Thursday, October 2nd 2008

Gigabyte EX58-Extreme Pictured in all its Might

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

#51
Laurijan
If i buy a X58 board it would probably be this one..
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#52
buggalugs
My experiences with Gigabytes X38 has turned me off Gigabyte for a high end motherboard. That big chipset cooler looks like more of the same...gimics over substance.
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#53
Laurijan
buggalugsMy experiences with Gigabytes X38 has turned me off Gigabyte for a high end motherboard. That big chipset cooler looks like more of the same...gimics over substance.
Can you tell what happened so that we know why to avoid gigabyte?
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#54
ShadowFold
LaurijanCan you tell what happened so that we know why to avoid gigabyte?
I had a DS3L P35 and alot of people were saying they just randomly died after a week/month of use.. well that happened to me and my friends Gigabyte Nforce 550 AMD board did the same and there support is terrible.
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#55
Fitseries3
Eleet Hardware Junkie
lol... every time i see this pic i think... it comes with a video card cooler?

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#56
ShadowFold
And I see an unnecessary waste of space..
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#57
Kursah
I wonder what kind of temps they expect from that chipset to need something like that. I imagine that will be helpful, but really...damn! Kinda rediculous.
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#58
Fitseries3
Eleet Hardware Junkie
ShadowFoldAnd I see an unnecessary waste of space..
yeah.. no doubt man. lol!
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#59
Fitseries3
Eleet Hardware Junkie
KursahI wonder what kind of temps they expect from that chipset to need something like that. I imagine that will be helpful, but really...damn! Kinda rediculous.
i think they just like overkill so you feel like your getting something extra special from buying one of their boards.
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#60
Scrizz
it's actually meant to cool down your ego once you buy it
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#61
Fitseries3
Eleet Hardware Junkie
Scrizzit's actually meant to cool down your ego once you buy it
ROFL!!! :roll:
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#62
Hayder_Master
i think we looking now for no1 x58 board on the planet
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#63
Judgedredd
It looks like a sweet board to me and yes the pink slots will be white on final version

and to all you people that keep saying ASUS and Gigabyte merged last year
that lasted all of about a month Gigabyte told asus to take a hike (get lost)

gest thing Gigabyte ever did i have owned 2 Asus boards both being crap one was the striker extreme a 400.00 paper weight
right now useing A Gigabyte-GA-N680SLI-DQ6 one of the best board i ever had
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#64
zithe
It's so colorful it looks like a sideshow at the circus... Or a bag of skittles.

Gigabyte - Taste the rainbow.
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#65
Judgedredd
i like the board but for those of us that use a sound card like me my creative soundblaster elite pro uses a PCI slot and in SLI mode i cant use my sound card

and i dont want to use the said onboard sond chip so i guess ill have to say with Gigabyte-GA-N680SLI-DQ6 for now
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