Quote Originally Posted by Serra View Post
Thanks for the full mobo shot! Assuming it's not a chop, this is my wet dream. It looks to have about every feature EVGA has ever thrown at a board and it's all color-coded. It looks like it was designed to do nothing but break WR's.

But the big question is:
Why does it have an IDE connector? This is definitely the most advanced enthusiast board yet created, I think we can cut it out. No-one spends that much on just a board and processors and doesn't have a SATA optical drive these days or $25 to spend on one. Plus removing it would have allowed the SATA ports to be side-mounted instead.
Im guessing evga is targeting hardcore overclockers with this board in addition to the normal server/dual socket market. And to do hardcore overclocks (with high bclk) you have to raise the pci-ex bus much higher than a SATA drive can tolerate. Hence the need for IDE.