Thursday, October 2nd 2008

Gigabyte EX58-Extreme Pictured in all its Might

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btarunr
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Members of the XtremeSystems forums put up pictures of Gigabyte's flagship X58 motherboard for the upcoming Core i7 processors, the EX58-Extreme with all its bells and whistles in place. Pictures of the board have surfaced several times now, older pictures were those of the EX58-DQ6 and DS4 models. What can be seen from the pictures, is a humongous chipset cooler that attaches itself to the main northbridge heatsink. The cooling continues over the board's VRM area and a large block covers the ICH10R southbridge. As the label screams, the motherboard is based on the Ultra Durable 3 PCB construction for best stability, heat dissipation and EMI control. Clearly, if you're going to be in the market for an enthusiast-grade motherboard, you're going to have a tough time...choosing. I'll leave you with the pictures.
Source: XtremeSystems

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65 Comments on Gigabyte EX58-Extreme Pictured in all its Might

#26
Fitseries3
Eleet Hardware Junkie
for the first time in years i actually like a Gigabyte board. it looks like they took some cues from asus though.... i think thats what makes me like it.
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#27
InnocentCriminal
Resident Grammar Amender
fitseries3for the first time in years i actually like a MSI board. it looks like they took some cues from asus though.... i think thats what makes me like it.
Are you talking about the Gigabyte board in this thread? ;)
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#28
Fitseries3
Eleet Hardware Junkie
yea... you quoted me before i fixed it though.... sorry i just woke up. lol
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#29
InnocentCriminal
Resident Grammar Amender
HEH HEH HEH! No worries man, made me chuckle. ^^
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#30
ShadowFold
I don't care about the color but I have had nothing but crap experiances from Gigabyte. I would rather have an ECS board..
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#31
Pinchy
I wanna know the price, lol.
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#32
yogurt_21
PinchyI wanna know the price, lol.
looks expensive I'd wager in the 300$ range.
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#33
Steevo
How many phases do they need to power these chips? Damn.
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#34
olstyle
I am no real Gigabyte fan and no fan of irrational cooling-constructions either, but one little feature caught my eye:
According to the print between CPU-socket and DIMM slots it features (true) hardware raid :respect:.
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#35
OnBoard
Mmmmm, shiney. That first picture looks like art :)

And those green/'red' memoryslots work out fine. I have red heatspreader so I used the green slots to get an even red. If you have mem without heatspreaders use the red ones and memory area looks green.
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#36
InnocentCriminal
Resident Grammar Amender
'red'

LOL!

That board clashes terribly... LOL!
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#37
_jM
I've been and ASUS fan for a really long time and this board sure looks like a great board compaired to the ASUS X58.. DAMNIT hurry it up.. i cant wait no longer!!
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#38
Konceptz
looks good, might have to try a gigabyte board for a change.
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#39
$ReaPeR$
i say forget about the color scheme guys lets see some confrontation between this board and the asus one... and some prices PLEASE......
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#40
tkpenalty
meh. Looks like they didnt fire those engineers after all. That NB cooling SUCKS. Look how high the heatpipe arrays connect to the NB heatsink. A GA P45 UD3 would have superior NB cooling, even though its one quater of the size.

I really hope they revise that NB cooling, cause ATM it sucks.
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#41
PP Mguire
Pinks for girlie stuff,we dont want pink on our ruff tuff electronic bits and pieces.
Hmm speak for yourself. I wear alot of hot pink (its my fav color) and i have quit a bit of man in my pants. At least enough to make a baby and Apples new product iCame.

I have to agree with some things though. This board looks like Carebear cum at its finest. Without the color scheme id say the board itself looks to be teh p00nage though. Id prolly wind up trying to paint it or something :laugh:

And i think DFI should make a board with hot pink flourescent slots :rockon:
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#42
panchoman
Sold my stars!
hmmm x58 looks like its a damn hot chipset :O

also, why would you put a clear cmos button on the i/o panel? you could easily hit it and then have to reprogram the bios..
would've been better if it inside the case...

nice board though, completely kick ass :rockout:
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#43
meaintsmart
It's actually going to be white, they are going to remove the pink...
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#44
_jM
panchomanwhy would you put a clear cmos button on the i/o panel? you could easily hit it and then have to reprogram the bios..
would've been better if it inside the case...
Its called convenience.. its easier to hit the button on the IO rather than taking off your side panel and digging around inside your case. I personally like it. =]
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#45
Scrizz
olstyleAccording to the print between CPU-socket and DIMM slots it features (true) hardware raid :respect:.
if that's right, then this is sweet :toast:
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#46
Wile E
Power User
panchomanalso, why would you put a clear cmos button on the i/o panel? you could easily hit it and then have to reprogram the bios..
would've been better if it inside the case...
That's where mine is on the board in my specs. It's so much better than messing around with a frickin jumper, and was much easier when this was actually in a case, as I didn't have to fiddle around with anything at all when I hit a bad OC. Just press the button and done.

And although I don't use it personally, there's a switch to disable it.

It also helps that this board has the ability to save 2 profiles. So after a CMOS reset, you just load one of your profiles to a nice, proven OC.

I'm sure the GB will offer something similar.
olstyleI am no real Gigabyte fan and no fan of irrational cooling-constructions either, but one little feature caught my eye:
According to the print between CPU-socket and DIMM slots it features (true) hardware raid :respect:.
I doubt seriously it's "true" hardware raid. It's probably just the bog standard ICH10R.
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#47
Mr.President
Scrizzif that's right, then this is sweet :toast:
x2:rockout:
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#48
InnocentCriminal
Resident Grammar Amender
panchomanalso, why would you put a clear cmos button on the i/o panel? you could easily hit it and then have to reprogram the bios..
would've been better if it inside the case...
Shuttles have had a reset CMOS button of the back of selected models for years, it's an awesome feature IMO.
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#49
Bjorn_Of_Iceland
Why the big fuss about the DIMM slots' colour? Can you see them once the memory sticks are in place?
If I were to OC on a test bed, I'd rather do it with style. Im already lacking it... at least my board doesn't. :D
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#50
Analog_Manner
fitseries3for the first time in years i actually like a Gigabyte board. it looks like they took some cues from asus though.... i think thats what makes me like it.
Wasn't there a proposed merger last year? Also, the Asus Maximus Formula, ASUS R.O.G. Pinot Noir and Asus BLITZ Extreme are water-cooling ready like this board.
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