Brand new looking at Gigabyte EX58-Extreme

[agor]

Looks really nice, change colors to Black/X and it's even better!:p

[Hornet331]

lol i was like "WTF" when i saw the add on cooling for the NB, imho thats just bling bling.

[nox_uk]

blimey, this is a nice looking motherboard, even with the pink sockets... tho glad they are changing them.

are there any realistic estimates for the cost of a nehalem upgrade yet? are boards still going to be around the £200 mark and cpu similar? with standard ddr3?

Nox

[Hazzan]

sexy mobo on X58.........

[Slovnaft]

I've actually been itching to get back on a gigabyte board.
This will probably be my pick for i7, I even find the puke-style color theme comforting XD

[WeaponX]

Looks like one helluva expensive board! Knowing how Gigabyte does things, expect it to be ~400 dollars...

[Hornet331]

i wonder if foxconn has a better mobo in the pipeline, the renaissance looks kinda pale compared to the EX-58 Extreme or the Rampage II.

[tombman]

Triple SLI support?

Then it better has the NF200 chip onboard, because the X58 chipset only has 2x 16x pci-e.

The large "southbridge" cooler indicates that it has one- hopefully it does

But this will make it a 400$ / 300€ mobo...

[naokaji]

blimey, this is a nice looking motherboard, even with the pink sockets... tho glad they are changing them.

are there any realistic estimates for the cost of a nehalem upgrade yet? are boards still going to be around the £200 mark and cpu similar? with standard ddr3?

Nox

nehalem will be 285$, 560$ and 1000$, thats the current prices of Q9400, Q9650 and Qx9650, currently thats about 200£, 400£ and 740£. However, we dont know yet if we will get any nehalems at all in the uk or if it will be monthes of waiting like the 45nm c2q debacle (which did lead to insane price gouging from retailers as they treated each quad they got like a diamond)...

Mainboards will most likely be in the 100£ to 300£ range with anything useful costing 150£+.

2x1 GB DDR3 12800 7-7-7 are currently 100 - 150£
So with 3x1 GB DDR3 12800 7-7-7 you would still be under 200£
2x2 GB DDR3 12800 7-7-7 is currently 150 - 200£
So with 3x2GB DDR3 12800 7-7-7 you would be at roughly 250£

so you could get away with 500£ - 550£ for the cheap nehalem + midrange board + 3GB DDR, or 800£ for middle nehalem model + high end board + 6GB DDR3

[dinos22]

looks good (except for that terrible clearance around CPU socket)

i dont know that all that extra heatsink business is really needed but hey hehe

tripple SLI droooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool

i dont think there will be any nvidia chips on that board so it will probably work at 16+16+8

[AuDioFreaK39]

wow, who knew a 0.2 revision difference could bring in such huge thermal design change



by the way, does anyone know if EVGA will have a competing X58 board for Bloomfield's launch? I'm really really looking forward to one right about now..

[munim]

Quick question: I'm not a serious overclocker by any means but are these complex and large northbridge heatsinks effective? Or does something like a Noctua or Thermalright "tower type" northbridge cooler do a better job?

[Hornet331]

i dont think there will be any nvidia chips on that board so it will probably work at 16+16+8

wasn't itsupposed to be 16+8+8?

[dinos22]

the blue slots are 16x slots but whether they will run 16+16 or 16+8 i don't know

orange slot is definitely 8x as you can see in that shot

[dinos22]

Quick question: I'm not a serious overclocker by any means but are these complex and large northbridge heatsinks effective? Or does something like a Noctua or Thermalright "tower type" northbridge cooler do a better job?

i think it's inspired by VGA coolers they have and those passive coolers are REALLY REALLY good actually so this should be fairly similar

for ppl wanting to run it at really high volts i'd just stick to w/c on NB i guess

[Blacky]

holy crap, gigabyte is making a comeback watch out asus :O! the only thin gigabyte needs to change is their pcb color! but atleast look like is gonna be cheaper than the rampage extreme 2

[LowRun]

No e-sata

[[XC] gomeler]

looking very good! This versus the rampage 2 extreme should be an interesting faceoff. Don't like that cramped socket though, going to be a nightmare to insulate sucessfully. Guess I'll have to switch back to modeling clay

[Blacky]

also why i'm seen that all X58 mobos that have 3-way or CFX their pcie are way down...especially that last one...

[Hornet331]

No e-sata

Im sure they supply brackets.

[Eldonko]

Looks and sounds cool Ill give them that. Now I want one.. :o

[Winzeler]

So with this board and the ASUS, how do you SLI and put in a PCI Sound Card?

[SNiiPE_DoGG]

So with this board and the ASUS, how do you SLI and put in a PCI Sound Card?

you dont :\


@ whoever mentioned the foxconn board: I'm sure saaya could better represent this, but by looking at the avenger and blackops I think there will be a very top notch enthusiast board from them

[jugeen]

looks great! waiting for seeing its performance!

[MpG]

I wish they'd used actual screws and bolt for fastening down the sinks. Definitely a welcome touch on high-end boards.

What's with the "H/W RAID" printed on the board? Something beyond the Intel ICHxR chipset features?