What is up with evga z87 motherboards

[alanwest09872]

Newegg doesnt have them in stock and neither does there website. Was there a fatal flaw in them or something?

http://www.evga.com/Products/ProductList.aspx?type=1&family=Motherboard+Family&chipset=Intel+Z87

to there website.

So whats the deal. I am upgrading my computer soon and I always loved evga. But If theres a problem with them I would love to know.

 

[SOFTengCOMPelec]

I don't know which exact model you wanted.
But Amazon have these in stock.

http://www.amazon.com/EVGA-Mini-ITX-Dual-Channel-Motherboard-111-HW-E872-KR/dp/B00EP7B8JQ

 

[alanwest09872]

ya thats the only one anyone has that I have found. and it kind of sucks for my needs

 

[Kenmitch]

Don't follow evga much anymore but they tend to be late to the party on MB's.

 

[SOFTengCOMPelec]

Looks like you are not the only one waiting for them to come out :-

http://forums.evga.com/tm.aspx?m=2015821

 

[TheGoat Eater]

Have you considered looking into MSI motherboards? There are some great options there - good performance and price is nice for the quality and features. The MPower line is great (I have the Z87 Mpower )

 

[MiRai]

I recently took a chance on an EVGA X79 motherboard and it turned out to be extremely flakey (for more than just myself if you regularly browse their forums). If you're dead set on an EVGA motherboard, then so be it; but I would recommend looking at other options.

 

[shoman24v]

I like my ASUS Z87 PRO.

 

[Demoralized]

Have you considered looking into MSI motherboards? There are some great options there - good performance and price is nice for the quality and features. The MPower line is great (I have the Z87 Mpower )

I'm using the Z87 MPower Max and loving it.

 

[alanwest09872]

I have had a lot of luck with evga.

but since they are mia I was looking at

ASUS MAXIMUS VI FORMULA

Asus is def a good name. I actually made a different post. I should be getting the stuff in about a week or so. I hope lol

 

[ShintaiDK]

EVGA simply only released the EVGA Z87 Stinger so far. Fantastic MB I must say.

 

[burningrave101]

Latest update:

Z87 FTW (E877) - we hope to have landing in the USA around the week of October 21st

Z87 Classified (E878) - we hope to have a very limited quantity landing in the USA week of October 28th

Delays have been attributed to ensuring that "Quality" EVGA product is released.
We thank those who have been very patient.

http://forums.evga.com/m/tm.aspx?m=1952055&p=28

 

[Meghan54]

I recently took a chance on an EVGA X79 motherboard and it turned out to be extremely flakey (for more than just myself if you regularly browse their forums). If you're dead set on an EVGA motherboard, then so be it; but I would recommend looking at other options.

^ This.

Just my opinion, but from reading on forums, EVGA's boards aren't quite as stable and/or built quite as well quality-wise as the big board makers.

EVGA's boards strike me as the current DFI. Where's DFI these days? Now, I understand EVGA has its gpu line to keep it afloat, but EVGA seems to charge a premium for what? Certainly it's not because of features, overclockability, or super duper quality vs. the major manufacturers.

 

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

^ For that matter, I miss AOpen, ABIT and EPoX

 

[ViRGE]

^ This.

Just my opinion, but from reading on forums, EVGA's boards aren't quite as stable and/or built quite as well quality-wise as the big board makers.

EVGA's boards strike me as the current DFI. Where's DFI these days? Now, I understand EVGA has its gpu line to keep it afloat, but EVGA seems to charge a premium for what? Certainly it's not because of features, overclockability, or super duper quality vs. the major manufacturers.

Thirded. I have a friend with an X79-SLI; it wasn't a terrible board, but compared to similar Asus and Gigabyte boards it was a letdown. The shipping version had some very weird issues (EIST was misconfigured, etc) and while the later BIOSes fixed it, it merely improved to mediocre.

To be fair everyone has a bad design now and then. But certainly it has left a unfavorable impression of EVGA.

 

[Phynaz]

^ For that matter, I miss AOpen, ABIT and EPoX

You just had to remind me, didn't you?

<whimper>

 

[powruser]

I'd recommend sticking with Asus or MSI.

 

[Fallen Kell]

^ For that matter, I miss AOpen, ABIT and EPoX

ABIT was great until they were not... They got hit real bad in the bootleg chinese capacitor issue when a Chinese company stole what they thought was the correct electrolyte formula from the Japanese when in fact it was only partial/experimental formula which cause hydrogen gas to buildup and bust the seals on the caps. ABIT never survived it as they took way to long to admit they used the cheap caps and denied that they were exploding, failed to replace boards saying it was somehow customer damage from overclocking. And then they ran out of money trying to fix it once they finally did admit it was a problem.

 

[SOFTengCOMPelec]

ABIT was great until they were not... They got hit real bad in the bootleg chinese capacitor issue when a Chinese company stole what they thought was the correct electrolyte formula from the Japanese when in fact it was only partial/experimental formula which cause hydrogen gas to buildup and bust the seals on the caps. ABIT never survived it as they took way to long to admit they used the cheap caps and denied that they were exploding, failed to replace boards saying it was somehow customer damage from overclocking. And then they ran out of money trying to fix it once they finally did admit it was a problem.

Such a pity.

If we could get (reasonably priced) ABIT 4 or even 8 way motherboards, using cheap commodity I7-4770(K) or FX-8350 (etc), and they could allow them to SMP ok (bypass Intel/AMD cpu count limits), we could have 32/64 core, 64 thread, affordable computers.

Disclaimer1: I know not much software available today, would use all 64 threads.
Disclaimer2: I know Intel sell similar cpus, but they charge crazy high £/$'s for their 8+ core, >2 way cpus (Xeons).

 

[UNhooked]

^ For that matter, I miss AOpen, ABIT and EPoX

How can you forget DFI. The Lanparty series were the bomb

 

[john3850]

DFI was my first sli board you switched those staple looking pins to change the amount of the pci-e lanes.
For some dump reason I kept my last abit n7 with a ocz memory ps booster thing in it.

 

[UNhooked]

Haha I still have the OCZ Booster somewhere..That and some Winbond BH-5 memory, think it was made by Twinmos.

 

[QueBert]

I looooved my Lanparty, to me DFI's biggest problem was their putting flash over features. They seemed to take forever to get in the bandwagon for adding things. The UV slots were sick, I wish another company did this. But them putting out higher end boards and leaving higher end features off was pretty sad.

 

[john3850]

Back during DFI days someone always had something new and faster to waste your money.
Then after I got gf-3 golden sample all the newer video cards started turning monitors strange colors from the cheap Chinese dielectric water.
I think That old n7 was the first sata then I junked a agp xtpe for a slow pci-e gt7800 that was easy to volt mold.