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EVGA X299 Motherboards: DARK, Micro, & FTW K Power Design and Specs
Following our in-depth first-look coverage of the EVGA GTX 1080 Ti Kingpin card, we now turn to the company’s upcoming motherboard releases in the X299 family. This coincides with Intel’s Kaby Lake X...
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EVGA DG-73, 75, & 76 Cases, Z10 Keyboard, SC15 Laptop | Computex
We attended EVGA’s Press Day in Taipei before the start of Computex, where we tore down the new Kingpin 1080 Ti card and spoke with engineering staff about power design. EVGA showcased a number of...
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Best Gaming PC Cases of Computex 2017
This year’s Computex featured the usual mix of concept and prototype cases, some of which will never make it to market (or some which will be several thousand dollars, like the WinBot). We particularly...
View ArticleEVGA 1080 Ti SC2 Hybrid Review | Thermal & Noise Analysis
Although it may feel like one GTX 1080 Ti isn’t too different from the next, that’s only “true” when comparing the least meaningful metric: Framerate. Once we’ve established a baseline framerate for...
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EVGA DG-77 White Case Hands-On at PAX West
EVGA’s booth was among the few hardware exhibitors carrying new product at PAX West. The company’s DG-7 series is finally nearing completion, now going on a year of press coverage, and has one final...
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EVGA GTX 1080 Ti FTW3 Hybrid Tear-Down
Taking apart EVGA's GTX 1080 Ti FTW3 Hybrid isn't too different from the process for all the company's other cards: Two types of Phillips head screws are used in abundance for the backplate, the...
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HW News: Coffee Lake Price/Availability, EVGA Z370 Boards, USB 3.2
This week's hardware news recap includes some follow-up discussion from our Intel i7-8700K review, primarily focused on addressing incorrect references of thermal testing cross-review/cross-reviewer....
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EVGA CLC 240 Review: Competing with the H100i V2
There aren’t many ways for cooling manufacturers to differentiate atop of a supplier’s product, like the Asetek Gen5 pumps, but you’d be surprised at how much goes into them behind the scenes. NZXT was...
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Awards: Best 1080 Tis of 2017 (ASUS vs. EVGA, MSI & More)
Having gone over the best CPUs, cases, some motherboards, and soon coolers, we’re now looking at the best GTX 1080 Tis of the year. Contrary to popular belief, the model of cooler does actually matter...
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EVGA X299 DARK Motherboard Thermal Review: Someone Finally Gets It
Recapping our previous X299 VRM thermal coverage, we found the ASUS X299 Rampage Extreme motherboard to operate against its throttle point when pushing higher overclocks (>4GHz) on the i9-7980XE...
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Liquid Nitrogen in a Closed Loop Hybrid Cooler | EVGA Roboclocker at Computex
At EVGA’s headquarters in New Taipei City, Taiwan, GamersNexus received a hands-on overview of the company’s new semi-closed loop liquid nitrogen cooling setup. The setup was created by K|NGP|N and...
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EVGA BIOS to Include Built-In Stress Test
We visited EVGA’s suite for a look at the new OC Robot and built-in BIOS stress testing update for the X299 Dark motherboards. For the new X299 Micro 2 motherboard, we also learned the following of the...
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HW News - New AMD Multi-GPU Tech, EVGA iCX Mislabeling
We're ramping into GPU testing hard this week, with many tests and plans in the pipe for the impending and now-obvious RTX launch. As we ramp those tests, and continue publishing our various liquid...
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EVGA RTX 2070 Black Review vs. GTX 970, 1070, Vega 64, & More (Overclocking,...
After the post-apocalyptic hellscape that was the RTX 2080 launch, NVIDIA is following it up with lessons learned for the RTX 2070 launch. By and large, technical media took issue with the 2080’s price...
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Optimized vs. Cheating: Z390 Motherboard BCLK Comparison
We previously deep-dived on MCE (Multi-Core Enhancement) practices with the 8700K, revealing the performance variance that can occur when motherboard makers “cheat” results by boosting CPUs out of...
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NVIDIA's Secret GPU: TU106-400A vs. TU106-400 Benchmark (2070 XC Ultra Review)
EVGA’s RTX 2070 XC Ultra gave us an opportunity to compare the differences between NVIDIA’s varied RTX 2070 SKUs, including a low-end TU106-400 and a higher-end TU106-400A. The difference between...
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EVGA GTX 1660 Review vs. GTX 1660 Ti, RX 590, & More
We’re still in China for our factory and lab tours, but we managed to coordinate with home base to get enough testing on the GTX 1660 done that a review became possible. Patrick ran the tests this...
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HW News - AMD AGESA 1003ABA Bugs, Arcturus GPU, & Intel Rumors for October
Hardware news for this week is a bit sluggish, with Amazon’s Prime Day -- and the ensuing unrepentant consumerism -- seeming to occupy more than its share of headlines this week. Still, we’ve curated...
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EVGA CLC 360 Liquid Cooler Review: Noise-Normalized Thermals & More
In a world of tempered glass, LEDs, and gimmicks, it’s pretty rare that we come across a fully spartan product that focuses on performance. EVGA has filled that market segment with its DARK series...
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