There’s still some time before Intel’s Sandy Bridge hit stores, but Gigabyte seemed to be very anxious about showing off their Sandy Bridge ready motherboard. Here we have a look at their high-end GA-P67A-UD7 motherboard, which is a socket LGA-1155 processor. Note that Sandy Bridge uses LGA-1155 compared to the previous LGA-1156 socket, which is very much different.

Resembling the GA-P55A-UD7 in many aspects, this board features a 24-phase VRM. Apart from the Intel P67 PCH, an NVIDIA nForce 200 bridge chip multiplies the processor’s 16 PCI-E 2.0 lanes intro 32 PCI-E 2.0 lanes, which split up between four PCI-Express 2.0 x16 slots, depending on how they are populated. The monolithic VRM+chipset cooler has a water-block for better cooling. Other expansion slots include one PCI-E x1, and two PCI. The usual plethora of connectivity features, such as dual Gigabit Ethernet, USB 3.0, SATA 6 Gb/s, eSATA, and 7.1 channel HD audio, are also present. Expect this board to be out in 2011, so don’t worry as you still have time to eco for some new rig hardware.