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    Gigabyte EX58 Extreme 2

     
    Yep a revision of my board.... i could kick myself for buying it so early.

    Anyway on to the specs

    in looks its more or less the same except;

    Quad SLI compatible

    16x / 16x
    16x / 8x / 8x
    8x / 8x / 8x / 8x

    Features Gigabytes new 333 standard meaning, USB 3.0, triple USB power (2700 mAMP), and SATA 3.0 (6Gbps)

    More power phases, 24 to be exact, i believe version 1.0 only had 6 but i don't remember exactly.

    More Fan ports on the board, alot more.



    Video preview of the GIGABYTE EX-58 EXTREME2 motherboard :: TweakTown

    *KICK, KICK, KICK!*

    Edit: the picture is just a beta board, not the final revised.
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    thats fine I grabbed my Crossfire only MSI X58 Platinum, even though as an open box, a month after I bought it the SLI version was out, and even offered as an open box... Kick kick kick LOL

    never would of bought the 2 Radeon 4870's, and not wasted $250 on them.
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    Quad SLI compatable yet the only card atm that can run in quad SLI is the 285 classified.... which is a double width card and wont fit....

    (you you could get extenders and such but that is silly)
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    Should Clarify, Quad SLI as in Four Separate cards, 2 GTX 295's can do Quad SLI, but that is 2 cards.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Aaron_8015 View Post
    Quad SLI compatable yet the only card atm that can run in quad SLI is the 285 classified.... which is a double width card and wont fit....

    (you you could get extenders and such but that is silly)

    Wouldn't matter, gigabyte has a thing about putting that last PCIE slot too low on the board so you don't have a second PCI spot for ventilation.

    Only way i can see quad (4 card) sli is have them water cooled since that is a low profile heatsink.

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    problem is most Water cooled cards have dual slot brackets even though only a single slot width, so you'd have to do one of two things, remove the rear bracket, and maybe install a single slot bracket (would need to get ahold of a single slot bracket that would fit), or mod the bracket and cut off the excess slot part (but as I got Scolded by Aaron and JJ and others, that not to do that as it would violate warranty, when I was piecing together a "Dream" build running 7 revised GTX 295's, 2 GPU's on a single piece of board, but with single slot water block, LOL, for a kick a$$ GPU folding rig LOL)
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    Quote Originally Posted by ShyguyXPC View Post
    problem is most Water cooled cards have dual slot brackets even though only a single slot width, so you'd have to do one of two things, remove the rear bracket, and maybe install a single slot bracket (would need to get ahold of a single slot bracket that would fit), or mod the bracket and cut off the excess slot part (but as I got Scolded by Aaron and JJ and others, that not to do that as it would violate warranty, when I was piecing together a "Dream" build running 7 revised GTX 295's, 2 GPU's on a single piece of board, but with single slot water block, LOL, for a kick a$$ GPU folding rig LOL)
    The brackets are actually easy to find and cheap, i found some on frozencpu

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    Quote Originally Posted by ShyguyXPC View Post
    problem is most Water cooled cards have dual slot brackets even though only a single slot width, so you'd have to do one of two things, remove the rear bracket, and maybe install a single slot bracket (would need to get ahold of a single slot bracket that would fit), or mod the bracket and cut off the excess slot part (but as I got Scolded by Aaron and JJ and others, that not to do that as it would violate warranty, when I was piecing together a "Dream" build running 7 revised GTX 295's, 2 GPU's on a single piece of board, but with single slot water block, LOL, for a kick a$$ GPU folding rig LOL)
    We are not that bad....

    I just think if they are going to make an 4-way SLI board make it so there is enough room for you to slot 4 cards in and not mess with this modifying....

    The EVGA 4-way SLI classified board is like it should be.....

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    Quote Originally Posted by Aaron_8015 View Post
    We are not that bad....

    I just think if they are going to make an 4-way SLI board make it so there is enough room for you to slot 4 cards in and not mess with this modifying....

    The EVGA 4-way SLI classified board is like it should be.....

    I can't look at that board, my eyes start to bleed

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