Friday, March 9th 2012
EVGA Offers Quick Peek at 7 Series (LGA 1155) Motherboard
While rival manufacturers flooded CeBIT with their Z77 motherboards, EVGA has been rather low key and only today decided to give us a look at what it's preparing for next's month's Ivy Bridge launch. Seen below is one high-end LGA 1155 board EVGA is currently working on. There's no name to go with the image (best guess is Z77 FTW) but plenty of specs can be identified like, well, the Ivy-ready LGA 1155 socket, four DDR3 memory slots, 10-phase power, two 8-pin power connectors to 'feed' the processor plus two 6-pin PCIe plugs catering to graphics cards, a PCIe bridge chip (likely made by PLX), and five PCI-Express x16 slots (at least two should be PCIe 3.0) providing SLI and CrossFireX capabilities.
EVGA's incoming motherboard also includes PCIe disable switches, a debug LED, an angled 24-pin ATX power connector, four SATA 6.0 Gbps and four SATA 3.0 Gbps ports, Gigabit Ethernet, an undetermined number of USB 3.0 ports, Power, Reset and Clear CMOS buttons, 7.1 channel audio, and it seems even a Thunderbolt port. Now where's that 'Like' button?
EVGA's incoming motherboard also includes PCIe disable switches, a debug LED, an angled 24-pin ATX power connector, four SATA 6.0 Gbps and four SATA 3.0 Gbps ports, Gigabit Ethernet, an undetermined number of USB 3.0 ports, Power, Reset and Clear CMOS buttons, 7.1 channel audio, and it seems even a Thunderbolt port. Now where's that 'Like' button?
33 Comments on EVGA Offers Quick Peek at 7 Series (LGA 1155) Motherboard
it should had been just 1cm higher
Yea 8747 seems like a good alternative, its much more new, and from a company who specializes in PCI-E bridge chips.
There has been instances in the past of boards blowing with even just 3x HD4890 installed. The fix to avoid that was to solder a line form molex to the backside of the board directly to PCIe power, and EVGA eve nreleased an add-on part that you placed in the PCIe slot to provide more power. The board has dual six-pin plugs, one for hte upper PCie slots, and one for the lower ones.
If these sort of things weren't needed, they'd not be there, so if you install more than two cards in any system, be sure to look for a power connector like that on the board you use!
Photo courtesy DustyShiv.
Nice for bench testing and have 2-3-4 cards on a water cool loop it is really nice. you can test one or two or 3 or 4 cards with just a flip of a switch... otherwise you would have to drain a loop or remove cards...
If you are talking about the little toggle switches on the board, they disable/enable PCI-E slots as nickbaldwin86 explained.
If you are asking in regards to my recent post, a PCI-E switch chip/or bridge chip, acts like a network switch. It takes the 16 PCI-E lanes provided by the CPU/Northbridge, and provides multiple x16 or x8 slots.