EVGA X99 Classified Review
Published by Marc Büchel on 02.09.14Page:
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The EVGA X99 Classified comes with a non ATX form factor. The board is a bit bigger than ATX form factor or to be more precise 2.3 centimeters (about 1 inch) wider and therefore EVGA is using the E-ATX standard. The PCB as well as all expansion slots have been kept in black entirely. To give the design it's own touch there is a big EVGA logo on the PCH cooler. The layout itself has been well thought and there are plenty of features, like five PCIe 16x slots, ten SATA connectors, a Creative Core3D audio chip and more ...
EVGA equipped the X99 Classified with a 10+4 phase digital power design with an IR3563B Chip from International Rectifier taking care of the CPU VRM. Furthermore you will find 100 percent Japan made high quality capacitors so that's a pretty strong power design.
The memory gets one digital phases per channel (4 DIMMs), which are also driven by chips from International Rectifier. In this case there are IR3570B chips. This gives you 4 phases in total for the memory.
Totally you'll find eight DIMM-slots on the EVGA X99 Classified. Officially supported are memory clock speeds of up to 3000MHz and more. If all the slots are equipped with 8 Gigabyte modules, you can have a maximum of 64 Gigabyte memory on this motherboard. There is also enough space around the CPU socket, to install large CPU coolers.
Southbridge as well as current converters are being held at adequate temperatures via two passive cooling blocks. Booth blocks are rather big and they've been connected to eachother using a heatpipe. Apart from that the cooling blocks have been very well manufactured. The PCH cooler received a large EVGA logo in red, which looks rather nice and unique.
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