An expensive motherboard with a number of advanced features and excellent performance

Category: Review on Gigabyte GA-EX58-EXTREME Motherboard

Posted by: 27-Jul

Strengths: Excellent overclocking potential, excellent performance, New LGA socket 1366

Weaknesses: No SLI bridge component, no Serial Attached SCSI onboard support, expensive

Gigabyte GA-EX58-EXTREME motherboard is designed to unleash the power of Intel’s Core i7 processors. It is features a number of advanced features like three-way SLI support, three-channel DDR3 support, and three-way CrossfireX support. It is the best motherboard in the industry which offers high performance. GA-EX58-EXTREME motherboard is based on ATX form factor, and has a ‘cool blue’ color scheming. GA-EX58-EXTREME motherboard uses the Intel turbo boost technology which powers down the idle processor cores and dynamically redirects power to active cores and helps to increase performance. It also maintains greater energy efficiency.

The motherboard comes with Intel X58 Express Chipset (IOH), Intel Core i7 processor (CPU) and the ICH. It also has Gigabyte’s Hybrid Silent-Pipe 2 which helps in adjusting the system temperature. Along with this, the motherboard also features DualBIOS, Ultra Durable 3 technology, Precision OV, Dynamic Energy Saver Advanced, Dynamic 6-Gear Switching, Debug LED Blu-ray and Dolby Home Theater support. Gigabyte’s Quick Boost enhances the CPU performance. EasyTune6 has been improved which helps you to monitor and manage your hardware resources and tweak your system settings as well, to maximize the system performance. With the help of the DualBIOS, you can recover the BIOS data.

The Gigabyte GA-EX58-EXTREME motherboard is designed for those who need extreme speed. There is also no Serial Attached SCSI onboard support. It is also quite expensive and hence it is recommended for those who do not mind spending.