EVGA Debuts X79 LGA 2011 Classified Motherboard

[R3P0]

All I can say is WOW im in love

360 Dollars for the top end board, not to shabby

5x PCIE 3.0
LAN 6
DDR3 Quad Channel
X79 Express Chipset
8x USB 3.0
Bluetooth ready
2x Sata III and 4x Sata II connections

http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1746/1/

According to EVGA this will be released the day Sandybridge E is launched well in time for Ivybridge

[JonD7]

I hate how there motherboards are always black and red.

I think I may go with MSI for my next board,

[R3P0]

Originally Posted by JonD7

I hate how there motherboards are always black and red.

I think I may go with MSI for my next board,

LOL im far from worried about the colors, im more concerned with overclock features and such, MSI does not come close to EVGA Classified or top of the line Asus.

[Offender_Mullet]

Sexy sexy. The last eVGA board I had was a 750i FTW if I remember correctly.

So the thing with the new Sandy Bridge-E cpu's is they're Socket 2011, yet their backwards compatible with 1155, but I wonder what the performance increase from Z68 to X79 chipset will be.

[R3P0]

Originally Posted by Offender_Mullet

Sexy sexy. The last eVGA board I had was a 750i FTW if I remember correctly.

So the thing with the new Sandy Bridge-E cpu's is they're Socket 2011, yet their backwards compatible with 1155, but I wonder what the performance increase from Z68 to X79 chipset will be.

Ive read there's supposed to be a 60% Graphics performance boost, Biggest boost since AGP> PCIE. There is supposed to be like fiber optic connections or something. Not sure if it is on this generation of 2011 board or not.

[Offender_Mullet]

I was wrong on that. This whole time I thought Sandy Bridge-E and Ivy Bridge (being a code name for Bridge-E) cpu's are the same thing. They're not. Ivy Bridge is LGA1555 compatible. Sandy Bridge-E is LGA2011 and will feature quad-channel memory amongst other improvements.