Computer Gaming Hardware

The extremities of making motherboard is now in the arena of gigabyte, with the start of the extreme edition of Intel or, in the rare cases AMD chipsets (I have to really check on this), to be pimped up with Blue PCB and also hotwired with enthusiast hardware, like over-clocking chips and fancy two digit numbers that light up to check the status of the board in its POST stage. For all of this really just started with Intel’s P45 chipset with the extreme edition covering the chipset board with adorable copper heat sinks and in its first cooling system including a water block and then connected into a large full copper fins that took a PCI slot, and also a few extras in the board with over-clocking potential and power saving chip when in the domesticated side of things.
The GA-X58-extreme, like its P45 equivalent; in design, is all aluminium cooling chipset that go around the board and stopping of in the PWM’s and the north bridge and a massive heat-sink in the Southbridge, which in the long heat-sink cools one NVIDIA 200 chipset, that control the SLI graphics for all NVIDIA graphics and one for the peripherals, Intel’s own ICH10R Southbridge. So this board covers everything, the support for Crossfire multi graphics and NVIDIA’s SLI, triple channel DDR3 slots that have a max memory of 32GB, exceptional array cooling and an additional aluminium cooling fin that cover the top PCI slot and its PCIex 1x slot, that weight up to a kilo when fully installed, with the cooler. What else? Oh, the support of the new LGA1366 socket and Intel’s core 7i processors with a QPI of 1600MHz and 6.4GT/s transfer rate.
The performance of the X58 is a big improvement over the previous P45 and even the X48 chipsets. With the help of triple channel and onboard memory controller increased the memory bandwidth and latency by double and half in timings. Plus the raw power of the Core 7i over the extreme edition of the Core 2 quad is with a large difference having a high 15000 mark on vantage and in quad just barely in the 1200 score. With the difference all to be seen, the speed and latency is an example, the only thing the Core 2 Duo an Quad go better is the prize difference, for the entry level of the core 7I easily $500, and in the mainstream about… $1500 already, and don’t go let me tell the prize of the core 7i 965! Only about a core 2 quad Q9550 for about $300 in the internet, and this is pretty over-clockable to at 4.5 GHz in air alone, or even more in water-cooling.
For the rest of the board performance is astonishing in gaming with SLI or even crossfire is fast pace and cannot have any game to slow it down. With the latency of DDR3 is a good mix of bandwidth to the memory and performance in the processor. But let’s face it we can’t afford the core 7i 965 for about $1900 and the board for about $599, that’s already a fully configured Intel Core 2 Quad system prize with the graphics card and memory chip on top of that. This is really the show offs of computer systems, and the money to burn in front of them when buying the dam thing.