"Gigabyte sent over its enthusiast oriented EP45T-Extreme. It features the craziest chipset cooling setup we've ever seen and its' packed with features. Is it all show and no go, or does it walk the DDR3/P45 walk?

... The Gigabyte EP45T-Extreme is designed around Intel's P45 northbridge and ICH10R south bridge. The chipset is essentially an improved P35 chipset which has been around for some time now. The P45 chipset offers support for 16GB of RAM instead of 8GB and it is usually paired with the ICH10/ICH10R south bridge instead of the older ICH9x series that the P35 chipset was coupled with. Aside from those differences the P45 offers one more compelling feature in that it officially supports Crossfire in an 8x8 configuration instead of 16x4 like most P35 chipset based boards do. Again the P45 chipset isn't new so I won't go into further details concerning its features and functionality. Suffice it to say the chipset is newer than last year's P35 chipset and has a couple of minor advantages. "