EVGA 131-IB-E695-KR Z75 SLI LGA 1155 Intel Z75 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard

Pros: Enough ports,plugs to do what you need for a good setup.
Booted up without errors first try. Able to use fast cpu's and the ram has quite abit of acceptable compatibility.

Cons: If your a crazy enthusiast who wants to put tons of hardware with this, might run out of ports after a few and placement of sata plugs run underneath a long GPU card etc.

Pros: Very spatious
Easy Bios

Cons: At first I thought it was my hardrives since theyre pretty old but then i noticed that most things plugged in would get me an Error message. So out of 8 SATA ports, only 3 work... sucks that my 30day rma period is gone... Ive never had an issue with EVGA products so im going to give them my benefit of the doubt and say i was just unlucky with this mobo.

Manufacturer Response:

Hello,

I am very sorry to hear that you are having this issue. Please give us a call at 888-881-3842 so we can work to get that resolved for you.

Thank you,
Brandon B

Pros: Lots of features, Worked out of the box.

1G NIC
Solid USB3 that works without dropping out
Two SATA6 (one marvel, one intel), two ports each.

Cons: None. None at all honestly. Nice board, with great features and both of my builds are ROCK solid.
Ok, maybe one; it would be nice to have four intel SATA6 ports so I can RAID more then just two SSDs together on those channels.

Other Thoughts: I build two systems with this board so far. No problems. One with an I5-3570k and one with an i7-3770k. Both with F3-14900CL8Q-16GBZM GSkill Ram. Works Perfectly and recognizes 1866 with proper bios settings. Check your ram compatibility before building a system...

Network flys, USB 3 is smooth, no complaints at the moment. Built this one around Thanksgiving.

My system:
i7-3770K
EVGA 131-IB-E695-KR Z75 SLI
GSKILL 16G CAS8 F3-14900CL8Q-16GBZM
Older Corsair TX750
EVGA GTX 690
Various SSD/HDD/BD drives

OCs nicely, and runs flawlessly. Baring a simple DOA, I do not understand the bad reviews.

Pros: none yet couldnt eveg get it to fire up to this point

Cons: error 55 error 55

Other Thoughts: got another one coming i hope its issue free , ive had real good luck with evga products up to now

Manufacturer Response:

Hello,

I am very sorry to hear that you had this issue. If you have any further issues with your replacement please give us a call at 888-881-3842.

Thank you,
Brandon B

Pros: SLI

Cons: ALL memory slots are dead. I will try an RMA. Big waste of time, and$$.
I bought this boar don impulse, I did not research any motherboards at all , my fault. Stuck on error code 55 " no memory installed" I am using memory off the GVL.

Other Thoughts: Will try a second board, If it is junk too. Will Go with another brand.

Pros: Nice board for 2 video cards or less, 3.0 USB, 6.0 SATA

Cons: After hooking this up to my DSL the best speed I could get was 1.48 GBS and my service provides 6.0GBS. Swapped my back up PC into the DSL lime and I was getting 5.5GBS and my laptop was at 4.8GBS.

So, the board has some issues that I can't resolve and I'm very unhappy with EVGA after owning 4 of their boards in the past.

Manufacturer Response:

Hi,

I am very sorry to hear that you are having this issue. Please give us a call at 888-881-3842 so we can work to get this resolved for you.

Thank you,
Brandon B

Pros: -Power/reset button onboard
-Roomy
-Sleek
-2x USB 3.0
-2x eSATA ports
-1x Mini-Display port
-Celcius readout on motherboard that works really well.
-Tons of options in the more than adaquate bios.

Cons: -No IDE (Who really uses IDE anymore anyways).
-All SATA ports are, at least in my case, right next to the edge of the frame on my rig.
-PCI slot doesn't fit my Creative Titanium sound card. I will be needing to purchase a new one.

Other Thoughts: Although I have to buy a few things extra to make sure I'm back in gaming business, this motherboard itself had little to do with that. It was an oversight on my part, so no eggs are being taken away from this beast of a motherboard.

This motherboard is great for anyone who is looking to run an intel i-series processor. The Temperature readout is key for me as I'm used to running around 76c(168F) even with 9 fans running at over 70% capacity.
This new motherboard and processor are running at 48C(118F). On full load I kept checking to see how hot it was getting, and it kept going between 54c(129F) and 55c(131F). It never reached above 58C(136F). The only time it reached that high was playing maxed graphics on Saints Row The Third after I got the military and every gang member around me I could find and then proceeded to launch rockets at everything I could see.
That, in my opinion, is a great combination with the stock cooler in place on the processor.

My system as of right now:
EVGA z75 SLI LGA 1155 Motherboard
i5 3.2(3.6) quad core processor
16 GB 1333 Corsair DDR3 RAM
4890 320-bit 1GDDR5 Sapphire Vapor (over 5 years old and beats most cards in ambient occlusion stand offs all day.)
1TB Seagate Barracuda (7200 32MB Cache)

Pros: 1. EVGA's reputation for customer service. Hopefully not overblown.
2. Sleek, slick, clean looking board.
3. Might be cheesy, but the fold-out pictorial guide was VERY much appreciated.
4. More affordable than Z77 FTW, came out before Z77 ITX.
5. UEFI BIOS is FULL of configurable settings.

Cons: 1. Locking down the CPU retaining clamp seemed to take a LOT of pressure, frankly I was scared to death to even power the thing on. Apparently it does though, since I'm writing this review with the new build.
2. For an overclocking noob, all the different BIOS settings are VERY intimidating. Suppose all manufacturers are lacking when it comes to describing each setting in Help.
3. Not sure if it's just me or possible bugs in firmware, but had quite a time getting what seems to be for the moment a workable overclock. Took some trial, error, and forum reading, but have I7-3770K at 4.5GHz, Gskill RAM at 2133, with average core temps at idle floating around 30-35C and under prime95 blend test, just a bit above 70C.

Other Thoughts: 5 eggs not given because of, what seemed to me at the time, because of excessive pressure needed to lockdown CPU, along with BIOS learning curve. To you experienced overclockers out there, it's probably childs play.
To be fair to EVGA though, it took me less than a day to get from constantly resetting CMOS to an apparently stable overclock. Just had to learn some new things and try different settings.
Although the mini-ITX was what I had been waiting impatiently for, frankly I'm glad I went with this board. Even though I'll never SLI, just glad to have more than one expansion slot for whatever.
This board is still a good choice for non-overclockers. In short order, after installing supplied drivers, maybe a few BIOS tweaks, you'll be up and running.