The guys over at Extremesystems forum have managed to get their hands on a picture of Gigabyte's new EX58-Extreme motherboard.

According to the post, this is still not the final version, but the v0.2 sample and some things will change in the production model. Featuring a special and quite bulky cooling system, it is now clear why Gigabyte decided to brand it as an "extreme" motherboard series.

Unlike previously seen X58 solutions from Gigabyte and some other companies, the new Gigabyte EX58-Extreme comes with a rather interesting cooling system that was derived from Gigabyte's VGA cooling system called multi-core. The base of the cooling is the waterblock for the Northbridge which is connected to the VRM part and the ICH10R Southbridge by a set of heatpipes. Things get a bit weird as you take a look at the next picture which includes a gigantic dual-heatsink module that can be added to the Northbridge.

Other features include support for 3-way SLI and CrossfireX, triple-channel memory, ten SATA ports and much more. This will probably be the motherboard that we will hear more about as with such cooling system this might easily be a record breaker, at least as soon as Intel's Nehalem shows its face in November.

You can check out the rest of the pictures here.