Gigabyte Goes Cooling Crazy with 'Extreme' ... ... Intel plans to officially release the new P45 chipset in May 2008. One of the major changes that comes with ...

Buck · 04-22-2008, 06:19 AM

Intel plans to officially release the new P45 chipset in May 2008. One of the major changes that comes with the P45 is the upgrade to the ICH10R southbridge - and reported elimination of legacy motherboard ports.

Early reports stated PS2 reports were not supported by ICH10R. Looking at this new board from Gigabyte, I'd say that may not be true.

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Although we can say that we've already glazed upon a few P45-powered motherboards built by Gigabyte, it seems we ain't seen nothing yet. Although the upcoming P45 chipset from Intel is a mid-range part, Gigabyte has went all the way to make it enthusiast-worthy with the EP45 Extreme board which can be viewed below.

Starting off shy with features like support for 45nm 1333 MHz FSB processors and DDR2-1200 memory and CrossFire through one PCI-Express 2.0 x16 and two x4 slots, Gigabyte motherboard goes over the top when it comes to cooling. We like shiny copper as much as the next person but with the EP45 Extreme Gigabyte probably went over the top as, in addition to the PWM, northbridge and southbridge heatsinks and the heatpipes between them it has added a fin array just above the PCI slots. The whole contraption can be taken off though, and that will enable the connection of a water-cooling system to the northbridge heatsink.

Expected to be available in limited numbers, the EP45 Extreme is set to come bundled with a LN2 duct for the CPU and a new version of the EasyTune application. No word on the release date of this miniature copper mine but June seems like a safe bet.

Source: TechConnect

Steve · 04-22-2008, 07:00 AM

That comes stock on the mobo?!

Buck · 04-22-2008, 07:31 AM

yep

spartan82 · 04-22-2008, 09:07 AM

holy crap that things huge!!!

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