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How about a cool $700?

Super low production quantity, for the most part, accounts for the high cost. Contrary to what some might think, all the premium enthusiast boards are produced in the tens of thousands. 150K sold would be a huge success for a premium enthusiast board.

I get a chuckle when I receive a marketing email from Newegg advertising their "best selling motherboard" of the month or whatever, and its a $300+ enthusiast or workstation/server board that has a quarter of the reviews that many mainstream performance boards have.
 
So what does the UD9 have that the UD7 doesn't?

I gave it a quick look-see but couldn't find anything that stood out immediately.

EDIT: Only support for 6-core? Doesn't the UD7 already run the 6-core 980x just fine?
 
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holy shit that thing's densely populated:
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i don't think you could fit anything else on there.
 
Seems only suited for those running three high end video cards. But there are other boards that can do that for a lot less than $700.00. That said, it's obviously for people with deep pockets. I guess if you can afford three $500.00 video cards, what's another $700.00 for a motherboard?
 
Yeem said:
So what does the UD9 have that the UD7 doesn't?

I gave it a quick look-see but couldn't find anything that stood out immediately.

EDIT: Only support for 6-core? Doesn't the UD7 already run the 6-core 980x just fine?
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In D&D terms, it's a +2 UD7 which as everyone knows is wayyyyy better.
 
Yeem said:
So what does the UD9 have that the UD7 doesn't?

I gave it a quick look-see but couldn't find anything that stood out immediately.

EDIT: Only support for 6-core? Doesn't the UD7 already run the 6-core 980x just fine?
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2 more UD's, DUH! 😀
 
About $350 overpriced!
Asus P6T7 and EVGA 762 are identical aside from USB 3.0 SATA 6.0. (two features that folders/extreme gamers could not care less about to boot!)

IMO "real" USB 3.0 boards will arrive with X68.
 
How are they identical? Doesn't the gigabyte board support a full four lanes of pci-e at 16x while the evga board only two?
 
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How are they identical? Doesn't the gigabyte board support a full four lanes of pci-e at 16x while the evga board only two?
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Both use a pair of NF200s. The P6T7 and 762 Classified do too. Plenty of bandwidth. The P6T7 has superior throughput for storage i/o if that matters. (it does for me!)
 
Ruby, the evga board can run four video cards each at 16x? Maybe my confusion stems from the newegg spec sheet or my limited understanding of the bandwidth lanes themselves but what I read at newegg is:

evga board:

PCI Express 2.0 x16 1 x PCI-E x16 slots, running at x16
3 x PCI-E x16 slots, running at x16/x8
3 x PCI-E x16 slots, running at x8

gigabyte board:

4 x PCI Express x16 slots, running at x16 (PCIEX16_1/PCIEX16_2/PCIEX16_3/PCIEX16_4)
 
Yes all four can run at 16X.

Not that it matters one iota. 😉

CitanUzuki said:
Ruby, the evga board can run four video cards each at 16x? Maybe my confusion stems from the newegg spec sheet or my limited understanding of the bandwidth lanes themselves but what I read at newegg is:

evga board:

PCI Express 2.0 x16 1 x PCI-E x16 slots, running at x16
3 x PCI-E x16 slots, running at x16/x8
3 x PCI-E x16 slots, running at x8

gigabyte board:

4 x PCI Express x16 slots, running at x16 (PCIEX16_1/PCIEX16_2/PCIEX16_3/PCIEX16_4)
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