bit-tech News: Early Look - Gigabyte's GA-EX58-Extreme motherboard

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Hi all,

 

We have just published an early look at *Gigabyte's GA-EX58-Extreme

motherboard*. If you could post a link on your site that would be very

much appreciated.

 

*Link:*

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2008/10/10/early-look-gigabyte-ga-ex58-extreme/1

 

 

*Picture:*

http://images.bit-tech.net/content_images/2008/10/early-look-gigabyte-ga-ex58-extreme/fp_img.jpg

 

 

*Quote:

*We have to remind ourselves that this /is/ an early look still and

we've still yet a month to go before we get hold of the final retail

sample and we know the EX58-Extreme board has already changed once in

the last month or so. Yet, we can't but help feel a little /"meh"/

compared to the other X58 boards we've seen.

 

It's yet another evolution not revolution from Gigabyte and while its

conservative nature means it's to some degree guaranteed not to go wrong

and affect sales, without venturing out to try new things there's also

no chance of getting it much more /right/ either. Launching the

EP45-Extreme board was a great opportunity to try and do something

different, to push the boundaries and justify the higher price, not just

roll into the norm of slapping a big heatpipe on it and a waterblock on

the northbridge that seems so popular these days.

 

The fundamentals of the Gigabyte X58 are certainly solid enough and if

you like its boards to date it's very likely to be yet another to stick

on the shopping list, but we do hope Gigabyte gets a serious injection

of mojo sometime soon, simply to avoid becoming stale.

*

 

*Cheers guys!

 

Tim Smalley

www.bit-tech.net