Brand new looking at Gigabyte EX58-Extreme

[Richard Dower]

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?

They used to do that with the P35 series, it much better and more secure then those silly push pins. H/W RAID referes to the use of Silicon Image Sil5723 chips...trust me, it's total crap!

They destroyed the functionality of the Jmicron and Silicon Image chips, crippled them in bios!