GIGABYTE Z77 motherboards

The highly anticipated successor to the Sandy Bridge is just around the corner and the motherboard manufacturers are all eager to show off their latest creation. The upcoming socket 1155[PRBREAK][/PRBREAK] motherboard will support second and third generation Intel Core CPUs.

We previewed the MSI Z77-GD65 last week, and today we're looking at GIGABYTE’s line up. GIGABYTE has a total of ten motherboards available. Nine of the boards are based on the Z77 chipset while one of them uses the H77 chipset.

G1.Sniper 3

GA-Z77X-UD5H WiFi

GA-Z77X-UD5H

GA-Z77X-UD3H

GA-Z77X-D3H

G1.Sniper M3

GA-Z77-D3H

GA-Z77MX-D3H

GA-Z77M-D3H

GA-H77-D3H

Besides the chipset difference, the main difference between the model numbers is that the boards designated "Z77X" support CrossFireX and SLI in dual x8 configuration. While all motherboards will support CrossFireX, only the "X" models will support CrossFireX and SLI in dual x8 configuration. The "U" are designation is for boards that feature GIGABYTE’s Ultra Durable 4 while "D" is for boards with Ultra Durable 4 Classic. As far as we can tell the main difference between the Classic and non-classic Ultra Durable 4 is the non-classic features the 2oz of copper for PCB that helps with heat dissipation. Finally, "M" designated boards have an mATX form factor while non-M have an ATX form factor.

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