http://www.tweaktown.com Earlier on today we visited the GIGABYTE
headquarters in Taipei and had a good old fashioned full look at
its newest motherboard that will be officially launched next week
at CeBIT in Germany. We are talking about the X58A-OC aka Hi
Cookie's baby. GIGABYTE has long wanted to produce a motherboard
dedicated strictly to overclockers - that wait is now over. We are
talking about a board that doesn't just overclock well but one that
cuts out the crap and nonsense and just gets down to the business
of high-end overclocking. The Taiwanese company has long been
involved with overclockers and overclocking events around the world
where it has managed to create a sizable market for itself. It has
learnt much from the investment put into these events over time and
even managed to pick up a famous Taiwanese extreme overclocker
named "Hi Cookie". This guy is the brains behind the X58A-OC an
overclocking motherboard designed by a real overclocker. Logically
it makes perfect sense but how does it actually work out? From what
we saw today pretty well. There are five big main OC features on
this motherboard that are highlighted in detail in the video above.
Overclockable power phases for increased stability at extreme clock
speeds OC touch buttons for dead simple overclocking voltage
monitoring points to see exactly what is happening in terms of
volts used in various areas of the motherboard additional SATA
power ports to provide additional PCI Express power and OC Dual
BIOS for easily switching between BIOS' for simplified overclocking
testing. We'll have a full review of this later on and we'll try
and get one into the hands of our resident extreme overclocker
Deanzo so he can see what it can really do. Suffice to say seeing
5.2GHz achieved with air cooling in a matter of minutes was pretty
darn impressive. GIGABYTE expects the X58A-OC to sell for around
$280 USD in the United States (prices will vary from region to
region) and it should go on