2009 Best Motherboard

EVGA's Classified X58 motherboard

A new X58 Motherboard makes it’s debut: The EVGA X58 SLI Classified:

First let’s take a look at the specs of this Motherboard:

CPU Socket:

• Socket LGA1366 for Intel Bloomfield processor
• Support QPI(Quick Path Interlink) up to 6.4GT/s, base on 20bit-width up to 25.6GB/s

Chipset:

• X58+ICH10R chipset (Tylersburg) with NVIDIA nF200 X16

System Memory:

• Six 240-pin DDR3 SDRAM DIMM sockets
• Support 1.5v DDR3-1066/1333 DIMMs with triple channel architecture
• Support x16 and x8 DIMMs, non-ECC, DIMMs
• Support up to 24GB system memory

Expansion Slots:

• One PCI connectors compliant with PCI v2.3
• One PCI-Express (x1) connectors compliant with PCI Express 1.0a
• Four PCI Express (x16) connector compliant with PCI Express 2.0
• First PCI-E x16 bandwidth x16 fixed, signal from X58
• Second PCI-E x16 bandwidth x16 fixed, signal from nF200 X16 channel A.
• Third PCI-Ex16 PCI-E x16 bandwidth x16 or x8, signal from nF200 X16 channel B
• Fourth PCI-Ex16 PCI-E x16 bandwidth x8, signal from nF200 X16 channel B

In other words, 3-way SLI @ Full x16 Bandwidth per slot or 3-way SLI @ x16x16x8 with x8 VGA dedicated PhysX or GTX295 Quad SLI @ x16x16 + GTX 295 dedicated PhysX @ x16

USB:

Twelve USB connectors compliant with USB2.0 from embedded USB controller (8 connectors at rear panel)

P-ATA IDE:

One IDE ports (up to 2 IDE devices) with UDMA-33, ATA-66/100/133 support from JMB363 controller

S-ATA:

• Six S-ATA II ports with up to 300MB/s from chipset with RAID 0,1,0+1,5

IEEE 1394:

• Two IEEE 1394 port from TI TSB43AB22A (1 at rear)

More S-ATA:

• Four S-ATA II from JMB363 and JMB362 controllers (1 at rear panel from JMB362)

LAN:

• TWO Gigabit Ethernet from Realtek RTL8111C Gigabit Controller

Audio:

• Selectable 2, 6 or 8-CH audio from Realtek ALC889 (Colay ALC888S,ALC888) HDA compliant CODEC
• Support rear panel SPDIF, Coaxial output
• Support Front panel audio for Mic-In and stereo Line-out only
• (Front panel Line-out electrically shared with rear panel Line-out).
• Support Jack detection for fool-proof audio device installation

I/O:

• Onboard Fintek 71883 LPC bus I/O controller
• Legacy peripheral interface for PS/2 keyboard
• Support Hardware Monitoring for fan speed monitoring, CPU and System temperature.
• Intelligent fan speed control for CPU-fan (PWM) for quiet operation

BIOS:

• 8Mb Flash SPI EEPROM with Award Plug & Play BIOS
• Support ACPI S3 (Suspend To RAM) mode in ACPI compliant O/S

Special Features:

• Support KBPO (Keyboard Power ON) function
• Support USB resume in S3
• Support Wake-On-LAN by PME
• Onboard 80 Post-Port LED display
• Onboard Button for convenient power-on, Reset, Reset CMOS
• Support Asynchronous clocking mode
• Dual ATX12V 8pin power Connectors for CPU
• PCI-E Slots Disable Jumpers
• V_Core, V_DIMM, VTT, IOH, CPU PLL, QPI PLL, ICH IO, ICH Ground measure points
• EVGA Control Panel via Extension Cable

Form Factor:

• 300mm x 265 mm x 40mm, ATX Size, 8 Layers PCB

Supported O/S:

• Windows XP/Vista

Accessories:

• User’s manual
• User Quick Guide
• Three way SLI bridge cards x 2
• Two way FPC SLI Bridge card
• IDE cable , 6 S-ATA data cable;
• 2 USB+1 1394 bracket Cable
• EVGA Control Panel & Cables
• CD for drivers, utilities and bundle software
• IO shield