Gigabyte unveils Dragon motherboard

Mumbai: Gigabyte announced launch of the GA-MA790FXT-UD5P, their first AMD Dragon Platform qualified motherboard with next generation AMD AM3 Phenom II processors support.

The Gigabyte GA-MA790FXT-UD5P allows users to elevate their rig beyond the standard limits with support of the 45nm AMD Phenom II processors featuring HyperTransport 3.0 and integrated DDR3 memory controller.

Equipped with the AMD 790FX North Bridge, the motherboard offers Dual x16 PCI-E 2.0 graphics interfaces to deliver up the ATI CrossFireX support for the gaming platform. Plugging in dual graphics cards also enables support for up to 4 monitors.

The GA-MA790FXT-UD5P is the latest edition to the Gigabyte lineup of Ultra Durable 3 motherboards. Featuring the industry's first consumer desktop motherboard design to introduce

2 ounces of copper for both the Power and Ground layers, Gigabyte Ultra Durable 3 motherboards deliver lower system temperature, energy efficiency and stability for overclocking. Gigabyte Ultra Durable 3 motherboards also feature Japanese Solid Capacitors boasting 50,000 hours of operation, Ferrite core chokes with higher energy efficiency compared to the commonly used iron core chokes and Lower RDS(on) MOSFETs that features a lower resistance, which reduces power consumption and heat generation.

The motherboard delivers a combined total of up to 10 SATA 2.0 device support. In addition to the 6 SATA 2.0 (3Gb/s) ports from the SB750 (with RAID 0, 1, 5, 10, and JBOD support), it provides an additional 4 SATA 2.0 ports through the onboard JMicron controller (JM363 & JM322 with RAID 0, 1, and JBOD support), enabling Gigabyte's Smart Backup technology which allows users to connect up to 4 SATA 2.0 devices for hardware-based RAID data protection on-the-fly. The device also features Dual Gigabit LAN connections with teaming, which allows two single connections to act as a single connection for twice the bandwidth to improve overall throughput.

Gigabyte products are distributed in India by Avnet (India), Ingram Micro, Redington. The Gigabyte GA-MA790FXT-UD5P motherboard is priced at Rs 14,990.