Oh look, another EVGA board...

[Chumbucket843]

x58 chipset supports 24GB of ram max.

[s0lid]

x58 chipset supports 24GB of ram max.

Not true, since the memory controller is not in the X58, but in the CPU. The reason why 24GB is max on many X58 board is that Over 4GB memory stick are rare and cost like hell, even tho 4GB memory sticks are also expensive.

There are couple Dual LGA1366 server boards which support up to 144GB of DDR3, but 96GB is usually max on server boards.

[alfaunits]

Per system. Check manual/QVL of ANY 55x0 chipset board.
Note that boards with 12 slots might actually work with 48GB of non-ECC RAM, but you will not find it on any QVL. And possibly the BIOS might intentionally not allow it.

24GB per IMC or per system? Any docmentation to support that?

--Matt

[saaya]

guys, guys, thats whats officially supported... im sure you can use more than 24gb even on a single cpu 1366 server board that has the required mem slots for it.

oh and some here said it is equipped with dual x58, im not too sure about that.
its possible to use a single x58 ioh for 2 cpus, and more than that, its even possible to do this with cpus that only have 1 qpi link!
whether intel supports it and allows it is another thing... but in theory you could actually plug in two 920s into a dual qpi link x58 equipped board.
there would be no direct cpu to cpu qpi link, but so what? yorkfield doesnt have a direct link from cpu to cpu and talks through the chipset and it performs amazingly well...

[SAE]

lol... saw that sneak peek on twitter. Great board... but what's it gonna be?! Enhanced XXL-ATX?

[Raja@ASUS]

It's big...

[SAE]

I'va gotta do a "house upgrade", huh?!

[Raja@ASUS]

I'va gotta do a "house upgrade", huh?!

Yeah, get rid of the Pool table.. J/K

Sham loves big boards.

I don't mean these ones either -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sideburns

[alfaunits]

guys, guys, thats whats officially supported... im sure you can use more than 24gb even on a single cpu 1366 server board that has the required mem slots for it.

Agreed and already said

[s0lid]

Found this from local forums!



No idea about source.

[mattkosem]

wow! 3x 6-pin and 2x 8-pin. :-) Is that 2x NF200 by the PCI-E?

--Matt

[Jamesrt2004]

so it appears to be eatx?

[Origin_Unknown]

wow! 3x 6-pin and 2x 8-pin. :-) Is that 2x NF200 by the PCI-E?

--Matt

thats what i was going to say

[SAE]

Q.: Will this fit my mATX case?!
A.: No!!! You have to get you a case with a mobo tray of 1m² at least!

The power supply has to be built for that one.

P.S. Size DOES matter!

[alfaunits]

That's def. EATX.
WTF is the 6pin connector for??

[SAE]

Have a look here...

http://www.evga.com/articles/00501/

it has to be E-XL-ATX...

[Serra]

Thanks for the full mobo shot! Assuming it's not a chop, this is my wet dream. It looks to have about every feature EVGA has ever thrown at a board and it's all color-coded. It looks like it was designed to do nothing but break WR's.

But the big question is:
Why does it have an IDE connector? This is definitely the most advanced enthusiast board yet created, I think we can cut it out. No-one spends that much on just a board and processors and doesn't have a SATA optical drive these days or $25 to spend on one. Plus removing it would have allowed the SATA ports to be side-mounted instead.

[zalbard]

Whoa, 2x 8-pin and 3x 6-pin connectors... Teh Powerz... are corrupting me!

[Frank M]

Intimidating...
I'm sure it will soon leave it's mark on WR lists

[alfaunits]

UR right. The spacing between the most upper PCI-e slot and the audio jacks is about identical to the XL-ATX mobo in that article.

Have a look here...

http://www.evga.com/articles/00501/

it has to be E-XL-ATX...

[Blacky]

The board must be bigger than a normal EATX to place SATA's like that, I was wondering about that 8pin + 6pin combo too, maybe the PSU that it was or is in development from EVGA is being design for this mobo & 4-way mobo in mind? I know this is the higher enthusiast board we ever see for a long time until X68 comes out (assumption) but I'm starting to hate EVGA size adoption

[SAE]

You can extract the following from the discussion above:

- the board has the same length as the 4-way, but is wider by a fair bit. That's why I called it Enhanced (CF E759/60) XL-ATX (E762)...

The size of actual highend boards is really ridiculous. It forces (potential) buyers to get a case out of very few appropriate ones. Maybe that is intended to push the case market (cases which only sell bad *gg* or developement of new ones) to fight the financial crysis

[[XC] gomeler]

Wow, I wanted one before but after seeing the full shot I REALLY want one. Not sure if I can afford the CPUs to make it worthwhile to bench though. Best looking dual-socket board ever.

[Olivon]

A real, real beast. Impressive

Thx s0lid for the picture

[Blacky]

You can extract the following from the discussion above:

- the board has the same length as the 4-way, but is wider by a fair bit. That's why I called it Enhanced (CF E759/60) XL-ATX (E762)...

The size of actual highend boards is really ridiculous. It forces (potential) buyers to get a case out of very few appropriate ones. Maybe that is intended to push the case market (cases which only sell bad *gg* or developement of new ones) to fight the financial crysis

I agree on the sizes, but pushing the market for bigger cases for these kind of "special" products probably won't happen, since eventually everything will get smaller and a massive case like that would cost a LOT of $$ which could be hard to sell due current economy state, EVGA should make their own case for these kind of enthusiast products