eVGA X58 Motherboard Overview (Linus Tech Tips #3)
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2009-05-08
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580 words · ~2 min read
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bar Cy what have we got here it seems to
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be the elusive EVGA x58 3x SL
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motherboard as outlined 16 times on the
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packaging it does support SLI technology
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and you can also see if you look really close at the small writing on the back
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uh supports Crossfire X so we're going to be doing an unboxing on this
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motherboard and showing you all the cool accessories that come with it and uh
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stay tuned
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so I've never opened up this board before either I'll be as surprised as
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you by what's inside here we have a rich accessory package
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including a visual guide to your new x58
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SLI motherboard this is actually pretty cool it gives you some need information
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like which are your primary memory channels so you want to use the green
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slots first and then the black ones it also shows you what all of the headers
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and ports and buttons are for on the motherboard itself and it gives you a
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super zoomed in view including some instructions on how to install all the
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components on your board and get set up also present in the Box for the EVGA
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x58 3x SLI motherboard is a manual a
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driver CD which normally wouldn't even be worth a mention but this one does
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include evga's new Elite overclocking utility so you can actually overclock
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theoretically very well in a Windows environment which is great you've got
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your usual cables some SATA cables IDE
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and then you've got these back IO plate adapters you got fire wire USB and a
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Serial adapter if you're actually still using that with your $400 x58
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motherboard an IO shield and you've got
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a tri SLI and a dual SLI Bridge so next
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up is the motherboard evga's x58 motherboard
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includes a lot of really good features particularly for enthusiasts and
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overclockers such as the speaker and reset power and clear seimo switches all
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being right there on the board you've also got right angle SATA connectors
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over on this side which means that it's not going to interfere with any
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fulllength graphics cards they've completely redesigned the cooling
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Solution on this board so you have a South Bridge North Bridge kind of cooler
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here which hopefully with the new redesigned fan will improve on the fan
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noise of previous EVGA motherboards and and then you can see that it's
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completely disconnected maybe you can't see that from the mosfet cooler which is
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very shiny which means that if you were to Mother water cool the North Bridge
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and the South Bridge you wouldn't necessarily have to remove the mosfet cooler like you would with a lot of
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modern motherboards now on the back panel you can see EVGA is given special
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attention to enthusiasts with a clear seos buttton as well as including a
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legacy PS2 keyboard Port which is great for overclocking because sometimes USB
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ports are not recognized correctly as soon as a PS2 port for making BIOS
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adjustments last but not least you've got your CPU socket for your core i7 CPU
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and six memory slots for up to 12 gigs of
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memory so to close out this unboxing and
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uh sort of product Spotlight on the EVGA x58 motherboard we are going to play
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motherboard frisbee so if I could get the cameraman to go
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long