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EVGA X79 Dark Motherboard
Over at CES EVGA is showing a new X79 Dark motherboard offering. The company's engineers went back to the drawing board to come out with the X79 Dark - which they claim is now able to compete with the likes of the Republic of Gamers boards from ASUS and challenge top overclocking records, thanks to a redesigned memory trace configuration (presumably T-toplogy) that can support eight-DIMM operation in quad channel.
The board is loaded with a enthusiast oriented features like a 12+1 phase VRM (presumably IR3550) and debug switches including an EVBot connector reports vr-zone.
A company spokesman said the X79 Dark should hit retail in around 2-3 months time, which is to be close to the upcoming 22nm Ivy Bridge-E refresh and GPU releases from Nvidia and AMD.
EVGA X79 FTW LGA 2011 out - 12/08/2011 12:47 PM
Announced in in mid-November was the EVGA X79 FTW motherboard (Intel
EVGA X79 Classified E779 motherboard caught on camera - 10/17/2011 09:49 AM
EVGAshows a photo of its
beta-sama
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#4496575 Posted on: 01/09/2013 12:32 PM
With red its ugly. Why so much board are black/red ?
With red its ugly. Why so much board are black/red ?
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#4497192 Posted on: 01/10/2013 03:10 AM
aslong the skin is white, yes.
Dark is always sexy! 
aslong the skin is white, yes.
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#4497229 Posted on: 01/10/2013 05:12 AM
That's just opinion. Plenty of people love red/black, it's definitely a popular combination.
With red its ugly. Why so much board are black/red ?
That's just opinion. Plenty of people love red/black, it's definitely a popular combination.
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#4497437 Posted on: 01/10/2013 02:12 PM
too bad evga doesnt exactly stand for quality.
too bad evga doesnt exactly stand for quality.
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Dark is always sexy!