EVGA X99 Classified Review
Published by Marc Büchel on 02.09.14Page:
Connectors and I/O
Totally EVGA equipped the X99 Classified with ten angled SATA ports, which is enough for every gaming rig or overclocking setup. All the SATA ports support 6Gbps bandwidth and they've been natively wired to the PCH. Apart from that, in order to increase storage flexibility there are two M.2 slot.Furthermore there are practical onboard power- and reset-buttons as well as a debug LED. If you need to reset the BIOS there are actually two BIOS reset switches. One can be found onboard and the other at the I/O Panel. It is common with multi-GPU boards these days, that there are Molex plug at the bottom of the board to provide additional power and therefore better stability for Multi-GPU-Setups. In case of this motherboard there is 6-pin connector to take care of this job. EVGA also added some OC features to their top range motherboard like the EVBot connector above the DIMM slots on the right hand side.
As for the PCIe connectors with this motherboard you get five PCIe 16x Gen 3.0 slots and one PCIe x4 slot.
Totally you'll find seven fan headers on the EVGA X99 Classified which is more than enough to provide even an overclocking rig or even a high-end gaming machine with plenty of fresh air. Unfortunately there are only the three headers at the top edge of the board, that feature four pins. The other four fan headers offer three pins and they have been angled by 90°.
Looking at the external connectors directly at the back-panel EVGA equipped the X99 Classified with four USB 3.0 ports, six USB 2.0 port and two Gigabit ethernet ports. Furthermore there is a CLR CMOS button, an analogue audio panel as well as a digital audio out.
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