 So by request and by sheer blind luck because we had one of these As an open box in like new condition. I'm gonna be having a look at the EVGA x58 four-way SLI classified motherboard So this has support for core i7 extreme core i7 it is an x58 board It is SLI and physics ready, and it's also crossfire ready, but given that it's EVGA They're not exactly going to talk about that Okay, so the features list is long I'm not gonna say everything, but I'll go ahead and tell you some of the key stuff, okay So there's 10 SATA 2 3 gigabit per second ports it has VDrup control It has a hundred percent solid-state capacitors, which is what you'd expect on a premium premium board like this Anodized black CPU socket with three times the amount of gold content. That's a pretty cool feature it has a 10 phase digital PWM, and it has the elite EVGA motherboard tuner software and You can use up to two 8-pin power connectors for this motherboard If you are taking your CPU to the extreme and you actually need that much power so it comes in an enormous black box Okay, so just for scale okay. This is one of the times I'm gonna pull this out that is how big the box is compared to the size of a normal motherboard Okay, so let's keep the keeping that in mind. Let's continue to go forward from here So let's open this guy up and have a look inside So okay, there's EVGA's warranty information EVGA has a terrific warranty They have a great reputation for that so feel free to take advantage of that if you're buying an EVGA product I love these they include these with all of the motherboards that I've seen from them a visual guide of the motherboard that shows you the basics how to get it all set up to start with it labels everything for you and Then on the back it gives you all of the pinouts for things like the front panel connectors Okay, so if you need any help with any jumpers that are available on the particular board they've Spelled that all out for you. I think that's a terrific thing to include with the motherboard. It's a great little value-add Okay, here's their ECP v2 which basically connects via one cable to your motherboard and then gives you all of that onboard stuff that you Might need so onboard power clear CMOS reset a little post LED that gives you codes if there's any problems with the system as Well as oh PCIe disable jumpers so you can turn off some of the PCIe ports It looks like which I guess makes sense even there an awful lot of them on this board in here You will find six black SATA cables. Can you see those at all? Yeah, you can kind of see it. Okay, and then one rounded IDE cable and then three Molex to two SATA adapters That's pretty nice In here you will find a three-way SLI bridge because if you're buying a board like this you had better be running three-way or Four-way SLI so this is a four-way SLI bridge here. That means that with the EVGA GTX 295 classified you can actually run four cards at a time on this board. Here is the cable for the little Whatever is called ECP thing that has all of your onboard switches and whatnot. There's a standard SLI bridge Okay, so this is a floppy bridge So it means that you can plug the cards into a variety of connectors. You can decide which one you want to use Here's your IO shield. Okay, it's got that puffy stuff on the back of it I'm not actually sure why that is but a lot of the high-end ASUS boards and apparently EVGA boards have that Alright, so let's get this motherboard. Oh, no, there's more accessories Okay, so that's got two USB and one firewire port for the back of your case and then finally we have the motherboard users manual as well as a driver disc and a Case badge. Ooh, that's nice three-way SLI case badge Alright, and then there's a little note in here You have just purchased an incredible piece of technology with four-way SLI support 10 phase digital PWM You know all in order to run four-way SLI mode. You will need to have the hardware to support it So you need the two? Oh, no, it just says it's a perfect match. It doesn't say you need that. Okay Dedicated PCIe molex connector So make sure you plug that in and this motherboard is designed for the extreme it requires to be run in either a 10 slot PC chassis or an Open air chassis if your chassis does not meet these requirements, please do not install this motherboard Okay, so that's a pretty important note to have on there So why don't we go ahead close that up and then I'm gonna I'm gonna close the box because that gives us a good place to To demo the board itself. Okay, so let's get this out of the baggie here Okay, you see that this is On there pretty good All right motherboard coming out now Look at that. So that is the classified four-way SLI I don't even know where to start with this thing. So why don't we start at the CPU socket like I normally do? So this is an LGA 1366 motherboard Okay, so that means that you've got support like I said before for the core i7 and core i7 extreme You can see that the CPU socket itself is extremely shiny. Can you see the the finger shot there? So that is one of the things that they've done. They're using a high quality Lote socket Okay, you've got support for triple channel DDR3 memory as per the normal arrangement on an x58 motherboard your power Connectors and these are kind of unique are in their ideal locations You got your 24 pin power connector here and then up here you have not one but two 8-pin CPU power connectors, so check that out. I can't actually get that off Okay, so you have two 8 pins up here on the top left of the board in their ideal locations All right, then in terms of the chipset cooling This is incredible because you can't actually run this many PCI Express slots off just an x58 chipset So they've had to add I believe it's one But I guess it could be as many as two nf200 chips to this motherboard so you can see that's why we've got this huge Huge heatsink area which actually is connected by a heat pipe or two so you can see under here the heat pipes Can you see those kind of kind of down there? Yeah, so you got heat pipes connecting it to this fan or this fin arrangement? Okay, which is just enormous and you can kind of see through that and then a tiny little 40 millimeter fan right here Making sure that it gets at least a little bit of airflow So that's what's doing all of the chipset cooling on this motherboard, okay? So why don't we keep on moving down so here? We've got yeah, okay, SATA ports So we've got eight SATA two ports here Then we have oh this is this is terrific because all of the onboard power Reset clear CMOS all of that stuff is on the motherboard So this connector way over here to run the little EV whatever thing that it's called is actually just an alternate one Just in case you've got a bunch of video cards installed which covers all of this stuff, and you need access to it That's great, so you've got seven PCI Express 16x slots And they're actually further down on the motherboard than they would be on a normal board So I actually I'm gonna pull out that other board here for a second again And I'm gonna show you just for scale how long this motherboard is compared to a typical ATX board So if cameraman can you try and get like a top-down view you can see it's actually one slot too long Versus what a normal board would be so that's that's pretty cool besides that It's actually wider than a normal spec ATX board by about a couple centimeters there So if you look over on the right hand side you can see this board is just Huge so that means besides being longer your case is gonna have to have a little bit of extra room on the side on the On the right hand edge of the board to make room for this extra strip here, okay? So why don't we keep on moving here? There's an onboard speaker right here's the Sorry about that my memory card ran out again, so right here. We have the molex connector So if you're actually plugging in all those graphics cards This is a supplementary power connector to make sure that they're all getting enough juice to run properly alright So why I think we're almost done here But the last thing we want to look at is the 10 phase Digital PWM that they've installed on this motherboard so you can see under there That's where all of the power regulation stuff is going on alright And then let's move around actually one thing that would be important to people buying a board like this is you see how bare? The CPU socket is it's perfect for insulating all around the CPU socket If you're gonna be running like sub-zero cooling on it or anything like that, okay? So why don't we move around have a quick look at the back of the board, and then I think we're pretty much done We've got one ps2 port here for a keyboard. We've got one two three four five six seven eight USB 2.0 ports We've got a clear CMOS button, and then oh, I'm in trouble. I don't know what this is for Maybe someone can leave it in the comments, and then I'll make an annotation okay, so then we've got firewire Esata 2 gigabit Ethernet and 7.1 audio, so thank you for checking out my my quick unboxing And first look at the EVGA classified four-way SLI motherboard