EVGA X58 Classified in the house : First results I7 920 and 965

Finally have the chance of testing the masterpiece conceived by Shamino : the EVGA Classified.

It's a retail version, bought in the local EVGA reseller.

The layout of the motherboard it's near perfect: large amount of space of CPU area, double 12v for CPU, 3+1 PCIe ....

In order you can have a more correct perception of the potential of this motherboard did quick tests with a retail I7 920 Air Cooled and with a retail I7 965 cooled by my Mini-cascade (~-80ºC).


1 -I7 920 Air Cooled

Photo:

http://pedrorocha.planetaclix.pt/EVG...ied_FotoAR.jpg


And, to my surprise run Superpi 32M at 4.600Mhz - thats a sub-8m 32M run Air cooled :D .. here is it:

http://pedrorocha.planetaclix.pt/EVG...rPI_32M_7m.JPG


Also did a quick 3Dmark 06 run with a stock EVGA GTX295 with 920 at 4.500Mhz Air cooled ..here is it:

http://pedrorocha.planetaclix.pt/EVG...00AR_3DM06.JPG

Not bad for a air cooled 920, right ? ;)



1 -I7 965 at the Mini-Cascade

Photo:

http://pedrorocha.planetaclix.pt/EVG...otoCascata.jpg


And on first attempt 5.200Mhz quite easy ..

http://pedrorocha.planetaclix.pt/EVG...200Cascata.JPG

With a bit more fine tunning maybe 32M is possible at this speed :)


A quick test of the bandwith with Cas7

http://pedrorocha.planetaclix.pt/EVG...ed_2130DR3.JPG

Not bad for start ..;)


With HT on pass the eavy CPU test of 3DMark 2006 at 4.9GHz

http://pedrorocha.planetaclix.pt/EVG...DMark06CPU.JPG

Hope also pass Vantage at 4.900Mhz ..although the Vantage CPU test are quite violent to my little cascade ..


More to come, of course...

I must say I'm quite impressed with the firts tests of the EVGA Classified ... very nice work Shamino and the rest of the EVGA Team

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I must agree with you Pedro - Lardy has done a great job with eVga X58 :up: Darn good board :yepp:

yea, those are some great scores for air... and 1 gtx 295, it took me 2 cards to get that score


as always, very impressive!

awesome testing pedro! what was the limits of your chip on other boards? i cant wait to play with one of these

What does your bios look like if You don't mind?

Wow awesome OC's!

Hey Pedro , long time no see , its good to see your 965 really shining :)

astoning work once again from EVGA

keep pushing it

This motherboard is a masterpiece!!! Pedro, can you tell if you gained any MHz from previous boards using the same cpu? Or is it just better stability in high frequencies?

i've yet to use i7s ... but i cant understand there's a point where there's 4 core, 8 threads ... and another screenshot of 4 core, 4 threads
did the threadstarter disable the multithreading?

This is the best overclocking x58 period imo

if you have a good chip to go with this unit you will get the very best results

Pedro give it hell mate

This is a cracking board if a little expensive:up:

Nice work pedro!!! Think Ive found my new board for when I upgrade. This thing just continues to impress.

very well done...push hard with that fantastic board! i'd like to have one....one day :D

well done pedro congratulation...now we want to see 245x20!!!!!!

when that 920 under cascade / ln2 ? ^_^

Congrats Pedro Rocha, impressive score ;)

Where is you're favorite game with I7 ? :D

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when that 920 under cascade / ln2 ? ^_^

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He mentions "Air Cooled" several times ;)


Nice work Pedro :clap:

i'm imaging you little cascade when the 965 is running vantage cpu test... brrrrrrr

nice test pedro.. keep pushing

awesome stuff here, way to go!

Great board and great results... would be even better without that nf200. :D :up:

yeah i heard theres anf200-less version coming?

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yeah i heard theres anf200-less version coming?

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Now that would be even more amazing Sascha ! :yepp: Where did you hear that ? :p:

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Originally Posted by saaya

yeah i heard theres anf200-less version coming?

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wow:cool:
it must be cheaper:D

there will be a non nf200 version , the time estimate is said to be around the same time as the current nf200 version

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Originally Posted by Oliver

there will be a non nf200 version , the time estimate is said to be around the same time as the current nf200 version

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Already for sale - http://www.evga.com/products/moreInf...board%20Family

Great Results Pedro, as always

What we all wanna see is THE SAME SETUP But with CPU 920 REV C0/1
So we can compare Differences between Revision (D0 and C0) and to see the EVGA on this "Old" revision.

great mobo for sure. no 3mark01? :D

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Already for sale - http://www.evga.com/products/moreInf...board%20Family

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Holy :banana::banana::banana::banana:! They straight out denied it's release back when the original launched. Haven't been there in weeks but I imagine the official forums are :banana::banana::banana::banana: storm by now.:rofl:

Haven't seen a review of the non nf200 yet though

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Originally Posted by gaidin

Haven't seen a review of the non nf200 yet though

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VR-Zone has a review of the non NF200 version. He compares it to the top ASUS board and admits he gets much better results using the Classified. I have the non NF200 Classified on the way now, so I'll post a review using my D0 920 once I receive it.

What is so bad about the NF200 chipset ?
If EVGA will drop the NF200 chipset out of the classified, how will they get the additional PCI-E lanes ? another X58 Chipset ?

Additional heat output from it, additional latencies, additional costs... There's two versions and I don't think they will drop the nf200-version (759). There's no way to get the missing lanes without the nf200, you'd have to use 8x 8x 8x for TriSLI oder 16x 16x 1x for QuadSLI. The fourth PCIe 16x would be always at 1x with these configs mentioned before.

Nice work pedro!!!

Finally get so time to run Vantage with the Classified ..

The double 12v power connector seems really to make a diference on the extreme load Vantage CPU, here is a photo:

http://pedrorocha.planetaclix.pt/EVG...oCascata_2.jpg


Here is a quick run with 2 Stock GTX295's ..

http://pedrorocha.planetaclix.pt/358...TX295Stock.jpg

4.9 GHZ Vantage benchable on the cascata - that's a gain of more tha 100Mhz from the Rampage II, that's really quite impressive :yepp:

Congrats to Shamino and the rest of EVGA team - nice work :clap: