So today we're going to be having a look at a motherboard from EVGA so this is
part of their refreshed series of x58
board so this is the x58 for the win
three and the three means a couple of things we'll get into that a little bit
more later first of all like I said this is an x58 board that means it supports
all Intel Core i7 processors both in the extreme and regular variety so four cor
six cores you name it it uses the x58 express chipset and is NVIDIA SLI as as
well as AMD Crossfire ready on the back
we're going to find an outline of the various features that it includes but I
actually don't need this list I'm going to go ahead and figure that out as we go
along because motherboards are not that
difficult for me I've done quite a few motherboard unboxings over the last
little while so uh I like to think I know my way around a
motherboard I like to think anyway I could be wrong it's happened before it's
happened a lot of times if you follow my videos um anyway here we go first thing
we find when we open up the box is a little note from EVGA EVGA says please
note if your product is not working properly do not return to the store evj
offers Direct customer service you can call us here and that will be a good
thing whoa everything's spilling out
hold on I got it I got it okay so what we're going to find inside in terms of
accessories we find a little x58 for the
win 3 motherboard layout thing ofama
along with a quick start guide tells us how to install a graphics card
how to install a CPU RAM power supply all that good stuff covers the basics
you got full color there oh yeah and it's even got sort of some more uh
detailed stuff on the back so how to plug things into the back how to plug in
your front uh case switches good stuff
all right next we have an EVGA sticker EVGA 3-way SLI sticker cool so I guess
this board supports three-way SLI that was easy that's maybe that's part of the
for the win 3 all right next we've got motherboard installation guide so that's
sort of a more book shaped version of the other one we just looked up all
right in terms of cables we have Molex to SATA power cables we have six SATA
data cables and then we have an IDE cable so from there we can uh presume
that the board does support IDE we also have a USB fire wire PCI back bracket we
have a three-way SLI Bridge
we have a two-way SLI Bridge that's a floppy bridge this is a PCB inflexible
Bridge we have a IO
cover all right and finally we have a disc that you should throw
away next we have the motherboard itself
which looks oh man EVGA does such a great job of the Aesthetics of their
boards just phenomenal smells like fresh motherboard
too if you guys know what I'm talking about please please leave a comment
under the video saying that you also appreciate the smell of fresh
motherboard because it's very noticeable okay why don't we start up here we'll
start at the top left so first thing we've got is our 8 Pin CPU power
connector we have only one on this board although that's not to say that the
board can't provide a whole lot of juice to the CPU we've got 1 2 3 four we've
got what appears to be 8 plus 2phase power delivery to the CPU and one of the
things that I noticed right away about this board is that the CPU is located um
not quite in not as much in the center but very high up near the top edge of
the board so you're going to want to watch out if you have a top mounted power supply and a very large heat sink
you might actually get a little bit of interference going on there so watch out
for that although it does have quite a spacious area around the socket so if
you're installing a big cooler and you don't have something like right here
above your board you should be just fine we've got support for six DDR3 dims so
that's a triple Channel memory up to 24
gigs lots and lots of memory supported by this particular board then we've got
our 24 pin power connector and its ideal location along the right hand edge of
the board and moving down we have an IDE connector as well as here's another
reason it's called three that is a SATA 3 6 gbit pers second pair of ports so
there's two SATA 3 6 gig per second ports and then six SATA 2 3 gbit per
second ports right there here we have a couple of really are those USB wow but
they're red very strange okay we have red USB headers we have a South Bridge
heat sink as well as a North Bridge heat sink which is looks like it's made up of
a couple different components so there's a bit of an underplate here that's using
like a black anodized finish and then we've got some nice big fins here that
look like man there's got to be some way to install a fan on there but it looks
like the board is passively cooled by default coming from EVGA so I guess if
it can run that way then awesome so much the better we've got our front
connectors here for the power LEDs all that good stuff we got a couple fans and
I'll show you all the fans in a minute cuz it looks like this board the board's a lot of fans next we've got a clear
seos button here although there's another one on the back rendering this one pretty much useless we also have
integrated power and reset switches as well as lots of PCIe expansion slots
we've got a total of four PCI E slots
two PCI slots so you can run up to three-way SLI although if you do run
three-way SLI and you're running dual Slot Cards and if you're running three-way SLI you better be running dual
Slot Cards if you're running three-way SLI with dual Slot Cards you won't be
able to install anything else however if you are running two-way SLI then you
will have access either to an additional PCI e6x or PCI or an additional PCI 16x
and an additional PCI so here we go 3 PCI E 16x 2 PCI one PCI e1x although the
odds of being able to access that one are pretty slim given you probably have
a dual slot graphic card here okay what else is there to say
about this let's look at the back oh I like this you know what it's little
touches that some guys do right and some guys don't on the back of the board look
at this screws okay these are spring-loaded screws mounting the South
Bridge heat sink the North Bridge heat sink which is up here as well as the
mosfet heat sink nice little touch because we're not using Cheapo push pins
we're using something that's going to stick something that's going to last and
also something that can be easily removed if you want to take the whole thing off and mount a water block on it
say for example if you were into that sort of things okay so let's have a look
at the back of the board where we are going to find the final three thing that
is USB 3.0 so we have two USB 3 ports we
have eight USB 2 ports one PS2 keyboard
port a clear seimos I'm at a loss for this one so
I'll be back in a second uh and then we also have 2 GB Ethernet ports one fire
wire as well as 7.1 audio
sorry guys that's the evbot connector so
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