MIG-31

Home PCs have reached a new plateau recently with the much heralded release of the Core i7 processor from Intel, which goes hand-in-hand with the X58 Express chipset and the motherboards built upon it. Although the Core i7 does borrow technology from earlier CPUs, there are some major changes including placing all four cores on a single die, adding the memory controller directly to the die thereby foregoing the Northbridge, and having said memory controller able to support triple-channel DDR3. Early adopters will be pleased with their performance, as we pointed out in our release piece just a few short weeks ago, but as all major updates go, this requires not only a good deal of money up front, but some patience as well, as kinks get ironed out with the new technologies.
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Review: Hothardware

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swimtech

All the feedback on this board, including the review (thanks Mig-31) linked to here, have been so positive...

Truly, if I had waited four months or so to build my system, I'd have used this board or it's cousin. It's got even more SATA connections than my X-38 Gigabyte board - otherwise the featureset is the same excepting the x8 PCIe slots for Crossfire, and overclocks very well.

The software for energy savings and overclocking, as compared to the X-38 releases from Gigabyte, are better with this board too.

Oh, and it's much less expensive.

BTW, the board's cousin has basically been "reviewed" in our forums Right Here, by an extremely prolific and profoundly experienced member. Check pages 2 and 3...

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