Should be possible - it's as if you ran a DP board with one socket empty.
So lets say you try to max this board out with CPU's, Video Cards, Storage devices, etc. How are you supposed to be able to power all of that. Don't you actually run into an issue drawing too much current from the wall? Even if the power supply is rated high enough to run it?
thats where using 20A breakers (if you're north american) comes in handy, or powering using seperate circuits (you'd probably have to use seperate power supplies to power a fully loaded behemoth)
normal household circuits use 15A...IIRC maximum rated power supplies for north american use is 1500W
with this motherboard must be peace of cake beating almost any WR :D
Oregon bud. I had a two separate 15a circuits installed in my home office because my Jagermeister tap machine flipped the breaker whenever I fired it up if my (then) gaming rig was on . . .a Skulltrail rig with Silverstone Zeus 1200 watt PSU and 60" DLP for my monitor.
http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/860...5587aa9.th.jpg
:up::up::up::up::up:
eww yager ;P
yes..its an intentional misspelling
EVGA: pleeease PLEEEEEEEASE bring out a version WITHOUT nf200 - PLEEEEEEEEEEEASE.. lets face it, this board is targeted @ small market segment, its niche. I'm willing to bet ~90% of the 'ground work' is already done - there are many of us out there (myself included) who have no NEED for benching etc & thus no NEED for *any nf200 on mobo.. replace it with another X58 or tylersburg(?) chipset.. basically.. there are some of us who no longer game/bench but want a 'server' mobo with OC capabilities. This mobo is a whisker shy of perfection in regards to that, so PLEEEEASE PLEEEEEEASE make a version without nf200 (I'd insert a begging emoticon here but there is none)
please? :D :up:
btw, if u do, I promise I'll buy one ;) :D :yepp:
I still game but dont care for nf200. Tired of SLI/X-Fire.
Saw this baby live. It's a large pizza of awesomesauce.
x58 is the exact same piece of silicon as the xenon 5520 chipset this is using (Tylersburg), just fused differently so that 1 of the QPI links on the chipset is disabled. If anything, the NF200 chip probably uses less power then the chipset does as its only really doing 1 thing.
I agree completely, I want this board, but I will only be using 1 or 2 cards and don't want to pay for useless heat generation that i'm not using.
They told me sometime between March and April. :D
EVGA unveils its dual-socket 270-GT-W555 beast motherboard
Same reason people are :banana::banana::banana::banana::banana:ing about little crap like IDE port and sata placement when we know the real use for this board is for benchers. :shrug: I really can't believe some of the speculation and :banana::banana::banana::banana::banana:ing that is going on about this board. Especially when 99% of the people :banana::banana::banana::banana::banana:ing aren't even gonna consider buying this board.
Actually I think in addition to benchers, people who do a lot of encoding (like for video editing or 3D work) will definitely be interested in this board. The ability to overclock dual quad cores with HT (or even hexa cores with HT) is insanely awesome for heavy encoders. Not only does it give the fastest solution but it also provides it at a relatively low cost due to the overclocking features.
That would be me then.
I was about to buy a macpro for rendering, but now ive seen this, it looks like much more fun and will be top of my list.
Might even be worth getting a mac mini and using this for a network node. It will be most fun watching peeps scratching their heads as it spits out 100fps from this little white box with a gbit pigtail.. :yepp: :D
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so is there a list i need to get on to buy one of these mobos? im guessing it will be an evga exclusive.
price is going to be around $700 right?
Did anybody measure the board or were any dimensions released?
Just curious.
/me takes sawzall to full tower case
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:
Wonder if it will fit in a TJ07?
I wonder if this will fit in my gf.
That's disgusting.
While I'm a large fan of the concept of dual overclockable CPUs, I personally find EVGAs implementation of it to be wanting in a few areas. The NF200 chips are major flaw (IMHO) that could easily have been rectified with dual 5520s. The fact that dual 5520s weren't used reeks of NVidia coercement, with the threat of withholding SLI support. unless the NF200 chips were used. Current workstation boards on the market that use dual 5520 IOHs have 4 genuine x16 PCI-E slots, and are more than capable of handling any amount of video card I/O, the only problem is NVidia's obstinacy in permitting SLI. NVidia's NF200 chips may not bother some people, but they have proven to be an annoyance with at least one of my pieces of hardware, the Adaptec 52445, which considered the x16 PCI-E slot provided to it by the NF100 chip (on my Skulltrail rig) to be not at least x8, not to mention the fact that the NF chips run incredibly hot. Bottom line...the NF chips are a vastly inferior solution to the issue of insufficient PCI-E lanes than are dual 5520 chipsets, and are a solution that introduces the potential for significant issues with hardware.
Moving on, the six memory slots are nice, as they can be forced to 1333, unlike most current workstation boards. I'm wondering about all the 6 pin connectors on the board. Two EPS 8 pin connectors aren't enough? They should be and likely are...it seems more likely though that either one of the two (the 6 pin of the 8 pin) will be needed to be used to accomodate those folks whose power supplies lack dual EPS connectors, but have a surplus 6 pin or two.
The non-adherance to the E-ATX specification is also something that's not in this board's favor. Precious few cases on the market will be able to hold this board, and even my capacious case will have a tough time accepting this board.
Will it support ECC ram as well as enable and process error correction?
Searching has been fruitless.
Even tho the CPUs are capable of handling ECC ram, I suppose ECC support isn't very high up on evga's priority list right now. OC before stability :S
Here comes one for you, XS style ready.
http://img51.imageshack.us/img51/2497/img0231d.jpg
Here's a new render of my case design. It now has 10 PCI slots and as you can see, the dual socket board fits in there nicely. :D
http://i277.photobucket.com/albums/k...A-x2CPU-02.jpg
Zomg, my pants they are ruined.
that is just the most awesome thing I have ever seen
build it or you will be killed and your renders will be stolen :P
What's the ETA on this EVGA?
I am ready for this board to replace my Rampge II Extreme.
Now all I need to do is get another Corsair HX1000 PSU.
haha wow, nice work mick, if you ever can get that case made i will gladly buy one, i love my MM case buts its just to damn bulky, yours fits a watercoolers dream and still is standard case design. seriouds kudos to you and your amazing engineering skills.
Is anyone benching this yet? I'm curious about the power setup.
Now, I don't feel stupid qualifying Mick64's renders as g33k pr0n
OMG mick, thats beautiful.
Been a while since I first read about this, has there been anymore news on it, must be getting close to a release date?
that is one beautiful thing :up:.
:slobber:
Nice Render!
Now that, right there, Mick, that is gonna be worth a photoshoot with lighting and DSLR and silly watermarks across the photos. But yeah, is it actually gonna materialize?
Now what I'd want to know about this board is wether it has a 32 or 64bit BIOS, meaning could you populate all 7 PCIe slots with dual GPU cards or would you run into the very same issues that FASTRAII had (running a 7-slot Asus board)?!
So, this is skulltrail all over again?