WEBVTT 00:00:01.120 --> 00:00:06.720 so by request and by sheer blind luck 00:00:04.440 --> 00:00:12.320 because we had one of these uh as an open box in like new condition I'm going 00:00:09.360 --> 00:00:17.920 to be having a look at the EVGA x58 four-way SLI classified motherboard so 00:00:15.160 --> 00:00:23.720 this has support for core i7 extreme core i7 it is an x58 board it is SLI and 00:00:21.600 --> 00:00:27.640 physics ready and it's also Crossfire ready but given that it's EVGA they're 00:00:25.400 --> 00:00:33.239 not exactly going to talk about that okay so the features list is is long I'm 00:00:31.400 --> 00:00:37.160 not going to say everything but I'll go ahead and tell you some of the key stuff 00:00:35.040 --> 00:00:42.600 okay so there's 10 SATA 2 3 gbit per second ports it has vrou control it has 00:00:40.399 --> 00:00:48.360 100% solid state capacitors which is what you'd expect on a premium premium 00:00:45.360 --> 00:00:50.360 board like this anodized black CPU 00:00:48.360 --> 00:00:55.280 socket with three times the amount of gold content that's a pretty cool 00:00:51.960 --> 00:00:57.760 feature it has a 10- phase digital pwm 00:00:55.280 --> 00:01:04.920 and it has the elite EVGA motherboard tuner software and you can use up to two 00:01:01.680 --> 00:01:07.520 8 Pin power connectors for this 00:01:04.920 --> 00:01:12.159 motherboard if you are taking your CPU to the extreme and you actually need 00:01:10.280 --> 00:01:16.560 that much power so it comes in an enormous black box okay so just for 00:01:14.240 --> 00:01:20.159 scale okay this is one of the times I'm going to pull this out that is how big 00:01:18.360 --> 00:01:25.000 the box is compared to the size of a normal motherboard okay so let's keeping 00:01:22.799 --> 00:01:31.520 keeping that in mind let's continue to go forward from here so let's open this 00:01:26.920 --> 00:01:34.159 guy up and have a look inside so okay 00:01:31.520 --> 00:01:38.000 there's evga's warranty information EVGA has a terrific warranty they have a 00:01:36.119 --> 00:01:42.159 great reputation for that so feel free to take advantage of that if you're 00:01:39.520 --> 00:01:45.640 buying an evj product I love these they include these with all of the 00:01:43.520 --> 00:01:49.320 motherboards that I've seen from them a visual guide of the motherboard that 00:01:47.320 --> 00:01:53.360 shows you the basics how to get it all set up to start with it labels 00:01:51.520 --> 00:01:58.119 everything for you and then on the back it gives you all of the pinouts for 00:01:55.560 --> 00:02:01.680 things like the front panel connectors okay so if you need any help with any 00:02:00.079 --> 00:02:06.280 jumpers that are available on the particular board they've uh spelled that 00:02:04.560 --> 00:02:10.080 all out for you I think that's a terrific thing to include with a 00:02:07.719 --> 00:02:14.560 motherboard a great little value ad okay here's their ECP V2 which basically 00:02:12.959 --> 00:02:17.519 connects via one cable to your motherboard and then gives you all of 00:02:16.080 --> 00:02:22.879 that onboard stuff that you might need so onboard power clear simos reset a 00:02:20.760 --> 00:02:27.800 little post LED that gives you codes if there's any problems with the system as 00:02:25.000 --> 00:02:31.920 well as oh PCIe disable jumpers so you can turn off some of the PCIe ports at 00:02:29.920 --> 00:02:35.720 looks like which I guess makes sense even there are an awful lot of them on 00:02:33.200 --> 00:02:39.959 this board in here you will find six black SATA cables can you see those at 00:02:37.920 --> 00:02:48.879 all yeah you can kind of see it okay and then one rounded IDE cable and then 00:02:43.840 --> 00:02:51.360 three Molex to two SATA adapters okay so 00:02:48.879 --> 00:02:55.120 that's pretty nice in here you will find a three-way SLI Bridge cuz if you're 00:02:53.080 --> 00:03:01.840 buying a board like this you had better be running three-way or fourway SLI so 00:02:59.000 --> 00:03:07.799 this is a four four-way SLI Bridge here that means that with the EVGA GTX 295 00:03:05.360 --> 00:03:12.799 classified you can actually run four cards at a time on this board here is 00:03:10.080 --> 00:03:16.920 the cable for the little um whatever it's called ECP thing that has all of 00:03:15.200 --> 00:03:21.040 your onboard switches and whatnot there's a standard SLI Bridge Okay so 00:03:19.400 --> 00:03:25.440 this is a floppy Bridge so it means that you can plug the Cards into a variety of 00:03:24.000 --> 00:03:29.400 connectors you can decide which one you want to use here's your IO Shield okay 00:03:27.840 --> 00:03:33.280 it's got that puffy stuff on the back of it not actually sure why that is but a 00:03:31.720 --> 00:03:38.439 lot of the high-end ASUS boards and apparently EVGA boards have that all 00:03:36.000 --> 00:03:42.439 right so let's get this motherboard oh no there's more accessories okay so 00:03:40.480 --> 00:03:47.720 that's got two USB and one fire wire port for the back of your case and then 00:03:45.280 --> 00:03:54.239 finally we have the motherboard users manual as well as a driver disc and a 00:03:51.560 --> 00:03:57.480 case badge ooh that's nice three-way SLI case badge all right and then there's a 00:03:56.280 --> 00:04:04.720 little note in here you have just purchased an incredible piece of technology with four-way SLI support 10 00:04:01.760 --> 00:04:08.480 phase digital pwm in oh in order to run four-way SLI mode you will need to have 00:04:06.720 --> 00:04:11.959 the hardware to support it so you need the two oh no it just says it's a 00:04:10.400 --> 00:04:17.600 perfect match it doesn't say you need that okay uh dedicated PCIe Molex 00:04:15.360 --> 00:04:22.199 connector so make sure you plug that in and this motherboard is designed for the 00:04:19.199 --> 00:04:25.960 extreme it requires to be run in either 00:04:22.199 --> 00:04:28.280 a 10 slot PC chassis or an open air 00:04:25.960 --> 00:04:32.880 chassis if your chassis does not meet these requirements please please do not 00:04:30.400 --> 00:04:37.759 install this motherboard okay so that's a pretty important note to have on there 00:04:35.320 --> 00:04:41.560 so why don't we go ahead close that up and then I'm going to I'm going to close 00:04:39.280 --> 00:04:48.880 the box cuz that gives us a good place to um to demo the board itself okay so 00:04:45.400 --> 00:04:53.280 let's get this out of the baggie here 00:04:48.880 --> 00:04:54.880 okay oh okay you can see that this is on 00:04:53.280 --> 00:05:00.199 there pretty good all right motherboard coming out 00:04:59.360 --> 00:05:07.759 next wow look at that so that is the 00:05:04.560 --> 00:05:09.560 classified four-way SLI I don't even 00:05:07.759 --> 00:05:15.440 know where to start with this thing so why don't we start at the CPU socket 00:05:11.520 --> 00:05:18.440 like I normally do so this is an LGA 00:05:15.440 --> 00:05:20.039 1366 motherboard okay so that means that 00:05:18.440 --> 00:05:24.520 you've got support like I said before for the core i7 and core i7 extreme you 00:05:22.479 --> 00:05:28.919 can see that the CPU socket itself is extremely shiny can you see the the the 00:05:26.479 --> 00:05:33.199 finger shot there so that is one of the things that they've done they're using a 00:05:30.199 --> 00:05:36.400 high quality Lo socket okay you've got 00:05:33.199 --> 00:05:38.800 support for triple Channel DDR3 memory 00:05:36.400 --> 00:05:42.479 as per the normal Arrangement on an x58 motherboard your power connectors and 00:05:41.120 --> 00:05:46.919 these are kind of unique are in their ideal locations you got your 24 pin 00:05:44.520 --> 00:05:54.360 power connector here and then up here you have not one but two eight pin CPU 00:05:52.240 --> 00:05:58.680 power connectors so check that out I can't actually get that off okay so you 00:05:56.039 --> 00:06:03.520 have two eight pins up here on the top left of the board and their ideal 00:06:01.000 --> 00:06:08.280 locations all right then in terms of the chipset cooling this is incredible 00:06:05.520 --> 00:06:13.639 because you can't actually run this many PCI Express slots off just an x58 00:06:11.240 --> 00:06:18.759 chipset so they've had to add I believe it's one but I guess it could be as many 00:06:15.479 --> 00:06:21.160 as two nf200 chips to this motherboard 00:06:18.759 --> 00:06:27.319 so you can see that's why we've got this huge huge heat sink area which actually 00:06:24.639 --> 00:06:31.000 is connected by a heat pipe or two so you can see under here the heat pipes 00:06:28.880 --> 00:06:35.560 can you see those kind of kind of down there yeah so you got heat pipes 00:06:32.880 --> 00:06:40.080 connecting it to this fan or this fin Arrangement okay which is just enormous 00:06:38.240 --> 00:06:44.840 and you can kind of see through that and then a tiny little 40 mm fan right here 00:06:43.360 --> 00:06:49.440 making sure that it gets at least a little bit of airf flow so that's what's 00:06:46.759 --> 00:06:54.599 doing all of the chipset cooling on this motherboard okay so why don't we keep on 00:06:51.440 --> 00:06:58.400 moving down so here we've got yeah okay 00:06:54.599 --> 00:07:01.479 SATA ports so we've got eight SATA 2 00:06:58.400 --> 00:07:03.639 ports here then we have oh this is this 00:07:01.479 --> 00:07:08.599 is terrific because all of the onboard power reset clear seos all that stuff is 00:07:06.000 --> 00:07:13.199 on the motherboard so this connector way over here to run the little EV whatever 00:07:11.120 --> 00:07:16.840 thing that it's called is actually just an alternate one just in case you've got 00:07:15.280 --> 00:07:21.199 a bunch of video cards installed which covers all of this stuff and you need 00:07:19.000 --> 00:07:28.319 access to it that's great so you've got seven PCI Express 16x slots and they're 00:07:25.520 --> 00:07:31.639 actually further down on the motherboard than they would be on a normal normal 00:07:30.000 --> 00:07:35.960 board so I actually I'm going to pull out that other board here for a second 00:07:33.560 --> 00:07:41.479 again and I'm going to show you just for scale how long this motherboard is 00:07:38.840 --> 00:07:45.960 compared to a typical ATX board so cameraman can you try and get like a top 00:07:43.160 --> 00:07:52.599 down view you can see it's actually one slot too long versus what a normal board 00:07:50.280 --> 00:07:59.039 would be so that's that's pretty cool besides that it's actually wider than a 00:07:55.919 --> 00:08:01.000 normal spec ATX board by about a couple 00:07:59.039 --> 00:08:06.960 centim there so if you look over on the right hand side you can see this board 00:08:03.319 --> 00:08:09.000 is just huge so that means besides being 00:08:06.960 --> 00:08:12.919 longer your case is going to have to have a little bit of extra room on the 00:08:11.159 --> 00:08:17.120 side on the on the right hand edge of the board to make room for this extra 00:08:14.720 --> 00:08:21.360 strip here okay so why don't we keep on moving here there's an onboard speaker 00:08:19.240 --> 00:08:25.639 right here's the sorry about that my memory card ran out again so right here 00:08:23.879 --> 00:08:29.080 we have the Molex connector so if you're actually plugging in all those graphics 00:08:27.240 --> 00:08:32.919 cards this is a supplementary power connector to make sure that they're all 00:08:30.639 --> 00:08:36.519 getting enough juice to run properly all right so why I think we're almost done 00:08:35.000 --> 00:08:41.200 here but the last thing we want to look at is the 10 phase digital pwm that 00:08:39.719 --> 00:08:45.279 they've installed on this motherboard so you can see under there that's where all 00:08:43.000 --> 00:08:48.720 of the Power regulation stuff is going on all right and then let's move around 00:08:47.640 --> 00:08:55.640 actually one thing that would be important to people buying a board like this is you see how bare the CPU socket 00:08:52.920 --> 00:08:59.200 is it's perfect for insulating all around the CPU socket if you're going to 00:08:57.160 --> 00:09:03.560 be running like Subzero cooling on it or anything like that okay so why don't we 00:09:01.640 --> 00:09:07.079 move around have a quick look at the back of the board and then I think we're 00:09:04.959 --> 00:09:13.399 pretty much done we've got one PS2 Port here for a keyboard we've got 1 2 3 4 5 00:09:09.920 --> 00:09:16.560 6 7 8 USB 2.0 ports we've got a clear 00:09:13.399 --> 00:09:18.600 seos button and then uh uhoh I'm in 00:09:16.560 --> 00:09:20.600 trouble I don't know what this is for uh maybe someone can leave it in the 00:09:19.680 --> 00:09:26.760 comments and then I'll make an annotation okay so then we've got fire 00:09:22.720 --> 00:09:29.120 wire eSATA 2 GB Ethernet and 7.1 audio 00:09:26.760 --> 00:09:37.600 so thank you for checking out my uh my quick unboxing and first look at the 00:09:31.480 --> 00:09:37.600 EVGA classified four-way SLI motherboard