FRONTPAGE EVGA Z87 Classified Motherboard Review

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Since the Haswell release, which feels like many moons ago now, we have reviewed several Z87 based boards. Up for torture today is a larger, high-end board, the EVGA Z87 Classified. This board is made to do anything from sit there and look pretty, which it does well I may add, to the ability to handle the extreme cold of Liquid Nitrogen overclocking. Read on to see some of what EVGA has done to their flagship Z87 board!

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• Feb 6, 2014

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Thanks for the review before I go to sleep ED! (11 p.m here) Great job

 

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• Feb 8, 2014

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awesome ! last time i checked this site was 3 months ago!!!! awesome reviews btw!!!!

 

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Great review as I am considering this board for a new build. However, you might want to review the "a closer look" section as there are 5 PCI 16x and no legacy PCI slot.

 

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gvguy, I see 4x PCIe X16, 1x PCIe X1 and 1x PCI.

 

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Where is the PCI slot?? the bottom slot is a PCIe 16, hence the board can support 4way sli/crossfire.

 

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here

http://www.hardwareasylum.com/reviews/motherboards/evga_z87_classified/page6.aspx

 

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I think gvguy is correct. There is a total of five PCI-E slots on the board. I'll ask Joe to double check and make any corrections if needed. It's confusing looking because I don't see a lock at the tail end of that bottom-most slot.

 

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• Feb 9, 2014

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Based on the pics in the review, gvguy is right. A legacy PCI slot has the short pin section after the long pin section. I think people are getting confused because that PCI-E slot doesn't have a holder tab at the end of it.

 

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• Feb 10, 2014

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Great catch guys... not sure how I missed that, but it is updated.

 

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• Feb 14, 2014

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I just wanted to update the thread/article and note that if you see your ram bandwidth low, look into manipulating your tertiary memory timings. I am not sure if it was my kit only (Kingston Hyper X Predator 2666MHz) that was the problem... though I doubt it as their scores on other boards were just fine.

EVGA will get back to me on if everyone will need to do this or if a future bios update will resolve it.