Gigabyte 8 Series Motherboard Pictures Tease

[Artorias]

Gigabyte teases pictures of their upcoming motherboard. Seems like there will be led strips across the board and it's looking pretty sexy. Here are the pictures:

[Glenwing]

Oh god, the lime green in the corner of picture 2... I'm afraid xD

[IPCharger]

Oh god why green... The first pic reminds me of the sound chip on the Asus Maximus V Formula, it even has a green line instead of a red one separating it from the rest of the PCB.

[Kilmer02]

They're doing it so they can say they are going 'green'... Dun dun tiss* :D

[mgsstar]

Looks like a very clean and plain board with not many functions. Maybe they are creating eco friendly budget boards?

[m0n5t3r]

Isn't the Haswell CPUs' power design built into the CPU it self?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but this might explain the clean layout.

[rainbrodash666]

Isn't the Haswell CPUs' power design built into the CPU it self?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but this might explain the clean layout.

yes but you can still add more power phases on the board to make the power delivery more stable. like the difference between a 20+4 phase and a 4+2 phase vrm, or at least that is how i understand it, since the power phase is built into the chip mobo manufacturers can't make a board with bad power but you can always make it better.

[Artorias]

By the way guys, the motherboard name is the "Gigabyte G1 Killer" a Z87 board.

[Samdb]

They're doing it so they can say they are going 'green'... Dun dun tiss* :D

Damnit...

[CoffeeBlack]

It looks to me, that the green line by the creative sound chip is the same thing Asus implements on the ROG boards.

[Wauthar]

Finally better on-board audio?

[Artorias]

Finally better on-board audio?

Gigabyte and ASUS already have motherboards w/ better on-board audio. The Gigabyte G1 Series board and the ASUS Maximus V Formula has them, IIRC.

[cYbErpILs]

Do you think this is going to be part of the G1 series? (because of the green). I'm pretty agog what the lime green is gonna look like in a full system with a suiting colour scheme ...

[mumbojumbogumbo]

If they have the main part of the board black with green accents, I think I found my new board :)

Gigabyte boards always look the best.

[ShadowVirus]

It'll be water cooling enabled - http://bit.ly/11G7uWF via Gigabyte

Odd to see VRM components to the right side of the socket. Does that mean the RAM will be in a different place then the usual right side?

[Artorias]

Do you think this is going to be part of the G1 series? (because of the green). I'm pretty agog what the lime green is gonna look like in a full system with a suiting colour scheme ...

Yup! It's the Gigabyte G1 Killer Z87 board. If you want to go green, the G1 Series is the best boards you could find.

[Glenwing]

It'll be water cooling enabled - http://bit.ly/11G7uWF via Gigabyte

The picture shows the power phases are on the left side of the socket. You must be confused about what the socket looks like.