Gigabyte GA-EP45-DQ6
Source: Tom's Hardware – Keywords: intel, p45, chipset
Gigabyte GA-EP45-DQ6
Gigabyte’s DQ6 family has been well known for some time, as it represents the highest-end configuration in each chipset series. Like most of the other boards, this one utilizes DDR2 memory at up to DDR2-1200 speeds; 1600 MHz front side bus speeds are officially supported as well.
Gigabyte’s DQ6 comes with a massive heat pipe that connects the southbridge, northbridge and the voltage regulators to distribute heat evenly and to dissipate it efficiently. Like Asus and MSI, Gigabyte also has an energy-saving feature called Dynamic Energy Saver (DES). Briefly, it helps to reduce power consumption by only activating as many of the 12 voltage regulator phases as are required for a given processor load.
The board can accept two ATI CrossFireX-compliant graphics cards and it comes with four Gigabit Ethernet ports. Both Asus and Gigabyte drive the northbridge and the memory slots through two-phase voltage regulators to increase stability. Thanks to the ICH10R, all common RAID modes up to RAID 5 are supported. In addition, we found an extra UltraATA/133 controller to support two channels, an ITE controller for floppy disk drives, and the same Silicon Image SteelVine controller found on the Asus board. Firewire is there, as are a plethora of enthusiast features as well. Check out the Gigabyte website for more details.
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Check out Ramdisk from SuperSpeed yet?
Solid state HD's are limited to the Sata connection, partitioning your ram to run games on isn't, love to see some benchmarks (not to mention MetaRam)
We had 32gb MB's ages ago (fatality) just not the DIMMs
Good to see native 16gb, some nice improvements but nothing ground breaking. Probably saving the best for the next socket in 6+ months.
Nice review
According to the MSI's website the P45 Diamond supports DDR3 and not DDR2.
See http://www.msicomputer.com/product [...] d&class=mb