Gigabyte goes cooling crazy with 'Extreme' P45 motherboard

brakeinup · 23 Apr 2008 at 23:05

Its like there is a race to see who can make the most crazy looking chipset cooling system.

Whats next - web cams that are inside your case to show off your hardware to the rest of the world?

PhillyDee · 24 Apr 2008 at 01:07

Nice to see a decent amount of USB ports on the rear, 2 headers inside and 3 firewire headers. Ive never used Firewire. Shame they still have a floppy connector. Seems pointless.

ASM1 · 24 Apr 2008 at 10:49

Banny said:
not a lot of good with only one 16x slot

I guess its ok if you don’t want to crossfire or aren’t that fussed about max performance if you do...

PhillyDee said:
Nice to see a decent amount of USB ports on the rear, 2 headers inside and 3 firewire headers. Ive never used Firewire. Shame they still have a floppy connector. Seems pointless.

Never used firewire myself either, and I've had 3 motherboards (including current) that support it. On the other hand floppy connectors ***!

I still have a floppy drive in my system (granted don't use it much but, its handy)

I guess its price dependent but my only slight issue with it would be the fact that there is only four SATA ports, with the number of drives that use sata nowadays, I would expect six to be the norm - since if you want to RAID thats two gone, and DVDrom/RW drives are now SATA more often than not.

Major Gripe is the colour scheme I mean, Red, blue, yellow, green and orange

.... I understand the premise of colour co-ordinating things but blergh this makes me feel queasy :eek:

Columbo · 24 Apr 2008 at 11:11

Only 4 sata ports???

rah^ · 24 Apr 2008 at 11:57

ManCuBuS said:
Only 4 sata ports???

with 1tb harddrives are you sure u need more than 4?

Columbo · 24 Apr 2008 at 12:05

rah^ said:
with 1tb harddrives are you sure u need more than 4?

2 raptors in raid 0, and 2 sata dvd drives and your left with nothing.

mysticsniper · 24 Apr 2008 at 12:27

ManCuBuS said:
Only 4 sata ports???

It looks like 6 Sata ports to me, there looks like 2 more above the 4 yellow ones showing.

I am not keen on the layout of the IDE port being at the bottom of the mobo. I would prefer it to be on the side. IMO it should be swapped with the Sata Ports.

PhillyDee · 24 Apr 2008 at 13:19

Yep, theres 6 there, 2 are mounted so the plugs are not in the way of the gfx card.

pastymuncher · 24 Apr 2008 at 14:23

There was me thinking that the stupid heatpipe arrangements could'nt get any worse. That is absolutely ridiculous. How much heat can a motherboard possibly chuck out? At least it's removeable. I suppose that's something.

Indy500 · 24 Apr 2008 at 14:25

8 USB ports on back but no firewire? Strange decision from Gigabyte, given that they were the first to put 800mbit firewire on their boards...

ASM1 · 24 Apr 2008 at 14:27

Ah ok I only noticed the 4... must be the garish colours

On a side note, all I wrote was eff tee Double- u in the phrase below (as in 4 the win) would some kind soul enlighten me as to why the filter thinks it is a profanity? Or is there another abbreviation that my innocent little self is unaware of?

Edit:-- t e h gets *** as well... deary me!

ASM1 said:
Never used firewire myself either, and I've had 3 motherboards (including current) that support it. On the other hand floppy connectors ***! I still have a floppy drive in my system (granted don't use it much but, its handy)

TheOtherOption · 24 Apr 2008 at 14:30

Wow that is one wacky looking cooling solution, which alright, does give the board some bling bling, but for anyone who knows about these things it's just totally pointless surely!?

At least it being removable is an option!

GingerNinja1989 · 24 Apr 2008 at 14:35

sr4470 said:
8 USB ports on back but no firewire? Strange decision from Gigabyte, given that they were the first to put 800mbit firewire on their boards...

True, mine hasn't got any either, but I don't have anything that uses it anyways, and tbh not a lot of people do.

Indy500 · 24 Apr 2008 at 14:43

GingerNinja1989 said:
True, mine hasn't got any either, but I don't have anything that uses it anyways, and tbh not a lot of people do.

Better than USB for external storage, and some Ipods use it too...

GingerNinja1989 · 24 Apr 2008 at 14:51

sr4470 said:
Better than USB for external storage, and some Ipods use it too...

Didn't say that it wasn't. Just wanted to say that most people use USB for most things, and that USB is more widely available for the mass market (i.e. non-enthusiasts).

psychas · 24 Apr 2008 at 14:51

rofl manufactures getting crazy about north bridge these days

Skyboat · 24 Apr 2008 at 15:46

I'd like a board without any floppy/IDE ports and preferably without Firewire on them. I can't be the only one surely, and it would cut costs manufacturing it too.

Indy500 · 24 Apr 2008 at 15:48

GingerNinja1989 said:
Didn't say that it wasn't. Just wanted to say that most people use USB for most things, and that USB is more widely available for the mass market (i.e. non-enthusiasts).

Sure, but this is a P45 motherboard - upper mainstream I'd say...

steve258 · 24 Apr 2008 at 15:53

All that copper.. enough to cool a CPU if they want to..

actually that's not a bad idea.

Stu · 30 Apr 2008 at 00:18

I think this is designed to be run outside of a case, i.e. extreme benchmarking... it's not intended for 'normal' installations. It's the same deal with the FOXCONN BLACKOPS mobo.