Surely you've been wondering what types of motherboards would be surfacing to support Intel's
Core i7, no? Regardless of your answer, we're pretty sure the gamers and performance mavens in the house will appreciate Gigabyte's latest effort. The prototype mobo, coined Extreme Edition, was recently displayed at NVIDIA's NVISION 08 expo, and if the final version is anything like this, we'd say some records are in real danger of being obliterated. The unit was said to be based on the X58 chipset and provide support for up to
six graphics cards, 24GB of DDR3-1333 RAM (or 6GB of DDR3-1900/2000 using overclocked 2GB DIMMs) and a separated 12-phase power supply for the CPU. Interested yet?
posted Aug 27th 2008 8:48AM
WANT
2nd'd.
Oh wait. It probably has a price. Nevermind.
24GB? I can't wait for the day when the world goes x64.
Why wait? It works fine now, and if everyone waits then everyone has to keep waiting. x64 is not the support nightmare it was a few years ago. I've been on Vista 64 for more than a year now and everything works. Performance in games is even comparable to xp32, and my 4gb of ddr2 all gets used.
I would suggest waiting until near the end of the year though for ddr3, it's a lot cheaper than it was but it still has a long way to fall and the nehalem release is sure to give it a good kick down the hill.
Gigabyte never appealed to me in my days of building pcs. Recently however, Ive used about 5 DS3Ls in a few budget builds for friends and I gotta say they are very nice. I think I might actually stick with them now instead of my usual MSI/Asus
SLI?
"Due to space constraints there is only Crossfire and no SLI support."
A separate power supply for the CPU? Soon our computers will consume more electricity than a refrigerator.
once you put 6 videocards in there, the thing might need it's own dedicated circuit breaker!
220v 40amps.
vegeta, how many amps does it draw?
ITS OVER 9000!!!!
That's gonna be pretty expensive to kit out.
Only thing I'm interested is that can I afford the power bill after I've bought that and 6x 9800GX2:s in Tri-Dual SLI.
This motherboard does not support SLI if you haven't read
most colorful motherboard ive ever seen
stupid fast!
crazy awesome
NICE 8 memory slots!!! its ABOUT DAMN TIME!!!
Theres 6 I can count, not 8.
Looks very nice, I'm sure I wont be able to afford something like that for a while :(
There are six, not eight, slots. Look Carefully.
I WANT.
This looks amazing, i just want to see some more specs on the i7 than "4 cores 8 threads." Supported FSB? Hopefully 2000+MHz. Clock? 4GH+ would be nice.
6 graphic cards or 6 GPU's? There are only 4 PCI-e x16 slots. Like there are any decent PCI and/or PCI-e x1 cards available. Or graphic cards can be inserted into DDR3 slot and vice versa. ;)
i can count 6 PCI-E, but the space between PCI-E is very small, what kind of card will be used ??
Yeah but he said PCI-e x 16, the other two appear to be PCI-e x 4.....
Yes, but the two x4 slots are open-ended, so you could easily stick an x16 card in them.
You can put graphics cards in DDR3 slots and visa versa?! Are their any on market?
It looks cool. Heck!
inching closer and closer to Skynet....
Does it come with USB 3.0? How about SATA 3.0? I'm not buying any new MB until it supports these even though the SATA 3.0 may not be necessary for any of my current hard drives, who knows what will be out using solid state drive technology. Is it SLI or crossfire?
USB 3 and SATA 3 functionality can later be added via PCI-express addon cards and as long as you do not have any USB3 or SATA3 peripherals, there is little point in fretting over it or being an early adopter.
yes! i want this and the i7 core now! any word on price of this yet? i should be building a computer early next year and want an idea of cost.
At least a grand between the motherboard, processor, and ram. Probably more like $1500-$2000 when starting out with the extreme chips.
All we need is the CPU.. where is Intel at with the Core i7 ship date?
"Triple Channel DDR3"
:O
That's like nine channels!
A Watercooled Northbridge by that picture? Maybe they will include waterblocks for the CPU? Either way awesome...
It does look like a water block on the northbridge, that would be so insane if it came setup for watercooling right out of the box.
I only use Gigabyte or Intel boards in my builds. I've never had one fail in 5+ years.
There's every color of the rainbow on that board except purple... I think.
All I can say is: DAAAAAAMMMMMMMMM!!!
Are those 4 parallel SATA plugs on the side in addition to 4 perpendicular SATA jacks? i7 will obliterate the universe.
Damn you! Now I have drool all over my keyboard.
Now the question remains:
will it blend Crysis?
Only if it's done in a Doomtec blender.
Wow. I'm glad Intel had decided to realease a computing platform that rivals my Washer/Dryer combo in electricity consumption. What does anybody need these kinds of specs for? You can spend half as much as this system will cost you and see really no appreciable drop in performance. How long will it take gamers to figure out that all the beefy hardware in the world won't do you any good until software optimization catches up to the platform? Look how long it has taken people to program well for this generation fo game consoles? Most games and applications haven't even caught up to Quad Core processors yet, let alone 3 or even 6 graphics cards. Intel/AMD/Nvidia sure seem eager to charge you $2500 for that extra 12 frames per second.
What is a "12-phase power supply"???
6 video cards huh?
If you can find me 6 videocards that don't have a fan taking up a second card slot and won't melt themselves in its abscence I might try it.
*cough*Radeon 4850*cough*
That photo takes me back... it's been years since I've built my own PC with that style of motherboard.
What do people do with 6 PCI-E slots? Back in the day everything needed a separate card - video, sound, network, even the IDE controller! Now most of that is on-board.
That's great, but I'd like something a little more budget-oriented. To use Gigabyte's nomenclature, I'm thinking of a GA-X58-DS3R. I don't need six graphics slots or ten SATA ports.
Why do all gigabyte boards look like someone was eating a box of crayons for lunch and then proceeded to throw up on the motherboard?
Because life isn't black and white.