Gigabyte GA-X79-UD5

GIGABYTE X79-UD5 Motherboard

If you're an avid reader of Bjorn3D, you may have realized that we have reviewed a lot of motherboards in the past years. I have personally been on the band wagon, testing and playing around with motherboards starting with the P35 and X38 chipsets and seen the change in the technology and components used on these motherboards. The release of a new chipset usually means that there's something new about the motherboard and that it is capable of running the latest and best hardware available on the market, or it could also be just a different chipset for a different market segment. These are the times when manufacturers like GIGABYTE like to show off their latest features and advancements that they have been developing for several months or years. This time around, we have GIGABYTE's X79-UD5 high-end motherboard, the top performance X79 chipset platform combined with Intel's flagship Core i7-3960X Extreme 6-Core processor. With the release of the X79-UD5, GIGABYTE also introduced their latest features, a new Dual UEFI BIOS, and a new digital power design for the CPU and Memory, called 3D Power. While we've been waiting for these upgrades for a while now, it is also questionable whether we can call these new features 'upgrades'.