Hi all,

We have just published an early look at *Gigabyte's GA-EX58-Extreme
motherboard*. If you could post a link on your site that would be very
much appreciated.

*Link:*
http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2008/10/10/early-look-gigabyte-ga-ex58-extreme/1


*Picture:*
http://images.bit-tech.net/content_images/2008/10/early-look-gigabyte-ga-ex58-extreme/fp_img.jpg


*Quote:
*We have to remind ourselves that this /is/ an early look still and
we've still yet a month to go before we get hold of the final retail
sample and we know the EX58-Extreme board has already changed once in
the last month or so. Yet, we can't but help feel a little /"meh"/
compared to the other X58 boards we've seen.

It's yet another evolution not revolution from Gigabyte and while its
conservative nature means it's to some degree guaranteed not to go wrong
and affect sales, without venturing out to try new things there's also
no chance of getting it much more /right/ either. Launching the
EP45-Extreme board was a great opportunity to try and do something
different, to push the boundaries and justify the higher price, not just
roll into the norm of slapping a big heatpipe on it and a waterblock on
the northbridge that seems so popular these days.

The fundamentals of the Gigabyte X58 are certainly solid enough and if
you like its boards to date it's very likely to be yet another to stick
on the shopping list, but we do hope Gigabyte gets a serious injection
of mojo sometime soon, simply to avoid becoming stale.
*

*Cheers guys!

Tim Smalley
www.bit-tech.net