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EVGA reveals x99 mATX and Classified

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I'll take MSI, Gigabyte hell even Asus and Asrock over a Sapphire motherboard,

Sapphire and EVGA have about the same build quality, though Sapphire tends to be more feature-rich (neglecting SLI aside). All I'm saying in this case is EVGA made some fugly boards and it's kinda sad to see Sapphire, their AMD-based equivalent, showing them up.

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Haswell has on-board VRMs. So essentially even a paltry 4-6 phase VRM on the motherboard is more than enough. The rest are simply for marketing.

Even so You're paying that much for a board it should at least something nuts like 12-16 phase. Since 32 is simply unnecessary. 

 

this isnt even orange, its that fugly evga red thingy, that only exists on evga mobos, and nowhere else...

Could be worse. It could pulsate. 

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I am such disappoint. 

 

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This, That all black x99 looked so darn good

Oh, you mean this one???

 

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Oh, you mean this one???

 

 

thats gonna be my board, if noone makes a BW one

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Wow, even the little companies are releasing previews already. I like 90* headers (especially the 24-pin main power, which they should have done on both), and boards with them are tough to find. Great job EVGA! Still, fugly boards :|

 

 

we know they can make pretty stuff...y EVGA y....

 

Edit: As much as i love the hell out of that 90 degree header on that 24pin would it have been extremely hard to put a shroud over the pins connecting it to the board? or even just make them black?  

 

Though i suppose that's not the only visual gripe i have with this board....why are those capacitors pink/silver...y...

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Oh, you mean this one???

 

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dear lord that is sexy.

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dear lord that is sexy.

 

I agree with you 100%...I wonder what Asus X99 boards will look like. I sure hope they release an all-black board like their Rampage IV Black Edition for the X79 chipset. If not, then this MSI board would be a real good choice. It has 5 PCIe 3.0 x16 slots and the 10 SATA 6Gbps ports. I've never personally used an MSI board, but this would be a great one to start with!

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Micro-ATX with an 8 core chip? Yes, please!

 

I wonder if it'll support the E5 v3 series processors, which will have up to 15 cores. That would be interesting.

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I like that EVGA does things that not many other companies do (mATX X99, right angle 24pin and fan connectors), though MSI wins the sexiness award for sure. A white Asus X99 board could be interesting though.

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$400 for a motherboard ha

Well it is X99, with DDR4 RAM and hexa/octo-core Haswell-E CPUs.

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