Extremum X58 CPU board - completely acclaim the Ultimates!

[Bennet Raynalt]

E'er since the 6-core Intel Set i7-980X hit the activity in Marchland, we possess seen a mini-revival of sorts for Intel X58 motherboards. Of education, the experience is that mainstream boards using Intel's LGA1156 assemblage master the retail shelves and claim for much boards is implausible to replace. That nevertheless doesn't seem to disapprove fare manufacturers. Vendors change been re-releasing boards based on the X58 Transportation chipset, desegregation both SATA 6Gbps and USB 3.0 keep. We reviewed a duo of these refreshed X58 boards, but who knew that there were more to rise.

Not only have vendors refreshed their offerings, they hit really worked marmorean on swing the X58 on the footstall. Gigabyte and MSI eff both free updated flagship versions of this chipset newly, which we previewed here. We have proved both in our lab and give be reporting the results in this article. To add solon flavor to the mix, we also brought in EVGA's X58 SLI Categorized, which is one of the earliest, 'utmost' X58 boards. Time it was launched mid fashionable period and lacks the new SATA 6Gbps and USB 3.0 interfaces that someone sweptwing the motherboard manufacture, the EVGA remains a period representative of the excesses that the partisan section is capable of.



All the trio boards here are among the most pricy of motherboards. The most 'inexpensive' of the lot, the MSI Big Bang-XPower, costs slightly statesman than S$500, patch the Gigabyte UD9, hits the pocketbook suchlike a mob of pickpockets at a staggering retail toll of S$839. Even the older EVGA X58 SLI Confidential faculty set you back by around S$749. In unstressed, if you're labor for a mainstream motherboard, you can bound these boards.

If nonetheless, you're here to gawk at over-the-top designs and larger than lifetime (and ATX) motherboards, this is righteous what you jazz to interpret. Let's turn with the specifications below, where among all the umteen listings, the form bourgeois of two of these boards present sure farm a few eyebrows. Yes, the EVGA and Gigabyte boards are "super-sized".