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Its nice to see a "classy" motherboard its not all flashy and it looks nice.

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Gigabyte seems to be doing the right things. The color scheme looks amazing. Couple that with the High-resolution UEFI and I can see the board being a HUGE success  :)

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Can the motherboard makers make a board in the 1155 or 1150 socket WITHOUT VGA n DVI

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It's interesting to see a mosfet heatsink seeing as haswell has vrm built in now

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Can the motherboard makers make a board in the 1155 or 1150 socket WITHOUT VGA n DVI

you need dvi for surround. and its still a viable thing, vga on the other hand

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Can the motherboard makers make a board in the 1155 or 1150 socket WITHOUT VGA n DVI

 

They have, It's called socket AM3 ;)

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Great colour scheme Gigabyte has chosen to go with.

 

They've come so far with how they design their boards that I might just get myself one of them when I move on to Haswell

 

Plus that new Bios oooo. Gigabyte you are tempting me

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I just want to see the completed Z87X-OC board already. That UEFI BIOS looked amazing and their new software has me excited. Will take the leap to Gigabyte with 1150.

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you need dvi for surround. and its still a viable thing, vga on the other hand

surround on integrated graphics.......  :D, seriously though, DVI and VGA no longer have a point being on the rear IO for desktops. A simple HDMI and Display port connector would be better and take up less room. Notebooks and Ultrabooks which are mean't to be portable are a different story for VGA

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On a seperate note, the UD3H is looking good, personally I want to see what the UP5/potential UP7 looks like  :D

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The motherboard looks amazing. The color scheme is awesome. I love the black PCB, combined with grey and blue. :)

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I hate to say it again, but...

 

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It's up to you now, MSI... and EVGA I guess.  If they can sort out the other problems they've had.  Being EVGA maybe they'll even throw in a right angled 24-pin connector... :D

 

Seriously though, Gigabyte could have swapped the position of the supplemental SATA power and made that one straight up so it wouldn't block the mounting hole, and the put a right-angled USB 3.0 header where the SATA power is.  Since the connectors on the SATA power cables themselves are right-angled on a lot of power supplies, it would have worked out nicely... and as for blocking the mounting hole hopefully builders would have screwed in the motherboard before plugging in their power cables...

 

On a more positive note though I love the look of this board.  Much less flash than what we've seen so far (ASRock put up a nice show too actually).  The fully black PCB I like though.  The black/grey theme I love and the solid-style heatsinks are very nice looking.  Overall I like it.  The dual USB 3.0 headers are welcome as well, maybe we'll start seeing cases with 4x front USB 3.0 now.  Dual BIOS again is nice, the only complaint I have is again the red power button... so out of place color-wise -__-

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really nice. gigabyte boards have been looking better and better.

 

doesn't haswell have built in vrm? whats the deal with the heatsinks?

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really nice. gigabyte boards have been looking better and better.

 

doesn't haswell have built in vrm? whats the deal with the heatsinks?

They're for the MOSFETs and chokes.  VRMs is just a part of the power delivery, not the whole thing  ;)

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This board is a total non-factor for me. The other manufacturers are getting rid of Sata II, this one still has Sata II on it. Not a big fan of the colour scheme anyway. What's with VGA NOT DYING ALREADY?

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Most of us have a mechanical hard drive or two anyway, so SATA II isn't that much of an issue.  Z87 supports 6x SATA III natively so it's not like your losing SATA III ports for SATA II, they could have easily just stuck with the 6x SATA III ports alone.  Agree with the VGA thing; just put in DVI-I and be done with it, free up some space.  Or just drop it completely.

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That looks very good considering the low price.

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you need dvi for surround. and its still a viable thing, vga on the other hand

but it looks ugly! there's only a handful of mb's out there that I can think of that doesn't have DVI or VGA and they are both ASUS boards. (sabertooth n the rog)

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I hate to say it again, but...

 

37568121.jpg

 

It's up to you now, MSI... and EVGA I guess.  If they can sort out the other problems they've had.  Being EVGA maybe they'll even throw in a right angled 24-pin connector... :D

 

Seriously though, Gigabyte could have swapped the position of the supplemental SATA power and made that one straight up so it wouldn't block the mounting hole, and the put a right-angled USB 3.0 header where the SATA power is.  Since the connectors on the SATA power cables themselves are right-angled on a lot of power supplies, it would have worked out nicely... and as for blocking the mounting hole hopefully builders would have screwed in the motherboard before plugging in their power cables...

 

On a more positive note though I love the look of this board.  Much less flash than what we've seen so far (ASRock put up a nice show too actually).  The fully black PCB I like though.  The black/grey theme I love and the solid-style heatsinks are very nice looking.  Overall I like it.  The dual USB 3.0 headers are welcome as well, maybe we'll start seeing cases with 4x front USB 3.0 now.  Dual BIOS again is nice, the only complaint I have is again the red power button... so out of place color-wise -__-

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from what i can see, every Z87 motherboard looks the same as the last gen, just different chipset, north bridge and USB 3.0.... then again thats how it is every year... still looks really nice and clean

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Hopefully gigabyte's Z87 boards are just as great for hackintoshes as the Z77s are.

 

What I would really like would be better onboard sound and built in wifi in a $150-170 board. That could slaughter the competition. 

 

But I wonder, where is the msata? 

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Hopefully gigabyte's Z87 boards are just as great for hackintoshes as the Z77s are.

 

What I would really like would be better onboard sound and built in wifi in a $150-170 board. That could slaughter the competition. 

 

But I wonder, where is the msata? 

The UD3H isn't their highest end board and they usually don't have mSATA on it.

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from what i can see, every Z87 motherboard looks the same as the last gen, just different chipset, north bridge and USB 3.0.... then again thats how it is every year... still looks really nice and clean

 

Actually I like the heatsink design on this much better than Gigabyte's Z77 boards.  And Intel boards haven't had northbridges for years O.o

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