Gigabyte has a new flagship on the horizon with the massive Z77X-UP7

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  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    Let me count the ways I want this motherboard.
    mertesn
  • fatcatfatcat Mizzou Icrontian
    oooooohhhhhh black and orange, two favorite colors... WANT!

    also, make me a mini-ITX version as well kthx
  • TushonTushon I'm scared, Coach Alexandria, VA Icrontian
    I wants it.
  • azraelw3xazraelw3x New
    CrossFireX *and* SLI compatibility? I wasn't aware that it was even possible for one board to support both. Have other manufacturers been doing this?
  • Straight_ManStraight_Man Geeky, in my own way Naples, FL Icrontian
    edited August 2012
    Gigabyte is board mfr, but Intel Chipset Z77 supports this. You can, to be clear, either CrossfireX or SLI, board is not triple video card board unless I am mistaken. Thus not both at once.
  • mertesnmertesn I am Bobby Miller Yukon, OK Icrontian
    azraelw3x said:

    CrossFireX *and* SLI compatibility? I wasn't aware that it was even possible for one board to support both. Have other manufacturers been doing this?

    Beginning with the X58 chipset, Intel platforms have supported both SLI and CrossfireX. AMD's 900-series chipsets introduced SLI support for non-NVIDIA chipsets. AMD allows anyone to use CrossfireX, but NVIDIA wants a license for SLI, which is why you don't see official support on a lot of pre-900 AMD motherboards. Of course there are ways around the NVIDIA block, but those involve driver modification and may not always work as intended.
  • mertesnmertesn I am Bobby Miller Yukon, OK Icrontian
    Straight_Man said:

    Gigabyte is board mfr, but Intel Chipset Z77 supports this. You can, to be clear, either CrossfireX or SLI, board is not triple video card board unless I am mistaken. Thus not both at once.

    Triple GPUs are supported as long as you have the PCI Express slots, CrossfireX/SLI bridges, and GPUs to run it.

    I'm pretty sure you cannot have both SLI and CrossfireX operating in the same system at the same time.
  • ytsoc
    Ok, for those of us who have a certain amount of electronics knowledge it just doesn't cut it to show some button pressing and say you just draw 800amps .
    I wanna see how you connected to the motherboard, how you tricked it to deliver that power, and most of all i want to see the wires that deliver those 300amps to each of those machines
  • mertesnmertesn I am Bobby Miller Yukon, OK Icrontian
    That was a Gigabyte-produced video. I have no knowledge of their setup.
  • TushonTushon I'm scared, Coach Alexandria, VA Icrontian
    I've been around the internet and seen quite a few shops in my time ... so ... the pixels
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited August 2012
    Nick is correct: all Intel chipsets since X58 have an SLI license. CrossFire doesn't need a license, so any dual X16 (or better) board well do.
  • RootWyrmRootWyrm Icrontian
    edited August 2012
    Got excited when I saw 4 DIMMs on the forward edge of the board.
    Got depressed when I realized there was no matching 4 set on the rear edge of the board.
    "Oh wait, 1155. DANGIT."

    4 DIMMs = No Sale.
  • shwaipshwaip bluffin' with my muffin Icrontian
    RootWyrm said:

    Got excited when I saw 4 DIMMs on the forward edge of the board.
    Got depressed when I realized there was no matching 4 set on the rear edge of the board.
    "Oh wait, 1155. DANGIT."

    4 DIMMs = No Sale.

    Ugh totally. I'm ALWAYS running over 32GB of ram.

    wait. no. i'm not.
  • mertesnmertesn I am Bobby Miller Yukon, OK Icrontian
    RootWyrm said:

    Got excited when I saw 4 DIMMs on the forward edge of the board.
    Got depressed when I realized there was no matching 4 set on the rear edge of the board.
    "Oh wait, 1155. DANGIT."

    4 DIMMs = No Sale.

    If memory serves, LGA1155 only supports a maximum of 4 DIMMs
  • Straight_ManStraight_Man Geeky, in my own way Naples, FL Icrontian
    Right, Dual Channel, 2 Dimms per channel.
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