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Alright, so it's been about a week since I've had this,
and I think I am finally ready to talk about it.
I was a little bit overwhelmed and speechless at first.
I am very excited to tell you guys about this incredible motherboard.
You saw it on Tech Update, or on N-box.
You know I've been cradling it around.
I had to return the original sample I got,
but this is the final retail sample of the X58 Classified Motherboard from EVGA,
and this is an incredible motherboard.
Very limited amounts of people are going to want this
because it is probably the most high-end, over the top
motherboard I have ever seen.
For good reason. This is going to be for the ultimate over overclockers out there,
for enthusiasts,
and even for a few gamers.
But only the most extreme gamers are going to want this.
People that have 26 and 30 inch monitors.
So you're going to want to do 1920 X 1200, or 2560 X 1600,
because if not you are wasting money by buying this
because the whole point of this is that it has four PCI Express x16 slots.
And those are PCI Express 2.0.
Absolutely incredible connectivity.
The power management for the processor on this,
absolutely incredible.
This board overclocked further, my 965,
than any other motherboard ever.
And by a good amount too.
And it's not really meant to give you that huge advantage,
but it did. It gave me just enough advantage
to be like, "Wow."
I can't believe I got an extra 150MHz just from switching motherboards.
You've got this huge Northbridge cooler,
and you've got support for a really fast DVR3.
You've got a really cool board layout and design.
And, you have some crazy overclocking features
that I have never seen before.
And this is literally for the nastiest enthusiasts out there.
This board was designed by two of the worlds best overclockers,
for EVGA, and they sure hit it on the head because this thing is really dope.
Now let's get into it. First of all, when you buy this board
you must know that is extended ATX, it is an ETAX board,
you will need to have a larger case, so it's a little bit bigger.
That's because it's got a lot of good stuff on it.
It's the X58 chipset,
right here under this massive cooler.
And it's the ICH 10R Southbridge chipset
under this pretty big, massive cooler.
That's going to support your hard drives and stuff,
and all your connectivity.
You have seven SATA ports in total,
which pretty much support RAID 0, 1, 0+1, 5, and JBOD,
which is really extensive.
You have an additional two SATA controls over here,
which brings the total to nine, on a separate controller.
You can use this for your eSATA, or for whatnot.
Up to 24GB of DDR3, right here, in these red and black sockets.
Triple channel DDR3, up to 2,000 MHz and above,
even faster, it's really up to you.
It does support 1,600 DDR3 natively,
which is absolutely incredible.
And, let's get to the big point on this board,
is all of these slots.
How did they get all of these slots with an X58 chipset?
Well, it is simple. They added an extra NF200 chip from NVIDIA.
The same SLI chips they were using in the Core 2 Duo boards.
Well they added one more, so they get extra PCI Express bandwidth,
and that gives you a total of four of these,
as well as a PCI x1, up here at the top,
which is incredible because you can actually put a sound card on this motherboard.
With all this stuff, this board, when fully loaded,
you can do three GTX 285's in triple SLI,
with a dedicated 9,800 GT here, for physics processing,
and a sound card, OK, that's absolutely ridiculous.
You can also do two GTX 295's with a RAID card,
or any peripheral card, and you can still add more stuff here.
Maybe one of those PCI Express, PCI Express SSD would fit on here.
You have a ton of options. It's absolutely insane.
Lot's of good stuff, and the best part is if you run all of these populated
you're still going to get great bounds.
You're going to get x16, x16, x8, x8,
which is incredible. You're going to get tons of bandwidth, which is very cool.
Of course you do have this little lonely PCI 2.1 right there.
You're probably never going to use it.
But, it's there if you want to.
You also have, onboard, seven channel audio.
So take a look at here, you have seven channels of HD audio,
or, of course, like I said, on this PCI Express x1
you can definitely fit a sound card, even with this massive Northbridge cooler,
it will fit. Lot's of good stuff.
You have dual gigabit ethernet ports right there.
So, great for gaming, teaming technology,
it's called AiNET from ASUS.
Also got some green features in there, it will actually determine how long
your ethernet cable is and only give it enough power for that length.
So you can save some energy there.
You got 12 USB 2.0 ports in total.
Eight of them are on the back, right here.
Four are on the inside Via header.
So, you've got all those USBs, plus you got a Firewire, an eSATA.
Over here you've got SPDIF for both co-axial, over here.
Actually co-axial is this one, and the digital one, right here, the toss-link.
You have a reset CMOS button, here, as well as on the inside.
PS2 and then of course down here, your awesome 7.1 channel audio,
which has actually got a nice, I think it's a 106,
signal to noise ratio. That's great, great, great stuff.
Now, let's keep going, because this is where it gets really crazy.
Now, I'm going to get into the really, more, indepth stuff.
Because there is a lot to talk about.
First of all, take a look right in here, here zoom in here, see if you can.
What's different about that? You have two 8-Pin 12 Volt connectors.
That's incredible. That's going to provide you
up to 600 Watts of power to your CPU, which is absolutely ridiculous.
Now, you might think, 600 Watts, what uses that?
Even a Core i7 is in the 100's.
600 Watts is what happens when you add LN2 or
liquid helium cascades, dry ice,
different stuff like that for extreme overclocking.
That's where this is going to give you the most stable power up to 600 Watts,
which is absolutely ridiculous.
Now, another thing you're going to notice,
look at this heafty cooler.
It's not the same as the EVGA X58, it's different.
And look at this, all digital.
Nothing anolog on here, so all your power supplied by
a 10-phase digital pulse with modulation system.
Absolutely incredible. It has adjustable switching frequencies
up to 1,333 KHz. That's going to give you better delivery
for your nasty overclocks.
This socket right here, it's got three times the gold
of an average socket in it to reduce impedence of current,
and to reduce resistance, which is absolutely incredible
for those huge high level overclocks.
I'm talking about 5 GHz plus on a Core i7, which is,
I'm talking about record breaking competition type of stuff.
Those are the people who are going to use this.
Let's see. If you look right up here,
this is really hard to zoom in, but right up here,
see these little points, those are contact points.
This is your ground, and these are contact points
for using a multimeter to test your voltages.
So literally every voltage that's adjustable on this motherboard,
in the bios, has it's own read point.
So, you're seeing QPI, PLL, VTT,
VCore, VDIMM, ICH, all of them.
So, if you're testing with a multimeter
you can these right here, and they're very convenient.
I'll tell you another thing, this board,
the settings between CPU-Z for VCore
and what you get off a multimeter from here
and what's set on the bios, is almost identical.
That means this board is very well calibrated.
You almost don't need the multimeter, because that's how accurate this stuff is.
It's absolutely incredible. Let's keep talking about some other stuff.
Let's talk more about power delivery.
Right here, three-phase power to the memory.
Which is absolutely incredible. It is, again, digital.
There's dual capacitors for every inductor,
as well as low RDS(ON) MOSFets, which is awesome.
You also have some jumpers on here,
They're called PCI-E disable jumpers.
Let's say that you have, down here at the bottom,
you have a bunch of graphics cards loaded in.
You're doing the three GTX 285s,
and you have the 9,800 GT for dedicated physics processing.
Let's say they are liquid cooled, like the hydro coppers from EVGA.
What happens if one of them dies? Or, you have a defective one?
And you need to trouble shoot.
Well, I tell you what, if you have to pull out your loop,
and pull out your graphic cards that are liquid cooled,
it's a big pain in the butt, especially if you had a competition
or if you're overclocking for fun. So this has little PCI jumpers
that you just pull the jumper out and it will automatically disable
that bus alone, which absolutely one of the coolest features I've ever seen.
It's going to help you go through all this
kind of difficult and annoying process
of trouble shooting a dead video card really easily
by just killing that.
Now, on top of that you get all the regular features.
You get tons of cool stuff.
You get the EVGA elite tuning
utility for windows, which actually let's you
overclock on the fly, from the operating system.
You can adjust every single voltage, it's absolutely incredible.
You get away with so much as far as overclocking.
And, it lets you cheat, yes cheating,
like increasing the voltage,
right when you're going to do a heart test on Vantage,
or you're going to CPs on Vantage,
you can increase the voltage so you get a stable overclock,
which is really cool. Another thing I'll show you,
check it out, this is a little bit harder to see.
Try to get right in here, producer Dan.
Actually, you know what, let me flip it this way,
check it out. See in there?
There's a heat sync, there it is, can you see it?
That's your Northbridge, and your VTT MOSFets cooler,
built in there at the bottom. Very cool.
On top of that, I want you to take note,
that this Northbridge cooler is not normal.
It is ridiculous.
It has heat pipes, I mean geez.
you've got to be kidding me. Heat pipes?
On a Northbridge cooler? Absolutley incredible.
It's a massive cooler, as you can see.
It's all passive, there're no fans,
and that's how they made up for the really big cooler,
which is absolutely necessary.
So, I'll tell you what guys I am absolutely in love with this board.
It's got every feature you could possibly imagine.
You got solid state caps, ferrite core chokes,
all the good stuff,
lower RDS(ON) MOSFets.
Down here at the bottom you got power, reset, clear CMOS.
You've got an LCD poster, for getting error codes,
which is absolutely out of control.
This thing is too much.
And, the worst part is that I have to return it,
they won't let me keep it.
God, I'm going to cry.
So, that's it. I'm actually sweating
because of how hot this motherboard it.
Good stuff. The EVGA Classified X58
I know that was super cheesy but whatever.
If you have questions on it,
don't buy it because it's not for you.
This is for people who know what they're doing.
So, sorry but that's the truth.
Hardcore overclockers, enthusiasts, and extreme gamers
this is your board.
If you have any questions email me. I was just kidding.
And I'll see you guys next time.
For more information on the EVGA X58 Classified Motherboard
type in E145-2058 into the search engine
of any of these major retailors.
For Computer TV, I'm Albert.
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