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: Installed fine in my Coolermaster case without clearance issues. Zalman CNPS7900 also cleared all heatsinks around the CPU without a problem. Well packaged with plenty of extra cables, connectors, etc. SATA, IDE (old CD drive) and power cables had no clearance issues either. The BIOS is organized well and easy to follow. I didn't try to overclock much with it yet. However, I did enable the "Dummy Overclock" feature and without touching anything else it automatically bumped me from 2.6 to 3.2GHz!! Awesome!! POST'ed first try with my components (see other thoughts). RAID drivers installed for Vista and the install went flawlessly in about 20 minutes. After Vista install, Windows updates, and some software installations I rebooted to BIOS and it showed the CPU temp was 26C. Are you kidding me!! :) Nvidia drivers released 1/08/09 added SLI support for X58 chipset and my quad-SLI is recognized by the system using these drivers. Overall a great board right out of the box.

Cons: Poor placement of chassis fan connector. It's at the very bottom edge of the board in the center, when my chassis fan is at the top by the USB, LAN, Audio ports, etc. Had to solder extended cables to reach this port with my particular fan. USB headers will be blocked if you use a dual-slot card in PCIe slot 2. If you place the card in slot 3, it will block the Firewire header and is very close to the PWR, RST, HDD light headers (but did clear). My case has both USB and 1394 on the front panel so I had to leave my front Firewire disconnected. Luckily there is still a port on the board back panel. My memory came up at 1333, not 1600MHz. This is supposed to be fixed in most recent BIOS update - mine didn't ship with it. Will need to adjust this later. Would of liked to have the 8-pin CPU power elsewhere as it can be a pain, even with small hands, between the SPDIF and Heatsink. To me these are pretty minor things (didn't stop me from using the board), but they can cause issues for some.

Overall Review: Despite some issues above, the system is working great for what I need so I didn't drop it an egg. I used to be an ASUS guy and decided to try something new. So far I like this board. -Coolermaster 830 NVIDIA case -Intel i7 920 @ 3.2GHz -EVGA X58 SLI -6GB Corsair TR3X6G1600C8D -Dual XFX 9800GX2 -Zalman CNPS9700LED -Dual WesternDigital 250GB (RAID 0) and some more

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

Pros: Do you know how agonizing it can be to get to technical support for a mobo? Most RMA'd motherboards are not really bad, but users just can't get them to work for some tiny reason. All they really needed was just a little support. EVGA provides that support; as in a 24/7 hotline populated by techs who speak clear English. The user community is very active, and most solutions can be found on their message boards. The motherboard itself is quality. I have put it through intense torture while overclocking and the board is still solid at 3.8Ghz overclock running prime95 for 8 hours, and LinX for 2 hours. Using only air cooling. - BIOS reset button on the back. - pwr buttons on the board itself. - RAM slots are placed farther away from CPU socket than is the case with other i7 boards. Compare photos. This means that there is plenty of room for a huge Noctua heatsink with two fans and you can still fill all 6 RAM slots with tall RAM. - frequent BIOS updates - quiet

Cons: - Takes 10-20 seconds to POST. This is only because it runs extensive tests on poweron. You can follow the POST tests with the LED screen on the motherboard. - Need a couple more fan ports. - only 1 PS2 port. If you have an old PS2 KVM like me, you will need a PS2-USB adapter.

Overall Review: What really differentiates motherboards now is the support. You may not need it much but when you need it, you REALLY need it. EVGA has the rest beat in this category. Overclocked i7 920 to 4.1ghz on air, but I backed down a little to keep my temps below 70c. Runs well with OCZ Platinum, but I would have gotten the taller heatpipe memory had I known they would fit.

Pros: Updated to SZ18 bios and the results are amazing My 920 is @4.2 Evga support is awesome. Smoking

Cons: NADA

Overall Review: Thank you Evga who`d ever thought u could get a quad core up to 4.2 gig??????????????

Pros: Fired up first try no problems at all. This board has great features and is a breeze to set up. I had started with 2 gigabyte mobo's and had nothing but problems. Kept all the same components switched over to this mobo and presto, everything worked fine. Also they have 24/7 phone support if you need it. I can't say enough good things about this board and the company backing it!

Cons: The only con is that I didn't buy this sooner and wasted time with another brand!

Pros: This was my very first build... I was scared to death to build my own system from scratch, and knew it would be very different than just replacing parts here and there. Everyone I spoke to threw out all these other brand name mobo's, but what sold me was the fact that just about every negative, nutral, or even questions people had, Jacob always responded. It's usually not the typical response. He tries to answer all your questions. This mobo is everything you could want from a good solid company. I was scared to buy such a fancy mobo for my first build, but... I did it, and im not sorry. I did have to call customer service twice while building, but they figured out the problem within 5 minutes and I wasn't on hold forever. My first thought was "Oh great, I have to call customer service, I mideswell have bought a pre-built PC from one of those cookie cutter PC dealers!" but I was 100% wrong. They were pleasent and even took into consideration that it was my first build.

Cons: NO CONS, only PROS! But heck, I have more space to write, why waste it? I am very happy I picked EVGA. I knew (and still know) I am not much of an OC'er. I would love to learn how to tweak my i7 up a notch, but no matter how many people (who are also very nice) try to explain it to me on EVGA forums, I just see a bunch of numbers. But I love knowing the option is there, and that its a great quality board. I am now telling all my friends to go with an EVGA mobo and to get out of the rut of those other brands. EVGA's Step-Up program is pretty neat too. Just today, I shipped back this mobo to get the X58 Classified. Was not expecting an upgrade so soon but love the feeling that I am getting a whole new mobo and feel that I am building a whole new system again. Gave me a reason to buy a second graphics card and a sound card while I wait.

Overall Review: Jacob... Great job! Tell all the staff they are amazing. A company without knowledgable staff, is nothing. To the EVGA staff - Keep up the great work and the great products! Remember that everyone is always quick to judge negative things more-so than the positive. For those of you actually reading my babble... BUY THIS MOBO! And if you are reading this in the future (and this mobo is now outdated)... BUY EVGA! Great Customer Service, Great Quality, Easy Set-Up (no matter what your experience is), Runs Smooth, Always up to date BIOS versions, Great EVGA Forums, Lots of smart features, lots of extra's in box... Shall I go on? I think not. : )

Pros: Unbelievably easy to install the MB and to connect peripherals. The layout is pretty intuitive if you have done any previous builds. The coloring of the connection slots make it easy to get immediate visual recognition of key components such as Memory Slots, PCI-E slots, power connections, etc.. The on-board power and reset are great to test your initial setup without having to fully assemble the computer. By this I mean I simply connected the DVD, a HD, Video Card, and CPU at first to install Vista 64 without having to lock it down in the case. Once the OS was loaded it was a simple matter of installing the MB in the case and hooking up 2 additional HDs and a second VGA card for SLI. If this is a first build for you I would recommend becoming familiar with the documentation before attempting the install and take advantage of the EVGA forums. I went with an EVGA MB and VGA setup and have had no problems what so ever. No Vista i64 Bit Issues.

Cons: Some of the connections are in odd places that could cause cabling problems. If you are looking to use aftermarket Audio, this can be problematic if running 2x SLI. Not sure if you could with 3x SLI (but I cannot confirm). The Majority of the SATA connectors are on the front edge of the board and in the Antec 900 case make a chore out of setting the cables up. Also the ports that sit on top of each other (0/1, 2/3) are jammed in tight so I had to reconnect them after the top cable pressed on the locking clip of the one below. This caused some wire control issues, but nothing unmanageable. Price may be up into the area where cost/benefit ratio makes previous non-X58 boards (790i, etc.) provide a better "bang for the buck" dependent on primary use. Overall the pros far outweigh any cons I have come across. I did have to load a single stick of memory and manually set the timing and voltage in order to load the OS, but depending on what memory you use may not have to

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