Motherboard Gigabyte X58A-UD9 on chipset Intel X58
Gigabyte company released a very interesting motherboard X58A-UD9 on chipset Intel X58, which immediately attracted the attention of the whole IT-industry. The reason is quite clear – on this board is installed, seven (!) Slots PCI Express x16, and board size exceeds the size of a standard form factor ATX.
Of course, the market already present on board chipset Intel X58, which has four PEG slots, in particular – a model ASRock X58 SuperComputer, which is made in a standard form factor ATX. However, the fundamental difference between these boards are. The standard Intel X58 chipset provides for the needs of developers of 36 lines, bus PCI Express v2.0, that in the case with four PEG slots for maximum configuration of 4×8. At the same time, the motherboard Gigabyte X58A-UD9 for each of the four “core” PEG slots allocated to 16 lines of tires, that the amount required to 64 lines. Gigabyte engineers have additional lines PCI-E by installation fee of two chips NVIDIA NF200, in this case is a “core” PCI-Express slot with alternation, which allows you to install four video cards with dual slotted cooling system.
Between these slots are “additional” PEG slots, which are allocated to eight lines of bus PCI-E. Moreover, the data lines are collected “from the” core “slots, and the final distribution lines, PCI-Express bus is as follows – 8 8 8 8 8 8 16. It is clear that the installation of two additional chips NVIDIA NF200, as well as other essential elements, has led to the need to increase the size of payments to the form factor XL-ATX – 262 mm x 345 mm.
The motherboard X58A-UD9 is the flagship product line Gigabyte, so it is not surprising that the developers have set her a large number of additional controllers. The most powerfully realized disk subsystem, which includes 10 (!) Channels SerialATA 3 Gb / s and two channels SerialATA 6 Gb / s. In this case the engineers left the support of one channel ParallelATA, that allows you to connect to the board a total of up to 14 drives! Other possible extensions are also made at a high level, as a set of overclocking tools. Therefore, the reasons for the hype around the board Gigabyte X58A-UD9 become so understandable.
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