Gigabyte technology

This was more interesting really... GA-IBP. This is actually a Core i5 motherboard with the new socket. So yes, we were able to confirm that this is a P55 based board, 4 DIMM slots for dual channel DDR3, support for CrossFireX and SLI (PCIe 2.0 x8 seems likely), dual Gigabit LAN and six SATA2 ports.

When we zoom in a little we spot Socket LGA 1166. Gigabyte is ready... now Intel just needs to release the processors. But according to a Gigabyte representative... it's been delayed, and will be delayed yet again. We'll see though, but we expect a July timeframe.

Gigabyte has new people working on their chassis team and it really shows. No more liquid-cooled based products, I guess that team moved onwards to Ikonik ;)

From left to right the new Sumo series of chassis.

Pretty interesting and something we'll see more and more of in the future. Gigabyte is going to introduce a touch-screen LCD. I've been playing around with it and yeah... I kind of liked it. Try to imagine Apple iPhone control. It's the same kind of control and functionality. Works great with software like Google Earth really.