Gigabyte GA-EP45-Extreme Appreciation Society

Seems that the Extreme in no longer at OcUK now... the product has vanished.

Same for that 4x4 DDR2 memory kit, and a few other "non Core i7" related products... We're obsoleted guys ! :/
 
Actualy, it does. I did a bit of googling and it seems that ISL is the voltage controller; what they do (with the "pencil mod" too) is change the voltage divider a notch to compensate for the manufacturer's calibration variation...

I'll have a look at the -extreme tomorrow to see if it's any different on ours.

Other than that, the mod seems very simple, but will need good soldering ironwork and some kynar wire :D

My board is still very very happy at 4Ghz, I've been using it a LOT as a compile farm for the last few months and it's just amazing, yes I think we did an excellent deal on that one :-)
 
Well, I know it's a thread revival, but I think it's interesting to track dow the "end" of a system after having worked so hard on the "beginning" of it!

My mobo is now dying, I'm limping with just one stick of ram, because it seems the power rail has trouble booting the ram properly; it takes about 20 attempts to boot the board now, despite trying several type of sticks of ram.

So I'm shopping for my i7 replacement now; I feel a bit sorry, because this mobo here is still awesome, it looks great, and worked great until my PSU blew up some weeks ago. I kept it at 4.0Ghz for about 3 years, and the system was still faster than many i7's at that speed !
The good thing is the CPU still resells for ~£200 on eBay, with is a bit more than I paid for it in the first place, back then; this will offset the new 2600K.

so, bye bye GA-EP45-Extreme, I'll surely regret you, regardless the new board I get. Heck, none of them has 2 gigabits ethernet these days!
 
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