A front-on shot of the GIGABYTE GA-P67-UD5 motherboard, notable for its blue chipset cooling. The whole board has a black PCB, with black expansion slots and black memory. We like!
Source: AtomicMCP
The chipset cooling appears to be magnesium-based, and is shaped very distinctively (like a Zippo lighter with grooves).
There's the usual amount of componentry on the motherboard, and it's packed with all the GIGABYTE features they've designed thus far - plus a few more.
The bottom of the board is where the secret lies, and whatever lies under the tape is completely obscured from view.
Here's the GIGABYTE GA-P67-UD7 motherboard, a much higher-end model that offers extra features like that LED POST screen.
The base colour remains the same, though it's accented with gold. That's some serious power delivery circuitry around the LGA1155 socket too!
There seems to be the usual complement of PCIe lanes, but we've spotted four USB3.0 ports on the rear I/O panel - there's only one NEC chipset onboard, suggesting that the chipset does include it natively.
The heatsinks seems to be incorporating the same magnesium core with coloured aluminium for the 'gold'. Of course, heatpipes link them up.
We again see the pieces of tape stuck to the bottom of the motherboard. It's looking more and more like USB3.0 headers, at this stage.
One last shot of the board. Also notice the SLI and Crossfire logos silkscreened to the board - NVIDIA are throwing their hat into the ring too.
A front-on shot of the GIGABYTE GA-P67-UD5 motherboard, notable for its blue chipset cooling. The whole board has a black PCB, with black expansion slots and black memory. We like!
Source: AtomicMCP