GA-X79-UD7 - Enthusiast and Overclocking

This time the UD7 is the board which addresses Overclockers as well as enthusiasts. Therefore you get a lot of overclocking features with this board. For example, there are the OC buttons you might already know from the X58A-OC. Using the plus and minus buttons you can increase/decrease either multiplyer or BLCK. In the same area on the board you find a power button as well as voltage measuring points which allow to read out current voltages. Next to the DIMM slots on the upper left side of the board there are two ATX 12V connectors. For even more stability there are two SATA power connectors at the right edge of the board.
Regarding the power design we count 28 phases. Again this is a strange number and we already pointed this out when discussing the UD5.
Like on the UD3 there are four full size PCI Express slots. The first and the third are x16 slots and the second as well as the fourth are x8 slots. This means that you can even build a quad SLI or a CrossFireX setup using four cards.


Similar to the UD3 and UD5 the UD7 comes with a black matte PCB. On this board you get orange design elements, which means that the PCI-Express slots, two DIMM slots and parts of the cooling blocks are being kept in orange.
The UD7 again comes with four DIMM slots. Using 8 Gigabyte modules it would be possible to equip this board with 32 Gigabyte of memroy. The UD7 also needed an extended ATX PCB but this time it's not because of the DIMM slots, is much more because of all the overclocking features.
A closer look at the I/O panel lets us guess that Gigabyte decided to equip this board with eight USB3.0 ports, two USB2.0 connectors, an analogue Audio panel, an optical audio out, a Gigabit Ethernet port, a PS2 mouse/keyboard connector as well as a clear CMOS button.


Analgue to the UD5 there are no less then ten SATA connectors. All of them have been angled by 90 degrees, which means that there wont be any incompatibilities with oversized expansion cards. The only thing which a dual slot graphics card can cover concerns the connectors at the bottom edge of the board.

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