According to the manufacturer, X58A-OC - «The world's first motherboard designed from the beginning for extreme overclockers. Gigabyte say that their performance in this area marked "a new category of mainboards for enthusiasts".
In the advantages of the product size ATX producer writes a choice of switching BUS frequency in power system, the presence of buttons associated with the acceleration, and SATA, which is fed with extra power, which improves the stability of multi-GPU subsystems. In addition, the board has two BIOS chips, the choice between which can be made via hardware switch. According to developers, some of the ideas, to create a new board were drawn from discussions at the thematic forums.
Of course, there were used some traditional methods of increasing stability, used in products that provide acceleration. These, in particular, are polymer capacitors and inductors with ferrite cores.
Gigabyte X58A-OC is based on Intel X58 chipset (Tylersburg) and is equipped with a processor socket LGA 1366, in which you can set the fastest Intel processors, including the flagship Core i7 990X Extreme Edition. It should be noted that it supports triple-channel DDR3 memory and graphics settings 4-Way CrossFireX and 3-Way SLI.
