Gigabyte X58A-OC Intel X58 Motherboard Review @ ThinkComputers
The Gigabyte X58A-OC has been making the rounds but is clearly not a very popular model since I suspect most sites, and enthusiasts, are holding out for X79 and trying not to pay attention to anything X58 anymore.
What is really crappy is that even if you did buy one of these motherboards finding a halfway decent memory kit for it will be next to impossible. There are plenty of modules tuned for Sandy Bridge but nothing left for LGA1366.
People have been overclocking computer hardware for quite some time. Overclocking is not that hard at all, but to really get the highest achievable overclocks you need a motherboard that can take the punishment. Over the past 2 years we have seen efforts from many different manufacturers, but these efforts were targeted at 2 different demographics, overclockers and gamers. So you had all of these boards that had all the features that gamers and overclockers wanted, but what if you just wanted the overclocking features? Today we are taking a look at motherboard that gives you all of those overclock ing features and cuts out all the extra “fat” that is not needed. This board has been designed from the ground up to be best overclocking motherboard for the X58 platform. The motherboard I am talking about is the X58A-OC from Gigabyte, let’s see how far we can push this board
Ok dispite the long description I clicked on over to the OC page and saw this.
I tried to go right up to 4.4Ghz, but Windows would blue screen upon startup so I went back to the 160 frequency and used a multiplier of 27. This brought the system up to 4.3GHz, which was the highest overclock we were able to attain and the highest overclock we have ever attained with this processor.
Clearly they are "not" overclockers, which makes you wonder why they bothered to review such an awesome board.
Be sure to check out our review of the X58A-OC where we put a 980X under phase and crank things up to 5Ghz.
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