Vlada011
EVGA little change color of PCB on Z97 FTW. Board is much nicer than ASUS ROG, some Ranger or how they call.. 
I like so dark as on X79 Classified. I hope X99 would be similar...
 
 

 

 

 
But I will stay loyal to angled 24pin in future...
 
 

foxxxtracker
A few things...

Haters gonna hate, that's been proven in spades in this thread. My question, why? 
 
You can't please everyone, and they should not try. EVGA makes 3 boards each, in the Z87 and Z97 chipset series and all three have different uses. It clearly states those purposes in the literature on the website for each board, some people need to learn to read...

Building a board for the Z97 chipset is a no brainer, it exists, so ya, they are going to make a board for that chipset.

I think we've all shopped around. There are a lot of very reputable board manufactures out there. Some have many more board options than other manufactures. There are many factors that determine this. Market, resources, business direction, expertise in the field, company size. My observation is that EVGA tries to exist in a manner that does not exceed its capability. There are many other companies that have no problem exceeding their own capability
 
I would rather that EVGA continue to make only as many board versions as they can safely support and maintain stellar service. Everyone of you have either experienced or read about some sort of service nightmare from Asus, MSI, Gigabyte, etc... These other companies also offer a whole gaggle of boards for every niche purpose on planet Earth. Be it color choice or some new fancy super important must have "tech", that sees life in one board and is then gone forever. Cuz it was either garbage and didn't stand up to real use or was immediately improved upon and cycled out for the more stable version of the new "tech". Often times they have higher over all failure rates and then you get to make that not so stellar and dreaded support call to them.

Not saying anything useful never came from these other companies, but most of the time people end up buying a gimmick and most consumers end up fooling themselves into thinking it is truly special, unique and necessary. But hey, its your choice, so choose wisely...

I like to buy electronics that don't fail and last a long time. EVGA boards are incredibly solid, period. Their graphics cards are "the" standard for nVidia chipsets that everyone else tries to meet. Their new PSU line has gotten repeated excellent reviews from reputable sources. They appear to be diversifying into areas of the industry in a way they can support and not over reach. Simply stated, they are good at what they do and they appear to want to keep it that way, Good on them...

They have intelligent and courteous engineers and support techs. I'm in the industry, and I know what it takes to support computer users, networks, and applications, it's not as easy as it looks. EVGA does a great job from top to bottom. 

My observation is that most but not all of the people that build systems lack training and/or experience and are full of junk tech and junk science and don't understand basic laws of physics and expect things that simply cannot be provided by anyone short of divine influence or intervention.

Cut these guys some slack and make constructive comments. If you don't like their product, state why in a courteous manner and move on. Your perfect widget awaits, out there, "in the cloud"...

Vlada011
I would like if EVGA can stay under 400$ for X99 Classified, but it's not good limited them with final price.
First things is to make nice motherboad. I think example Z97 Classified should be 350$, that's my opinion. I have nothing against 380$ if price example would be 350e in Europe... From other side I say immediately when something have fair price. That's GTX780Ti K|NGP|N Classified. Excuse me but for Europeans get for 40-50e more than some other brands really is fair price. 

kalen37

EVGA_JacobFTrying something different this time 

I'm curious Jacob. I see the FTW has "M.2 Socket Type2 Slot" but the stinger has not. Does the stinger not support the M.2?

seta8967

Normally you keep a single signature line Asus ROG, MSI Gaming etc.  Now they did the Dark but it has been only one time the X79, when the classified had many many issues. I believe they got a new crew to design the X79 Dark from the ground up. Since then we have not seen any "Dark" lines, no z87, z97, GPU's, PSU were given Dark titles. They had a chance to call the kingpin a Dark but didn't and retained Classified with kingpin edition. So how can you say the Dark is more "enthusiast than the classified" when there has been but a single one, and that one came from when the X79 Classified was doing so poor that they couldn't market the x79 Classified anymore, and had to market a new name for the x79.

MSim

seta8967

MSim
The Classified and Stinger look nice but the FTW looks like it's using the old salmon pink PCI-E slots we see on the SR2. 
 
Disappointed they still won't make a motherboard geared towards gamers. All we see are stripped down versions that might give you 25-200hz higher overclock. EVGA goes to all these gaming events in the US but don't bother to make a motherboard geared towards gamers to promote at those events like all the other mfg's do. They don't make it easy for people to support them.

 
What is a motherboard gear toward "gamers". I fail to see your logic if you care to explain.
 
 

After May 11th released date. Go take a look at ASRock, ASUS, GIGABYTE or MSI motherboards and all the features they come with.
 
example:
ASUS Z97 Maximus VII Hero
SupremeFX  (check out all the software options)
Keybot  (macros on any keyboard you use)
Gamefirst 3
 
 
 

nygamer101
Im so glad this time around evga is not useing red on there mobo now i can buy a evga bord  in my eyes everone is useing red on there mobos and  its geting old and im not a fan of red on anything  good job evga for now useing red :)