EVGA Introduces Z68 Series Motherboards

Hardware manufacturer EVGA introduced its series of Z68 motherboards a few months later than most other manufacturers. The company has released four motherboards with the Z68 chipset; one of them has the matx format.

The largest board is the Z68 FTW and is cast in an eatx format. The black and red motherboard is equipped with an lga1155 socket, four memory slots and two gigabit network ports. There are a total of ten USB 2.0 ports and four USB 3.0 ports available, of which four and two ports are headers respectively. Six SATA-300, two SATA-600 and two eSATA ports are available.

The Z68 SLI board is standard ATX format and features a single PCI Express x16 slot, a PCI Express x8 slot, one x4 and three x1 slots. There are also three SATA 300 and two SATA 600 ports, as well as ten USB 2.0 and two USB 3.0 ports. Four of the ten USB 2.0 ports are headers.

The smallest board, the Z68 SLI Micro, is in the matx format and offers space for only two pci-express x8 slots and two x1 slots. There are twelve USB 2.0 ports, four of which are headers, and two USB 3.0 ports. Hard disks are connected to the four SATA 300 or two SATA 600 ports.

The eatx board is in one regular version and in a version with EVGauge and ECP V4 overclocking tools. The regular version costs 245 euros, while the extended version costs 280 euros. The SLI version costs 190 and the small matx variant 130 euros.