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OK. I asked a friend in Tokyo to pick it up for me.
I called Gigabyte and they said that particular MB was only being sold in the Asian market. He sent me the D3 with the standard blue gigabyte heat sink.
As you can see in the photo the D3P has what looks like a low profile grey heat sink. The specs on both boards are identical.
Not as many Sata connections as I have now.
No built FireWire but it does support USB3 natively as well as PCI.
And there is the MSata SSD option.
You trade off 4 PCI SLOTS and lose a PCIe slot.
You're only ever going to get 7 slots.
That's the format these MBs are based on.