec.

 

if you look closely, it's got 4 holes on the right, with the 3rd one next to the SATA connectors being ATX standard. so the last 3 PCIe slots are not meant to be there, they are not ATX standards.

 

http://www.evga.com/articles/00501/

Its an XL-ATX "standard". There was also a 10 slot that was the original XL-ATX. But the 7 PCI-E Slots isn't new.

 

Genuine question - Can you get single slot cooled GTS250 cards? It looks like to use all seven slots you can't use double slot cooled cards.

 

its ud9 not ud7 ^^ - there is a biiiiiiiig 9 on it!

 

Not directly, but you can get single-slot full-cover waterblocks and single-slot GeForce PCI brackets...

 

Or use PCIe extenders?

 

Are you sure is not a '6'?????

Looks like one (i mean 5) to me

 

I noticed the 2x 8 pin socket, how much power does it need?

I like the colour scheme, although not overwhelming, it's different and still pleasant.

I can't figure out what will be the number after UD... If only there was a giant clue on the board, anywhere, it could be on the board on something also big...

 

It's definitely a 9, it would be stupid to have a 6 when 'Gigabyte' is written above it.

When can we get enlarged pictures on news stories??