News - GIGABYTE announces duo of X58-based motherboards for Intel's Core i7

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Intel's Core i7 is almost within touching distance and GIGABYTE is ready and waiting with a pair of X58 motherboards.

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The new heatpipe design looks like its going to make it a lot more difficult to get your hands in there to fit cpus, gfx cards etc :/

Why the stupidly huge heatsink on the northbridge? There isn't a memory controller there anymore!

this northbridge heatsink is like an add-on card, you can see detailed pictures in "Preview: Gigabyte EX58 Extreme Motherboard" at CPU3D.com, so you can work without it if you don't overclock, the same is with watercooling.:)

the Extreme there probably isn't going to be in most people's price bracket, they say pricing is unknown but that is the top end of Gigabyte's i7 boards, probably £170 or more.

Looks nice.

from what i have seen so far id say 170 is pretty reasonable in comparison to some. Im sure Novatech had some up a few days ago and the cheapest one there was closer to £200 if not more.