For anyone needing a lot of PCIe slots, check out this sneak peek of the Gygabyte X58A-UD9 motherboard! No mention if all those slots actually run at 16x.
Way sweet, but Xeons get seriously pricey. Besides, with 6 cores on a single CPU, you need to have a very specific task to saturate even more cores.
But 2x 4 core is cheaper than 1x 6 core.
For anyone needing a lot of PCIe slots, check out this sneak peek of the Gygabyte X58A-UD9 motherboard! No mention if all those slots actually run at 16x.
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lmao @article title
EVGA launches e-peen exploding Classified SR-2 motherboard
If I was going to build a dual CPU workstation again, I would only trust Intel, Supermicro and Tyan to get something rock solid. While Asus and Gigabyte have done dual socket boards for a while now, they have never held the communities trust in their implementations. How would EVGA break into the dual socket community and gain it's trust that they (EVGA) can provide a rock solid workstation board?
I had to look up folding. Do you mean folding@home? no!
My point is that it really isn't something so special that it is worth having to hand-modify a case. Theoretically, you don't need a case or can hand make/modify a case but the number of people that do that are very small. Then there is the fact that there are alternatives using standardized cases and the MB at $599. isn't any cheaper than those alternatives. So where's the market for such a motherboard? Requiring a customized case it just looks dumb to me. It's not as if EVGA is big enough to create a new case standard (HPTX) that they can push on people.
Just mount the board on the wall; screw the case. If you have that big an e-peen, you may as well flaunt it. It will make routing all the watercooling for the Fermi cards easier as well (you were planning on folding, no?)
Agreed. Other than a bit of flash, I'm not even sure what the EVGA board would get for you.The EVGA is a bit strange, as Supermicro can fit more on a normal EEB size boards.
Agreed. Other than a bit of flash, I'm not even sure what the EVGA board would get for you.
Might be an easy fit in a case designed for the extended ATX, or server class motherboards???
I don't want to see and hear a computer on the walls. What kind of walls do you have? Do you screw on the hard drives, too? It's rather crazy.
Agreed. Other than a bit of flash, I'm not even sure what the EVGA board would get for you.
HardOCP has a sneak peak of this board if anyone is interested.
The EVGA is a bit strange, as Supermicro can fit more on a normal EEB size boards. Case in point: http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/QPI/5500/X8DAH_-F.cfm
It also features 9x DIMM slots per CPU (for a total of 18x DIMM slots)...
Does anyone know if the Xeons support 3 DIMMs on a channel with standard, unbuffered, non-ECC RAM?
Or do you need special DIMMs to fill all the slots on that board?
That is an impressive board, but I don't know if I trust EVGA enough to pull it off well. That fan on the northbridge would have to go as well.