Gigabyte will launch three X58 motherboards in a few weeks -- the Extreme, the UD5P and the UD5. All will feature Ultra Durable 3 with Gigabyte's new 2oz copper layer in the PCB, Dynamic Energy Saver advanced, 50-squillion hour Jap caps and Dolby Home Theatre audio with the premium Realtek AL889a sound codec.

Style wise, Gigabyte has heard our (and others) concerns and updated its design massively, with a largely positive effect. While adamant that it doesn't want to follow down the "black PCB = enthusiast" route, we think its blue-white-silver approach looks really something fresh. While I personally would have loved Gigabyte to have gone //that much further and make the USB pin-outs blue and orange slots silver/grey, overall we feel the change is certainly a step forward. Drop in some ambient blue and white lighting in a case and this could look pretty pimped out.