The EVGA California becomes the first manufacturer to officially support the processor first public six hearts Intel.

EVGA has released a series of new BIOS for its motherboards LGA-1366 equipped with the Intel X58 Express chipset. The California manufacturer has no fewer than five models, the X58 SLI Micro, SLI, SLI, SLI Classified, Classified and 4-way SLI. 44 This version adds support official Intel Core i7-980X and Core i7-970 "Gulftown. The first major public processors to six cores of the giant Santa Clara should arrive by the end of this quarter.

They will be engraved to 32 nanometers, then count 6 core, 12 threads, 12MB cache, a memory controller, DDR3 triple channel, and a link to QPI 6.4GT / s, for a total of 1.17 billion transistors ! The new BIOS also add an optional "Turbo Performance" which as its name suggests adding a few percent of performance when activated. Finally, a bug with 1866 MHz memory ratio is fixed. You can download the BIOS 44 on the EVGA website.

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