Gigabyte EP45-EXTREME

Rob Williams · 10-20-2008, 01:29 AM

Intel's P45 chipset proves to be one of the best mainstream offerings ever created, and Gigabyte put it to good use on their EP45-EXTREME. The board offers sweet cooling ability (which the help of a lot of copper), amazing overclocking potential (500MHz stable with a Quad!) and fantastic power efficiency - all at a good price.

Read the review, then discuss!

Merlin · 10-20-2008, 05:46 AM

Great FSB
any pics of the Northbridge passive cooler installed?
And the color scheme is still the same ( rainbow )

Merlin

cooldude1561 · 10-20-2008, 08:13 AM

Great Article!!
you might want to switch the graphs for Half-Life and COD4, (they're reversed)

Rob Williams · 10-20-2008, 11:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Merlin

any pics of the Northbridge passive cooler installed?

I thought I did, but I couldn't find it in the pile of photos I had for the review. The board is all uninstalled now, sadly.

Quote:

Originally Posted by cooldude1561

you might want to switch the graphs for Half-Life and COD4, (they're reversed)

Woops, fixed! Thanks for pointing that out.

10-20-2008, 01:29 AM	#1
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10-20-2008, 05:46 AM	#2
Merlin The Tech Wizard Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Lakeland, Fl Posts: 1,855	Great FSB any pics of the Northbridge passive cooler installed? And the color scheme is still the same ( rainbow ) Merlin __________________ Win7 64 bit Intel i7 920 watercooled Asus P6X580 Premium mobo, GTX280 GPU watercooled Synology NAS 207 Network Server with 2 Hitachi Terabite drives LG NAS N2R1 with 2 ea 2 tb drives LINKSYS PLK300 Powerline Network Kit

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10-20-2008, 08:13 AM	#3
cooldude1561 Obliviot Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 2	Great Article!! you might want to switch the graphs for Half-Life and COD4, (they're reversed)