EVGA X79 Dark Motherboard Unboxing & First Look!

Updated: August 13, 2013

We’re back with an exciting unboxing and first look at the EVGA X79 Dark motherboard, which is their latest entry into the X79 platform.

Obviously, the X79 Dark is fully compatible with current LGA 2011 CPUs, but we have plans for a particular upcoming *wink* release, so keep your eyes peeled to the site for updates on that.

For now go ahead and kick back, relax and enjoy our unboxing and first look video which is embedded below. As always, let us know if you have any questions on this board down in the comments section.

Pricing & Availability

Specs

Memory

8 x 240-pin DIMM sockets

Maximum of 64GB of DDR3 2400MHz+

Storage I/O

6 x Serial ATA 300MB/sec (4x Internal + 2x E-SATA) with support for RAID 0, RAID1, RAID 0+1, RAID5, RAID10 and JBOD

6 x Serial ATA 600MB/sec (6x Internal) with support for RAID 0 and RAID1

Expansion Slot

5 x PCIe x16/x8, 1 x PCIe x4

Multi I/O

Audio connector (Line-in, Line-out, MIC)

Integrated Peripherals

8 Channel High Definition (Realtek ALC898)

2 x 10/100/1000 (Intel 82579/82574)

Form Factor

E-ATX Form Factor

Length: 12in – 304.8mm

Width: 10.375in – 263.5mm

josav09

I still check for possible parts for my pc, which i’ll have in about three years while i save
Thuan Duong

overprice ….
too much, probably wait 5 years and then this motherboard price will about $100!
- Derick Magnusen
  
  It’ll also be pointless in 5 years…
- http://zexks.blogspot.com/ Zexks
  
  It’ll be pointless in 5 years, once x99, Haswell E, and DDR4 take over.
Meatslab_lol

For how future proof this thing is I’d say it’s a good buy.
Arian Woldach

sweet Elric i wish i had the same job xD
cri8tive08

this would be a great prize i did everything needed to be done to be in it to win it
Dareem Blizzard

That board is pretty!
Sucks to be still working with AM2+
- Jonathan Cruz
  
  Damn! I thought I was the only one still stuck on AM3. xD
Josh Peet

Good to see Evga picking up there game again this year would like to see this compete with an Asus X79 board when Ivybridge-E arrives because you know asus is going to to have a board specially for the I-E chip.