Gigabyte X58 Features

Breaking overclock records is what the GIGABYTE EXTREME motherboard is all about, with friendly overclocking features such as Precision OV (Hardware Overvoltage Control IC), Debug LED and onboard clear CMOS switches. Additionally, the GIGABYTE GA-EX58-EXTREME motherboard features comprehensive BIOS options for reaching higher limits with more detailed settings, including CPU frequency stepping, Over Voltage increments, memory multipliers and advanced memory timing controls, making it easier than ever to tweak the highest levels of extreme overclocking performance from your system.

The GIGABYTE GA-EX58-EXTREME motherboard now features the revolutionary new GIGABYTE Hybrid Silent-Pipe 2, a fusion thermal solution that combines GIGABYTE's proprietary screen cooling technology, external heat sink and liquid cooling with chipset water block to deliver maximum thermal performance. Add in the highest quality sound performance with the Dolby Home Theater technology suite, and the GIGABYTE GA-EX58-EXTREME motherboard makes for one ultimate extreme system. Whether overclocking or gaming, you can be sure your system was built for the extremes.

Hybrid Silent-Pipe 2
Hybrid Silent-Pipe is a fusion thermal solution that combines liquid cooling, screen cooling and external heat sink to deliver unequalled heat conductivity. Hybrid SILENT-PIPE 2 is able to provide 30% cooler thermal performance (Under Liquid cooling environment).
• Unique Screen Cooling thermal design effectively reduces the temperature around the CPU zone and removes the heat between NB and SB area.
• Liquid Cooling system featuring special waterblock design with an enlarged dissipating surface area for enhanced heat dissipation and optimum flow-rate.
• High-Precision die forming technology utilized to increase the thermal conductivity of the material that makes up the heat sink.
• High performance Copper Heat Pipe with sintered process designed for ultra efficient thermal conductivity.
• External Heat Sink design utilizing a convection slot at the back of the chassis to increase thermal dissipation.

Ultra Durable 3
Revolutionary Ultra Durable 3 technology from GIGABYTE features the industry's first consumer desktop motherboard design with 2 oz copper Power and Ground layers for dramatically lower system temperature, improved energy efficiency and enhanced stability for overclocking.

2 Gigabit LAN - High Velocity 2X Bandwidth Boost
Teaming functionality enabled allows 2 single connections to act as 1 single connection for twice the bandwidth, improving overall throughput.

DualBIOS - Patented Dual Hardware BIOS Protection
Automatically recovers Main BIOS data when Main BIOS has crashed or failed.

Integrated Memory Controller - Intel Core i7 Processors feature triple channel DDR3 support
Intel Core i7 processors feature the memory controller integrated directly into the processor die rather than as part of the Northbridge as in previous generations, allowing for faster memory performance. Core i7 processors also provide additional memory support including:

• 3 channels, 6 DIMMs
• Up to 2 DIMMs per channel
• Supports single, dual and quad-bank DIMMs

QPI (QuickPath Interconnect) - Replacing the role of FSB
Intel uses the QPI to connect internal components of Core i7 processors , and to connect the CPU itself to the Northbridge and banks of memory. QPI delivers up to 25.6GB/sec of bandwidth between Core i7 processors and the rest of the system, providing exactly double the bandwidth of 1600 MHz FSB.

Intel Turbo Boost Technology - Dynamically reroutes power to improve performance
For situations when all cores are not needed for a particular workload, Intel Turbo Boost Technology powers down the idle cores and dynamically reroutes the power to the active cores, boosting their performance without wasting power. This allows the active cores to achieve significant overclocks.

Precision OV - Hardware Over Voltage Control ICs
provide more voltage control options than before (CPU, NB & Memory). HW linear real time voltage control provides finer voltage control steppings as little as 20 mV min (.002 V) with no delay compared to previous GPIO.

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