Likely to be eclipsed in terms of number by Asus' 8 board army, Gigabyte is also preparing a nice line-up of motherboards that are compatible with AMD's upcoming 45nm AM3 processors. Including the GA-MA770T-UD3P, the GA-MA790X-UD4P and the camera-loving GA-MA790FXT-UD5P seen below, Gigabyte's AM3 offer has nothing but Ultra Durable 3 boards that, interestingly enough, stop at having a maximum of two PCI-Express x16 slots, whereas Asus goes all the way up to four with two of its products.

Back to Gigabyte though, its three motherboards all feature support for AM3 CPUs with a TDP of up to 140W, have 4 DDR3-1600+ memory slots, Gigabit LAN, at least 6 SATA 3.0 Gbps ports, 7.1 channel audio, and DualBIOS. The highest-end model, the 790FX and SB750-powered GA-MA790FXT-UD5P comes with a total of 10 SATA ports, two Gigabit ports and two eSATA connectors. Yet unpriced, all three blue-colored boards are expected to hit the stores just before the first AMD AM3 CPUs come out, probably around the end of Q1.

GA-MA790FXT-UD5P