Quote Originally Posted by Shintai View Post
V8 is currently nothing but a sticker on current workstation setups. Instant product so to say, no development etc needed. But its a glimmer product. Nothing useful, unless you already shopped a workstation and got the sticker as an addon.
I have to laugh when I read comments like this. Nothing usefull you say?
Computational power beyond any quad single socket gaming or workstation that exists.
I'm telling you straight, you guys have to work with one of these to appreciate just how much power they really have.
Just a little comparison for you to think on:
Over at HWBOT, the highest score I saw on Sisoftsandra math test app 2 months ago was just over 81,000.That was on a Kentsfield on LN2 at just under 5000mhz.
I decided to run it just for laughs to see what would happen.
I mean a dual clover at everyday 24/7 full load speeds. No OS tweaks, nothing special, stock win2K3 server ent 64 bit.
The result: 119,000+

Quote Originally Posted by XS Janus View Post
Thats right. New mobo just for elite-desktop market and presumably based around the new chipset is what they are marketing with theese numbers!
Hopefully the boards will not be a more expensive than current server boards and that we will see other mobo makers producing it not just Asus.
Asus really isn't into this as yet.
The best boards seem to be supermicro and tyan so far.
I really wish they were cheaper to build. I'd love to see all you guys with one.
Just incredible machines to work with.