Gigabyte Remains Mum on P67, LGA 2011
Those looking for specifics on Sandy Bridge or LGA 2011—other than what’s already available online—will have to wait a bit more.
For a media Q&A session held after the GO OC 2010 finals, Gigabyte continued to promote its products and carefully cultivated relationship with the overclocking community. Regarding any future plans however concerning P67 and LGA 2011, details were comparatively sparse—which is to be expected for any company that has to follow Intel’s PR line.
When asked about the reported limitations of P67 in terms of overclockability, a Gigabyte rep said he saw Sandy Bridge as a “mainstream” platform, at least when compared with the P55 and H55 platforms. One thing he could say with certainty was that all Sandy Bridge products from Gigabyte would have at least two holes to accommodate MOSFET cooling solutions—even entry-level products.
Tim Handley, the Deputy Director of motherboard marketing, gently reminded the assembled media that Gigabyte would always feature a “core” motherboard line designed for enthusiasts (recent examples include the UD7 motherboard used for GO OC 2010, and the recently released UD9). Whether or not any future P67 motherboards would fall under this category would depend on Intel’s final specifications for Sandy Bridge. Gigabyte hopes to be more definite by first week of next January, in time for CES 2011.
For LGA 2011 the only specifics we got from the Gigabyte reps was that the maker had already started designing products around the unreleased Intel CPU socket. Engineers have yet to do any significant fabrication tests, but they already have “sketches” to work with. As many already know, LGA 2011 is set for a Q3 2011 released.
A few other points that were shared during the Q&A session: Gigabyte considered GO OC 2010 a success. The company will definitely hold a competition for 2011. Gigabyte will start coloring some of their PCBs (printed circuit boards) matte black, a change resulting from “extensive” internal discussions and a desire to appeal more to system integrators. Regarding P67 and LGA 2011, Mr. Handley insisted that Gigabyte would “be ready in every way” next year.
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Matte black? Hurrah! No more baby blue!
A stupid thing to complain about I know, but if I have a few products vying for my cash and their performance is equal, the aesthetics win out and, frankly, Gigabyte boards look the pits.
Couldn't care less what the motherboard colour is. In fact, why am I even writing this?
Each to their own, but what's the point in having a window in your case if the hardware you're showing off looks like a retard's attacked it with rainbow paint?
Computers can be art too, and some of us appreciate aesthetics as well as performance.
Each to their own, but what's the point in having a window in your case if the hardware you're showing off looks like a retard's attacked it with rainbow paint?Computers can be art too, and some of us appreciate aesthetics as well as performance.
True, but in my opinion some blue Gigabyte designs are quite elegant (just like the black and blue Asus mobo I'm using). Matte black looks great, but remember black shows dust far better than blue...
Well, as long as it's not black and red (I'm looking at you, Asus ROG mobo's), it's decent.
Nothing wrong with black and red ;-)
I have an X58-UD7 Gigabyte board, looks just fine to me.
More importantly, it performs even better.