Tuesday, April 22nd 2008
GIGABYTE EP45 Extreme Exclusive Shots
GIGABYTE today answered to the Foxconn BLACKOPS board, with what they call the EP45 Extreme motherboard for overclockers. It may not offer you 4-in-1 cooling like the BLACKOPS does, but as you can see from the pictures there's plenty of copper all over the board's two main chips and the 12-phase PWM area, so this will do the work quite well too. The final board will also have onboard power and reset switches, but they are missing from this early sample. The Post 80 debug LED is also a new feature for this GIGABYTE board. Additionally GIGABYTE is planning to supply later a LN2 duct for the CPU and a watercooling module for the chipset. Finally the board has six SATA ports, single IDE port, dual Gigabit Ethernet, 7.1-channel HD audio, three PCI slots, three x16 PCIe slots, GIGABYTE's Dual BIOS and a new revision of DES.
Source:
TweakTown
37 Comments on GIGABYTE EP45 Extreme Exclusive Shots
i want that nb cooler for my board! not fair!
that thing is huge!
images.dailytech.com/nimage/1678_large_Top%20view.jpg
HAHAHA!!!!
If Intel is making chipsets that need that much cooling, whats the point. I must not have gotten the memo!
The Northbridge is freaking HUUUUUUUUUUUUGE!!!! Perhaps they want it super cool, then overclockers won't have heat problems overclocking this board :).
OT: Sure is a nice cooler, me want. Great that the pci slot has the cooler outside the case, this will help cooling even further. This might be my next mobo.
Gotta love those coolers.:toast:
X38 was the first PCIe 2.0 from intel
BTW
This motherboard cooling system is big :D