Just to keep you waiting for the good stuff we&39;ll start with the B75M-D3H, a motherboard Gigabyte is targeting towards the small business market. Even so it&39;s a irly well-rounded board and the chipset has support for Intel&39;s Small Business Advantage software that allows for better manageability than your average consumer motherboard. The B75 chipset offers native USB 3.0 support for up to four ports and a single SATA 6Gbps port. Gigabyte has also included DVI and HDMI and in this case the PCI slots are actually native to the chipset.
The G1.Sniper 3 has no less than four x16 PCI Express slots and appears to have some kind of third party chip to enable this, but it&39;s not clear what this chip is. It also has a total of 10 SATA ports, an mSATA port and the extra SATA power connector. According toSin&39;s Hardwarethe new G1.Sniper boards also features Creative&39;s new Sound Core 3D audio chip as well as a yet unannounced revision of Bigfoot&39;s Killer NIC which now appears to be a custom design rather than relying on an FPGA. This should help to vastly reduce the cost of adding a Killer NIC to motherboards. In ct, the G1.Sniper 3 incorporates a pair of Gigabit Ethernet ports, of which the second appears to be via an Intel chip.
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Gigabyte 7-series motherboard preview from CES 2012,If you&39;ve been waiting for some more consumer friendly motherboards than the dual-socket workstation board we&39;ve seen so r from CES, then we have good news, we&39;ve got a few shots of Gigabyte&39;s upcoming Intel 7-series motherboards. The boards on display at the show are r from the final versions and we do have some press shots to show as well, although at irly low resolution, but it&39;ll give you a better idea of what the final boards should look like.
If you&39;ve been waiting for some more consumer friendly motherboards than the dual-socket workstation board we&39;ve seen so r from CES, then we have good news, we&39;ve got a few shots of Gigabyte&39;s upcoming Intel 7-series motherboards. The boards on display at the show are r from the final versions and we do have some press shots to show as well, although at irly low resolution, but it&39;ll give you a better idea of what the final boards should look like.
If you&39;ve been patient (or just skipped past the other boards) we&39;ve now reached the models a lot of you have been waiting for, the G1.Sniper 3 and the G1.Sniper M3. The G1.Sniper M3 is Gigabyte&39;s first mATX motherboard focused on gaming and although we&39;ll be honest and say that it&39;s not the most impressive mATX board we&39;ve ever seen, it has a pretty decent feature set with three x16 PCI Express slots (two of which are switchable), five SATA ports, one eSATA port, a full set of display connectors and USB 3.0 of course.
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Moving up one step we have the H77M-D3H, a board that wasn&39;t part of Gigabyte&39;s press release, but a model that was being shown of briefly at CES. This board is very similar to the B75M-D3H, but as the name suggests it&39;s based on the H77 chipset instead. The only real difference that we noticed is that one of the PCI slots have been replaced by a x1 PCI Express slot and in this case the PCI slot isn&39;t native to the chipset.
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It appears that Gigabyte has given the UD4 series a miss this time around and instead we&39;re moving straight to the Z77X-UD5H which in essence is the Z77X-UD3H with the addition of some heapipe cooling for the chipset and MOSFETs, a pair of additional SATA 6Gbps ports and a few extra USB 3.0 ports thanks to an unknown third party chipset or two.
Come Cebit in March we should be able to bring you a lot more details on the upcoming boards from Gigabyte, although we can also tell you that the company is planning on bundling its Bluetooth 4.0/Wi-Fi card with several more models and we might even see some improved versions in the future here.
The first full-size ATX board is the Z77-D3H and now things are starting to get a little bit more interesting. Although Gigabyte introduced a few 6-series motherboards with mSATA connectivity, the company has now gone full-out adding m-SATA to most of its7-series ATX models. The Z77-D3H is the most basic model with an mSATA connector. Other features as per standard of the Z77 chipset include two SATA 6Gbps ports and four USB 3.0 ports. We&39;re not entirely sure about the display options here, but it looks like DVI and possibly HDMI as well as a D-sub connector. This board appears to have a single x16 PCI Express slot as well as a second slot that goes via the chipset rather than sharing lanes with the primary slot.
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Moving on to the first of the black PCB motherboards in Gigabyte&39;s 7-series we have the Z77X-UD3H and here we&39;re looking at a pair of x16 slots with a switch for some dual x8 action. There&39;s also a third x16 slot which we presume is connected via four lanes to the chipset. A couple of other additions that the Z77X-UD3H gains is a power button, a POST80 debut LED, an additional SATA controller for a seventh internal SATA port and one eSATA port and interestingly a SATA power connector at the front of the PCB, much like what we&39;ve seen on Gigabyte&39;s OC boards. Here we also get a DisplayPort thrown in for good measure in addition to the HDMI, DVI and D-sub connectors.
As with Gigabyte&39;s X79-series motherboards, the upcoming 7-series boards for the LGA-1155 socket will be equipped with digital PWMs, Gigabyte&39;s 3D Power and of course the 3D UEFI. However, there&39;s a lot more to these new boards and there are a few really interesting additions that we can expect at the launch.
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