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I've been Asus customer for ages as far is their Motherboards choices, in fact my current board is from Asus but because of the 7 pcie slots and few other small features. Why EVGA quit making this types of boards like the x58 classified, they seem capable of doing it, I'm sure many Asus customers would switch if there where more alternatives.
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Re: x58 classified was sweet motherboard
2018/01/20 11:10:39
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they do, the x299 ftw and dark. the biggest thing though is nvidia only supports two way sli now so the 7 x16 slot boards are just not really needed. i will say asus has really stepped up there game (as well as gigabyte and MSI ) after evga put the smack down on them with the x58 classy boards, it really put them on notice that there was a serious competition in the uber high end.
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Re: x58 classified was sweet motherboard
2018/01/20 12:07:13
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Yes, if you're looking from only games aspect then there seems to be no need for more than 3-4 PCI-e slots, 2 for GPU's and maybe add on cards, but from productivity stand point e.g. GPU power especially that can support 7 x PCIe @16 not all at once but and in this case single x16 or dual x16/x16 or triple x16/x16/x16 and so on so forth, you cannot find board that can match Asus WS. I have to admit that lately Asus have been much better at support compare to few months or year ago, they have been replaying to my inquiries and concerns within few hours. I don't know if they realize that a lot of their customers trashing their customer support and enough time would pass and even though Asus is leader in motherboard manufacturing it could potentially hurt them. I'm sure if there was someone else making this type of M/B and the customer service was better, some of the current Asus customers would switch. Despite the improvement of Asus customer support, at least I think they got little bit better, once you create enough damage and piss enough customers its hard to do damage control, it takes very long for the name to be out there but it takes half the time to screw things up.
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Re: x58 classified was sweet motherboard
2018/01/21 11:07:15
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AWK16 Yes, if you're looking from only games aspect then there seems to be no need for more than 3-4 PCI-e slots, 2 for GPU's and maybe add on cards, but from productivity stand point e.g. GPU power especially that can support 7 x PCIe @16 not all at once but and in this case single x16 or dual x16/x16 or triple x16/x16/x16 and so on so forth, you cannot find board that can match Asus WS. I have to admit that lately Asus have been much better at support compare to few months or year ago, they have been replaying to my inquiries and concerns within few hours. I don't know if they realize that a lot of their customers trashing their customer support and enough time would pass and even though Asus is leader in motherboard manufacturing it could potentially hurt them. I'm sure if there was someone else making this type of M/B and the customer service was better, some of the current Asus customers would switch. Despite the improvement of Asus customer support, at least I think they got little bit better, once you create enough damage and piss enough customers its hard to do damage control, it takes very long for the name to be out there but it takes half the time to screw things up.
asus and gigabyte have a huge advantage over evga as they do alot of OEM boards and have been around for a long time, i remember have a HP pc with a slot one P2 that was a asus board with a custom bios, evga can not compete on that level so they stick to the gaming/overclocking crowd, which is fine because they (usually) do it very well.
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Re: x58 classified was sweet motherboard
2018/01/30 10:12:26
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Ah the good old days. When I could rely on my computing equipment. Punch cards and beepity boopity lights were the shizz diggity
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Re: x58 classified was sweet motherboard
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I had a collection of the old EVGA X58 classified boards. I have owned up to 7 of them at once and I agree that they were the best you could get for that gen. And from what I understood, after the SR-2 debuted a lot of the mobo design team from EVGA responsible for the X58 Classy's and SR-2 went to work for Asus... which would probably explain the rise of ASUS during the X79 generation and EVGA having tons of issues upon their early X79 boards. Here was a pic of some of the boards I had collected. I had since sold them off sadly. I had the limited edition X58 Classy E759 with the nf200 chip, the E760, the Classy 3, and a few of the 4-way boards. As you see they all had the classic EK Classified Mobo Blocks. Easily my favorite generation of motherboards of all time. I have more pics of them all but Photobucket went off the deep end so I'm not able to post them. I'll see about creating an Imgur album to post shortly.
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Re: x58 classified was sweet motherboard
2018/02/21 05:54:24
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X58 was a good platform. My X58 system lasted from 2009-2017. It still works but i wanted to upgrade. ASUS does have a big advantage, they don't out source production. ASUS always offers the latest features and a good price. That is what made me choose ASUS for my Z270 build.
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Re: x58 classified was sweet motherboard
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Re: x58 classified was sweet motherboard
2018/02/21 09:07:28
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I'm typing on an E762 at the moment. I know I would enjoy latest/greatest, but wasn't too keen on the Intel pricing / performance with SKL-X. With Spectre / Meltdown and resulting performance hits from the patches, I'm not sure if I want the next generation. I may cruise past that one also, in the hopes that Intel can deliver a CPU that solves for both Spectre/Meltdown and doesn't have a performance loss. Plus, hoping AMD keeps the pressure on, so we get more reasonable (IMHO) price / performance. Maybe it's time to think about upgrading to Westmere and converting over to a full custom loop... :)
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Re: x58 classified was sweet motherboard
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Re: x58 classified was sweet motherboard
2018/02/21 18:46:30
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nikkocortez I had a collection of the old EVGA X58 classified boards. I have owned up to 7 of them at once and I agree that they were the best you could get for that gen. And from what I understood, after the SR-2 debuted a lot of the mobo design team from EVGA responsible for the X58 Classy's and SR-2 went to work for Asus... which would probably explain the rise of ASUS during the X79 generation and EVGA having tons of issues upon their early X79 boards.
yep the main dude left, cant remember his name but asus i guess threw a ton of money at him to go there. oh wait i think shamino was his name.
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Re: x58 classified was sweet motherboard
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Re: x58 classified was sweet motherboard
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Re: x58 classified was sweet motherboard
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Wow that is quite a collection, I am currently running the E770, Are there any places to get ECPs or waterblocks for these from?
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Re: x58 classified was sweet motherboard
2018/12/29 00:03:16
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quadlatte
nikkocortez I had a collection of the old EVGA X58 classified boards. I have owned up to 7 of them at once and I agree that they were the best you could get for that gen. And from what I understood, after the SR-2 debuted a lot of the mobo design team from EVGA responsible for the X58 Classy's and SR-2 went to work for Asus... which would probably explain the rise of ASUS during the X79 generation and EVGA having tons of issues upon their early X79 boards.
yep the main dude left, cant remember his name but asus i guess threw a ton of money at him to go there. oh wait i think shamino was his name.
X58 was a rock solid platform. The BIOS/designer guy was Shansmi I think. :)
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Re: x58 classified was sweet motherboard
2019/01/13 11:04:28
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AWK16 I've been Asus customer for ages as far is their Motherboards choices, in fact my current board is from Asus but because of the 7 pcie slots and few other small features. Why EVGA quit making this types of boards like the x58 classified, they seem capable of doing it, I'm sure many Asus customers would switch if there where more alternatives.
Yes indeed, I missed mine.
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Re: x58 classified was sweet motherboard
2019/01/16 17:26:10
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I really enjoyed my Classified products. They did all die on me (not the x58), but that life time warranty is real.
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Re: x58 classified was sweet motherboard
2019/01/18 16:46:29
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Heh, I still have my X58 mobo (an Asus though), with a 580gtx in it. One of THE best boards (I think the whole X58 lineup, wether evga, asus, or whoever else) was THE most stable platform to come out, as stable as the Abit motherboards were (ahh, good old Abit, the true plug-n-play stability masters of the game).
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Re: x58 classified was sweet motherboard
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still using this board today 06/07/20 :)
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Re: x58 classified was sweet motherboard
2020/06/07 06:53:43
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heyndog still using this board today 06/07/20 :)
Great to hear. The X58 chipset was one of Intel's best in my personal opinion.
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Re: x58 classified was sweet motherboard
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My X58 MSI Big Bang XPower is still purring
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Re: x58 classified was sweet motherboard
2020/06/23 08:09:10
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i got ftw3 board works great went from a 930 to a 5650 just got my hand on an x5690 which is in now running great at 3x 8gb sticks of 1333. It works great for a back up pc and to run xplane second pc computations
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Re: x58 classified was sweet motherboard
2020/06/23 08:35:34
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ahh the X58's. Good times.
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Re: x58 classified was sweet motherboard
2020/06/23 10:29:09
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EVGATech_BrandonO ahh the X58's. Good times.
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Re: x58 classified was sweet motherboard
2020/06/23 11:31:35
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That first iCore gen was amazing. I loved my 930.
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Re: x58 classified was sweet motherboard
2020/06/23 13:35:30
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One of my early builds ~2009, back when everyone was obsessed with CPU batch numbers lol - X58, i7-920, GTX 285 SSC (x2 SLI), and that giant CoolerMaster V8 air cooler.. loved the look of that cooler.
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Re: x58 classified was sweet motherboard
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heyndog still using this board today 06/07/20 :)
Great to hear. The X58 chipset was one of Intel's best in my personal opinion.
Best boards for its time. Still got one in my 2nd rig and a back up board.
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