windwithme Posted January 14, 2010 Posted January 14, 2010 Since LGA1366 launched at the end of 2008, there are not many news in the market recently. Instead the new LGA1156 has very high exposure rate in all medias. These 2 structures are very similar and make users hard to choose as the different strength. LGA 1366, the extreme level product line and will have 6 cores CPU soon. Currently X58 chipset support 3 channel and 6 DIMMs DDR3 for higher extensibility and Quad core CPU with HT technology. LGA 1156 is the following segment. P55 is single chip and the power consumption is lower. HT version CPU and LGA 1136 are similar price. i5-750 is the most valuable choice so far. In the future, i3 dual-core will make LGA 1156 product line be richer, but still only the combination of dual-core, quad-core and HT. Even though there are not many news of X58 MB, but it Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
windwithme Posted January 14, 2010 Posted January 14, 2010 The screw holes next to NB heat sink are used to install Hybird SILENT-PIPE This heat pipe also supports water cooling system. The user can install the pipe into it without buying a water cooling block. USB 3.0 chip is NEC D720200F1 3x USB power design to provide 3 times electric current by independent chip for all USB ports. It can solve the insufficient power issue which may cause read write lose as using external storages. I will test USB 3.0 performance later. Below SB heat sink is Marvell SE9128 chip which supports SATA3 SATA3 ports is SATA6 and SATA7 in upper side. Boot Screen MB Intelligent Tweaker, also called M.I.T. DDR3 parameters setting. X58 supports three channel, so there are 3 sets items Voltage Page Load-Line Calibration StandardLevel1/Level2 CPU Vcore 0.50000~1.90000V QPI/Vtt Voltage 1.120~2.000V IOH Core 0.850~2.080V CPU PLL 1.000~2.580V DRAM Voltage 1.300~2.600V Advanced CPU Features C1E is power saving and lower frequency feature. It runs automatically as low CPU utility rate. Intel Turbo Boost is opposite with C1E. It will increase clock in full speed operation. You can find many articles in internet. Because of the limited space, also I had detail review in previous product, so I won Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
windwithme Posted January 14, 2010 Posted January 14, 2010 Test Configuration CPU: Gulftown 2.40GHz ES MB: GIGABYTE GA-X58A-UD7 DRAM: CORSAIR DOMINATOR-GT CMG6GX3M3A2000C8 VGA: GIGABYTE GTX260 OC SLI 3WAY HD: Seagate Barracuda XT 2TB POWER: CORSAIR TX950W Cooler: Tuniq Tower 120 Extreme OS: Windows7 Ultimate 64bit GIGABYTE Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
windwithme Posted January 14, 2010 Posted January 14, 2010 For the DRAM test, supporting 3 channels is big advantages for X58 platform. I use the famous extreme memory maker, CORSAIR DOMINATOR-GT CMG6GX3M3A2000C8, supports 3-channel. Black/Red color make GT be more attractive DDR3 2100 CL8 8-8-24 1T, BIOS set as 1.600V SP2004 3 X Blend mode, 5.88GB stable in full load Sandra Memory Bandwidth - 30925 MB/s EVEREST Memory Read - 21274 MB/s DDR3 OC can reach 2100 CL8 easily and only need 1.600V Besides DOMINATOR-GT CMG6GX3M3A2000C8 quality is great, the X58A-UD7 OC capability is also in good standard. It makes the combination be even greater. Comparing to P55 dual channel performance, X58 3-channel bandwidth is much higher. The CPU is Gulftown, 6 cores and HT technology work as 12 It Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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