Oh look, another EVGA board...

[Jaco]

Far as i know that board WILL OC, and way better than normal server/workstation boards. They stop at 136.8BCLK

I guess EVGA fixed the BCLK limit other server/workstation boards have.

[LardArse]

oh, theres that friendly neighbourhood plug-in again there....

[massman]

Whoah ... that's going to be insanely sick

[cowie]

Dual Gulftown Goodness , Shaminos work of art i can already tell , monster board

oh yeah they are very lucky to have him on there staff its for the good of all overclockers...but duel socket boards are not for me if they oc even half as well as the classies theres alot of guys that will be very happy
doh evebot action too?

[saaya]

cool, the dc guys will go nuts over this
im a bit surprised as well though... there arent many benchmarks that use more than 4 threads, let alone games... 24 threads... hmmm
this would be a sweet game developer platform or video processing workstation... those guys can never have enough cpu power and bw...

24 nehalem threads @4.5ghz+... this thing should be about as fast if not faster than lrb
now if only there were raytracing games... this system could def play them... and you wouldnt need a 3d vga, an old 2d pci vga would be enough... as long as the board has a pci slot

[Expat GriZ]

Have 759 & 762. 659 ordered, evbot in the mail. Now this one.....haven't bought any other boards that eVGA lately. RE III where are U?? Which procs are you using for testing Sham?? 2 5580's or 90's are big bickies...

[sholvaco]

Would I be wrong in guessing this also provides mad I/O throughput via dual IOH?

The question in that case would be: are they bonkers enough to prop it with four NF200 for 8 way x16 action.

[lutjens]

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....want one.....BAD!!!

Please....please have dual IOHs....please?

Hope these boards show up soon...although they'll probably be launched to complement Westmere-EP. Hey EVGA....need a beta tester?? My W5580s would love to stretch their legs...

Who the hell needs 24 cores(including HT of course) and 4 GPU's?

I'll pretend I didn't see this...although you might not get off so easily with the other denizens of this site...

[Blacky]

I hope it supports current chips not just xeon stuff (like skulltrail did) looking forward for more!

[s0lid]

I hope it supports current chips not just xeon stuff (like skulltrail did) looking forward for more!

It won't, normal single qpi cpus don't work with x58"-d" chipset.

[Boogerlad]

oh, theres that friendly neighbourhood plug-in again there....

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What's it for? linking multiple boards together?

[sholvaco]

^
It's for use with one of these. Basically spells out: overclocking friendly out of the box.

[Russian]

oh, theres that friendly neighbourhood plug-in again there....

Peter, you tease...

[quake6]

Tease more, please

[C3]

Should be the EVBot connector

[Wiggy McShades]

im buying one if you can use non 1000 dollar cpu's and still overclock with it. although i fear the price will be 600.

[Chris_redfield]

I'd imagine at the lower end you'd still be able to use the E5520 CPU's. But even they cost £290 each and if you are going to be spending so much money you may as well go the whole hog. It seems silly to spoil the ship for a ha'porth of tar. I'm in saving mode right now for this monster and can't wait.

Thank you very much Shamino and co over at EVGA for creating such a monster!

[Mechromancer]

Who the hell needs 24 cores(including HT of course) and 4 GPU's?

If you are serious about Folding@Home then you NEED 24 threads and room for 4 or more GPUs. With BigAdv WUs, you could put out 150,000PPD with such a machine.

[Chumbucket843]

if you ran bigadv with 24 threads it would use a LOT of ram and you would need registered dimms to keep from destroying your memory controller. i am already using about 5.8GB on my system with 8 threads.

[H2O]

Off of Jacob_F's twitter:

Yes, it is a Classified model And all the features one would expect on a Classified

Bah, and I got my Classified but a week ago. Although, this is major overkill unless you do some serious F@H or photo/video encoding and editing.

[lowfat]

If you are serious about Folding@Home then you NEED 24 threads and room for 4 or more GPUs. With BigAdv WUs, you could put out 150,000PPD with such a machine.

Except you could build two separate machines for cheaper and be able to get higher overclocks and higher PPD.

if you ran bigadv with 24 threads it would use a LOT of ram and you would need registered dimms to keep from destroying your memory controller. i am already using about 5.8GB on my system with 8 threads.

You don't NEED to use that much ram. I have mine set to 3600MB and I am still cranking out 36k PPD w/ just the bigadv client.

[metachronos]

Hahaha evga is nuts, they just don't stop. C'mon asus where's the RE III?

[LarsMarkelson]

E5520 for $384.99

^ Cheapest Nehalem Xeon that has hyper-threading

So $770 for the CPUs, then whatever else the mobo is. Hopefully you can use cheapo DDR3 RAM too. It'd be very interesting to see how well the E5520 overclocks, from a quick google check I don't think anyone has been able to OC it yet.

[Macadamia]

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shame on everyone else for not even trying (inc. AMD's side)

[karbonkid]

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shame on everyone else for not even trying (esp. AMD's side)

There, fixed that for you