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Our X58 motherboard coverage continues with a look at Gigabyte's EX58-UD5, an offering that's competing with all the other $300 launch boards out there. Though still expensive, there's a lot being offered here, including a plethora of USB and S-ATA ports, solid design, support for 3-way GPU...

That's one thing that concerned me, but in all six games, I saw little-to-no difference in the screenshots I had. Feel free to download them and take a look yourself. Maybe you can find something I didn't (they're in the first post).

I'd go for the 6GB DDR3-1333 kit over the 3GB DDR3-1600, no question. What good is the DDR3-1600 for anything except overclocking? No good at all, as this article proved. DDR3-1333 modules would still allow a 3.32GHz overclock on the 920... no need to complain there.

See, that's what confuses me. What kinds of optimizations could be make to a driver to cause that much improvement? Unless it's just these games... who knows. In hindsight, I should have used a much wider collection, but I was trying to stick to just what's popular for the holidays, and as far...

Maybe it was designed for those who think they are whispering when really they are just talking at normal volume?

PC silence means more now than ever before. While we love to have powerful machines, we also want peace and quiet, and understandably so. NZXT recently released their Whisper full-tower that's poised to deliver the best of both worlds. Can this huge chassis deliver the silence we're looking for...

It's impossible to simply choose one of the two, because both make fantastic motherboards for all price-ranges. I tend to prefer ASUS, because the BIOS is more to my liking (and the color scheme / design), but that's not to say Gigabyte doesn't rock as well. It's just the minor things that keep...

How so? It's been a while since I've touched the E8400, but I don't recall temperatures so high at 4.0GHz that it would require advanced cooling. I did a 4.0GHz overclock on a cheap external water-cooler that performs worse than most decent air coolers. As a side note, 4.0GHz really isn't that...

I'll admit... I tried this game out for our benchmarking article, and I can't say that I'm the least bit impressed. I knew that Far Cry 2 wasn't destined as a direct sequel to the original, but my question is, why is it named Far Cry 2, then? To sell more copies, that's why. The graphics are...

I am no cooling guru, so I can't go ahead and pick one, but I'd be impressed if neither of those would sufficiently cool the E8400 at 4.0GHz. The ASUS in particular cooled admirably in our tests earlier this year, and that was with a Quad-Core, so I'd imagine a Dual-Core would be a breeze with...

For speed and space, you could just pick up two 1TB drives and RAID them. Storage is SO cheap nowdays, so there's no reason to not have some sort of redundancy. That reminds me... I need to hurry up and go pick up a 1TB drive before I regret it. Re-ripped over 300 albums so far, and I really...

I am a total hypocrite. I installed a new Gigabyte board last night (EX58-UD5), configured all my settings to my liking, and what did I do? I went and updated the BIOS! That's what happens when you pay little-to-no attention to working! Nothing of course broke, but I'll still stand by my...

You might be confusing SLI and SLI-capable memory. The latter is just some needless spec given to RAM that has built-in profiles to go beyond stock speeds of the memory. It has absolutely nothing to do with SLI... it's just a badge tacked on there.

If you don't need to purchase the GPU right now, you might want to wait until we follow-up our testing when ATI releases their 8.12 Catalyst driver. It's supposed to add various improvements that hope to match or surpass the performance of the GTX 260/216 in most games, including the ones used...

That build sounds wicked, Merlin. I drool even though we have similar parts here, haha! All components there are amazing, from the CPU to the motherboard to the GPU (especially the GPU). He's going to love that machine, no question.

I am not familiar enough with power supplies to comment, but I don't see a problem with virtually any supply on the market. The E8400 isn't a huge CPU (despite being fast), and it draws nowhere near as much power as a Quad-Core. It's a 65W CPU, so even at full load, it's not going to go anywhere...

Where do people find the time to make this stuff? :confused:

No, because we are just benchmarking one application at a time, which doesn't begin to touch even 3GB. Benchmarking multi-tasking scenarios would better show improvements between 3GB vs. 6GB, but that's something we're still figuring out how to conduct reliably. There's a huge difference...

Woops, I forgot that we had a post limit that needs to be met first. Once you hit 10 posts on the forums, you'll be able to create signatures. We have it set this way since many spam bots will sign up on the site only to edit their signatures and then never come back. It's staggering how many...