Buy it now EVGA 132 BL E758 A1 X58 3 Way SLI Core i7 Motherboard with Tri Channel DDR3 and Tuning Utility
Band : EVGA
Model : 132 BL E758 A1
Product Features :
- Supports Intel Core i7 processors and X58 Chipset
- Supports Triple Channel DDR3 Memory at 1333 MHz
- EVGA Vdroop control for maximum stability when overclocking
- Onboard clear CMOS power and reset buttons showing HDD activity
- EVGA E LEET tuning utility gives you quick access to overclocking controls without going into the BIOS
>> Great product read this to save yourself some headaches
I m extremely happy with the board There were two issues that I had not with the board but read this to avoid problems Initially I purchased two sets of OCZ3G2000LV6GK 6GB tri channel kits to populate 12GB on the board Each kit worked by itself just fine as 6GB but put in together I would see any random amount of memory from 4GB to 10GB but never 12GB Playing with timings did not yields any better results It looked like there were some potentially bad memory slots on the board and I had read reviews where other people had jumped to this conclusion However I went out and purchased more expensive Corsair tr3x6g1600c7g kits These worked perfectly out of the box at 1600 Mhz with no parameter tweaking necessary Needless to say the OCZs were RMA d
The second was a more problematic problem I installed Windows 7 x64 ultimate and had configured a Raid 10 array with 4 x Seagate 1 5TB drives Everything worked fine for about a week then suddenly my system locked up Upon reboot the Raid bios claimed I had a bad drive I tested the drive standalone in an external enclosure and it was fine so I reinserted the drive and marked it OK The rebuild took 22 Hrs Meanwhile I did some research and the problem that many people are also experiencing is with the Intel Matrix Raid drivers version 8 9 0 1023 Intel is aware people are having problems but continues to put the software out there and says they can t reproduce the issue I can assure Intel I had no trouble reproducing it Anyway I did what others have done back level my Matrix Raid drivers to 8 8 0 1099 Intel claims this version does not support Windows 7 but it seems to work better than the version they say does Anyway six weeks have now gone by without any other problems
With 12GB memory I only need a minimal page file despite the heavy duty development work that I am doing I m sometimes getting up to 8GB commit charge but plenty to spare
I used a Corsair water cool kit which I can recommend over the stock fan I put it in a case with 140mm fans and my system is very quiet I hardly hear any noise from the four Seagate drives either
>> pretty nice motherboard
This motherboard is pretty awesome Its very easy to do overclocking nice temperature gauge very nice looking because its blacked out and has some gray as well The only problem I have with the board is that it has a very slow boot up due to the numerous splash screens There is not any quick boot option so it is very annoying to restart the computer or even to start it up Over all this unit is very clean and very nice
my rig
i7 920 at 4 2 ghz 30C idle
evga x58 sli x3 A1
Cooler Master V8
6GB Corsair Dominator at 8 8 8 24 1600mhz
1 x Hitachi 7200rpm Deskstar 32mb cache
1 x Maxtor 7200rpm cache
HD 5770 maybe christmas time
Cooler Master Stacker 830 AWSOME
>> Solid Board
I recently looked at the price and I am glad I got this early As part of a bundle I got this board for 249
If you want to enable eSATA as a hot plugin make sure you change your BIOS settings before you install your OS as it will cause BSOD if you try changing it after you OS is installed
