Oh look, another EVGA board...

[rintamarotta]

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

I do

My i7 975 rig dont seem to be enought for my needs, now that this board comes it will certainly be enought for my needs, 12cores / 24 threads oc'd at least 3.5ghz and with 2 x HD5890´s and GTX285 for PhysX and if possible adding another GTX285 for more crunching power, even tough i think i need dual antec 1200oc psu's for this system and to slim down the cards, tons of new waterblocks for loop.

When not doing gaming or other stuff, leaving machine to crunch with all those GPU's and CPU's it will be beast.

12 Cpus / 24 threads, 6+ Gpus and tons of ram, dream come true.

[daitro]

...they should have sent a poet...

[lutjens]

Oh great, more NF200. At this level they should have gone for two X58s.

My opinion as well...half of those PCI-E slots are going to be made useless by double slot video cards anyway. Two IOHs would have allowed 4 x16 PCI-E slots with no gimmicks.

And looking at the board, there is more than enough space for dual IOHs. A pity indeed...

[GTi-6]

With dual socket boards, do you need to have both sockets active to run or one is enough?

[quake6]

No, you don't have to run both CPUs in sockets, you can also use only one

[lowfat]

going to be made useless by double slot video cards anyway. Two IOHs would have allowed 4 x16 PCI-E slots with no gimmicks.

And looking at the board, there is more than enough space for dual IOHs. A pity indeed...

Is this even possible? The CPU's aren't going to be sharing the same QPI then. Might as well buy two different systems at this point.

[s0lid]

Is this even possible? The CPU's aren't going to be sharing the same QPI then. Might as well buy two different systems at this point.

It's possible, Supermicro have done that earlier.
Well in DP Xeons there is 2 QPI links, one to X58 and other one to the second CPU.

E: Dual X58


Single X58

[nateman_doo]

...they should have sent a poet...

LOLOLOL!! i LOVE that movie!

[XS Janus]

LOLOLOL!! i LOVE that movie!

LOL

[ShadowFox19]

Does anyone know what day at CES they'll be unveiling the official specs on this beast?

[lutjens]

Is this even possible? The CPU's aren't going to be sharing the same QPI then. Might as well buy two different systems at this point.

I'm running it right now with my Tyan S7025 motherboard...two 5520 IOHs, 4 x16 PCI-E slots (all slots have real lanes...no bridge chips).

http://www.tyan.com/product_SKU_spec...&SKU=600000040

Only 4 DIMM slots per CPU, but this is no real issue, as another rank of DIMMs would slow down memory speed considerably. All in all, the S7025 is an excellent motherboard, that conforms to the E-ATX spec, and possesses simply malevolent I/O capabilities. Superb layout all around, and is incredibly solid and stable. My only real complaint with it is the fact that there aren't any overclocking or tweaking options. No SLI on the board, but I use CrossfireX, so the lack of SLI on the S7025 doesn't really matter to me.

[H2O]

Would this be compatiable with a single Core i7?

[Metric]

Would this be compatiable with a single Core i7?

Possibly - but if you wanted to add another CPU, you'd have to get 2 new ones anyways since non-Xeon i7's only have one QPI link.

[nateman_doo]

this thing is going to cost a fortune to upgrade to. Requiring dumping my 920 d0

[XS Janus]

I think only Xeons go on it... even If you use only one socket.

[WaterFlex]

EVGA vs SuperMicro FTW

[ShadowFox19]

Jacob finally responded to my Tweet.

We will be showing it to press starting Thursday. You should see some news around then.

[TheKarmakazi]

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.

Im guessing evga is targeting hardcore overclockers with this board in addition to the normal server/dual socket market. And to do hardcore overclocks (with high bclk) you have to raise the pci-ex bus much higher than a SATA drive can tolerate. Hence the need for IDE.

[lowfat]

Im guessing evga is targeting hardcore overclockers with this board in addition to the normal server/dual socket market. And to do hardcore overclocks (with high bclk) you have to raise the pci-ex bus much higher than a SATA drive can tolerate. Hence the need for IDE.

My X25-M was still doing fine @ 115MHz for the PCIe bus. Can't say the same thing for my soundcard though

[XS Janus]

Im guessing evga is targeting hardcore overclockers with this board in addition to the normal server/dual socket market. And to do hardcore overclocks (with high bclk) you have to raise the pci-ex bus much higher than a SATA drive can tolerate. Hence the need for IDE.

Trust me they haven't thought about that!

[Serra]

Im guessing evga is targeting hardcore overclockers with this board in addition to the normal server/dual socket market. And to do hardcore overclocks (with high bclk) you have to raise the pci-ex bus much higher than a SATA drive can tolerate. Hence the need for IDE.

Could be. I tend to agree with XS Janus about it probably not being a feature they were thinking about, but it does at least provide a measure of after-the-fact justification.

Don't get me wrong though, for actually useful PC speed the few points extra you could get by upping the PCI-E bus speed versus the speed increase you get by using a current high-end drive (eg. faster than the IDE bus) are nothing. So +1 for getting the highest possible score in 1-2 synthetic benchmarks, but not a general use feature.

[Bolas]

I don't want to see EVGA design a case for this motherboard.

I want to see Corsair design a case to hold this motherboard. 'nuff said.

Oh, and make sure it can fit plenty of radiators internal to the case please, Corsair.

[Blacky]

I don't want to see EVGA design a case for this motherboard.

I want to see Corsair design a case to hold this motherboard. 'nuff said.

Oh, and make sure it can fit plenty of radiators internal to the case please, Corsair.

A Corsair 1000D would be nice

[N19h7m4r3]

A Corsair 1000D would be nice

Only the size of a small fridge!

I would have bought this board if it was a normal E-ATX board, not this longer mess.

[zalbard]

Only the size of a small fridge!

Well, it could be a small fridge, chilled air ftw!