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excellent so if you've been on the internet this week you're probably already aware that intel has launched their haswell-e line of CPUs including x99 chipset 4 motherboards like this EVGA x99 classified i've had the privilege of having a front row seat for this launch I've spent a lot of the last week going over a lot of the new motherboards that have come out as well as the CPUs and in fact they have CPU memory videos already on my channel if you guys are interested in more than specs however I still been left feeling a little bit unfulfilled and I was trying to figure out why that is and I realized it's because I really haven't done that much hands-on actual working with these new CPUs yet so that's what today's video is all about I'm actually going to be overclocking so I'm going to be showing you guys an overview of this X 9 and classified motherboard some of the specs there but I also have a 59 60 X CPU that is installed so I'm going to be overclocking that as much as I can today but there is one more thing I have not just the 59 60 X but I've got a 59 30 K and a 5820k here as well so if you guys would be so kind as to leave me a comment in the comment section down below let me know what types of testing you're looking to see what these new processors I know there's a lot of interest in the 5820k is more of an entry-level prospect for this platform so leave me your comments also leave me a thumbs up if you enjoyed this video and with that I'm going to move this little party inside so I can enjoy some air conditioning while I work and here it is the EVGA x99 classified overclocking a intel core i7 59 60 X as far as aesthetics go the board is pretty much all black you have some red here on the e-power logo from the chipset heatsink which folks may like or if you don't like that like jays two cents for example he went ahead and masked that off and painted over it and it turned out pretty nice so you do have options there feel into modding of course bear in mind that might buoyed your warranty but moving right along this is an e ATX motherboard it's a slightly wider than a typical ATX motherboard so bear that in mind as far as your case is concerned another thing I want to point out as far as case options for this particular motherboard is that they've gone with right angled connectors as you can see here for the 24 pin main power for your SATA of course but we also have right angled connectors for things like three pin fan connectors here as well as along the bottom edge of the motherboard and a 6 pin PCI Express power right angle connector for extra power to the PCI Express Lanes now that's not going to be necessary in most configurations unless you're really running like a four-way configuration that is something to bear in mind if you have a short case in your power supplies right below this bottom edge some of these connectors can't conflict there so just keep that in mind and make sure you have a slightly larger case so you can accommodate for that if the case size isn't a concern that it actually does do wonders for cable management keeping things nice and tidy in it keeping for it from like really popping off the motherboard and getting in the way so that's pretty cool actually rounding out the aesthetics EVGA give you a really nice set of accessories to go with this board pretty much everything you could possibly need including this EVGA x99 bracket cover so this goes right over the IO panels here so internally your system will look much nicer with a bit of brush metal black EVGA x99 logo there let's talk about connectivity we have 10 serial ata revision3 6 gigabits per second ports all those provided by the x99 chipset we have six USB 3.0 a couple here from the header and then four more available in the back they've also known a lot more USB 2.0 in the back so that's great to have I like having USB 3 and USB 2 apart from that we have MDOT to support and I've been pretty finicky actually about my evaluation of MDOT to placements in these new mexico motherboards so we have an MDOT 220 280 slot right here this is key M so this is going to be or a key M or M and B M tube drives like this a data one right here 20 to 80 mins it's 80 millimeters long so that's going to fit most of the drives that I've seen right now but there are different lengths in the specs so it will have a nice to see there's twenty to sixty and twenty to forty two likes in there as well to provide a little bit more flexibility they also went ahead and in an M two key socket over here that's a little short guy right there and that one is key e which means you're not gonna be able to use it for use it for SSDs but you can easily drop in a nice like wireless AC card in there and it being located right here next to the i/o means it will have easy placement for those external antennas as well ddr4 of course is supported across the board on x99 with the socket 2011 - three CPUs and for full sized ATX board I will not accept anything less than eight DIMM slots so good job EVGA they've included all eight there so you can start off with four then you can add four more in the future if you want to expand your memory support a little bit more also supports up to 128 gigabyte memory configurations right now but really I think when it comes to extra features on top of what you basically get with x99 for EVGA s attempts to differentiate this board they've really pushed towards overclocking hopefully the rest of this video will elucidate that a little bit more so they have an overclocking area right here including some flip switches here so you can actually turn off your PCI Express Lanes extremely extremely helpful if you're going with a multi card custom water-cooled configuration because it can be a real pain in the butt to remove your cards from that but you can switch them off here we have a triple bios switch down here as well so three separate BIOS sees and you can just flip the switch to jump back and forth between those we also have a debug LED on there which I just like to have which is also going to show your CPU temperature when you're in your operating system got a turbo button there for automatic overclocking of course surface mounted power and reset switches which are super helpful to have that there's a clear summit CMOS surface panel on the board as well as one on the back I owe so nice to have both of those options and then for the elta tree points we actually a little breakout cable that fits on this little header over here on this side of the board and that allows for a bunch of individually connected voltage repoint and then they've really beefed up the power delivery so 10 phase all digital power delivery that's located right up here for your CPU they've gone so far as to include two supplemental eight pin CPU power connectors so that can deliver up to 600 watts of power to the CPU which no which no haswell-e processor is ever going to use but it's there which means that in dire situations where you might have voltage drop off you're going to really eliminate that as a possibility another thing that they've done is they've included 150% of the gold that you would typically have in the CPU socket can't see it right now but it is down there and that is again to help reduce the resistance and to help increase connectivity and to basically give you more stability while you're overclocking and the last real key feature of this motherboard the EVGA is very proud of is their GUI BIOS so they've updated their UEFI with a new graphical user interface and hey you know what I'm gonna have the chance to test that in just a second alright guys here's a quick update and I have everything set up and if anyone earlier saw the video and went and commented that I was using a stock heatsink man and I'm stuck then here is the answer that it's a swift tech h2 20x it's now installed and it's doing a great job also the memory is set to 2666 so I'm happy to say that the recent BIOS update for the X and a classified does appear to be working and I also use that little overclocking button that they have on the board or at least apparently I had it in the overclocking position because I don't know if you guys can see but I'm running it for gigahertz right now across all eight cores and it's just doing an Ida 64 stress test it's at one point 1/2 volts on the CPU and I've only topped out at about well over 60 degrees Celsius on the core so my CPU appears to be doing pretty good I'll also put it to the 125 Hertz traps so that apparently is what the the overclocking button does on this EVGA x99 motherboard but let's see if we can push a little bit further I don't know how well you guys can see that but the frequency right there we're at four point four gigahertz I've been creeping up from 4.0 kena where I started it actually wasn't the overclock button on the motherboard it was the XMP for some reason that set my my CPU strap to 125 so I wasn't really sure what that was but as you can see just from running for a few minutes here now this seems to be fairly stable CPU temperatures have been reasonable we have topped out it's getting hotter now so we have seen up to close to 80 on the max but still pretty comfortable in the in the mid-60s for the most part so not too bad although definitely hotter than originally I was only getting up to about 60 alright guys had a fun that night of overclocking last night actually at some really excellent results so I wanted to bring you some of those today right now here is the overclock that I've pretty much been able to achieve that's kind of the maximum now a few things to bear in mind here one one is that I'm running at four point seven six gigahertz which is pretty impressive for this CPU that is across all eight cores and doing that by way of the 125 megahertz bus strap that's available on enthusiast platforms so that's working out pretty good memory is at 26 66 so everything's doing great as far as temperatures and everything I am running the Ida 64 system stability test I have seen some maximum temperatures on some of the cores at just over 90 degrees Celsius which is a little hot but not terrible most of the time they're actually running between about 75 and 85 degrees Celsius when it's actually under load so that's that's well within range now a few things to mention is if I was going for this four point seven six gigahertz overclock for full time one thing is that I would be doing is a lot more validation and stability testing right now I've just been using i-264 this has been running for just shy of 15 minutes right now and it's been doing great but I would want to run that for a few hours at least I'd also want to run some other applications some video games some full system stat tests just to make sure I hit all different parts of the CPU and the system to make sure it was stable that being said what I would probably do is if I wanted to run this 24/7 is I would back it off a little bit I wouldn't keep it at 4.76 I probably back it off to somewhere in the 4.6 range or even a little bit lower just to keep the temperature down because we don't really need to be doing that much also voltage right now is at 1.30 6 which is also about as high as you want to go I'd say for something more long-term if you're not using really exotic or high-end cooling but you guys are probably interested in how I achieved this overclock and I did so not from within the operating system EVGA does have their elite overclocking utility however it's still in beta and the download wasn't working for me so unfortunately I wasn't able to use that but I did do everything from within the BIOS which was very functional and easy to use and actually also made use of the three-way switch I was using a couple different settings to bounce back and forth to go back to a stable reboot of Windows 8 for example but why don't we jump it over into the BIOS now and I'll show you guys how I did this so here is the BIOS and one thing I want to point out by this version is listed right down here in the bottom right and I actually switched to the third BIOS which I have not used at all all so far that's just to show you guys that you can do a very easy BIOS update since it's three distinct biases on this motherboard it's important that you go and update each one individually so I've updated the first two and I saved this one but it's easy you can do from within the BIOS you just need a fat32 formatted USB Drive they'll go ahead and load this up and reboot okay so that was a quick digression other thing I want to point out while this is loading when I was talking about the temperatures earlier ambient temperature in my house right now is about 82 degrees Fahrenheit which is about 27 degrees Celsius so if you guys are considering my temperature numbers from a few minutes ago that's something to bear in mind - ok so switching back to my overclock - BIOS setting and let's just take a look at this overall first off you vga has given you a nice dashboard up here at the top there are knots like in advanced in a normal mode for this this is just the mode that it boots into which works just fine for me at the very top you can see your CPU settings so you can see your bus clock for example right there you can see the multiplier right now I'm at 125 on the on the B clock and 38 on the multiplier which gives me a four point seven five gigahertz CPU clock can also see some stuff appear like this is an eight-core processor hyper threading is enabled memory configuration is on the top left you can see what dims are populated and how much capacity is in each one so for 4 gigabyte DIMMs total capacity memory speed right there CPU voltage its current currently and memory voltage its current set up PCI Express is in the top right we have by 16 PCI Express gen3 card installed we have open slots for the rest of them so you'd be able to see what's connected there if vrm temperatures and you see our CPU temperatures also the actual workspace is in the lower section here so it starts you off on the overclock mode by hitting left and right you can jump back and forth to overclock memory Advanced Boot and then for save and exits and also for you're doing your BIOS updates but and the overclock setting here should also point out we have the mouse that's available mouse and keyboard so starting off in the overclocking section we can see again my CPU frequency force four seven five one megahertz so the multiplier control just went ahead and set that to manual and then for the multiplier here again it's at 38 now I went with the 125 megahertz beat clock strap and that is because actually when I first set the system up I loaded the XMP profile for the the g.skill ddr4 memory that I have and it automatically set the the CPU strap 225 which I was like that's it's kind of weird but when I put it into the OS I was at 4 gigahertz it was nice and stable that was like 1.1 2 volts which was actually pretty good and I was totally like rock-solid at that so I was like well that's cool so that's what kind of inspired me to use that hundred 25 megahertz a B clock strap for that and that's worked out well for me so bear in mind that that strap does affect both the CPU and the memory frequency which is why the memory is actually set to 2133 right here but with the hundred 25 Hertz strap it boosts it up to 20 60-66 a couple things that they could I think add here for memory you can do basic frequency you can set XMP profiles and you can set the voltages there's no actual granular controlling over the timings though so that would be something that EVGA could possibly add with the BIOS update in the future back to the overclock setting though multiplier setting here is pretty simple it's pretty much locked in to do all threads which are all cores which I can like although you can do individual limits per core so if you can get a higher overclock on just one or two cores for example you can set that up you can also set the non-turbo ratio overrides so that will make it so that when it's not turbo a up to the high frequency you can change what it will turbo back down to herbal unter bo2 I suppose and also do stuff like ring ratio here's your base clock frequency settings I have that at 120 5.03 most of the other stuff I have set to automatic but for voltage I definitely go for adaptive voltage you can go ahead and dial in for example override at first and set a manual vid that's okay for setting up but if you're actually running it for any period of time just use adaptive it's much much it saves your power and sort of thing so you can set your voltage target right here which I have at one point two nine seven I bumped it up a little bit from what I had it last night and then I actually did at plus ten offsets to give me just a little bit more wiggle room which bumps it up to about one point three one volts total that I'm running on now the offset voltage here bare mind is a whole number but that's actually telling you hundreds of voltage hundreds of a volt I guess so plus ten will actually is adding point one zero volts to this so just just bear that in mind if you're doing that now you got some control for like ring voltage CPU voltage input PCH voltage and fiber settings it's pretty straightforward a pretty direct is not a whole lot of really advanced settings which I don't mind too much because that's not something that I I blown a whole lot I usually go for basic voltage and an base clock and possibly multiplier overclocking and advance you have stuff like CPU PCIe configuration PCH is where you can go to the state of configuration for example to see what drives you have connected you can also go into PCIe configuration right there for what drives you have connected for onboard devices is where you would control your m dot two sockets bear in mind you will disable a couple functions but they do tell you here so for example if you want to set up your m24s SD slots it's going to disable USB 3 port 3.0 port 3 which which is it does tell you that so let's go I also have a hardware monitoring area right here we can go over and set up some fan controls including smart fan control functions and you can actually go in here and set it to a few different default fan speeds at different temperatures so that's cool they give you a couple different dividers for that boot of course pretty straightforward you'd have a quiet boot and fast food options which I like there's a lot of speaker beeps that this thing does when it boots up and being able to turn those off is kind of nice and then also there was a cool feature I wanted to show you right where to go oh it's an advanced ah onboard device our ah oh yeah power management the board has dark mode enabled which is cool so you can flip that and that will turn all the LEDs on the board off if you want it to be dark and quiet you also have a RP power savings mode that you can also turn on which I'm not going to do because we're not in Europe that's that's pretty much it for the BIOS and actually that's that's pretty much it for this video to guys thank you so much for watching I know this has been a bit lengthy er but I really wanted to dive in and do some hands-on stuff so hopefully you have enjoyed it this has been x99 classified motherboard from a v8 EVGA I'll put a link in the video description I've been overclocking the Intel Core i7 59 60 X oh and a big big shout-out to Swift tech for their work on the h2 20x they did a fantastic job and it's been performing like champ like a champ so far today so leave me a like hit thumbs up button if you enjoyed it again leave me comments because I do have two more CPUs which I haven't even really started working on yet so I want to know what you guys want to see me do with those we'll see you all very very soon