Announcing EVGA X58 FTW3!

In another revision eVGA is preparing to release a new high-end socket LGA1366 motherboard building on its *** (for the win) moniker, the X58 FTW3, carrying the EVGA SKU code of 132-GT-E768-KR. The new motherboard was spotted on the North American online retailer NCIX.com, where it was listed for US $342.39 and CA $319.99, before EVGA even launched the product or gave it a product page on the company website.

The 132-GT-E768-KR is a standard ATX motherboard. The CPU is powered by an 8-phase standard VRM, it is wired to six DDR3 slots for triple-channel memory support. The X58 chipset is cooled by a larger than usual heatsink, which slants towards the socket to give clearance to large CPU coolers.

The X58 and ICH10R stick to the specifications, with no additional bridge chip. Expansion slots include three PCI-Express 2.0 x16 (x16, x8, x8 when all three are populated, x16, x16, NC when the first two are), supporting 3-way SLI, 2-way SLI, and ATI CrossFireX. Connectivity includes two SATA 6 Gb/s and six 3 Gb/s ports, two gigabit Ethernet controllers, 8 channel audio, two USB 3.0 and 8 USB 2.0 ports, and support for the EVBot OC module.

EVGA should officially introduce this board soon liky at Computex, we'll try an snag some photo during Guru3Ds visit to them [via TPU].

Looks ace, doubt I'd be able to afford it but we'll wait and see.

Does look quite nice, I am glad that someone has gone with an all black look at last too. Not too bad a price either, if it is any good that is. Only thing I would say is that top heatsink near the MOSFET area looks really cheap and flimsy, a shame when the rest of it looks really nice.

What is with that massive heatsink?? I suppose its good for overclocking, i guess this is the time, the next 2 weeks will see the last set of motherboards come out for the X58 chipset, they are probably going to get on with the next series of Intel chipsets.

The people buying this are more likely to be running SLI/Xfire why on would you not have made PCIE 1 & 3 x16/x16

Looks like a revision off the x58 sli le with sata3 and usb3 and 16x by 16x support with its all black & grey design looks ace though with that beasty cooler

BigBruiserAl said:

The people buying this are more likely to be running SLI/Xfire why on would you not have made PCIE 1 & 3 x16/x16

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Totally agree with you seems a bit stupid.

One of the reasons i bought a classified as that runs slots 1 + 3 @16x so my 5870's have plenty of space between them.