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Gigabyte MB i7 GA-EX58-EXTREME

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Gigabyte MB i7 GA-EX58-EXTREME

Product-ID MB00020

Weight 3.20 kg

Warranty 1 year RTB

Price: AUD 475.00

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Features:	GIGABYTE’s X58 Extreme lacks some features such as onboard hardware RAID and TPM (which are found on DQ6 and some other models) with the philosophy being that the Extreme range of mobos is designed purely for overclockers and high-end enthusiasts and they don’t need these extra features. They only drive up the price and may influence overclockability – and that makes perfect sense to us really. Instead of including those features, GIGABYTE spends more money on adding extra power phases and fancy cooling and whatever other tricks it has up its sleeves to push the FSB increasingly higher. Stuff the real enthusiast will appreciate more. GIGABYTE has some nifty ideas for the final X58 Extreme but unfortunately we were sworn to secrecy but we really look forward to pushing it to the max in our OC tests later on. X58 brings Triple Channel memory support and as you can see from the pictures, the version of the DS4 we saw today will get the triple memory loving treatment. X58 Extreme will have four PCI-E 2.0 x16 slots but there is a bit of a story to tell here. The PCI-E slots are paired in groups of two – if you use just the two blue x16 slots (one from each group), they will operate electronically at x16. If you use one x16 and one orange x16 slot in the same group, each will operate at x8 electronically. If you use all four x16 slots, they will all operate electronically at x8. The top two PCI-E x4 slots always run at x4 electronically, no matter what type of setup is in use. As far as the I/O panel goes, we see the return of two PS/2 ports for keyboard and mouse. GIGABYTE said that these were included purely for overclockers as when they are overclocking, many commented to GIGABYTE’s engineers that they like to have USB disabled to find the highest clock speeds. GIGABYTE also mentioned that their engineers discovered that when USB is enabled and when a device is plugged in (even if it’s not being used), it drives up power consumption by 3 – 4 watts.

Specification:	CPU Support: Intel Core i 7/ 45nm Processors CPU Socket: LGA1366 QPI/FSB: QPI 6.4 GT/s Chipset: Intel X58 + ICH10R Graphics Interface: 3PCI-Ex16 slot (x16, x16, x8) Memory: 3 Channel DDR3 Memory Socket: 6DDR3 Max Memory: 24 GB Expansion Slots: 2PCI + 1PCI-Ex1+1PCI-Ex4 + 3PCI-Ex16 ATA connector: 10SATA 3Gb/s+ 1PATA RAID: SATA RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 (ICH10R+GIGABYTE SATA2) Audio: HD Audio, 8-channel IEEE 1394: 3IEEE 1394a USB 2.0: 12USB 2.0 LAN: 2*Gigabit LAN(Teaming Support) BIOS: DualBIOS Features Dynamic Energy Saver Advanced, Ultra Durable 3,Dynamic 6-Gear Swithching, 45nm CPU Optimized, 3 way CrossFireX and 3 way SLI support, Debug LED, Dolby Home Theater, Blu-ray Support, Hybrid SILENT-PIPE 2 Software: EasyTune 6, Norton Internet Security Form Factor (mm): ATX (305x244)

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