EVGA Classified X58 Motherboard unveiled

[AuDioFreaK39]

EVGA Classified motherboard unveiled

the rumored "For The Win" edition

by AuDioFreaK39

Living overclocking legend Peter Tan "Shamino" has just recently posted on his popular site VR-Zone a classified preview detailing EVGA's upcoming X58 motherboard. For the die hard EVGA enthusiasts, speculate no more, as this may be the X58 "FTW" edition board we have all been waiting for.

According to sources close to EVGA, however, the soon to be released board will officially be named "EVGA Classified". Therefore, the "FTW" moniker will can be disregarded from this point forward. We are anticipating this board before mid-February mainly because this timeframe would allow current EVGA X58 SLI owners to upgrade through EVGA's Step-Up Program.


There are more than several exciting new noteworthy features on this board that are now able to be mentioned. For instance, the board allows full 3-way SLI nForce 200 x16/x16/x16 style to be used with room left over for a PCI-E x1 audio card on the top slot. This essentially enables a flexible PCI-Express slot arrangement for the ultimate 3-Way SLI + PhysX + audio card setup that enthusiasts have only dreamed of up until now.

For users with water cooled or extreme cooled GPU setups, there are now four PCI-Express Enable/Disable jumpers, one per slot, that allow multi-GPU setups to be troubleshooted without having to take out the cards.

In addition, the CPU core power circuitry has been completely redesigned with Super-low ESR and ESL Film Capacitors placed right behind the CPU Socket, so only the cleanest power goes into the CPU. A high-quality CPU socket is also used, with three times the normal amount of gold content for the lowest impedance and highest current transfer. Furthermore, it is complemented by its slick shiny black anodized coloring.

Furthermore, VR-Zone's X58 SLI Classified preview article was written by EVGA's lead motherboard engineer Peter Tan "Shamino" can be found here.

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*UPDATE*

During CES, Tim Smalley from bit-tech was kind enough to interview our friend Hans Wolfram Tismer from EVGA Europe regarding the specs, pricing and availability of the company's upcoming EVGA X58 SLI Classified 141-BL-E759-A1 motherboard.




I have the EVGA Q1 2009 Product Lineup for you guys as well.

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[disports]

LOL omg, wonder how powerful that isssss

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

Very pleasing to the eye.. for an i7 contemplator

 

[Puffnstuff]

That's the best looking one yet, much nicer than the msi eclipse plus I looked at earlier.

 

[Zap]

Originally posted by: AuDioFreaK39
the board allows full 3-way SLI nForce 200 x16/x16/x16

Adding more bandwidth along with more latency.

The PCIe jumpers are a good idea though. Kudos to the former EPoX dudez.

 

[tcsenter]

Originally posted by: AuDioFreaK39
Furthermore, VR-Zone's X58 SLI Classified preview article was written by EVGA's lead motherboard engineer Peter Tan "Shamino" can be found here.

Tan is not a motherboard engineer (nor any engineer, AFAIK). He's hired as a technical consultant to improve overclocking features (e.g. PCB layout factors relevant to use of exotic cooling solutions, BIOS tuning features, flogging engineering samples to reveal where the weak link will occur, et. al.).

Not trying to diminish him or anything, he's just not a motherboard engineer.

 

[SunnyD]

Meh. Looks like a motherboard to me.

 

[Compddd]

Originally posted by: Zap

Originally posted by: AuDioFreaK39
the board allows full 3-way SLI nForce 200 x16/x16/x16

Adding more bandwidth along with more latency.

The PCIe jumpers are a good idea though. Kudos to the former EPoX dudez.

If someone is using say, just a single GTX 285 on this motherboard, would the latency be increased on the PCIe lanes or no?

 

[tcsenter]

Originally posted by: SunnyD
Meh. Looks like a motherboard to me.

You were expecting...what?

 

[Compddd]

Do you know Zap?

 

[NoStateofMind]

Originally posted by: tcsenter

Originally posted by: SunnyD
Meh. Looks like a motherboard to me.

You were expecting...what?

LOL good point.

I actually like the way it looks, not so sure I'm going to like the amount it costs.

 

[Cookie Monster]

Nice PCI-e arrangments. I mean just look at the pic with TriSLi installed along with a single slot card for PhysX AND a sound card!!

Along with digital PWM, insane mosfet cooling, EVGA's support and a huge $$$ tag I think this X58 board is the best one yet out of the other X58 boards.

 

[NoStateofMind]

Earl;y reports say its going to be $450 :shocked:

 

[yh125d]

I don't want to even think about how horrible the GPU temps would be if one tried to do tri sli + physx on air. On top of that, the physx card in the pic looks like its probably a 9800GT, LOL

 

[vmsein]

Originally posted by: yh125d
I don't want to even think about how horrible the GPU temps would be if one tried to do tri sli + physx on air. On top of that, the physx card in the pic looks like its probably a 9800GT, LOL

Not to mention the cost to power such a setup would be enormous! However the board does look to have overclocking potential over some of the already released X58 motherboards.

 

[raisethe3]

This thing is ridiculous. Especially seeing tri-SLI with three cards so damn close to each other. where's the room to cool off?

 

[Hauk]

Originally posted by: Zap

Originally posted by: AuDioFreaK39
the board allows full 3-way SLI nForce 200 x16/x16/x16

Adding more bandwidth along with more latency.

The PCIe jumpers are a good idea though. Kudos to the former EPoX dudez.

Our friends at HardOCP did some testing of two Asus boards, one with the nf200 chipset vs. the Rampage II Extreme. If you skip the video and just look at the graph, the green bar represents the x16x16x16 Asus Revolution, the blue bar is the x16x8x8 Rampage II Extreme. The Revolution being a "workstation" platform, perhaps evga can tune the solution for better performance. Or perhaps the latency will get in the way every time..

 

[Hauk]

Originally posted by: Compddd
Do you know Zap?

Not meaning to answer for him, but I don't think so. Refer to the 4th flow chart, single nf200 chipset on board. I think the primary x16 slot is 100% SB driven, pretty much reverse of the diagram.

 

[KarenMarie]

I just bought this board this afternoon. I have not taken it out of the box yet. want to clean the office from top to bottom before I build. Ialso bought the i7 920 and 6GMB ddr3 ram and a 24in wide screen LCD. It will go in my black Thermaltake Kandalf case, thermaltake 850W PSU, 2x 8800GTX and 4 500GB Sata drives.

I am excited. Looked GREAT in the store and the staff loved this board.

 

[NoStateofMind]

Originally posted by: KarenMarie
I just bought this board this afternoon. I have not taken it out of the box yet. want to clean the office from top to bottom before I build. Ialso bought the i7 920 and 6GMB ddr3 ram and a 24in wide screen LCD. It will go in my black Thermaltake Kandalf case, thermaltake 850W PSU, 2x 8800GTX and 4 500GB Sata drives.

I am excited. Looked GREAT in the store and the staff loved this board.

Umm you sure its the same board? The Classified hasn't been released yet, not till February anyways. I think you mean the normal EVGA x58.

 

[KarenMarie]

Originally posted by: PC Surgeon

Umm you sure its the same board? The Classified hasn't been released yet, not till February anyways. I think you mean the normal EVGA x58.

oops. why did my mind not see the glaring word CLASSIFIED when reading the title or OP.

sorry.

 

[Rinaun]

I can't see even a typical enthusiast buying this. Sure, its bound to be better than a normal board, but 450? that's almost the price of two mainstream boards. For the typical user its hard enough to maximize the performance per price of a mainstream board for daily use. I see this as a LN2/DICE/Phase/Bench board.

Kind of reminds me of the foxconn boards.

 

[AuDioFreaK39]

Regardless of the price, I'll still be picking one up.

 

[Qutlass]

FTMFW!1!

 

[AuDioFreaK39]

dude this really is an FTMFW board!!