Overclocking Hardware Review: Gigabyte Extreme EP45 Motherboard
April 23, 2008 3:13 am Overclocking Hardware Review
Gigabyte has always been know for going the distance when it comes to building their motherboards, but their Extreme P45 Intel Chipset board really takes the cake.
The Gigabyte EP45 Extreme is equipped to support an Intel 45nm CPU with a max FSB of 1333 MHz. You’ll be able to load it up with four sticks of DDR2-1200 RAM along with running an ATI Video Card through CrossFire on the one PCI-Express 2.0 x16 slot and the two PCI-Express x4 slots.
Sounds like a lot of voltage running through this system just for using what it’s capable of handling, right? Gigagbyte must have felt the same way as they equipped their EP45 Extreme with a fin array just above the PCI slots, PWM, northbridge, and southbridge heatsinks, and even a series of heatpipes connecting all of it together.
This isn’t going to be the easiest motherboard to find either, as it’s only coming out in limited quantities, however you’ll be able to find the Gigabyte EP45 Extreme bundled with an LN2 duct and EasyTune sometime this summer.
Photos compliments of TweakTown
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