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 Board  8-pin power  CPU Socket area  Back of PCB GIGABYTE uses their standard purple PCB with the X58A-UD7 board. They have made many motherboards usually of a purple color and this one is no different. The upper right hand corner of the board holds an 8-pin power connector. The CPU Socket is a LGA-1366 Socket that can take either the Core i7 CPUs or the upcoming 6-core Gulftown CPU.  Back MOSFET  Heatpipe  Water block  Side MOSFET The CPU area is surrounded on three sides but the clearance is enough to use after-market cooling solutions for the CPU. There are two MOSFET heatsinks connected by two heatpipes. These lead to the X58 Northbridge which is covered by a waterblock. If you are using a water-cooling system or don’t want to install the Hybrid SilentPipe 2 you need do nothing. I’ve already described installing the Silent Pipe II. A large heatsink covers the ICH10R Southbridge, the Marvell 9128 chip and the TSB43AB23 chip.  DIMM Slots  ITE chip  Ultra Durable 3  24-pin power The board has six DIMM slots for up to 24GB of DDR3 memory. The board supports DDR3 memory up to 2100MHz in speed. Note as the memory controller is on the CPU and not the Northbridge as earlier chipsets would have, the higher clocked memory is only available for those who overclock their CPU to get the higher clock speed memory. The Core i7 CPU on the LGA-1366 Socket supports Triple channel memory with like colored memory slots being used for that mode.  FP I/O  SATA  L chip  USB headers The bottom of the board starts off with an ITE chip. This chip controls the Floppy port, the keyboard and mouse ports. This is followed by a 24-pin power connector which forms the power requirements of the board. . There is an onboard Power button on the right of the board as well as a purple Reset button next to that. Two 3-pin fan headers are above and next to the 24-pin power connector.  CPUFan header  TI chip  Dual BIOS chips  FDD+Firewire GIGABYTE has ten SATA ports on the board. The ICH10R Southbridge can control a maximum of six SATA ports so they had to add controllers to use ten of them. The UCG Two of the ports are controlled by a GIGABYTE SATA2 controller. The ICH10R can do RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 and JBOD modes. To use the SATA 6 Gb/s ports you need to connect it to the ports labeled SATA3. To use the GIGABYTE SATA2 controller use the far left hand ports.  ITE chip  SYSFAN header  NEC USB 3.0 chip  Power button Expansion on the board consists of four PCI Express x16 slots. The x58 Express chipset has up to 36 PCI Express lanes so if four video cards are installed; they operate at x8 data rates each slot and card. The X58A-UD7 motherboard has three slots grouped together, meaning you will need to use single slot video cards if you want to install four cards. 3-way SLI or Crossfire is possible on this board with three dual-slot cards, meaning three HD 5870s or Fermi video cards can be installed. There are also two PCI Express x1 slots and a PCI slot on the board.  Expansion  ASMT chips  Marvell chip  Realtek RTL8111L PHYs GIGABYTE includes the ALC889 sound CODEC for their board. This is a popular onboard sound CODEC used by many manufacturers. It fully supports the High Definition Audio CODEC. The ALC889 CODEC is Dolby Home Theater certified and allows for multi-streaming which means you can have 7.1 speakers and a set of headphones plugged in at the same time. The Rear I/O on the board consists of keyboard and mouse PS/2 ports, optical and coaxial S/PDIF ports, four USB 2.0 ports, two e-SATA/USB 2.0 combo ports, two USB 3.0 ports, 1394a and 1394b Firewire ports, two RJ-45 jacks for the onboard Gigabit LAN and six audio jacks for the onboard audio.  ALC889  Realtek HD Control Panel  Driver version  Rear I/O Contents:
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