OC Mini-Review- EVGA X58 SLI

[Pedro Rocha]

Today FedEx knock on my door delivering a nice package from my friend Peter Tam / Shamino

Here is the content of the box :



Oh yeh it's the EVGA X58 SLI motherboard developed with the help of one of the best overclocker in the world - Shamino

Here you can check all the features and specs of the motherboard : http://www.evga.com/articles/00438/

Well the best "feature" is of course the fact that Shamino is involved in the developement and support - for instance new bios with more and more OC oriented features, there is a new beta bios that will make 920 and 940 very very happy (that's a surprise for now)


Will start on with air cooling results with my retail i7 920, before put the mobo in the Cascade with the 965XE

I mount the Thermalright True Copper Ultra-120 Extreme - a good mobo deverserves a good (an quite heavy) cooler

Here is a photo:




And here is what I get on the first attempt:




210x21 = 4.400Mhz with 4 cores + HT so so easy with moderate voltages


The EVGA LEET is realy a nice piece of software, you can control all the voltages and see all the temps and even save you favorite / stable OC settings for later recal

Whell the first quick impression was quite nice, much more to come..

Thanks Peter, I will do my best on helping the next bios developments..

Stay tuned for more results