[Russianhaxor]

During this year’s Computex in Taipei Gigabyte Technology Co., will be announcing a slew of innovative products in their motherboard lineups that will bring them further into the enthusiast and mainstream markets.

One of the technologies that Gigabyte will be announcing during Computex will be their newly designed 24-phase power VRM which is designed to deliver more and cleaner power to the CPU. While this may be a good development, we can only reserve our judgment of such a technology until we do a review of this 24-phase power design and compare it against other motherboard manufacturers with other VRM designs.

The 24-phase tech will be demonstrated on the Intel platform, which is a little bit odd given the current popularity of Phenom II and its overclocking antics. The first motherboard is intended for Core i7 processors, the GA-EX58A-Extreme. The second 24-Phase motherboard is the GA-EP55-UD5 board, a board that features the LGA-1156 Socket for the upcoming Core i5 processors. In addition to having the 24-phase VRM both of these boards will also be sporting SATA 3.0 controllers capable of the 6Gbps data transfer rates.

For more info about these products as well as the other products they are announcing check out the link below.
http://www.brightsideofnews.com/news...utex-2009.aspx

[Kal-EL]

24 phase madness + 6gps Sata Madness = tapping of foot while the beta testers work it out, lol.

[Chuchnit]

There is alot of talk about these not being true 24 phase boards, but maybe 8 or 12 "real" phase which is split to make a "fake" 24 phase power design. What have you heard Jewish?

[Russianhaxor]

Originally Posted by Chuchnit

There is alot of talk about these not being true 24 phase boards, but maybe 8 or 12 "real" phase which is split to make a "fake" 24 phase power design. What have you heard Jewish?

I heard that it may really be a 12 phase or a 10 phase in reality. Thats why if you read my statement i specifically say we'll reserve our judgment against other boards once we get one in for testing.

[Chuchnit]

Sweet! I hope you guys get a review sample. Still I think that ALL board makers should go ahead and switch to digital pwm. I think it's pretty obvious that DFI and eVGA have it figured out. They are obviously the two best boards for i7. I wanna say that alot of it has to do with the massive load ability of their digital pwm set up.

[Russianhaxor]

Originally Posted by Chuchnit

Sweet! I hope you guys get a review sample. Still I think that ALL board makers should go ahead and switch to digital pwm. I think it's pretty obvious that DFI and eVGA have it figured out. They are obviously the two best boards for i7. I wanna say that alot of it has to do with the massive load ability of their digital pwm set up.

Its also the fact that Digital PWms have a better switching frequency than most motherboards with analog PWMs which is really what a PWM is designed for.

[DrNip]

Wonder what type of BCLK it can get. I think I am holding off on gettin a Classified to see what 2nd generations of mobos come out this year.