Can anyone tell me, what are the main differences between the following motherboards... Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD5 Gigabyte GA-EX58-DS4 Gigabyte GA-EX58-Extreme I can see the obvious differences like number of USB connections and SATA connections, but what are the pros and conns of each board? For my new build, I am looking at the GA-EX58-UD5, but are there other Gigabyte 1366 boards I should be considering?
The Extreme is the same as the UD5, but with slightly different heatsinks (the BIOS's are supposed to be interchangeable). Not sure about the DS4.
why dont you save a bit more money and go for the Gigabyte EX58 UD3R. it outperfoms some of the higher priced boards when it come to overclocking and now you can have sli as well as crossfire with the new bios update
the extreme comes with an LN2 pot doesnt it and extra cooling also. The UD5 is the same almost The DS4 has poorer cooling than the UD5 or extreme as the heatsinks across the board are not as extensive. unless your going for high end water cooling or phase changing cooling the X58-UD3R will be fine and will do 4GHz no problems
theres isnt a difference. same board SLI is enabled by a bios update not a a change of hardware. im guessing they are just newer boards with later bios revisions on. dont pay a premium for SLI edition
The Extreme doesn't have a LN2 pot, but as stated, it does have advanced air cooling and it allows you the option to watercool the NB too (I have one). The motherboard also contains slightly upgraded components in some areas. My system is watercooled, but this version of the board does allow me to overclock it further on temps suitable for air cooling. My friend bought the UD3R version. Using my i920 DO in his board (his CPU hadn't arrived), we managed to get it to 4gig (all he wanted to achieve). We had to use the Turbo option (x21) with a 191 qpi. My Extreme will do 20x200 easily. It also required more voltage on the UDR3 to keep it stable at the overclock. I'm not saying that 200x20 (or far more) isn't achievable on the UD3R, my friend just wanted 4gig using as little voltage as possible to keep the temps down (I think we ended up with the CPU on 1.275v). The UD3R is a great board. If you are only running with air cooling it should easily do the job, especially for the cost. The Extreme is a better board, but has a price to match. Unless you are planning on really pushing the CPU, I wouldn't say it's worth it. I can't comment on the UD5, not having used one.
ah yeah that was it watercooling heatsink. my bad knew it was something extra over the UD5. well QPI doesnt really make any difference to performance at all so thats not an issue. but if voltages are higher on UD3R could limit extreme overclocks maybe.
I thought the UD3P was a better overclocker than the UD3R. It depends if you want xfire or not, I guess.
I don't plan onrunning anything but air cooling or overclocking at the moment, but would like to have the ability for the future.
least it a fairly constant naming scheme unlike ASUS with lots and lots of letter etc or some other brands that just seem to group random letters and numbers together with a + or ultra on the end.
Think I'm leaning toward the UD5. Although reading about the new 1156 boards round the corner that will go with the new Intel chips makes me think..... 'Do I wait....' I guess you could end up waiting forever with the way that technology keeps moving forward.
