Expreview has scored some pictures of what looks like near final X58 motherboards from a wide range of manufacturers, some of which we haven't seen before. Interestingly, none of the boards seems to be using the NF200 chip, so we'll have to wait and see how many manufacturers actually decide to add this hot chip to their boards.

MSI has made some changes to its Eclipse board once again and the buttons previously located at the front of the PCB has now been moved to the rear, underneath the bottom x16 PCIe slot and this seems to have been done to make room for an LED display. This is the new D-LED2 display, although we're not sure that this is a good location for such a large accessory. This is also the first time we've seen the MSI Eclipse with what should be the final chipset cooling solution, which appears to consist of two parts, one heatsink for the X58 chipset and the ICH10 connected via heatpipes and a separate heatsink for the MOSFETs.

Then we have the Foxconn Renaissance which now seems to have been giving a Digital-Life branding and a new orange/black color scheme. Foxconn has gone for a rather unusual chipset cooling solution here with a big, round shaped heatsink on the X58 chipset which connects via a single heatpipe to the heatsink on the MOSFETs. The ICH10 is passively cooled by a small round heatsink.

Finally, we have the X58B-A from ECS which we previously haven't seen any pictures of and it looks somewhat more basic than competing products. In saying that, ECS has gone for a full-on heatpipe cooling solution connecting the ICH10 to the X58 which in turn is connected to the heatsink on the MOSFETs. However, this is the only board with two x16 PCIe slots, although there's also a x4 slot, but we're not sure who would use this.

Since Computex in June, it looks like all of the motherboard manufacturers have moved to a six memory slot design, apart from Intel, which has stuck to its odd four slot design. This means bigger motherboards and we're pushing the limit of EATX here and this can bee seen by several of the boards only having six, rather than seven, expansion slots. Part of the problem is the bigger CPU socket and the extended keep clear area, but the two extra memory slots also take up a fair bit of PCB space.

You can find the pictures here.