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Old 08-20-08   #1 (permalink)
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Motherboard vendors are preparing rigorously for catering to the market that the upcoming Intel Core i7 series processors generate. The processors are based on a new 1366-pin land grid array (LGA-1366) socket and would require you to purchase a compatible motherboard. ASUS had recently revealed that it would be in a position to make its LGA-1366 offerings available by launch-day of the Core i7. Gigabyte is getting ready with its high-end offering, the GA-X58-EXTREME, TweakTown caught more than just a glimpse of it.



The board's a looker. Gigabyte maintained its signature colour scheme. Over to the north, you can see the new LGA-1366 socket. Gigabyte sought to provide active cooling to the northbridge with a water-block. It uses four PCI-Express slots arranged in a manner similar to that on the MA-790FX-DQ6. The board supports Tri-Channel DDR3 memory. Gigabyte could carve-out a value model, the GA-X58-DS4 out of this board design, presumably by blanking or reducing the orange PCI-Express x16 (electrical x8) slots, and the chipset and VRM cooling. The board in the picture is a non-functional sample.



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Better than usual. But come on, look at the rampage extreme and look at this, belongs in the nursery this one.
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I really wish they wouldn't block that bottom x1 PCIe slot...

Why couldn't they stack the other 4 SATA ports? It is going to be an issue with high-end cards in 4xCrossfire.
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maybe the included sata cables will be angled, nice looking board though

they are inverted from eachother so it's possible for all of them, but ugly for the 2 GPU-most ports
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Oh.... it doesn't look like Gigabyte plans to give up there Lego colors anytime soon....
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Meh. The asus board looked better.

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Oh.... it doesn't look like Gigabyte plans to give up there Lego colors anytime soon....
Sadly no.

At least it is a little better than their "oh god jimmy just at a 64 pack of crayons and puked everywhere" look.

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Why couldn't they stack the other 4 SATA ports? It is going to be an issue with high-end cards in 4xCrossfire.
High end? Crossfire? lol

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Apparently this ones a 'non-functional' sample.
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Oh.... it doesn't look like Gigabyte plans to give up there Lego colors anytime soon....
Thank god ECS did. They went from purple to black.
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Where's the 4/8 pin cpu power?

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