Originally Posted by OLBY

For other branded motherboards, trying to raise the FSB can be quite complex

Originally Posted by OLBY

For other branded motherboards, trying to raise the FSB can be quite complex, as changing multipliers and dividers means you either have to be very good at math, or have a calculator on hand to do the calculations. GIGABYTE's BIOS, on the other hand, provides a BIOS Calculator that calculates the frequency automatically. The BIOS Calculator also shows you the relationships of the various settings on a platform. For example, on the X58 platform, when you raise the BCLK frequency, the CPU, Uncore, memory and QPI frequencies will also raise. The BIOS Calculator auto calculates the frequency of these components, allowing you to easily understand the relationship between the components and what the end frequencies will be after adjustment,

Originally Posted by OLBY

its specially produced for i7 cpus (but you can install c2d and c2q)

Originally Posted by OLBY

and have you ever hear about bios calculator
For other branded motherboards, trying to raise the FSB can be quite complex, as changing multipliers and dividers means you either have to be very good at math, or have a calculator on hand to do the calculations. GIGABYTE's BIOS, on the other hand, provides a BIOS Calculator that calculates the frequency automatically. The BIOS Calculator also shows you the relationships of the various settings on a platform. For example, on the X58 platform, when you raise the BCLK frequency, the CPU, Uncore, memory and QPI frequencies will also raise. The BIOS Calculator auto calculates the frequency of these components, allowing you to easily understand the relationship between the components and what the end frequencies will be after adjustment,by gigabyte
yeaaaaaaah,gigabyte is the best

Originally Posted by supersmashbrada

Oh wait, the rampage board does all these things, plus more, not to down the gigabyte board, its a great board.

Originally Posted by Rage_3K_Moiz

Rubbish. Marketing BS if I ever heard any. You need to know how the QPI and other frequencies affect overall performance in order to know how good your OC is. Higher is not always better or more useful.

As for the best X58 motherboard, that would be a tie between the Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD4P and the EVGA 758-TR for triple Crossfire\SLI support.

But if you're looking at vanilla Crossfire\SLI support, the Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD3R and MSI X58 Pro would be the best, with my vote tipping towards the Gigabyte board for their legendary reliability. The upcoming GA-EP55-UD3R looks to continue that trend IMO.

IMO, the GA-EX58-EXTREME is a luxury board that has most of the features other boards have, with some unnecessary ones thrown in. It burns a big hole in your wallet (unless you have a black hole for a wallet) and provides close to zero value for money, as with everything else at the extreme high-end in PC hardware IMO. It is also not the only board like this; there are others like the ASUS P6T7, EVGA CLASSIFIED, MSI Eclipse and ASUS Rampage II Extreme that deserve to be put in the same category IMO. So unless you actually have the money to spend on hardware such as watercooling equipment that will make use of the features that such motherboards provide, they are not worth it IMO.


As the others have said, it is a completely new CPU socket. You cannot fit older 775 CPUs into it; it just isn't physically possible.

Originally Posted by teklord

There may be an adapter for LGA 775 CPU's to LGA 1366 slot type, although I haven't found one yet. Why anyone would want to use 3 GPU's is beyond me unless they are loaded with money and want 65 FPS average instead of 60 FPS in Crysis. :P i7 is being phased out, so if you want one, better get it within a few months.