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so today we're going to be having a look at a motherboard from EVGA so this is part of their refreshed series of x58 boards so this is the x58 for the win three and the three means a couple of things we'll get into that a little bit more later first of all like I said this is the next 58 board that means it supports all Intel Core i7 processors both in the extreme and regular variety so four cores six cores you name it it uses the x58 Express chipset and it's nvidia sli as well as AMD crossfire ready on the back we're gonna find an outline of the various features that it's includes but I actually don't need this list I'm gonna go ahead and figure that out as we go along because motherboards are not that difficult for me I've done quite a few motherboard unboxings over the last little while so I like to think I know my way around a motherboard I like to think anyway I could be wrong it's happened before it's happened a lot of times if you follow my videos Wow anyway here we go first thing we find when we open up the box is a little note from EVGA he says please note if your product is not working properly do not return to the store EVG offers direct customer service you can call us here and that would be a good thing okay so what we're gonna find inside in terms of accessories we find a little x58 for the win three motherboard layout thingamajigger along with the QuickStart guide tells us how to install a graphics card how to install a CPU RAM power supply all that good stuff covers the basics you got full color there oh yeah and it's even got started some more detailed stuff on the back so how to plug things into the back how to plug in your front i case switches good stuff alright next we have an EVGA sticker EVGA 3-way SLI sticker cool so I guess this board supports 3-way SLI that was easy that's maybe that's part of the off for the win 3 alright next we've got another board installation guide that's sort of a more book shaped version of the other one we just looked up alright in terms of cables we have molex to SATA power cables we have six SATA data cables and then we have an IDE cable so from there we can not presume that the board does support IDE we also have a USB firewire PCI back bracket we have a 3-way SLI bridge we have a two-way SLI bridge that's a floppy bridge this is a PCB inflexible bridge we have a IO cover alright and finally we have a disk that you should throw away next we have the motherboard itself which looks oh man EVGA does such a great job of the aesthetics for their boards just phenomenal it smells like fresh motherboard - you guys know what I'm talking about please leave a comment under the video saying that you also appreciate the smell of fresh motherboard because it's very noticeable ok why don't we start up here we'll start at the top left so first thing we've got is our 8 pin CPU power connector we have only one on this board although that's not to say that the board can't provide a whole lot of juice to the CPU we've gone one two three four but we've got what appears to be a plus two phase power delivery to the CPU and one of the things that I noticed right away about this board is that the CPU is located I'm not quite and not as much in the center but very high up near the top edge of the board so you're gonna want to watch out if you have a top mounted power supply and a very large heatsink you might actually get a little bit of interference going on there so watch out for that although it does have quite a spacious area around the socket so if you're installing a big cooler and you don't have something like right here above your board you should be just fine we've got support for it six ddr3 dimms so that's a triple channel memory up to 24 gigs lots and lots of memory supported by this particular board then we've got our 24 pin power connector and it's ideal location along the right-hand edge of the board and moving down we have an IDE connector as well as here's another reason it's called three that is a SATA 3 six gigabit per second pair of ports so there's two SATA 3 6 gig per second ports and then 6 SATA 2 3 gigabit per second ports right there here we have a couple of really are those USB Wow but they're red very strange okay we have red USB headers we have a self bridge heatsink as well as a Northbridge heatsink which is looks like it's made up of a couple different components so there's a bit of an under plate here that's using like a black anodized finish and then we've got some nice big fins here that look like there's got to be some way to install a fan on there but it looks like the board is passively cooled by default coming from EVGA so I guess if it can run that way then awesome so much the better we've gone our front header connectors here for the power LEDs all that good stuff we got a couple fins and I'll show you all the fans in a minute because it looks like this board supports a lot of fans next we've got a clear CMOS button here although there's another one on the back rendering this one pretty much useless we also have integrated power and reset switches as well as lots of PCIe expansion slots we've got a total of four PCIe slots two PCI slots so you can run up to 3-way SLI although if you do run 3-way SLI and you're running dual slot cards and if you're running 3-way SLI you better be running dual slot cards if you're running 3-way SLI with dual slot cards you won't be able to install anything else however if you are running 2-way SLI then you will have access either to an additional PCIe 16x or a PCI or an additional PCI 16x and an additional PCI so here we go three PCIe 16x 2 PCI 1 PCIe 1x although the odds of being able to access that one are pretty slim given you probably have a dual slot graphics card here ok what else is there to say about this let's go back over I like this you know what it's little touches that some guys do right and some guys don't on the back of the board look at this screws okay these are spring-loaded screws mounting these Southbridge heatsink the Northbridge heatsink which is up here as well as the mosfet heatsink nice little touch because we're not using cheapo push pins we're using something that's going to stick something that's going to last and also something that can be easily removed if you want to take the whole thing off and now the waterblock on it safe example if you were into that sort of things okay so let's have a look at the back of the board where we are going to find the final three thing that is USB 3.0 so we have two USB 3 ports we have 8 USB 2 ports 1 ps2 keyboard part a clear CMOS I'm at a loss for this one so I'll be back in a second and then we also have two Gigabit Ethernet ports one firewire as well as seven point one audio sorry guys that's the evbot connector so sorry about that anyway thank you for checking out the unboxing of the EVGA x58 for the wins three from EVGA don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips for lots more videos unboxing motherboards other awesome tech stuff