<p itxtvisited="1"><font size="2">There are numerous changes occurring around the lab in how we review product. Put simply, a return to the basics is the mantra for the motherboard team in 2009. We discussed some of these changes in our first X58&nbsp;roundup. In fact, our first retail experience reviews will be published next week. As we discovered during the new review process, testing every single hardware or software feature on a board with several dozen top selling components in various combination's has proven to be a bit time consuming. But we think the efforts are worth it and will expand this type of testing as we progress through 2009. More on the details next week.</font></p> <p itxtvisited="1"><font size="2">In the meantime, we will also provide quarterly updates on some of the products we review during the year to see if the manufacturer has addressed any potential problems, improved performance/stability/compatibility, and customer service aspects related to the product. Our goal here is to provide an ownership experience summary and to see which suppliers just talk the talk or those willing to walk the walk when it comes to product support. </font></p> <p itxtvisited="1"><font size="2">We sometimes forget one of the most important aspects when it comes to purchasing a product is customer service, technical support, and warranty procedures when that shiny new trinket arrives in the lab. Well, no more, and expect us to call out a few suppliers in the coming weeks when it comes to overall support of a product. I know of one that already has me mad as hell from a consumer viewpoint, but that is a discussion for another day.</font></p> <p itxtvisited="1"><strong itxtvisited="1"><font size="2">EVGA X58 SLI - Return to Greatness</font></strong></p> <p itxtvisited="1"><font size="2">This is our third and final look at the EVGA X58 SLI motherboard. Put simply, in the first set of X58 boards that we received, this was the one board that intrigued us most. After a history of releasing motherboards based on <nobr style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 100%">NVIDIA </nobr>&nbsp;chipsets only, this was their first Intel offering. Not only that, but a fairly new team was assembled to design and manufacture this board.<br /> <br /> <a href="http://www.anandtech.com/weblog/showpost.aspx?i=538">Read more...</a></font></p>