Gigabyte introduces Intel P45 board Giigabyte EP45 Extreme. It comes with something new call Hybrid Silent Pipe - Efficiently remove the heat from motherboard by the Tower-like heat sink, helps to remove the heat between NB and SB area.
The board supports Intel® Core 2 Multi-Core and 45nm processors with FSB1600MHz with scalable performance with DDR2 1200 memory
Outstanding cooling design with Pure Copper thermal design featuring Water Cooling. The 2 PCI-E 2.0 x16 graphic interface plus PCI-E 2.0 x4 with Quad CrossFireTM support for ultimate graphics performance l
On board audio is a ALC889A codec features106 dB Signal to Noise ratio. There is a Unique Dynamic Power LED indicator design with dynamic 6-Gear switching
Advanced virtual 12 power phases design with VRD 11.1 supporting
Embedded 2 power phases for NB chipset and 2 power phases for memory to excel at power efficiency
DualBIOS™ features 2 Physical BIOS ROM gives a Double Security to the system . EP45 Extreme also comes with DEBUG LED for easy troubleshooting.
Something new is the ACPI LED. ACPI LED, end-users recognize the power status even when screen is off. It helps monitor the different system states S0, S1, S3, S4/S5 with leds on board.
Hybrid Silent Pipe
Featuring both heat-pipe and water cooling technologies. It allows system cooling thru ventilation from nature.
Features water cooling blocks on north-bridge chipset and rear panel fins for extreme users .
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