Gigabyte GA-EP45T-Extreme Motherboard Review

Test Setup

The testbed used included Vista Ultimate 32-bit, Nvidia 177.19 video drivers, and the latest F3B BIOS from Gigabyte. The CPU was run at 3.0GHz and the memory run at 1333MHz with 6-6-6-18-2T timings at 1.9v. For the stock runs I used the Intel QX9650 stock heatsink and for the overclocked runs I used a K|ngp|n F1 Extreme Edition with liquid nitrogen. For the max FSB the 1:1 divider was utilized with 10-10-10-30-2T timings to remove the memory from being a bottleneck. Vcore was kept at 1.2v for the default tests, 1.425v for the air-cooled overclocked results, and 1.85v for the liquid nitrogen overclocked results. The 8800GT was run at its stock speed of 700MHz core, 1680MHz shaders, and 920MHz memory.

Intel Test Platform
Component	Brand/Model	Live Pricing
Processor	Intel Core 2 Duo E8400	Click Here
Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-EP45T-Extreme	Click Here
Memory	Corsair PC3-14400C7 Dominator 2x1GB	Click Here
Video Card	Gigabyte 8800GT	Click Here
Hard Drive	Seagate 7200.10 320GB	Click Here
Cooling	E8400 Box Cooler	Click Here
Power Supply	OCZ 700w GameXStream	Click Here
Operating System	Windows Vista Ultimate	Click Here