Monday, April 9th 2012
EVGA Debuts the Z77 FTW Motherboard
EVGA has today introduced the Z77 FTW (aka 151-IB-E699-KR), its first motherboard powered by Intel's new Z77 Express chipset. Pictured below, EVGA's board features support for both 2nd gen and 3rd gen (LGA 1155) Core processors, four DDR3-2133 memory slots, two 8-pin CPU power connectors, two 6-pin PCIe power plugs, POSCAP Capacitors, an active cooler, five PCI-Express X16/x8 slots for up to 4-way SLI/CrossFireX setups, plus four SATA 6.0 Gbps and four SATA 3.0 Gbps ports.
The Z77 FTW also packs dual Gigabit Ethernet, six USB 3.0 ports (four on the back panel), two eSATA connectors, 7.1-channel audio, a debug LED, UEFI BIOS, and one display output (mini DisplayPort) . This motherboard has an EATX form factor and is available for pre-order @ $329.99.
The Z77 FTW also packs dual Gigabit Ethernet, six USB 3.0 ports (four on the back panel), two eSATA connectors, 7.1-channel audio, a debug LED, UEFI BIOS, and one display output (mini DisplayPort) . This motherboard has an EATX form factor and is available for pre-order @ $329.99.
34 Comments on EVGA Debuts the Z77 FTW Motherboard
I wish EVGA would've fixed their LGA 2011 boards before focusing on their Z77 lineup. It seems like their motherboard section doesn't care anymore lately.
board has a bridge chip THEY run hot like 70c hot they need active cooling I do wish they had taken the trouble to run a set of
heat-pipes down to the fan tho
hungry power?
just for oc-ing? :D
- Angled ATX-24pins connector is a major plus
- So are the dual ethernet connections
Negative:
- They could have sleeved the fan cable of the PCH cooling fan
- They could have colored the USB3 front connector black... red and blue do not go well together on the same motherboard (you hear me Sapphire?)
EVGA should work on the UEFI to be more like ASUS and MSI ones, this BIOS thing is dummy now.
especially if you want a unlocked multi they cost to much :eek:
1 multi bin + 125mhz strap and your cooking with gas.
I got it for 300 USD which costs less than the 2600k. You only pay a little more for the motherboard but if you want a quality build your not going to skimp on that anyways.
Intel Core i7-3820 Sandy Bridge-E 3.6GHz (3.8GHz T...
bad design by EVGA, most of us will have to upgrade our already beefy PSUs if we want to use this board.
on top of that, it's E-ATX, meaning the number of people who can use it gets even smaller.
Great job, EVGA.
Remember also that you don't have to connect those PCI-E 6-pin power connectors - they're just to provide additional power if you want to use a lot of hungry graphics cards. Remember that any PCI-E 1.0 device can pull up to 75W through the socket itself (more for later PCI-E revisions), so if you fill 4 slots, that's 300W. Do you really want to pull all that extra current through the 24-pin connector?
i'm not trying to start a flamewar, so you don't have to direct comments at me.
try and be more tactful when talking to other members. i understand why you would put them there, and i have built high performance systems in the past that have required these.
what i'm trying to say is that TWO pci-e power connectors PLUS two 8-pin eps connectors is blatant overkill. they could have done just as well with a single 8- or 6-pin pci-e connector, since most if not all cards that support 4-way teaming have two dedicated power plugs already, and even the most power hungry card, when supplied with two pci-e power connectors on its board, will draw on average less than 45 watts from the motherboard.
again, overkill.
Everybody who worked with mainboards knows that those little things are good for nothing but gathering dust and making noise (imho).
Well put, and thank you for not taking offense to what i posted.
No offense was intended, it's just hard to express thoughts through text without sounding like an ass sometimes:toast: My point exactly. My complaint is not that you need to plug all of them in, just that they didn't need to be included in the first place to make this an excellent board. EVGA just went overboard and said "IT MUST HAVE TWO OF EVERYTHING!":roll: