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Gigabyte GA-EP45 Extreme Intel P45 chipset mainboard review - Mainboard layout
Bluetooth 10 Jul 2008

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This full ATX mainboard comes with 1PCIe x1, 3 PCI and 3 full length PCIe x16 slots whcih are electrically at 4X, 8x+8x (orange+blue in CrossFire) or 16x (blue). Behind the PCI / PCIe slot are the audio codec, GbE and I/O controller chipsets. As we can see the north, south bridge and mosfets are all attached with a copper heatpipe. On top of the north bridge heatpipe are two holes where you can enhance the system with a water cooling solution.

 

At the bottom corner of the board, we can see the BIOS, 1394 (grey) and USB (yellow) connectors. The Green IDE connector, the power and reset switch are just right next to the 6 SATA ports (4 facing upwards, 2 facing sideways). There are 4 DIMM slots support 4 x DDR2-1200.

The back panel consists of PS/2 mouse/keyboard, Coaxial and Digital S/PDIF, CLRCMOS switch, 8 USB ports, 2 GbE, and 7.1 ch audio ports.

 

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