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Questions about GIGABYTE products => Motherboards with Intel processors => Topic started by: chaweng on June 30, 2009, 11:55:16 am

Title: GA-EX58A-EXTREME ? - no, it's GA-X58A-UD7 instead
Post by: chaweng on June 30, 2009, 11:55:16 am
Hey there!
Does anyone know about an estimated release time frame for the new GA-EX58A-EXTREME??? Was announced at Computex, has 24 phase and SATA rev. 3.0...and will be my next board  ;)
Title: Re: GA-EX58A-EXTREME ?
Post by: Whitehot on June 30, 2009, 01:05:46 pm
wow! Not heard about that .... till now!

Just found this on t'internet.

http://www.3dfxzone.it/news/reader.php?objid=10603

it seems there will be an EX58Q-Extreme too!!
Title: Re: GA-EX58A-EXTREME ?
Post by: Whitehot on June 30, 2009, 03:00:27 pm
I just spoke to Gigabyte and those models will be most likely be for Asia only.  :-\
Title: Re: GA-EX58A-EXTREME ?
Post by: oggmonster on June 30, 2009, 03:02:42 pm
Damn, time to make lots of friends in Asia eh!  ;)
Title: Re: GA-EX58A-EXTREME ?
Post by: Whitehot on June 30, 2009, 03:46:04 pm
yeah, preferably a nice lady about 5ft 6in with long dark hair  ::)

note to memo - need to check if my wife has registered on here.
Title: Re: GA-EX58A-EXTREME ?
Post by: oggmonster on June 30, 2009, 03:49:59 pm
Quote from: Whitehot on June 30, 2009, 03:46:04 pm
yeah, preferably a nice lady about 5ft 6in with long dark hair  ::)

note to memo - need to check if my wife has registered on here.

LOL! That made me laugh out loud in the middle of the workshop at work  ;D
Title: Re: GA-EX58A-EXTREME ?
Post by: chaweng on June 30, 2009, 06:35:38 pm
Quote from: Whitehot on June 30, 2009, 03:00:27 pm
I just spoke to Gigabyte and those models will be most likely be for Asia only.  :-\

But the ...A.. models will be available wordwide as I understand! Did they say anything about a release date?
Title: Re: GA-EX58A-EXTREME ?
Post by: runn3R on July 01, 2009, 10:11:14 am
new model name GA-EX58-EXTREME2 will be used, instead of GA-EX58A-EXTREME
Title: Re: GA-EX58A-EXTREME ?
Post by: chaweng on July 01, 2009, 11:37:04 am
Ahh ok, thanks for clearing this up :) Do you know a roughly release date, I mean, do I have to wait till September, October, or maybe July  ;D
Title: Re: GA-EX58A-EXTREME ?
Post by: Badbonji on July 01, 2009, 12:06:35 pm
Will these have support for the upcoming 6 core i7's (core i9 ???), and will my board have support also?
Title: Re: GA-EX58A-EXTREME ?
Post by: runn3R on July 01, 2009, 12:25:09 pm
Quote from: chaweng on July 01, 2009, 11:37:04 am
Ahh ok, thanks for clearing this up :) Do you know a roughly release date, I mean, do I have to wait till September, October, or maybe July  ;D
roughly it's in Aug / Sep, but it will be probably hard to get them in EU :(
Title: Re: GA-EX58A-EXTREME ?
Post by: chaweng on July 01, 2009, 03:30:03 pm
Quote from: Badbonji on July 01, 2009, 12:06:35 pm
Will these have support for the upcoming 6 core i7's (core i9 ???), and will my board have support also?

Yes, all X58 boards will be compatible with the upcoming Intel Gulftown CPUs (32nm and 6-core), just a bios update!
Title: Re: GA-EX58A-EXTREME ?
Post by: Whitehot on July 08, 2009, 09:58:55 am
6 core!!  Ok it might be time to upgrade.  I'm still on a two core bad boy!  I think I still have a socket 7 somewhere (not old enough to win the 'oldest motherboard comp though  :-[)
Title: Re: GA-EX58A-EXTREME ?
Post by: andyr on July 15, 2009, 04:11:32 pm
What does this extreme 2 give over the extreme1 ?
Title: Re: GA-EX58A-EXTREME ? - no, it's GA-EX58-EXTREME 2 instead
Post by: runn3R on October 28, 2009, 02:20:50 pm
It should have SATA 3 (6 Gbit/s), USB 3.0 and 3x more power in USB, the same as these ones: http://forum.giga-byte.co.uk/index.php/topic,763.0.html

Here is some early version photo:
(http://forum.giga-byte.co.uk/upload/files/EX58-EXTREME%202%20picture.jpg) (http://forum.giga-byte.co.uk/upload/files/EX58-EXTREME%202%20picture.jpg)
Title: Re: GA-EX58A-EXTREME ? - no, it's GA-EX58-EXTREME 2 instead
Post by: jonj678 on October 28, 2009, 08:33:27 pm
It may be hoping for a lot, but is that the same cooling array used on the first generation boards? I'm looking at some waterblocks for mine (finally), and if they won't fit on this one I may as well wait until I upgrade the motherboard.

Any chance the 220 (approx)  bsck limit is higher on these boards, without the stress of cracking out the high temperature soldering iron?

First I've seen of this board, thank you for posting it :)
Title: Re: GA-EX58A-EXTREME ? - no, it's GA-EX58-EXTREME 2 instead
Post by: HardTarget on October 31, 2009, 12:10:06 am
Any news on when this board will be released in Europe?
Title: Re: GA-EX58A-EXTREME ? - no, it's GA-EX58-EXTREME 2 instead
Post by: runn3R on November 03, 2009, 10:00:34 am
Beginning of Dec, estimated

Have a look at early video review: http://forum.giga-byte.co.uk/index.php/topic,799.0.html
Title: Re: GA-EX58A-EXTREME ? - no, it's GA-X58A-UD7 instead
Post by: runn3R on November 06, 2009, 02:10:19 pm
Final model name is GA-X58A-UD7, see the photos:
http://forum.giga-byte.co.uk/index.php/topic,818.0.html