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Alright check it out, the X58 from EVGA,
their board is finally here, good stuff.
This probably should have come out quite a while ago
but I couldn't even get a board because this thing is selling so well.
It's selling so well because it's got a great price,
a great set of features, an incredible performance,
it's one of the cheapest X58 boards out there right now
but it performs right on up there with the most expensive ones
and it's got a lot of good stuff on it so let's go ahead, start the tour.
Take a look at it. Now first of all you can tell
very attractive looking board, looks real cool.
You guys agree? Pretty nice?
You're going to see a EVGA logo down here
on the south bridge chip set cooler
which is the ICH10R south bridge chipset.
As you know very very nice, it's a die-shrunk ICH10 chipset
and it adds a few extra features for hot-swappability
and for solid state drives. Obviously the north bridge X58 chip set
is right up here on the top with a very nice pretty interesting fan
that actually blows air out the sides
rather than blowing it back up towards your CPU cooler
or down towards your graphics cards it blows it out the sides
where pretty much you're supposed to have a case fan
that's going to let it all out. That's all great.
Obviously it is socket 1366 for your Core i7s
which there are quite a few right now.
There is the 920, the 940, the new and upcoming 950,
the 965, and the new and upcoming 975
which should be out in April of this year, will support all of those.
Those are all 6.4 and 4.8 gigatransfers per second.
Also you'll notice that you have 6 DIMMs for memory,
so that is going to support you triple channel memory,
1.65 Volts, up to 1333 megahertz native
so it'll do 800, 1066 and 1333 negative, native sorry.
1800, 36 or 66, and 2000 and all that other good stuff
and 1600 megahertz are all through overclocking
so make sure if you want to use that memory
at the frequency and latencies that is specified in the specs
you set it in your BIOS because if not it's going to run at jadek standards
which are 1333 on this board and that's not too fast
if you paid for 1600 megahertz. You have 24-pin motherboard connector
right there and just so you know over here,
that up in there is a 8-pin plus 12 volt ATX connector
so make sure you got that 8-pin, that's very nice and useful to have.
Now what's really good about this board obviously is SLI
so as you go down here you're going to notice
you do have 3 PCI Expess x 16 slots.
Those will run electronically when fully populated.
You have x16, if you put 2 cards they'll both be x16,
and if you put a third card, they're going to be x16, x8, x8.
To this point in time when this video is been made
there is no difference in x8, you will not get any decreases in bandwidth
because it's running the PCI Express 2.0 interface
it's twice as fast and there's no video card that has maxed out
that bandwidth limit yet but you never know.
Now on top of that you got a PCI Express x1 here
and you got two standard PCIs which are very nice
and just so you know this board does support either CrossFire X or SLI
so you can do 4870 x2s, you can do 4870s, you can do GTX 280s,
285s, you can do quad SLI with two GTX 295s.
It's really up to you, not a big deal.
Now next we move on to SATA, so here are your SATA ports.
Lot of good stuff, now there are 6 SATA ports right here.
These 6 right here are connected to the ICH10R south bridge chipset.
They support RAID 0, 1, 10 and 5.
Now it's interesting, you got a couple more SATA controllers right there,
those are on a different chipset. Those are on the JMicron 363.
This supports RAID 0, 1, 0+1 and JBOD
and then finally there is still more.
You have another SATA port over here hidden,
and that's on a separate controller, that's actually on the JMicron 362.
Ok? So that's one and the last one is your eSATA
which is on the back panel right there
and that's also connected to that JMicron 362
Now we're at the back panel, so let's start with that.
Up here from the top PS2, whatever, you can still use it.
You can use USB though. You have USB 2.0s right there,
your clear CMOS button is right there, nice and convenient.
You have S/PDIF in both analog and digital.
This is your optical TOSLINK, and this your coax analog.
You got another 2 USB 2.0s right there,
you have a Firewire and an eSATA, dual gigabit LAN
which an additional 4 USB 2.0s right there,
and then of course 7.1 channel HD audio.
It's using the Realtek ALC889 controller which is very popular,
pretty much the standard in the industry, everyone's got it
and in case you're super-nerdy and you want to know
what controller's on this it's the RealTek,
I believe it is the RTL8111c it's the 811c, three ones.
So that, there is 2 of those obviously
because it's dual gigabit LAN
so you're going to find 2 chips on the board.
Besides that it's pretty much it. Really really really nice board.
You're also going to notice
that it does have a really nice backplate cooler or bracket,
whatever you want to call it. It does help cool a little bit
and it also helps you get a good tension with your CPU cooler.
You'll also notice the board is pretty sturdy, very thick PCB
and it looks really sharp. Now a couple more features,
let's talk about hardware real quick before I let you go
and what's in the box. Now as far as hardward goes
these are all solid state capacitors, ferrite core chokes,
a bunch of phases of VRMs, bunch of phases of power for your CPU
as well as for your memory, your DRAM, your QPI, your Encore,
all of that has multiple phases of power.
Also you're going to notice that down here
at the bottom of the board you do have a little poster,
an LCD poster or an LED poster, I'm not sure which one that is,
that is an LCD, liquid crystal. And also, somewhere on the board
over here, there it is, you've got power,
you've got reset and you have an internal clear CMOS button.
Now just remember this is going to be pretty hard to get to
when you have the board assembled
so this is kind of for when you're building the computer
outside of the case or when you're first trouble-shooting
and then this clear CMOS button is there
but you also have the back panel connector.
Now in case you guys want to know,
there are more USB headers on this board, they're very hidden.
Here they are, you got one there, one there,
so that's an additional 4 USB 2.0s right there
bringing the total to 12 which is incredible.
You have a firewire one and you have a bunch of fan connectors.
You got one, two, three, four, five, six, six fan connectors
so you can pretty much connect everything through here.
And before I let you guys go, give me a quick second
I'm going to show you what's in the box
because you get a lot. Now I just mentioned
how many USBs and firewires there are, there's a ton.
So you get an extra firewire bracket,
in case you don't have a front panel connector
you have two, you can do up to two firewires.
There's already one in the backpanel so here's your extra one,
this one can go on your back
or you can just use your front panel connector and not use this.
Since you do have an additional twos headers
that support 4 USB 2.0s ports here's 4 USB 2.0 ports
that go right into your headers,
very nice and conveniently pre-wired for you.
You know those little tiny pins on those old motherboards?
This is a dinosaur, please don't ever use it.
This is a 3-way SLI bridge which you very well may use
if you have tons of money and are building a thing like this,
you know, it's hardcore. 2-way SLI bridge,
much more likely you'll use this, maybe a couple of 1085s or 285s.
You get a padded input/output shield, which is very cool. You know why?
Because it's painted, it's got letters,
let's you know what's going on, it's you know, labeled.
And then obviously my favorite it's padded.
Padded has a double feature, double goodness.
It blocks electromagnetic interference on your peripherals
when you plug them in and it also stops vibration
and keeps everything nice and quiet.
You're also going to get a bunch of cables.
Hopefully you don't use them all. Here are SATAs,
you got one, two, three, four, five, six SATA cables, all standard.
You have IDE, floppy, and a bunch of these molex to SATA connectors.
That is it, it is over. The EVGA X58 board,
triple SLI, awesome board, great price.
Don't waste your money on something really ridiculous
if you don't need it because this will get everything done,
it will overclock with the best of them,
literally you can overclock this thing like a mad man.
It's got a great BIOS, vdroop control, lots of good settings,
very adjustable, good stuff. If you have any questions on it
email me, see you guys next time.
For more information on the EVGA X58 motherboard
type in E145-2055 into the search engine
of any of these major retailers.
For ComputerTV, I'm Albert.
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