Gigabyte Announces Two New X58 Motherboards

Gigabyte has announced two new X58 motherboards designed for the Core i7 platform.

The main difference it seems between the two new motherboards is that the GA-EX58-EXTREME features Gigabyte’s Hybrid Silent-Pipe 2; a fusion thermal solution that combines a proprietary screen cooling technology, external heat sink and liquid cooling with chipset water block. The Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD5 on the other hand features specially designed chipset heat sinks and a copper heat pipe. The GA-EX58-UD5 also offers LED on-board displays that alerts the user to the current overvoltage level, the level of CPU overclock and the temperatures of the CPU and North Bridge.

Both boards feature dual-gigabit LAN connections that can function as either two individual connections or they can be teamed together to act as a single connection, doubling available bandwidth. Other value-added features offered by both motherboards include Ultra Durable 3 technology, DualBIOS, Dynamic Energy Saver Advanced, Precision OV, Dynamic 6-Gear Switching, Debug LED, Dolby Home Theater and Blu-ray Support.

Gigabyte also offers a less full featured X58 motherboard, the GA-EX58-DS4, which lacks three-way SLI and dual-gigabit LAN. Intel is expected to release its new Core i7 processors on November 17th, which will target performance users, enthusiasts and overclockers.

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  • ckthecerealkiller
    I am beginning to drool. Too bad I can't afford it!
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  • kyeana
    "3 way crossfire support"... isn't that supposed to be 4 way crossfire support?
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  • kyeana
    ^or will it actually support 3 way crossfire? is that even possible? I always here about 3 way SLI and 2 way crossfire or 4 way crossfire (via 2 x2 cards) but have heard nothing about 3 way sli
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  • gwolfman
    They got rid of the green and pink!!! YEA!!!!!!!!!!!
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  • cah027
    It would be cool to see 3x 4870x2's for 6 GPUs !
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