Since its release, the extreme overclockeurs found this Classified eVGA X58 motherboard final. Some of n'héistent not to call it better motherboard in the world. It is rather seen the interest rates charged. But for this price, you should know that this motherboard is guaranteed 10 years if you register your purchase on the site eVGA, 2 years in the case. With this card, one is almost tempted to say that we are dealing with a very high end, much as maps to Asus ROG which had already raised the standard in terms of motherboards, both in terms functionality, performance and price. The eVGA X58 Classified goes even further.

Motherboard Descriptions

First you must know that just as the Asus Rampage II Extreme, the eVGA Classified is larger than the ATX standard cards. It is formatted E-ATX (Extended ATX) that provides dimensions of 263.5 mm x 304.8 mm. And it must be that to fit all the components of the card!

Motherboard eVGA SLI X58 Classified is in a very large box. He can be unpacked out colors black and red, giving the card look very serious. Hand we can immediately recognize the quality of its components and the presence of a few technological innovations.

The card has 6 ports supporting Dimm DDR3 triple channel up to 1800MHz (oc). These ports are powered by 4 phases.

The ten phases of the digital power processor is cooled by an imposing radiator composed of a heatpipe. It is not linked to the rest of the cooling system. The memory controller and QPI bus are powered by 3 phases. Another feature of the Classified is that you can supply the CPU with 2 connectors 8-pin ATX12V. The card can also work with a single connector, the second helping when overclocking pushed to the extreme.

The rear panel of the Classified is very comprehensive, as there are a PS2 keyboard port, eight USB 2.0 (two more are on the USB 2.0 module), two gigabit Ethernet RJ45 ports, a Firewire port (second port located on module) and an eSATA port. There is also the analog audio outputs and digital inputs and outputs 7.1 audio handled by the codec 8-channel HD audio. ICH10R chips and NF200 are cooled by a radiator flat like the Asus P6T6 WAS Revolution to not interfere with insertion of different graphics cards. These sinks are connected to the rest of the cooling system based heatpipe.

Meanwhile, the radiator cooling chispet the Intel X58 is simply enormous. Three heatpipes circulate heat from the chip to the fins to dissipate heat up. You can see the "E" eVGA on top of the radiator, they light up red when the card is turned on.

There are also different on this map jumpers used to enable or disable the PCI Express. As all motherboards high end of the time, it has buttons Power ON / OFF and Reset LED display and a diagnostic system. The red button power ON / OFF has a red LED and reset button with a yellow LED comes alive when the disks are required.

In the photo above right, we can see a small jumper named "X-COOL. This is useful if the processor is cooled below -50 ° C. Extreme cooling function can be changed via the BIOS if you leave the jumper to its original position. This rider amends certain voltages to the CPU voltage CPU PLL, which aims to push the processor Coldbug. In practice this does not always with the CPU!

The card is equipped with six SATA ports controlled by the black ICH10R southbridge supports RAID. It also has two other red SATA ports managed by a controller that controls Jmicron JBM363 also a PATA port.

The EVGA X58 SLI Classified is equipped with 4-port PCI Express 16X, while the four can work with the 16X Nvidia NF200 chip which powers the motherboard. The Model 760 is devoid of the latter. In addition to the 4-port PCI Express 16X, it was entitled to a PCI-Express 1X and PCI aging. Almost Dimm, the card has taken 9 where we can directly measure the different voltages in the bios such as vCore, vDIMM, ATV.

Specifications

Layout

The side of the layout, eVGA hits very hard ... map does not lack for anything, it must be said that it would be unfortunate for a map of very high quality and especially EATX. One might wonder what might well serve the second connector 8-pin ATX 12V? In practice it is simply a good win 60 MHz when the CPU is highly overclocked extreme conditions. As far as PCI-Express, it is possible to run the card with four graphics cards but will require tweak the cooling system of the third card to add the fourth, lack of space for a double slot card ! The map does not lack for fans connectors and components are all supposed to be heated by various well-cooled radiators that actually work very well their office.

Bundle

When one spends more than $450 for a motherboard, it is normal that the manufacturer treats the bundle of his card to perfection. Nothing is missing, you are entitled to a multitude of SATA cables, IDE, Floppy, and even 3 SLI bridges of different sizes.

You can also discover in this bundle a small plugin called ECP (eVGA Control Panel) that connects to the motherboard via two cables. The ECP has the power button ON / OFF, Reset, Clear CMOS jumpers to enable or disable the PCI-E and the diagnostic LED display as you can find directly on the motherboard. This module is not very useful when not using the latest PCI-Express, but it becomes almost necessary when it is used. Indeed, the last card will block access to the button and you stop to read LED display. You can also see 3 small blue buttons. They can increase the vCore on the fly to 0.01 V, 0.02 V or 0.03 V depending on the selected button. Gadget that is still useful during extreme overclocking.

* Back plate 1 x I / O
* 3 x power cables 2-SATA Ports
* 1 x Expansion Card 2-Port USB and 1 Port 1394
* 6 x SATA data cables
* 1 x IDE cable round
* 1 x Bridge 2-Way SLI
* Bridge 1 x 3-Way SLI
* Bridge 1 x 3-Way SLI with PhysXTM
* 1 x Installation CD
* 1 x User Manual
* 1 x Visual Guide
* 1 x EVGA Control Panel (ECP)

Designed for extreme overclocking

First we will present the software overclocking and monitoring features provided with Classified. This is the software E-Leet. You will say it is very similar to the famous CPUZ is quite normal because it was created in collaboration with the programmer on CPUZ CPUID SDK.

E-Leet is a software that enables comprehensive monitoring of all voltages and temperatures are on the card, change all of them to the fly, to overclock the processor without having to use another software. Like CPUZ, it also helps to validate results from overclocking online and save user profiles.

Here is the table of different voltages that can be applied via the BIOS or via software E-Leet:

Conclusion

The Classified eVGA motherboard is perfect for your servant as it is specially designed for extreme overclocking but also more than a player or overclockeur moderate, however wealthy! If you register the product on the eVGA site you can also enjoy a 10-year warranty on this card. The eVGA Classified may grow smaller as the Core i7 easily 920 to over 5Ghz card offers because a rise in Bclock much more impressive than competing cards, as did the Tpower Biostar I45 on the FSB of Core 2 Duo.

We can note that the top 5 records of overclocking Core i7 validated by the database of record for overclocking CPUZ are established on this famous motherboard.