Sneak Peek of Gigabyte X58A-UD9 Mobo - Seven Slot Edition

Nope this isn't some crazy porno but a natural progression in enthusiast motherboard design.

According to the leaked picture, the mobo is based on Intel X58 chipset, and supports LGA1366 Core i7 processors. The most glowing feature is the seven PCI-E slots to support NVIDIA SLI and AMD CrossFire technologies. The board utilizes dual 8pin power design for enhanced overclocking performance.

Seven slots is the ATX standard however this board looks to be stretched to make room for the Northbridge chip and cooler.  On a positive the 7 16x PCIe slots means you can run quad SLI (or crossfire) provided you're on an open test bench or modified case with room at the bottom to accept a dual slot cooler.

The P55 Classified we recently reviewed comes with 6x PCIe slots, the 7th is shoehorned between the NF200 chip cooler at the top.

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