14 DAY TRIAL // Gigabyte seems to be going X58 crazy lately as during the presentation of its G1-Killer gaming motherboard line, the Taiwanese company teased yet another LGA 1366 solution, this time specially designed to target hard-core overclockers.
The presentation was held during the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show that takes place in Las Vegas, Nevada and was made by the company's deputy director of motherboard marketing, Tim Handly.
According to Tweak Town, when delivering his keynote speech, the Gigabyte official, gave the audience a glimpse of a new board built just for overclocking.
Designed by a famous overclocker that goes by the name of Hi Cookie, the unnamed board features a new color scheme, called OC Orange by the Taiwanese company.
Gigabyte says this motherboard has been stripped bare of all the peripherals that are usually bundled with high performance motherboards, such as gaming-orientated NICs and high-end audio codecs, in order to deliver a simplified trace layout and power management scheme.
In addition, the board get rid of all but one PCI card, swapping them for four PCI Express x16 slots that are presumably powered by an Nvidia nForce 200 chipset to provide quad-SLI support.
The area around the CPU has also been cleared of any protrusions to make it more dry ice and LN2 pot friendly.
Three on-board buttons can be spotted right under the six DDR3 memory slots, these most likely allowing for powering and resetting the board as well as clearing the CMOS.
No other details are available at this time, but since the mobo was designed together with Hi Cookie I am willing to bet that it will indeed make for a more then decent benching board.
End of it all, this motherboard seems like a much more interesting addition then the G1.Assassin that we presented yesterday, although it doesn't change the fact that the days of Intel's LGA 1366 platform are numbered. (via Hardware Canucks)