The much rumored Gigabyte UD9 that had once topped the Futuremark Hall of Fame a few weeks ago is finally beginning to show up in pictures all over the net. These pictures are showing this board being overclocked on LN2 with 4 GPUs. Many of the previous records that this board had set on April 1st unfortunately have already been broken by the ASUS Rampage 3 Extreme. As a result, we expect to see a new faceoff between the three enthusiast motherboard manufacturers in ASUS, EVGA and Gigabyte.

This board will feature not one, but two NF200 chips which will provide full X16 bandwidth to all 4 graphics cards when installed. And since it is an X58A board it will also feature both SATA 6G and USB 3.0 among other things like the standard X58 features. Also notice the dual 8 pin power connectors for CPU. This follows both the EVGA’s and ASUS’ designs for their extreme overclocking boards as well. As many of the pictures may show, this board has a Gigabyte UDP7 PCB updated to be called the UD9. This appears to be a renaming of the board on Gigabyte’s end even though nothing appears to have changed from the UDP7 engineering samples. We have to admit, that our biggest complaint for this board’s layout has to be the placement and use of an IDE connector. They’re yesterday’s news and they take up a ridiculous amount of space. Not to mention, one is placed right between the SATA 6G connectors. As one can see, this board does not fit the standard ATX formfactor. This means that users will need to fit this motherboard on a bench or in a very large case. In addition to that, they’ve added two 4 pin molex connectors for additional power to the board.

Below are some pictures that we’ve managed to obtain through various forum postings.

Pictured above and below is the Gigabyte X58A-UD9 as it is known with 4 Gigabyte 5870 Super Overclock videocards.

Picture credit goes to Dinos22 at XS.

Original Author: Anshel Sag

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