october 22 2010 review by tweaktown

This mobo has a bold design and a large feature set, like six SATA3 ports and another six USB 3.0.
The X58 Extreme6 is a very competent gaming platform, with enough space between the PCIe slots to run CrossfireX or Tri SLI and have good air flow between the GPUs.
Overclocking:
The reviewers OCed a Core i7-980X @ 4.176GHz.
Test Setup:
- CPU cooler : Corsair H70 Water Cooling
- CPU : Intel Core i7-980X
- Graphics Card : ASUS EAH5870 V2 STALKER Edition
- Memory : 6GB Corsair CMT4GX3M2A2000C8 DDR3 PC16000 2000MHz
- OS : W7 Ultimate x64
- PSU : Corsair AX1200
- SSD : Corsair Force F120 120HB
Compared To:
ASUS P6X58D-E, Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD9.
Benchmarks:
3D Mark Vantage, AutoGK, Battlefield : Bad Company 2, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, Cinebench, Far Cry 2, HyperPi 0.99b, Lavalys Everest Ultimate, Lightwave, PC mark vantage, PC mark vantage x64, Power Consumption, Sisoft Sandra, Temperature Test.