Breaking the mold.
THERE’S SOMETHING SPECIAL about reviewing an EVGA motherboard. The reason is straightforward enough— these boards are always unique in their approach to how they do things. If you take a look at any other manufacturer, every motherboard layout and design follows an almost formulaic pattern. There’s not a whole lot of variance between any of them. We used to muse over how all hardware followed a very similar development pattern. No manufacturer was willing to break the mold in an attempt to make something different—they were all effectively just minor tweaks to a variant that sells, regardless of what the marketing bods try to pitch to you. With motherboards, yeah the heatsinks change, and some connectivity differs here and there, but on the whole, year in year out, the only noticeable difference is the not-so-subtle increase in price. It’s actually why we look for a lack of variance in our testing, rather than better performance, and consider that a good thing, not a negative, in the majority of our mobo reviews.
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