[Newegg] X58 boards w/ USB 3.0 and SATA 6GB/s

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Yeah, useless heatpipes. Its not like the ASUS board has a better one. The way I look at it is that the Gigabytes cooling solution is better, it still has more slots, and it has a built in WB.

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I'm guessing USB 3.0 devices are coming out soon, there are a few SATA 6GB/s HDD's out, there expensive and useless though.

Gigabytes P55 boards have been revised w/ USB 3.0 and SATA 6GB/s as well.

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At least the heatpipes look cool. The slot layout is horrible. They have 3 PCIe slots a centimeter away from eachother. What is Gigabyte thinking? Trifire would be impossible on that board, because most cases have 7 expansion slots, not eight, so the bottom PCIe would be unusable if you're using a dual slot card (and nowadays all you see are dual slot cards). Not to mention, doing crossfire would be a pain as well because putting the two cards in the first and third slot will give you no breathing room at all between them, resulting in bad temperatures. Fail board by Gigabyte.

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Same thing w/ the ASUS board, the only difference is that its missing 1 slot (Only has 6) and has another PCI rather than PCI-E x16

3 way SLI will work, so will 3 way XFIRE, just won't leave good breathing room.

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3 way SLI won't work in most cases. You'll either need a case with 8 expansion slots or you'll need three single slot GPU's.

Who uses single slot cards nowadays?

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Oh, now I see what your saying, Oh well I guess :/ Like I said the heatpipes are in the way

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There still worth it to me, I won't ever do over 2 cards.

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Yeah I'm not really a TRI-SLI/Crossfire person either. I'm just wondering if brands like EVGA, foxconn etc will do the same with the classified and bloodrage and so on.