Is it only me that is exciting who will "draw the largest straw" with all these nice X58 boards coming out for i7 launch? Must say all brands have done a great job with the boards this round.
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Is it only me that is exciting who will "draw the largest straw" with all these nice X58 boards coming out for i7 launch? Must say all brands have done a great job with the boards this round.
I want a x58 m-ATX board so im not gonna have a problem choosing :D
Looks much better now, I would just change the orange color on the pci slots
wheres the clear cmos? if it has a rear one oh wow but I doubt it does.
You can see it in the picture in the first post.Quote:
Originally Posted by Glow9
And yes, it is on the rear. The button looks just like the one on the EP45T-Ex
And I like the look of the board, I'm going to have to get myself one of these!
Still using plastic push pins? :slapass:
BTW, We all know harshal is going to miss the pink slots! :rofl:
Looks sweet to my eye :)
finally some aesthetic changes from Gigabyte! :D They could add mo contrast with the blue slots though. Like darker blue slots perhaps? or darker blue pcb. :D
:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl: yes i agree with you Andrew.Quote:
Originally Posted by hixie
Hicookie : is there any chance to change the plastic push pins ?
I agree, something needs to be done. I've complained directly with some engineers and some people from the marketing department, and of course Hicookie as well, that those plastic push pins need to go.Quote:
Originally Posted by Benny Lodewijk
Bolts and nuts with a strong non flexible black-plate please :up:
Hey hicookie
Add me to the list of guys that dislike those plastic push pins.
It would be great if they would change that.
Nice looking board, I'd like to see more internal USB headers tho. With 2x2 as it is now you always get into trouble with cases that have 4 front USBs (like the TJ07, Lianli Armorsuit and many more popular cases), as they don't leave a space for T-Balancer, Aquaero and cardreaders. Ditch one internal firewire to make room for a 3rd USB header maybe, most people don't need them anyways.
I also agree on what most people here already said:
- let go of IDE and FDD
- get rid of plastic pushpins, they give everyone the creeps
- like Dinos said, can we pleae get some clearance around the socket?
I have no idea how I'd get this mobo properly insulated for 24/7 phase operation. Which is what we do here for our main rigs :D
So right now, I probably wouldn't buy this mobo due to the lack of clearance around the socket. Which isn't only a Gigabyte problem I am well aware, let's hope DFI can do better there like with the X38/48 series of mobos.
push pins for high-end boards is just not right. :D other manufacturers got rid of it for their top toys. Im pretty sure Gigabyte can do the same.
hehe true thatQuote:
Originally Posted by Deanzo
i like the way DFI does their PCI Express slots
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Originally Posted by jcool
seriously take all your guys' suggestions.:)
One more for dump the pushpins.. Their time has come and gone with these heavy HS's we are using.Quote:
Originally Posted by hicookie
Other than that I think they have a winner with this board.
Love the blue and the layout!:up:
I love having a floppy drive. It's not time for that to die until windows7 at least. SOME of us need a floppy on rare occasions (I hate floppies, but once in a blue moon its absolutely crucial). And the usb floppy drives that emulate as floppies are NOT compatible with all motherboards, before you ask (eg: the new intel DG45's).
For the love of god keep the floppy. You can remove the HDD Ide drive though, they aren't necessary to install raid drivers or use an emergency recovery disk. Ta.
As a side note I'd like to know why everyone is complaining that its there. If they pull it off, it's not going to make it cheaper for you. And if they leave it, it won't make things cluttered unless you put a floppy cable into it... which it seems that none of you are going to do anyway. So what's the drama?
Actually i'd rather have the IDE and floppy there, comes in handy quite often. With a floppy i can recover a bad BIOS flash even with the screen totally blank, and sometimes when you run RAID with a SATA DVD-drive the stupid board thinks the DVD-drive is a HDD (DFI & ASUS :slapass:)
So i don't mind the IDE and floppy sticking around.
The main benefit of removal would be freeing up more space on the PCB for the other components.
Long live the floppy drive! :D Keep it handy for some emergencies. :D
That motherboard's already filled--little reason to add much more. Heck--I'm happy to see two Firewire headers on-board, but I'd like to see two Firewire headers plus two Firewire ports on the rear panel, in addition to four USB headers on-board. I dislike the placement of the audio header though--it should definitely be moved, perhaps to where SYS FAN2 is. Many of us could use the second PWM header next to CPU FAN or somewhere more accessible. I agree with ditching the plastic pins for heatsinks--they need to go. The last thing I think should go is the audio connector for IDE optical drives: it's old, it's antiquated, and by the looks of it, it's unnecessary. Gigabyte included a second SATA controller it seems, and they're not known for FUBARing ODDs with RAID.
Wow really sexy!
http://xs132.xs.to/xs132/08431/gigax58656.jpg
Looks so Asrock :down:
You forgot to highlight the text directly underneath the NB :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by xoqolatl
Wasn't Asrock part of Asus?
Still is; it's thier budget division.Quote:
Originally Posted by Martijn