Tuesday, September 1st 2009
Paired with the day's launch of the GeForce GTX 285 Classified, EVGA rolled out its newest motherboard monstrosity, the EVGA X58 Classified 4-Way SLI (170-BL-E762-A1). This is one of the first motherboards based on the XL-ATX form-factor, with the board measuring 13.58 x 10.375 inches (L x W), which makes it as wide as an E-ATX motherboard, only longer. For use inside a chassis, the company recommends one with at least 10 expansion slots. It is based on the Intel X58 + ICH10R chipset supporting socket LGA-1366 processors, and might be making use of NVIDIA nForce 200 bridge chips to support its seven PCI-Express 2.0 x16 slots, with adequate spacing to support four of its newest GTX 285 Classified graphics cards.

It has every feature its predecessor the X58 Classified 3-way SLI does, including a 10-phase digital PWM power design for the CPU that can provide up to 600W of power to the CPU for extreme overclocking. The pins in the LGA-1366 socket have 300% more elemental gold for better conductivity. The power is further conditioned by low-ESR film capacitors. A much larger monolithic heatsink cools the chipset. The portion over the northbridge features a fan for active cooling. Other features include support for up to 24 GB of triple-channel DDR3 memory, 9 SATA 3 Gb/s connectors, 8 channel audio, dual gigabit Ethernet, and Firewire. The X58 Classified 4-Way SLI has been listed on the company store, placed on pre-order for US $449.99.

posted by btarunr - 9:43 AM |  Related News

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by pr0n Inspector (10:02 AM) - Reply
HOLY CRAP.
by <<Onafets>> (10:09 AM) - Reply
HOLY Shit! :rockout:
by MoonPig (10:21 AM) - Reply
I WANT THAT!!!! &pound;280 is alot though... Tempting for an 'after-xmas' i7 upgrade :P
by tkpenalty (10:32 AM) - Reply
Holy Crap.
by Craigleberry (10:38 AM) - Reply
OMG that thing is beast stuff 3 ways 4 ways are now the go :p
by Howard (10:47 AM) - Reply
eVGA is super cruel !!! will that fit just great in my future Obsidian 800D??? oh santa claus!!!
by Naelex (10:52 AM) - Reply
woah, looks awesome :D
by legends84 (11:09 AM) - Reply
GODLIKE!!!:eek:
by FreedomEclipse (11:17 AM) - Reply
by REVHEAD (11:17 AM) - Reply
Throw in 4 Asus MARS and watch the pc melt literally.
by Cuzza (12:08 PM) - Reply
7x folding cards?
by MoonPig (12:25 PM) - Reply
7 Single slot folders, or 7 ... Watercooled folders!!!! Buck, you getting one? lol
by WarEagleAU (1:31 PM) - Reply
This board was heavily featured in CPU Mags dream pc round up of boutique builders. I am not sure how those builders got a sound card, etc in there with all those PCI 16 slots. Massive, sexy and ZOMG I want to die! :D
by Cheeseball (1:37 PM) - Reply
If you use all 7 PCI-E slots will they still work? Or will it disable some of the middle slots once you have 4 cards in?
by OnBoard (2:04 PM) - Reply
That's so much overkill that it's awesome :D I have absolutely no need for anything like that, but would look nice even on wall :) Nice job EVGA! (a little minus for the small fan there)
by tigger (2:07 PM) - Reply
How many pci-e lanes does it have?
by KieranD (2:12 PM) - Reply
i think there are only 4 sli way cards right now sadly but it looks like a kickarse board, for to expensive but thats a premium for to tech i guess, when it starts be become a bit more common thats when stuff like this becomes affordable to anyone with a similar budget to mine lol
by Animalpak (2:44 PM) - Reply
ridicously awesome !
by werez (2:59 PM) - Reply
what a waste ...
by Howard (3:01 PM) - Reply
this is totally a trap!!! another trap again ... one word!!! MARKETING STRATEGY!!! this is my experience, i own e759.. 3 SLI or 4 SLI u won't see the diff with ur human eyes, when u already got GPUs like GTX295, unless u hv big theatre in ur room lol.. and that NB fan, it's total bullshit! they could hv released it earlier on e759!!! i'm trapped! we're trapped!!! anyway, eVGA rocks!!!
by CDdude55 (3:07 PM) - Reply
What...The...**** Thats SUPER overkill. This seriously is for your extreme benchmarkers and enthusiasts. I sure as hell am NOT getting one tho, the price is going to be through the roof and for me would be a HUGE waste of power. But, the day games start using more then two cards fully(like everything else lags) and i have no Job, imma have to get a Console instead for my gaming pleasures, cause as tech grows, my pockets don't.:(
by btarunr (3:21 PM) - Reply
I can totally understand people who bought X58 Classified 3-way SLI for $449 not liking this :p
by CDdude55 (3:30 PM) - Reply
by: btarunr
I can totally understand people who bought X58 Classified 3-way SLI for $449 not liking this :p
Not me, if you can afford that, this should be nothing. They only thing they should feel bad for is thinking 3 way SLi was going to be the high end for years, then s*** like this pops up. But considering there not your average user, im pretty sure they can afford this.
by Jizzler (3:31 PM) - Reply
Overkill indeed. Just SLI/Crossfire a couple cards and use the remaining slots for PCIe SSDs!
by wahdangun (5:20 PM) - Reply
what a wicked board atleast now we can do 4 way SLI AND 3 way Crossfire in the same rig :rockout:, it will be super duper totally awsome uber cool rig
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