Gigabyte GA-P67A-UD3 (1155) not working properly

[Lon]

I bought the GA-P67A-UD3 because I required a table taken from 1155 to go with my needs and it would be too costly. The board allows x16/x4 connectivity in PCI-Express video card (but only if not using any other PCI Express slot). I will use a GeForce 580 video card in the first slot and a Geforce 9800GT as a PhysX card in second slot. I could not see what utter stupidity Gigabyte's designers were in when they decided to put the two SATA 6.0 GB / s connectors right in the same area where a video card would be in the second slot. I could not; with the single slot cooled 9800GT to place the card and use SATA slots mattered most. Also, I want to install a heat sink ThermalTake Frio (mass), the location of the RAM slots were so close to the CPU slot that I cannot use the cold, because the height of the diffusers RAM heat was too far in the area where the Frio ThermalTake would sit atop the CPU. The position of the memory slots is too close to the CPU socket to make use of an aftermarket heatsink and RAM with heat spreaders far above the ground. Then I bought a Corsair H50, thinking that is smaller profile on the CPU work, and I realized that the engineers screwed them at Gigabyte me again, putting some capacitors to the immediate left of the CPU socket in the area in a refrigerator sat on the CPU in. This prevents the H50 to be able to turn its retaining ring. Had to be creative and put the H50 in its blocking position outside of the box and align the ring bolts nuts holding the heat sink that surrounds the socket. So another failure was that the CPU socket is very close to some unidentifiable capacitors may well in the way of installing the heatsinks aftermarket.

[Alexisus]

No misdemeanor to you, and those consumers should not have to spend the little details like this that closely, but SATA is not really new for them. I've had this question in multiple forums for multiple shots. At least it was not like tables where if you had a dual slot card would lose 4 of 6 SATA ports, but still, right angle ports on the edge of the plate would have been much more enjoyable. By the way, are the two that are blocked SATA2? I thought the council had two SATA3 (white port) and four SATA2 (blue port). The memory is also quite common and not limited to Gigabyte. You'll notice a most of citizens, particularly those along with high-end equipment, end 2/4/6 along with 1/3/5 slots with empty because they cannot meet their high RAM in the first period with massive heat sinks have been. Just another thing you have to live with or find an alternative solution.

[Nutty]

Hello according to me, to be fair most manufacturers design a table around standard parts, such as the processor cooler and the Intel real fan, standard RAM. Perhaps investigate before buying the board as soon as they hit the stores that have helped too, as Gigabyte had this problem in the past with the second PCI-E slot on certain motherboards. If you really want to know about this then make a internet search you will find solution for your query. Thank you.

[Terrextre]

I am thankful for the responses. I may have researched before hand, but I have to admit that I was at the search of my build as soon as possible. However, I by no means thought it would be enough to block the ports in the second pci-x16. The ports are in the driver that works 6.0 Gbs, SATA 3. There are the two ports on the Gigabyte board. Gigabyte SATA cables supplied four sata cable. Even off curves of the space required, yet the video card and found them not fit. I had to take the metal box on a single slot cooler on the 9800GT to be creative and make it just fit.

[Logan.M]

Now that is odd. I just finished installing the board itself; I am also using a H50. I never noticed any problems mounting coldplate at all. I'm thinking that was not installed correctly H50, somehow. I installed the retaining ring before it attaches to the motherboard. Anyway, continued without incident. I see you did not mention the placement of the CMOS battery. It is just below the GPU if the slot SATA ports are frustrating 1.The! I think I am lucky because I have some very low profile right angle cables. I also realized that the management of ports is impossible for me. I prefer fishing cables otherwise.

[Balamani]

Well in my case, it’s affecting the installation. I have built over 100 computers, only information from people. (I used to do for a living). But I think it may have been an opportunity for me not to install the H50 correctly. I'm posting from the machine which I built; however, if you say there should be spun easily, maybe I was not using enough force. He was unable to turn the heat sink teeth retaining ring, but from what I saw, because the capacitors, but that's just my point of view. Anyway, thanks for responding.