Not identical to the original part, but with some modification it worked fine.
Not identical to the original part, but with some modification it worked fine.
GIGABYTE GA-EX58-UD5 Sockel 1366 #M4672
06 lug 2016
Best motherboard with WinXP drivers
This is the last proper high-end MB to support WinXP natively, so it is a great choice for power users with old high value apps which won't run in a XP VM.
There is however a warning: probably all of the samples on sale have an old BIOS, which needs updating to run the later i7 CPUs like the i7-970 which I use in mine.
But the i7-970 won't boot! So you need to buy a cheap old i7-920 and it possibly needs to be the old mask version. See a thread on Toms Hardware for the details, entitled "ex58-ud5-starting-build".
I am running over 30m of cheap 75 ohm video coax and getting 80-90 mbits/sec. That is application to application (file transfer) so this box is running close to the 100mbps maximum possible. Very good.