Early Look: Gigabyte GA-EX58-Extreme - bit-tech.net Forums

Tim S · 10th Oct 2008, 07:52

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/200...ex58-extreme/1

Gigabyte drops us the barebones of its new Extreme X58 motherboards with the, uh, EX58-Extreme. With ten SATA, six DIMMs, three PCI-Express x16 and the latest Ultra Durable technology, what do we think to Gigabyte's latest and greatest?

Denis_iii · 10th Oct 2008, 08:33

time to drop ide and ps2 across the board but especially on an "Extreme" mobo

proxess · 10th Oct 2008, 08:36

i don't like the clear cmos button around the back. imagine your reaching back to unplug your audio jack cause you need your speakers and.... uuuuuuups....

The boy 4rm oz · 10th Oct 2008, 09:22

I think they should actually keep the IDE connector, at least one. A lot of people still use IDE drives and will continue to because they do just a good a job than SATA drives for most people. But I do agree with you Denis on the PS2 connectors, they really should be gone by now.

Xtrafresh · 10th Oct 2008, 09:31

we've had this discussion before methinks, but on a 300+ pounds board with a full TEN sata ports, is it really that strange to expect a user to toss in 15 pounds for an el cheapo SATA drive? Most of the people that use this will go the whole 9 yards and go for BR-drives anyway.

Typical price for a system like this:
300 mobo
600-1000 CPU
300 GPU (and that's without going SLI/CF)
200 storage
150 case
150 PSU

That makes at LEAST 2000. A simple SATA DVD drive would drive up cost by a grand total of 1%

Spring cleaning, dump the connector!

Otherwise, sexy sexy board!

kenco_uk · 10th Oct 2008, 09:51

Quote:

Originally Posted by person blindly fumbling about in dark places

Extra SATA is always welcome and these sockets can just be used as normal, single hard drive sockets instead of RAID, so a total of ten will certainly give some of our storage-loving members a hard drive-on, but we are somewhat concerned about the bandwidth narrowing from two SATA to one SATA to a single PCI-Express x1 lane.

The four J-Micron sata ports - would they be able to take a sata optical drive?

Bindibadgi · 10th Oct 2008, 09:52

I'm pretty sure they can, as long as the SATA device supports ACHI mode compatibility I think. I'll check when I get it.

djDEATH · 10th Oct 2008, 10:01

more i see of these X58s, the more i want one. Just want to see how the Memory overvolting thing pans out. Its realy quite worrying for such a high end chipset that the highest end memory wont work.

impar · 10th Oct 2008, 11:46

Greetings!

Anyone else thinks three RAM slots would be enough?
Why waste PCB with three other RAM slots that will be vacant in ~99,4% of the systems?

SuperNova · 10th Oct 2008, 12:21

Is it just me that cant understand why they type "Clr CMOS" on the button? I mean there is clearly room to for "Clear CMOS". It allmost looks like the Memory gets a 3-Phase power unit though.

Jipa · 10th Oct 2008, 15:00

The color scheme makes pandas cry. Seriously PLEASE, Gigabyte...

Saivert · 10th Oct 2008, 15:29

Why should a motherboard like EX58 look better than my GA-p35-DS4?

hehehe...

an yeah, legacy connectors must go. And where is my Unified Extensible Firmware Interface?

Nature · 10th Oct 2008, 15:39

Who will be the manufaturer supplying draft n as standard as an ethernet!??? WHOO!!!!!!??? and when you &*(^#%! eunuchs!!!!! what gen will be "next" enough???????

<Blake> · 10th Oct 2008, 15:42

Will this have UD3? i skimmed over the article as it is late here in AUS, will read properly tommorrow.

<Blake> · 10th Oct 2008, 16:22

never mind i looked at the picture of the mobo. this will be UD3....

mrb_no1 · 10th Oct 2008, 18:15

I'm an asus boy but people over at extreme forums love gigabyte and rate them as the number 1 board manufacturer, esp. for overclockers and they put asus in third with someone like msi/abit taking 2nd place. As it is i'm more and more interested in gigabyte boards for my next upgrade from my current piece o crud, the 680i chipset. Despite the god awful looks on a gigabyte, are they really that good rich?

peace

fatman

Bindibadgi · 10th Oct 2008, 18:33

Yea, but I've personally had a lot of success with Asus stuff. XS is excellent in their own way, but for the more mainstream to high end overclocker, without going extreme, either will suit. Gigabyte do do excellent BIOS' though.

MSI is a bit more hit and miss like DFI sometimes, but lacks heavy beta support from a community.

Cupboard · 10th Oct 2008, 19:48

The board says it has "h/w RAID". I presume it is taking the piss?

edit: just found the bit where it talk about it. IS it the case you either have two drive raid 1, two drive raid 0 or a single drive per purple socket?

edit2: eeek! I have been rick-relixed!

biebiep · 11th Oct 2008, 11:21

Did anyone see the pics of the board with all the stock cooling on it?
I'm betting it weighs in over 5kg

Bindibadgi · 11th Oct 2008, 12:13

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cupboard

The board says it has "h/w RAID". I presume it is taking the piss?

edit: just found the bit where it talk about it. IS it the case you either have two drive raid 1, two drive raid 0 or a single drive per purple socket?

Yes

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10th Oct 2008, 09:31	#5
Xtrafresh Blame it on the Boogie Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Nijmegen, Holland Posts: 1,908	we've had this discussion before methinks, but on a 300+ pounds board with a full TEN sata ports, is it really that strange to expect a user to toss in 15 pounds for an el cheapo SATA drive? Most of the people that use this will go the whole 9 yards and go for BR-drives anyway. Typical price for a system like this: 300 mobo 600-1000 CPU 300 GPU (and that's without going SLI/CF) 200 storage 150 case 150 PSU That makes at LEAST 2000. A simple SATA DVD drive would drive up cost by a grand total of 1% Spring cleaning, dump the connector! Otherwise, sexy sexy board! __________________ AXGS Blog: A fresh look at P55. Fresh Fusion: Unfinished \| FFF: Name change and text update 19-11

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10th Oct 2008, 08:33	#2
Denis_iii Hypermodder Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 873	time to drop ide and ps2 across the board but especially on an "Extreme" mobo

10th Oct 2008, 11:46	#9
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10th Oct 2008, 12:21	#10
SuperNova What's a Dremel? Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 19	Is it just me that cant understand why they type "Clr CMOS" on the button? I mean there is clearly room to for "Clear CMOS". It allmost looks like the Memory gets a 3-Phase power unit though.

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10th Oct 2008, 15:29	#12
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10th Oct 2008, 15:39	#13
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10th Oct 2008, 15:42	#14
<Blake> What's a Dremel? Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 10	Will this have UD3? i skimmed over the article as it is late here in AUS, will read properly tommorrow.

10th Oct 2008, 16:22	#15
<Blake> What's a Dremel? Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 10	never mind i looked at the picture of the mobo. this will be UD3....

10th Oct 2008, 18:15	#16
mrb_no1 Pie Eater Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Pyrford, England Posts: 364	I'm an asus boy but people over at extreme forums love gigabyte and rate them as the number 1 board manufacturer, esp. for overclockers and they put asus in third with someone like msi/abit taking 2nd place. As it is i'm more and more interested in gigabyte boards for my next upgrade from my current piece o crud, the 680i chipset. Despite the god awful looks on a gigabyte, are they really that good rich? peace fatman __________________ Core 2 Quad Q6600 @ 3600Mhz ¦ Asus Maximus II Formula ¦ ATI Radeon 4890 (1000Mhz Core + 1200Mhz Mem OC) ¦ 2x2G Corsair Dom. PC 8500 @ 1080Mhz ¦ Aquacomputer WC ¦ Creative X-Fi Fatal1ty ¦ 150G Raptor, 2x1500 + 1x750 + 2x500 Seagate (SATA2) ¦ Pioneer DVD burner ¦ Lian Li - PC 73SL Aluminium Silent Server Case ¦ Dell 2007WFP 20" Widescreen ¦ Logitech Z-5500 5.1 Speakers ¦ Sennheiser HD270

10th Oct 2008, 18:33	#17
Bindibadgi Richard Swinburne bit-tech Staff Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Omnipwntent Posts: 28,241	Yea, but I've personally had a lot of success with Asus stuff. XS is excellent in their own way, but for the more mainstream to high end overclocker, without going extreme, either will suit. Gigabyte do do excellent BIOS' though. MSI is a bit more hit and miss like DFI sometimes, but lacks heavy beta support from a community. __________________ Made you look, made you stare, made you clicked this in your underwear! Den of Geek!

10th Oct 2008, 19:48	#18
Cupboard I'm not a modder. Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Bury St Edmunds/Durham Uni Posts: 1,842	The board says it has "h/w RAID". I presume it is taking the piss? edit: just found the bit where it talk about it. IS it the case you either have two drive raid 1, two drive raid 0 or a single drive per purple socket? edit2: eeek! I have been rick-relixed! __________________ i7 920, 8800GTS 512, 6GB Corsair all in an Intel DX58SO; 3*320GB RAID5; CM Stacker Samsung Q45.

11th Oct 2008, 11:21	#19
biebiep Multimodder Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 86	Did anyone see the pics of the board with all the stock cooling on it? I'm betting it weighs in over 5kg