Gigabyte EP45 Extreme Features Revealed

malware · May 8, 2008

Intel P45 motherboard from GIGABYTE is also joining on our front page today with the EP45 Extreme model. The board comes with some new cooling that GIGABYTE calls Hybrid Silent Pipe. It expeditiously removes the heat from the PWM, northbridge and southbridge area and also allows for optional watercooling to be installed. The rest of the fancy stuff involve Dynamic Power LED indicator with dynamic 6-Gear switching, diagnostic DEBUG LEDs, on-board power,reset,clear CMOS buttons, and something new called ACPI LED. It helps monitor the different system states S0, S1, S3, S4/S5 with leds on board. I almost forget to notice that this is a DDR2 motherboard.

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Sasqui · May 8, 2008

Looks impressive. Wonder when this will be on the market?

happita · May 8, 2008

The first picture mentions it being able to do Quad crossfire, I only see 3 PCI-E x16 slots. Am I missing something here :confused:

Unless that heatsink-tower is covering a fourth slot...

DanishDevil · May 8, 2008

Dual GPU cards...

Now if only they could get rid of the rainbow color scheme idea, I'd buy it in a second.

ElWapo973 · May 8, 2008

Quad crossfire doesn't mean 4 video cards, silly. It means 4 GPUs in other words 2 3870x2s(or 4870x2 in the future) in Crossfire config.

Also P45 motherboards first pair of x16 slots switch to x8(electrically) lanes when in Crossfire mode :toast:

happita said:
The first picture mentions it being able to do Quad crossfire, I only see 3 PCI-E x16 slots. Am I missing something here
Unless that heatsink-tower is covering a fourth slot...

panchoman · May 8, 2008

wow that thing is awesome. loving all of the power regulations and the cmos button and the heatpipe is sweet too.. wish it cooled the ram too..

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Mouse	Logitech G5
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