GIGABYTE EP45 Extreme Exclusive Shots

[malware]

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.



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[malware]

Thanks to tkpenalty for sending this news post to me.

 

[spearman914]

The NB cooler is extremely big. You probably can't fit anything on the 3rd PCI slot only if its 1 mm thick or something.

 

[sinner33]

It sure looks sick though

 

[acperience7]

Yep, that's pretty extreme. I bet the price is extreme as well.

 

[ShadowFold]

So is P45 supost to be better than X38 or what?

 

[[I.R.A]_FBi]

So is P45 supost to be better than X38 or what?

p45 = next in line after p35 ...

 

[erocker]

So to make a P45 board, all you need to do is take a P35 chip and add a monstorous cooler! Nice.

 

[Darknova]

Holy S***! That's ridiculous....you don't need that much cooling...and if you do...my god, Intel's doing nutburt for chipsets!

 

[wolf2009]

So to make a P45 board, all you need to do is take a P35 chip and add a monstorous cooler! Nice.

and pci-e 2.0 support too . thats sure a lot of copper. wonder the difficulty with wire placements on that .

 

[erocker]

P35 supports pci-e 2.0.

 

[Darknova]

I know X38 is PCI-E 2.0, not sure about P35.

P45 is PCI-E 2.0, P35 isn't. However, P45 uses 2 8x slots for Xfire, but as it's PCI-E 2.0 theoretically it has the same bandwidth as 2 16x PCI-E 1.0 slots

 

[ginger]

and pci-e 2.0 support too . thats sure a lot of copper. wonder the difficulty with wire placements on that .

ICH10R....

 

[Duffman]

wow, that makes the Thermalright Hr05 cooling my X38 look positively puny

 

[erocker]

P45 is PCI-E 2.0, P35 isn't. However, P45 uses 2 8x slots for Xfire, but as it's PCI-E 2.0 theoretically it has the same bandwidth as 2 16x PCI-E 1.0 slots

Ah, the x38 brought in pci-e 2.0. I remember before p35's launch that I read it would have it, but I guess not.

 

[Jarman]

Those coolers will more than likely be aluminium, dont let the colour fool u

 

[jbunch07]

HOLY GOD!
i want that nb cooler for my board! not fair!
that thing is huge!

 

[erocker]

Those coolers will more than likely be aluminium, dont let the colour fool u

No, this one is deffiitely copper. Anything with fins on it that looks like thier copper, probablly is. Chuncks of machined parts that look like copper on the other hand may be aluminum.

 

[Cybrnook2002]

Wow time are changing! This is what im rocking and its more cooling that what i really need, over clocked.

http://images.dailytech.com/nimage/1678_large_Top view.jpg

HAHAHA!!!!

If Intel is making chipsets that need that much cooling, whats the point. I must not have gotten the memo!

 

[freaksavior]

Holy Heat Sink Batman!!

 

[Dark_Webster]

Only Gigabyte to create this board.

The Northbridge is freaking HUUUUUUUUUUUUGE!!!! Perhaps they want it super cool, then overclockers won't have heat problems overclocking this board .

 

[HaZe303]

Ah, the x38 brought in pci-e 2.0. I remember before p35's launch that I read it would have it, but I guess not.

P35 does support PCI-E 2.0a, only there are no mobo´s with P35 that have PCI-E 2.0. So you are right and wrong.

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.

 

[spearman914]

Also if your going to buy something like a 9800 GX2 ( which is so thick) it will be impossible to fit it thanks to the poor locations of the IEEE1394 and USB Connectors.

 

[NastyHabits]

As Vincent Gardenia said in Moonstruck, "and there's copper".
Gotta love those coolers.

 

[HaZe303]

Also if your going to buy something like a 9800 GX2 ( which is so thick) it will be impossible to fit it thanks to the poor locations of the IEEE1394 and USB Connectors.

Why would you put it in furthest down pci-e slot??