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Asus and Gigabite X58 board details emerge

by on21 August 2008

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Not far from the final products

TweakTown and PCGamesHardware have both scored exclusive pictures of Gigabyte's and Asus' X58 motherboards, respectively, and it looks like we're getting closer to final products.

Starting with the Gigabyte board, this is supposedly not the final board, as TweakTown claims it's the X58-DS4 model, but currently with some X58-Extreme features, such as the cooling and some additional LEDs.

The board has four x16 PCIe slots, although if you use all four slots, you end up with four x8 slots, although as they're PCIe 2.0, they offer the same bandwidth as PCIe 1.0 x16 slots. There's also two open ended PCIe x4 slots, and if these are PCIe 2.0 slots then they would be able to handle two additional graphics cards quite well.

Gigabyte has designed in six memory slots and the board also has onboard power and reset buttons and a rear clear CMOS button. The board also has a debug LED display, six SATA ports, eight rear USB 2.0 ports and a few other goodies.

The Asus board goes under the name of P6T Deluxe, but it doesn't look like the apple has fallen too far from the R.O.G. tree here. The chipset cooling looks very similar to that found on the latest X48 and P45 R.O.G. motherboard from Asus.

The P6T Deluxe features three x16 PCIe x16 slots, although we're not sure how they're configured at this moment. The board also has an open-ended PCIe x4 slot. Other features include six SATA ports, two SATA/SAS ports, eSATA, FireWire, onboard power and reset buttons and dual Gigabit Ethernet.

In related news, Asus has also confirmed that it will be doing an X58 motherboard with SLI support, although at this time it's not known if that motherboard will use one or two nForce 200 chips, as one chip would limit the available bandwidth for the graphics cards, since the nForce 200 chipset communicates via 16 PCIe lanes, and it's as such impossible for it to offer a pair of full bandwidth PCIe x16 slots.

You can find out more details and pictures of the Asus board here and the Gigabyte board here.

Last modified on 22 August 2008
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