With the new X58 chipset being the first platform and chipset to be compatible with the new LGA1366 and the hard-core level enthusiast board for modders who would pay for the premium hardware to play their latest and greatest games or just test through its rounds in benchmarks tools and over clocking capabilities. Some other review analyst like Bit-tech and Atomic PC in Australia welcome the new platform for its performance and improvement from the previous Intel core 2 Duo. But for others like for those budget reviewers say it is way too expensive to have or the performance to prize ratio is far better put in the previous Intel platform.
But where are only here to review the greatest and best gaming products you can find in the country, now it is MSI’s turn to make their own mark in the new X58 chipset. The X58 eclipse; not being confused with the blocking of the sun or the moon, wherever you make it, is not a phenomena, but an easy to look at ATX form factor board. MSI opt for a black color PCB and an array of new design heat-pipe cooling solution for their new board. With all copper heat-fins in North and South Bridge plus the MSI public endorsed Drmos, just to keep the chipset cool an over-clockable, well the X58 is in some terms the hard-core board of all time with the support of the LGA1366 and triple channel DDR3 memory up to 1600MHz and the support of both Crossfire and SLI graphics with the triple SLI going in 16x bandwidth in the first two and 8x in the third. Or remember the coloration of the PCIex 16x. With ten SAT ports and still one old IDE port if you still cling to the IDE interface Optical drives; eight rear USB ports, dual Ethernet connection, 1394 port, two eSATA, plus CMOS button in the rear if the inevitable happens. For most of the high lights of the board is a dedicated Audio chips from creative that will give you a clear and crisp surround sound experience, but I would prefer an ASUS audio chip; and also the so called power saving device that is supposed to be connected between the 24-pin power supply to magnetize or efficiently have a clear voltage flow to the board in theory have an even stable over-clock.
To over-clock the baby and run in our random test in how it can handle large calculations and also the timings and how low its latencies can go until it crashes. We will check its performance in its stock speed with a 940 and its overclocked speed at exact 3.98GHz (181×22) with some extra cooling with an aftermarket cooling. With Sisoftsandra showed abit slow in the latencies in the memory and cannot beat the bandwidth speed of the Intel skulltrail series or a fully configured X48 chipset with the Intel quad core extreme QX9770. But when we up the clock speed, fiddled with the memory, we found out it beat the competition on the floor; with first in every test benchmarks and fast timings makes it a good guarantee that it will perform well when you tweak the speed. But the flaws with the board and the platform in general is that It is too expensive to buy, yes it is the future, but I has not landed in its own two feet, yet. My advice is wait for a while until the prizes goes down or when the financial crisis is over and the return of low prize spending; but desperate for a good upgrade to the next level over the intel core 2 duo, and a large amount of cash to burn this can be a spoiler of a board.
