Gigabyte GA-X79S-UP5-WIFI and GA-X79-UP4 @ PureOverclock

The first wave of "refresh" motherboards has been making their rounds to the review sites.  PureOverclock is looking at the new X79 boards from Gigabyte using the new UD5 technology.

New products in the desktop sector have taken somewhat of a break for a bit. Intel's latest Ivy Bridge release has settled in and Haswell is slated for mid 2013. As for the immediate future, Intel is on the brink of releasing Ivy Bridge "E" extreme processors in the next quater, and Intel continues Socket 2011 with the X79 chipset. In the meantime, some may have forgotten that Sandy Bridge "E" processors still remain a viable and even better performing platform than Ivy Bridge. Today, we have a dual-motherboard review, and both of them are from Gigabyte: the GA-Z79S-UP5 WiFi and the GA-X79-UP4.  Let’s see how they fare.

With the rumors of Ivy Bridge E trickling out of IDF you can be assured there will be more attention paid to X79 in the near future.

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