2008-08-27 
Today at Nvidia’s NVision Expo 08, Gigabyte introduced a prototype of a monstrous powerhouse Motherboard aimed at Intel’s Core i7 Processors which features The Nehalem Core.
The official name of the Motherboard is called “Extreme Edition”.
Here is a quick breakdown of the features included with this high end board
Amazing Features
- The “Extreme Edition” uses Intel’s X58 Chipset on-board
- 6 Graphic Cards can be installed. (Four 16x Slots and two 4x Wide Open Slots.) All lanes run on PCIe Generation 2 Architecture
- Support up to 12 Monitors (Awesome for Flight Simulator Apps/Games or any app that require large panoramic views)
- You can harness the power of all the all 6 graphic cards for all your power hungry apps. Certain image composting applications like After Effects, etc. that require lot of GPU power
- RAM - Support 24GB of DDR3 1333 or 6GB of DDR3 1900/2000 (Overclocked 2GB Dimms)
- Power Supply - CPU will have a 12-Phase supply, Memory will share a 2-Phase, and PCI Express feature another 2-Phase supply
TeraFLOPS
The combination of Extreme Edition’s power is estimated to be around 6 TeraFlops.
To show you a comparison how much power this board outputs, In 1997 Intel built a Pentium Pro Supercomputer with 10,000 Processors which was rated 1 TeraFlop.
The “Extreme Edition” is still in the early stages of testing.
October 31st, 2008 at 12:24 am
hey Gorge, screensavers are supposed to save your screen, not blast your electricity bill by pushing your machine to its limits. sure thing that this baby could use 2 CPU’s. But who’d see the benefit from 6 graphics cards? I think that’ll be overkill for even Crysis.
October 18th, 2008 at 12:47 am
Gamer’s are such morons, and these companies sure know how to take advantage of that fact.
October 6th, 2008 at 2:19 pm
no one has ever talked about ATI’s quad-DVI graphics card in this article. Six of those support 24 monitors.
Also, such a powerful motherboard should have more than one CPU socket. Task Manager would then read 16 cores!
September 25th, 2008 at 10:31 pm
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August 28th, 2008 at 5:43 am
Addiontional generic statement, underestimating its capabilities!
August 28th, 2008 at 2:43 am
But the question remains. Will it run Crysis on full?
August 28th, 2008 at 12:13 am
Just imagine how good my screensaver will look on THAT!