EVGA E758-A1 3-Way SLI (x16/x16/x8) LGA 1366 Intel X58 ATX Intel Motherboard

Pros: Best motherboard I've ever owned. A great way to stick with the company with the best customer support and get rid of those nasty Nvidia based boards. It comes with a provided EVGA software which helps fine tune your cpu and overclock it outside of the bios. Buyers are guaranteed a 90 day step up period (whether or not that will apply to the Nforce 200 X58 is still up in the air according to EVGA). One of the best parts of this board is that I can finally use that Creative X-fi sound card I've had for the past year without the issues that plagued it on Nvidia boards. This board is on par quality wise with the ASUS Rampage II Extreme, the advantage to the ASUS board being you get a X-fi PCIe card with it (but it's a software emulation card) but EVGA has much better customer support and forums than ASUS. Well done EVGA.

Cons: Board runs the PCIe 2.0 lanes at 16x16 or 16x8x8. Next months release of EVGA's nforce 200 equipped X58 will run them at 16x16x16. Although currently it doesn't matter as x8 on a PCIe 2.0 lane yields the same performance that it would on a x16 lane. Future video cards will show performance differences (but by the time those arrive you'll probably be in the market for a newer motherboard).

Overall Review: The board supports 800Mhz/1066Mhz/1333Mhz RAM and will support 1600Mhz RAM in a later BIOS update. You can run 1600Mhz RAM by overclocking your cpu. Board runs everything amazingly well - Core i7 940 @ 3.96Ghz, SLI GTX 280 SSC, 6GB Corsair Dominator 1600Mhz RAM, Vista 64bit.

Pros: For the 1st time I actually made it into the bios, there's a lot of bells and whistles in here. I will update my review when my replacement arrives. I have to give it another star because I called customer support and it was quite possibly the best tech support experience I've had for as long as I can remember. Wait times were truly under a minute as advertised in the product manual - both mid day and evening times, and they didn't put me through the whole "give me all the personal information I can squeeze out of you" thing before letting me explain what I was experiencing.

Cons: I have to give this product a 3 for the time being because nothing is worse than installing a board only to find out it won't post more than twice. (Actually my experience was a 2 star rating until I called tech support; bumped it up one more for that). I had the same issue as another reviewer on here; it booted a few times but on the 3rd attempt I got the EA, 01, 02, 68 error codes and it went dead in the water. After an extremely helpful and thorough troubleshooting session they agreed the board was dead.

Also, apparently I'm paying 11 bucks to send back a board that doesn't work? Are you kidding me? Guys, it's isn't like I bought the wrong size t-shirt here. Do you stand behind what you sell or what? I'd take away a star for this but this isn't EVGA's problem.

Overall Review: I'm looking forward to bumping up my overall rating to a 4 or 5. The only reason I didn't go back to getting an ASUS board after this happened is because of the level of support I've seen with the EVGA's 24/7 phone tech support, their responsiveness to customer feedback in these newegg reviews, and their reputation among my peers for building a solid product. For those reasons I'm going to give them another go. Being a test engineer myself I understand that faulty hardware happens. Hopefully they identify how this is happening and improve upon it.

CPU I7 - 920
G.SKILL 6GB (3 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Triple Channel
Corsair Tx750 power Supply
EVGA 8600GTS video card
Case- LIAN LI PC-A10B