We received the retail version of the Gigabyte EX58-Extreme tested, Unlike its older models of motherboards, the manufacturer opted for a much more sober colors, replacing the color pink, apple green, purple and orange and dimm SATA ports by blue and white. As for the rest, the card is identical to the model previously tested..
Photos of the card.
The card has 6 ports dimm and supports DDR3 triple channel. Alongside the SATA ports you can see a small LCD diagnostic system, displaying the error codes and other hardware problems encountered. Beneath the memory ports, Gigabyte switch placed Power / Reset / Clr CMOS making tests outside box easier. The EX58-Extreme has voltage to 12 phases for the CPU, 2-phase DDR3 and 2 phases for the Northbridge.
The rear panel is very rich because the card offers 2 ports PS2, analog outputs and digital audio, 1 firewire port, 1 clear CMOS button, 8-port USB2, 2 Ethernet ports and RJ45 input and output 7.1 audio. The EX58-Extreme supports 10 SATA devices without prior installation. 4 ports are managed by 2 controllers JMicron 322 and the other 6 by the ICH10-R Intel. You can also see the GUI three PCI-Express 2.0 that supports CrossFireX and sorting SLI, which allows the installation of 3 cards Nvidia or ATI.
The Bundle.
The contents of the box:
- Motherboard GA-EX58-EXTREME
- A CD-ROM drivers
- The user manual
- A quick guide
- IDE cable and a floppy cable
- Four cables SATA 3Gb / s
- A SATA bracket
- A back plate I / O
- An expansion card 2-port IEEE 1394a
- A mounting kit module Hybrid Silent-Pipe
- Bridge 2-Way SLI
- Bridge 3-Way SLI
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