IDF Goodness - Gigabyte X79 Motherboards Reveled

Last year Gigabyte unveiled their P67 line at IDF which marked a radical change in direction for Gigabyte.  First of all they changed the board colors from light blue to matte black and updated the heatsink design to better align the accent colors with the segment level. 

Well, in keeping with tradition there is a new line of motherboards on display.  This time based on the Intel X79.

The X79A-OC we are told was built to be the X79A-OC, but as many have heard there will be no more boards named the OC board. As you can obviously see the board carries the same color coordination, as well as the same features, and a few more such as the DIP switches, which we don't know what they do.

Be sure to check out SinHardware.com for some good photos of the upcoming boards including the new X79A-UD7(OC) board.  Yep, as we had suspected the OC and UD7 lines have been combined.

You'll also notice two different boards, one based on four memory sockets with the other having eight.  Boards that come with eight memory sockets will likely be higher-end than the four socket edition but may not work as well for overclocking.

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