5 - Photos - Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD5P

Photos - Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD5P

On the next few pages we'll show you some photos. The images were taken at high-resolution and then cropped and scaled down. The camera used was a Canon 450D 12 MegaPixel.

Right, meet the Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD5P. Mind you that we received an early production sample of the mainboard. There were some minor BIOS issues and next to that, it came in a white carton box with a burnt driver CD. So I can not show you the bundle items. Knowing Gigabyte, there'll be plenty of it though.

What we can show you is the insane amount of features that gigabyte crammed into the motherboard. From left to right, PS2 Mouse/Keyboard connectors. Very lovely optical and coaxial S/PDIF outputs and audio jacks. Firewire, and then you stumble into the CMOS CLEAR button. What an excellent feature to have included. Just power off the PC, press the button and your CMOS is cleared. That's overclocking made easy. Then we stumble into a massive eight USB 2.0 ports, two Gigabit Ethernet ports and then the analog audio connectors. Impressive.

This is the new LGA 1366 socket for the Core i7 processor from Intel. The surroundings looks a little busy with all the capacitors yet they do not block the cooling whatsoever. Also in white, conveniently located the 8-pin CPU power connector.

DIMM slots for memory. We have triple channel memory in the house, so equip these slots with either 3 or 6 DDR3 DIMMs please. Supporting up to 24GB of RAM (with 4GB DIMMs when available) or up to 12GB (with 2GB DIMMs).

They are color coded, so if you plan to insert three DIMMs, then use for example the green colors slots only. Just below the DIMM slots, notice two micro switches. One for reset and one for power-on/off. Pretty nifty and the power switch actually lights up together with an array of multi phase power circuitry LEDs in relation to DES.