Review Gigabyte X58-USB3: Lebih Murah Tanpa SATA III
Prosesor Intel soket LGA1156 beserta chipset Intel seri 5 kelas mainstream, saat ini telah diperbaharui oleh prosesor Sandy Bridge soket LGA1155 beserta chipset Intel seri 6. Namun, untuk kelas high-end, Intel masih mempercayakannya kepada varian prosesor Intel soket LGA1366 beserta chipset Intel X58. Walaupun sudah cukup berumur (inilah varian pertama chipset Intel seri 5), Intel X58 tetap menjadi pilihan produsen untuk membuat motherboard Intel kelas high-end.
Beberapa waktu yang lalu, Gigabyte kembali merilis varian motherboard yang menggunakan chipset Intel X58 yaitu Gigabyte X58-USB3. Sama seperti motherboard dengan chipset Intel X58 lainnya, motherboard ini menggunakan soket LGA1366 dan konfigurasi memori triple-channel DDR3. Penasaran dengan feature dan kelebihan lain yang ditawarkan motherboard ini? Simak artikel kami berikut ini.
Chipset Intel X58
Inilah blok diagram sistem yang menggunakan chipset Intel X58 sebagai northbridge, beserta pasangannya (chipset ICH10R) sebagai southbridge. Chipset Intel X58 menyediakan jalur PCI Express 2.0 hingga 36 buah dan jalur ini dapat dibagi sehingga memungkinkan konfigurasi multi-graphics card Crossfire dan SLI. Sedangkan chipset ICH10R bertugas menyediakan dan mengatur perangkat I/O seperti SATA II, USB 2.0, dan lainnya.
Gigabyte X58-USB3
Spesifikasi
| Processor Support | Intel Core i7 series in the LGA1366 package |
| QPI | 4.8GT/s, 6.4GT/s |
| Chipset | North Bridge : Intel X58 Express |
| South Bridge : Intel ICH10R | |
| Memory | 6x 1.5V DDR3 DIMM sockets supporting up to 24 GB system memory |
| Dual/3 channel memory architecture | |
| Support for DDR3 2200/1333/1066/800 MHz memory modules | |
| Support for non-ECC memory modules | |
| Support for Extreme Memory Profile (XMP) memory modules | |
| Expansion Slots | 2x PCI Express 2.0 x16 slots (running @x16 speed) |
| 1x PCI Express x16 slots (running @x4 speed) | |
| 3x PCI Express x1 slots | |
| Support for 2-Way ATI CrossFireX and NVIDIA SLI Technology | |
| Storage | South Bridge : 6 SATA 3Gb/s ports |
| Support for SATA RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, and RAID 10 | |
| LAN | 2x Realtek RTL8111E chip (10/100/1000 Mbit) |
| Audio | Realtek ALC892 High Definition Audio (2/4/5.1/7.1-channel ) |
| Support for Dolby® Home Theater, S/PDIF In/Out, CD In | |
| USB | South Bridge : 12 USB 2.0/1.1 ports (6 on the back panel, 6 via the USB brackets connected to the internal USB headers) |
| NEC USB Controller : 2 USB 3.0/2.0 ports on the back panel | |
| Internal I/O Connectors | 1 x 24-pin ATX main power connector |
| 1 x 8-pin ATX 12V power connector | |
| 6 x SATA 3Gb/s connectors | |
| 1 x CPU fan header | |
| 3 x system fan headers | |
| 1 x power fan header | |
| 1 x North Bridge fan header | |
| 1 x front panel header | |
| 1 x front panel audio header | |
| 1 x CD In connector | |
| 1 x S/PDIF In header | |
| 1 x S/PDIF Out header | |
| 3 x USB 2.0/1.1 headers | |
| 1 x clearing CMOS jumper | |
| I/O Controller | iTE IT8720 chip |
| H/W Monitoring | System voltage detection |
| CPU/System/North Bridge temperature detection | |
| CPU/System/Power fan speed detection | |
| CPU overheating warning | |
| CPU fan fail warning | |
| CPU/System fan speed control | |
| BIOS | 2x 16 Mbit flash |
| Use of licensed AWARD BIOS | |
| Support for DualBIOS™ | |
| PnP 1.0a, DMI 2.0, SM BIOS 2.4, ACPI 1.0b | |
| Form Factor | ATX Form Factor; 30.5cm x 24.4cm |
Gigabyte Unique Feature
Sama seperti motherboard Gigabyte lainnya, Gigabyte X58-USB3 juga dilengkapi setumpuk feature khas Gigabyte. Feature yang tersedia di motherboard ini adalah :
- @BIOS
- Q-Flash
- Xpress BIOS Rescue
- Download Center
- Xpress Install
- Xpress Recovery2
- EasyTune
- Dynamic Energy Saver™ 2
- Smart 6™
- Auto Green
- eXtreme Hard Drive (X.H.D)
- ON/OFF Charge
- Q-Share
- Cloud OC
- Hotkey OC
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