Friday, June 14th 2024
EVGA Made an AMD X670E Classified Motherboard, Prototype Fetches $1300 in Auction
EVGA designed an enthusiast segment AMD X670E chipset motherboard for the Socket AM5 platform, which never made it to the mass market. It had even planned to give the board its coveted Classified brand, and sell as the X670E Classified. Prototypes of this board fetched over $1,300 in auction. The board is built in the E-ATX form-factor like most of the EVGA Classified series motherboards; and packs a powerful CPU VRM, besides several overclocker-friendly features, such as top-oriented DDR5 memory slots, side-facing I/O (including power inputs), and in general, a decluttered layout that won't get in the way of extreme cooling solutions.
There were four such prototypes with Jiacheng Liu, a hardware enthusiast, each of which went under the hammer. The only trouble with these prototypes is that they're bare—they don't include heatsinks for the CPU VRM or the chipset, let alone heatsinks for the two M.2 Gen 5 NVMe slots that don't eat into the Gen 5 x16 PEG. Another problem with these boards is that they're not supported by EVGA, and only come with their initial BIOS that supports Ryzen 7000 "Zen 4" processors, but not the upcoming Ryzen 9000 "Zen 5." We doubt if these even support the Ryzen 7000X3D series, which is probably the main reason the boards didn't fetch way more than $1,300 a piece at the auctions. Enthusiasts might still figure out a way to BIOS-mod and encapsulate the latest AGESA.
Sources:
Jiacheng Liu (Twitter), Tom's Hardware
There were four such prototypes with Jiacheng Liu, a hardware enthusiast, each of which went under the hammer. The only trouble with these prototypes is that they're bare—they don't include heatsinks for the CPU VRM or the chipset, let alone heatsinks for the two M.2 Gen 5 NVMe slots that don't eat into the Gen 5 x16 PEG. Another problem with these boards is that they're not supported by EVGA, and only come with their initial BIOS that supports Ryzen 7000 "Zen 4" processors, but not the upcoming Ryzen 9000 "Zen 5." We doubt if these even support the Ryzen 7000X3D series, which is probably the main reason the boards didn't fetch way more than $1,300 a piece at the auctions. Enthusiasts might still figure out a way to BIOS-mod and encapsulate the latest AGESA.
40 Comments on EVGA Made an AMD X670E Classified Motherboard, Prototype Fetches $1300 in Auction
Seems like almost all EVGA boards supported S.L.I
(Don't troll my post about no one uses S.L.I!)
Their boards do release a bit late usually but at this point they have almost missed the whole generation. Keep in mind X670 launched in 09/22 lol.
Thanks for the info, by the way. :)
Towards the end, I feel that EVGA was horribly mismanaged.Agreed. Their NuAudio products are gone too. Shame, I really like mine. Their power supplies are mostly just superflower rebrands, and they have earned a reputation with their incompatible cable design. Outside of that, all they have is keyboards and mice.
EDIT: forgot, remember that EVGA made LAPTOPS? I totally forgot about those.
I used to think it was cool to see unreleased hardware from them, now it just hurts.
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