With the X79 Dark, EVGA presents a new High-End Motherboard for Intels Socket LGA2011, which features the exact model name 150-SE-E789-KR. This board first appeared during CES at the beginning of this year and EVGA also had this 304.8 x 263.5 millimeter board in its back pack during CeBIT 2013.
When you look-out for power connectors you find a 24 pin ATX plug, two 8-pin EPS plugs as well as a PCIe 6-pin plug to stabilize current supply via PCI Express slots. Additionally there are several features, equally interesting for CPU or VGA overclockers. A closer look reveals that there are several onboard buttons, EVGA’s EVBot, voltage readout points and EVGA’s brandnew UEFI setup program, which is very similar to the one you can find with the manufacturers latest Z87 motherboards.

With the EVGA X79 Dark you get a 12 layer PCB and there is a 12+2 phase power design dedicated to the CPU. An additional four phases take care of a stable current supply for the memory. There are even power gates to the individual PCI Express slots. Overall there are five full-size PCI Express slots of which two have been wired with 16 lanes. All five slots are x8 capable. Storage connectivity wise you get six SATA 6 Gbps ports as well as four 3 Gbps connectors and at the I/O panel there are two eSATA 3 Gbps header. Only two of the SATA 6 Gbps ports are natively wired to the X79 PCH all the other connectors are being handled by chips from third party manufacturers. Additionally you find 8 channel HD audio, two Gigabit Ethernet ports, six USB 3.0 ports (four on the I/O panel and two via onboard header), Bluetooth as well as some USB 2.0/1.1 ports.

At the moment there is no exact information on the availability of this board but we expect to see this board hit eTailers/retailers shelves soon. When it comes to pricing: this board will go for 399 US-Dollar.











Source: EVGA