EVGA SR2-It is here and OH MY GOD is it a thing of beauty!

[artemm]

And I have access to a cherry-picked 5970 that would assist in the 3D benchmark apocalypse dept... if you're interested

[s0lid]

So, this is it. BP-6 reborn

Turned up to 11

Well not really, if they brought BP-6 to current time we'd be running i5's in dual socket mode
BP-6 allowed to run Celerons ins SMP setting

[Movieman]

SR-2? Somebody at evga loves Mass Effect too much

I like the name.. I'd suggested "Movieman's Dream" because to be 100% honest, it is..
Been waiting 5 years for someone to make an overclockable dualie and God Bless them, EVGA stepped up to the plate.
the timing is perfect also as the 6 core Westmere's in this board will be absolutely huge for almost anything you can think of.
Want a rendering machine and can't afford a $1,000,000.00 Supercomputer?
This will fill the need nicely.
Like to Fold? Here's the board.
WCG like I do? I think this will be the first 100,000PPD machine.
It has so many possibilities that it's scary.

[Sam_oslo]

It can serve as a great 3D-render station, for sure. But put a couple of server-grade NIC into this MB, then the 12c/24t @4.6GHz can serve as a great enterprise server for many middle-size companies.
It has redundant CPU which is really impotent for reliability. Add a redundant RAID storage system, and a redundant power supply to it (both comes relatively cheap), and you will get pretty close to a mission critical server, with much more reliability than a single CPU system.

[Fitseries3]

these guys could probably make good use of it... http://fastra2.ua.ac.be/

[Spoiler]

Well not really, if they brought BP-6 to current time we'd be running i5's in dual socket mode
BP-6 allowed to run Celerons ins SMP setting

This is why I hope this board is a full success. -that someone might to decide to make another board capable of running multiple cheap CPU's and OC'ing them.

In comparison, I bet this SR-2 board alone will cost more than my first entire BP-6 computer!

[poke349]

I like the name.. I'd suggested "Movieman's Dream" because to be 100% honest, it is..
Been waiting 5 years for someone to make an overclockable dualie and God Bless them, EVGA stepped up to the plate.
the timing is perfect also as the 6 core Westmere's in this board will be absolutely huge for almost anything you can think of.
Want a rendering machine and can't afford a $1,000,000.00 Supercomputer?
This will fill the need nicely.
Like to Fold? Here's the board.
WCG like I do? I think this will be the first 100,000PPD machine.
It has so many possibilities that it's scary.

If they can make space for 6 more ram slots, then it'd me my dream computer too...

[Movieman]

If they can make space for 6 more ram slots, then it'd me my dream computer too...

Supermicro has exactly what you want..

[poke349]

Supermicro has exactly what you want..

Not OCable. (At least I don't think so.)

Not gonna matter now anyways... Come Ivy Bridge or Bulldozer... Then I'll start talking...

[Movieman]

Not OCable. (At least I don't think so.)

Not gonna matter now anyways... Come Ivy Bridge or Bulldozer... Then I'll start talking...

never wait, or you never have the best, your always waiting for whats coming..

[poke349]

never wait, or you never have the best, your always waiting for whats coming..

Yes, the performance side will always be steady increasing so it doesn't matter when to buy... But the feature set isn't.

The sole reason I'm specifically waiting for that gen are the AVX and FMA instruction sets. Those will make a HUGE difference on the programming side.

You don't get radical improvements like that in every generation.
(Of course nobody else will care since none of the major benchmarks use new features anyway...)


EDIT:

If I can use AVX and FMA well enough, then I'll show you more than 2x improvement between adjacent generations...
(That's assuming Intel and AMD implement "true" 256-bit vector units... which I kinda doubt they will on the first gen with the feature set...)

EDIT 2: I'm being a little too optimistic, but you get the idea.

[anubis]

Well not really, if they brought BP-6 to current time we'd be running i5's in dual socket mode
BP-6 allowed to run Celerons ins SMP setting

Yes, that i know. Had me one of these
What I meant was, taking stuff and making it do things it wasnt supposed to (xeons and OC) in intels book. And its meant for the little guy (whos all grown up now/ got money to spend).

[Movieman]

Yes, that i know. Had me one of these
What I meant was, taking stuff and making it do things it wasnt supposed to (xeons and OC) in intels book. And its meant for the little guy (whos all grown up now/ got money to spend).

Does that mean that if I tossed a couple pots on this board and ran it up to say 6500mhz that Intel security would come and kill me?

[Otis11]

Does that mean that if I tossed a couple pots on this board and ran it up to say 6500mhz that Intel security would come and kill me?

Actually according to Intel here, 6Ghz isn't out of sight for 24/7 as it sounds...

[anubis]

Probably..or a lot of guys who take their WRs seriously would get heart attacks simultaneously

[Movieman]

Probably..or a lot of guys who take their WRs seriously would get heart attacks simultaneously

I think a few of them are going to hate me shortly..or at least until they get their W555 boards!

[Otis11]

Well how long till they can get to hating?

We're all anxiously waiting for this thing to turn on... Even if we can't know the numbers yet.
(unless we secretly start tracking BOINC stats...)

[Movieman]

Well how long till they can get to hating?

We're all anxiously waiting for this thing to turn on... Even if we can't know the numbers yet.
(unless we secretly start tracking BOINC stats...)

There will be a thread with all the numbers, more pics and benches on the day the Intel NDA lifts on the 6 core chips.. soon...

[PoppaGeek]

Glad to see your having so much fun MM. If I see on the news about a black out on the east coast I'll know ya got it up! er I mean got it going.

[anubis]

refreshing....

Im expecting the mighty 32core opterons to fall shortly Since your 24 threaded monster is missing/seems awfully quiet. The only question that remains is...will you double the best daily or will the humiliation be even greater?

[Lu(ky]

Trying to source some 285's,295's or some top ATI cards now so I can make some realistic vantage and 3DMark runs..
I have 2-260GTX 192 cards here and although nice cards not what will make records..

Your new system with these babies in the for sale thread from Gunslinger 4 x 5870's eK FB calling out to you "buy me"


Of course you would have to step your PSU up to this guy a SILVERSTONE 1500W

[anubis]

That would make a big "owned" icon on everything HWBOT related

[Sam_oslo]

Your new system with these babies in the for sale thread from Gunslinger 4 x 5870's eK FB calling out to you "buy me"
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e19/mgorius/IMG_1571.jpg[/IMG]

Of course you would have to step your PSU up to this guy a SILVERSTONE 1500W

http://www.silverstonetek.com/images/products/st1500/ST1500-3-4.jpg[/IMG]

Those water cooled GPUs looks really good, but you can have 3 more of those on this MB .
Xfire can't scale effective with that many cards of course, but 7 single slot cards can make a great GPGPU setup on this MB.

[Movieman]

refreshing....

Im expecting the mighty 32core opterons to fall shortly Since your 24 threaded monster is missing/seems awfully quiet. The only question that remains is...will you double the best daily or will the humiliation be even greater?

My system lost memorym rma came in this am..It will ba back up after I get some coffee in me and my eyes actually open.

Your new system with these babies in the for sale thread from Gunslinger 4 x 5870's eK FB calling out to you "buy me"


Of course you would have to step your PSU up to this guy a SILVERSTONE 1500W

scary and more $$ than I have to be blunt..Would like to borrow them though!

That would make a big "owned" icon on everything HWBOT related

And that would really be unfair to the guys there that work so hard for what they get.
I will submit scores but more to show what this can do than for the "glory" part.
Now there isd one bench that I want to really show where this beast will shine:
Cinebench 11.5.. I know what these chips can do at default 3458 on that benchmark.. At overclocked speeds you will dampen your undies when you see the numbers..

[Chris_redfield]

News, Mountain Mods will have a motherboard tray ready for this on March 19
www.mountainmods.com

They no longer have any more info on their website about this it looks like they took it down.

Is WATX a completely new form factor then? Will XL-ATX certified cases like the lian li armor suit not fit this motherboard?