EVGA P55 Classified 200

Zitat: EVGA has taken all of the best features of the P55 chipset and improved it for the ultimate tweaker. The P55 Classified 200 motherboard has six PCIE slots, which supports 3-way SLI with PhysX or CrossfireX and the addition of the NF200 bridge chip splits the bandwidth effectively among video cards. The overclocker will love all of the attention to detail EVGA brings to the table in the form of voltage control points and an onboard CPU temperature reader. The P55 chipset+NF200 combination is an awesome one for the person wanting a 875K+ Dual channel combination without paying the premium that a X58 motherboard+930 CPU would bring. EVGA has so many features on the board it definitely gets a Hot Product award from me.

Zitat: Good Things: + Totally sweet color scheme + Full ATX motherboard + True Triple SLI Support + Voltage test points + Show Volt onboard voltmeter + PCI Express Disable Jumpers + Removable motherboard heatsinks + Trim and tweakable motherboard Bad Things: - Classified design not for everyone - Show Volt has limited use beyond the test bench The Classified motherboard series is a great product line and offers amazing performance. However, as you may have noticed, these boards are not for everyone. Immediately you notice that instead of adding more features like additional RAID controllers, or PCI slots, they kept the board very trim focusing on performance. Some of the performance features include the NF200 chip located near the CPU socket which adds an additional 16x lanes of PCI Express bandwidth. These additional lanes are then distributed across the four red PCIe slots towards the bottom of the motherboard. In triple SLI configurations these will have 16x lanes with the topmost slot getting 8x lanes directly from the CPU. Many of the other features are designed primarily for overclocking and other enthusiast activities. The included ECP works great when tuning an overclock or for manually tweaking your voltage settings while a particular benchmark is running. It also helps when that pesky third video card is blocking the power and reset buttons that are located on the motherboard. Overclocking on the P55 Classified 200 was extremely fun and allowed us to push our Core i5 processor up to 4.3GHz with relative ease and ran stable throughout our entire testing process. Not to mention, posting some good 3DMark runs for our Ninjalane HWBot team.