Gigabyte Z68X-UD3P-B3 motherboard surfaces

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 04/19/2011 09:43 AM | source: | 0 comment(s)

The colleagues over at TPU found some photos of Gigabyte's forthcoming Z68X-UD3P-B3 motherboard. It features 14-phase VRM with driver-MOSFETs, a hybrid-EFI BIOS, two PCIe x16 slots , four SATA 6Gbps ports, and four USB 3.0 ports. Launch is expected by early May.

"Expansion slots include two PCI-Express 2.0 x16 (electrical x8, x8 when both are populated), with 2-way NVIDIA SLI and AMD CrossFireX support. Storage connectivity includes four SATA 6 Gb/s (two from the Z68 PCH, two from a Marvell-made controller), and four internal SATA 3 Gb/s from the PCH. Other connectivity includes four USB 3.0 ports (two internal/by header), a number of USB 2.0 ports, FireWire, gigabit Ethernet, and 8-channel HD audio".

Meanwhile this motherboard already popped up in some asian stores.

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