Connectors and I/O

Totally EVGA equipped the X79 Dark with ten angled SATA ports, which is enough for every office PC, gaming rig or overclocking setup. Six of them are SATA 6Gbps (two via the Intel X79 PCH and four other via a Marvell 88SE9230 controller). 
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.
As for the PCIe connectors with this motherboard you get five PCIe 16x Gen 3.0 and one PCIe x4. From top to bottom for the PCIe 16x you have: 16 lanes, 8 lanes, 8 lanes, 16 lanes and 8 lanes.


Totally you'll find six fan headers on the EVGA X79 Dark which is more than enough to provide even an overclocking rig or even a high-end gaming machine with plenty of fresh air.



Looking at the external connectors directly at the back-panel EVGA equipped the X79 Dark with four USB 3.0 ports, six USB 2.0 port and two Gigabit ethernet ports. Furthermore there is a CLR CMOS button, two eSATA ports, an analogue audio panel as well as a digital audio out.

Page 1 - Introduction	Page 9 - SiSoft Sandra 1
Page 2 - Specs and Delivery	Page 10 - SiSoft Sandra 2
Page 3 - Layout	Page 11 - Super Pi 1M / 32M / wPrime
Page 4 - Connectors and I/O	Page 12 - Games
Page 5 - BIOS	Page 13 - Power Consumption
Page 6 - Test setup	Page 14 - Performance Rating
Page 7 - 3D Mark 11	Page 15 - Conclusion
Page 8 - PC Mark 7

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