Nehalem Motherboards

[Zorlac]

Not sure if you guys saw this or not...

http://www.nehalemnews.com/2008/06/s...boards-at.html

[Asgard_thor]

Alot of the dual socket board looks like a retard designed them..

[3NZ0]

Alot of the dual socket board looks like a retard designed them..

They are for servers, they try to work in a good cooling path and space for as many pci-e 8-16x slots for raid cards as well.

I like how the mitac board has a mini pci-e slot on it, Intel 4965 AGN on a desktop

Clean design of the asus TEB-D board would have me sold.

[[XC] Synthetickiller]

So these boards are the lga 1366 equivalent to 965? I guess in the future we'll see their versions of 975, p35, x38, p45, x48?

The asus looks like a POS old-school foxconn board I have. I hope the performance is a lot better than the boards look. :p

[natty]

so none of the core2 motherboards will work with nehalem?

[revogamer]

so none of the core2 motherboards will work with nehalem?

no Nehalem uses different sockets.

[MomijiTMO]

Does anyone else think ASUS's vanilla board is funny? I mean the company's products have always been easy to spot with contrasting colours and heatpipes all over the place.

[Movieman]

Alot of the dual socket board looks like a retard designed them..

yup, but send that supermicro one this way..

[Deux]

The Foxconn and Flextronics boards look SICK.

[Charles Wirth]

IX58-max also was a nice design and plenty of power, that might be my next board.

[p2501]

Why is there no x16 slot on the Tyan? Supermicro has some, so why not Tyan? I don't get them...

[alucasa]

Why is there no x16 slot on the Tyan? Supermicro has some, so why not Tyan? I don't get them...

Don't need a video card for a server.

[stevecs]

What gets me is that they _still_ don't have any good dual CPU MB's with 6 PCIx of at least 8x electrical slots. I mean come on now, for server systems who wants to be capped at ~1GiB/sec w/ PCI-X? It's been how many years now w/ serial interconnect technology, drop the bloody parallel crap.

[SnipingWaste]

Some of the mobos has no heatsink on the chipset and wow, look at the size of the die too. Its huge.

[Movieman]

What gets me is that they _still_ don't have any good dual CPU MB's with 6 PCIx of at least 8x electrical slots. I mean come on now, for server systems who wants to be capped at ~1GiB/sec w/ PCI-X? It's been how many years now w/ serial interconnect technology, drop the bloody parallel crap.

Steve:
My SM X7DWA-N has 2-PCI-e rev 2 X16 slots..
One for your vid, one for your Areca card.
Problem solved..

[foxmino]

I was wondering how good your sli works on your skulltrail fugger.........cuz im really tired of my 780i

[p2501]

Don't need a video card for a server.

Yes, and the Supermicro is no server board.

You can plug an x8 card into an x16 slot, so I'm questioning the fact that Tyan is a bit short-sighted IMO, it's about versatility. No need to try and convince me of your definition of a server board.

[Movieman]

Yes, and the Supermicro is no server board.

You can plug an x8 card into an x16 slot, so I'm questioning the fact that Tyan is a bit short-sighted IMO, it's about versatility. No need to try and convince me of your definition of a server board.

Lets be nice here.
There are many definitions of a server board.
Some see them as any board with 2 sockets.
I see the ones with X16 slots as workstation boards and the ones with onboard vid as true server boards.
All these companies will have lines of boards, not just the ones shown here so I expect that all will have both types.
Remember, it's early and we're just seeing the start here.

[Charles Wirth]

SLI works fine and even better with oc past 4Ghz, no issues at all.

The nv100 bridge chip is a bit limiting compared to the nv200 chip on 790i for bandwitdth and sli communication when benching at very high speeds but at or near stock it is not an issue. ST is very stable and highest quality, if i had any stability problems I would be using a different board. I wish there was more game that took advantage of all the cores with the exception of the ageia physx driver.

[chew*]

That said by movieman, all the other boards are crap I know which one he's gonna pick.......super micro cuz after you buy it and 2 nehalems you will need a super micro to see just the tiniest speck of dust in your wallet......thats if you didn't sell the wallet also

[Movieman]

That said by movieman, all the other boards are crap I know which one he's gonna pick.......super micro cuz after you buy it and 2 nehalems you will need a super micro to see just the tiniest speck of dust in your wallet......thats if you didn't sell the wallet also

My wallet hasn't had anything in it since divorce #2 back in 2000.
One sometimes has tro get creative to accomplish ones goals.
As to buying Supermicro boards, I've bought four of them.
S2DGU; $25.00
S2QR6,plus cube case;$127.50 and shipping
X5DAE;$266.00
X6DA8-G2: $479.95
The clovertown boards came in through "deals"..
No, don't ask..

[chew*]

Hmmm gonna have to add a sig like mine will do favors err deals yah thats it for nehalem equipment

[Movieman]

Hmmm gonna have to add a sig like mine will do favors err deals yah thats it for nehalem equipment

There's a pic a guy posted here a few days ago that shows the feet of two guys in a shower..One pair behind the other.. bar of soap on the floor with this title..
Don't do it!
I was going to take it and change the title to :
Will bend over for Nehalem!

[alucasa]

I would consider Flextronics TX65H as workstation board, but I can't consider Supermicro X8DTN+ anything other than server board.
They are going to have more variety available anyway.

OT, since when MSI entered server market ?

[systemviper]

time to buy all new heatsinks and waterblocks for that CPU...... here we go again...