I'm thinking it's a hybrid, and can be mounted on the same tray as an XL-ATX board...but I'm just guessing by looking at the mounting holes.
Damn if that's true, from Lian Li, only PC-A77 and PC-P80 will be able to host it (390mm clearance).
Hmmmm, I'd love to get one of these boards ... but will it fit in my Coolermast Cosmos 1000 case???
Only tough decision for me is the EVGA board or the Asus board. Leaning towards EVGA.
I'll be buying three of those four come April. Will need a lot of friendly advice from the folks at xtremesystems.org to make everything work properly though.... so please be kind, when I'm asking for help and advice, it's cause I need it, not cause I'm trying to say "look at all my cool hardware" or something stupid like that.
Will the EVGA board run Windows 7 if both sockets are occupied with Xeon chips, or would I have to buy some kind of Windows Server OS?
Well ok not three out of the four above, I would potentially be buying a pair of 32nm Gulftown Xeon cpus to go with the EVGA board, would only do the i7 980X if I went with the Asus board.
ITS RETARDED
What cases are certified for this motherboard then? Can somebody tell me at least a couple to see if I will need $500 just for a case?
waawaawaa :p:
I reckon there will be a subsection here @ XS for this mobo & under that subsection will be a thread dedicated to the cases that house this behemoth - & I'm gonna bet most will be hand made from scratch.. that or *heavily modified LARGE cases like CM stackers, LL V2xxx & MoMo etc :up:
rackmounts http://smiliesftw.com/x/kekekegay.gif
Besides that I don't know if there are any out there.
That thing is spectacular!!! And for only ~ 500 dollars, it is a steal, in my opinion.
1600 will get you an insane folding rig...1600 dollars for two i7-920's and the DP EVGA classified plus 300 or so for cooling loop, a cheap gpu, two 800 W psus.
Imagine the bigadv ppd... If it scales well, probably in excess of 50k at 4.0 ghz :D (that is where you will need a chunk of ram, 16gb for 16 cores on -bigadv -smp 16
:D
The price of it will be astronomical here in Spain, given the E762 is tagged at 450€ (~$650), I can't imagine this monster under 500€ (~$700)
not bad on air with just 20x multi:
http://i.imagehost.org/0309/20x.jpg
hexa cores?
Well I have an 18 month old daughter who is very inquisitive. I'm not about to let her hurt herself (or my hardware) by poking around on an exposed system. Which would for sure happen if I didn't have a case around it to protect from little fingers. So I need a case.
Lucky me though, I'm in the market for a new case, so I can pick one that can hold this motherboard.
I'm thinking about adding a couple more PCI slots to my case design for the EVGA XL-ATX, this board would have plenty of room in there. :p:
http://i277.photobucket.com/albums/k...II-EVGA-01.jpg
http://i277.photobucket.com/albums/k...II-EVGA-03.jpg
http://i277.photobucket.com/albums/k...64/Case-11.gif
I know it's not real, but haven't given up, and things are happening that may make it a reality......:yepp: