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Peek-A-Boo: Evga Offers Quick Glimpse of Its Upcoming X58 SLI FTW Motherboard

Posted 10/24/08 at 10:42:53 AM  by Paul Lilly

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Having a tough time waiting for Intel's Core i7 platform to finally reach retail shelves? While power users patiently wait for next generation components to emerge, Evga has offered up an early look at its upcoming X58 SLI FTW motherboard.

"Evga is proud to show a sneak peek of a new motherboard based on the Intel X58 Express Chipset, supporting the upcoming Intel Core i7 processor," Evga wrote in in a statement. "The Evga X58 SLI FTW motherboard will feature 6 DIMMs of triple channel DDR3 memory, and a board layout optimized for the enthusiast including 2-way and 3-way SLI support."

The new board represents a departure from what has been an exclusive partnership with Nvidia, at least in terms of the chipset. Nvidia will still be represented on the all-black PCB with SLI support, which has been a long awaited marriage between Intel chipsets and Nvidia graphics.

As implied by the FTW moniker, Evga's upcoming motherboard boasts several features of interests to enthusiasts and overclockers, such as VDroop control, 100 percent solid state capacitors, and no less than 10 SATA ports with an eSATA port thrown in for good measure.

Evga says the board will be available in November for an as-yet undetermined amount.

Image Credit: Evga

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TAGS: evga, motherboard, build a pc, x58 sli ftw
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avatarWhy so many DDR3 slots? We

Submitted by Keith E. Whisman on Sat, 10/25/2008 - 11:12pm

Why so many DDR3 slots? We were told there would only be 4 with 3 reserved for Tri Channel. Is this kinda like doulbe tri channel then? Two sets of Three matched memory sticks for dual channel tri channel or tri channel in sli or whatever......

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avatarThis is confusing how?

Submitted by jwalch.hawk on Wed, 10/29/2008 - 9:13am

Keith, can you explain to my why you think that 2 sets of three channels is somehow not a perfectly natural extension of 2 sets of two channels (and think about how many boards today have 2 pairs of corresponding DDR2 slots...)?  This board's RAM slots make WAY more sense than that bizarre dual-tri hybrid that was going on.  I sincerely think that would've confused people a lot.

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avatarThis mobo is not just for

Submitted by killerxx7 on Sat, 10/25/2008 - 12:17am

This mobo is not just for gamers but also for power users and 10sata ports could defently come in handy!

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avatar?????

Submitted by Spider-Mom on Fri, 10/24/2008 - 3:59pm

Whats the point of so meny SATA ports? I dont get it? Am I mising something? I dont see to meny gamers running multiple terabytes of storage. I wouldnt bother to assume its for a performance RAID array seeing as how motherboard RAID is a sham. Any real computer person wouldnt stripe a RAID without an add in card with at least 256MB of cashe. Preferably 512 and a 800MHz controller.

 

The only thing those connectors do is clutter an already unfrindly mobo. A black PCB makes things allot harder to see than they should be.

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avatarMmmm, SATA

Submitted by One4yu2c on Wed, 10/29/2008 - 11:23am

SATA ports are almost like USB ports, in that you can never had too many.  Hard drives, RAID configs, optical drives, and eSATA adapters all can make use of SATA ports.  Sure it would take an over-the-top rig to fill all 10 ports, but I'd much rather have too many than too little.

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avatarDM 09

Submitted by n0t_a_n00b2 on Sat, 10/25/2008 - 3:56pm

Dude, this will be awsome for Dream Machine becuase like three intel SSDs, three Velociraptors, and three of those 1.5 TB seagate drives.  With RAID on all of them.

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avatarAre we playing with fire, now?

Submitted by Cache on Fri, 10/24/2008 - 9:40am

10 SATA port is a good step (as well as a solid eVGA name), but I wonder if they are making this board truly next-gen, or will I face yet another parrallel port that no one is ever going to use on it?

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avatarNot going to lie...

Submitted by CTskifreak on Fri, 10/24/2008 - 8:31am

I'm excited for Core i7. I could see it significantly setting AMD back even farther. However, the few benchmarks that have been posted over the web have been heavily truncated, so it doesn't seem like anyone outside of Intel and the board makers know exactly how well the chip is performing.

We'll have to see...mwhahaha.. (Yeah, I threw in a random evil laugh :P)

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