Nehalem Motherboards

[kuhla]

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

Yea, I was thinking that too. I like it's design. Simple. Straightforward.

[duploxxx]

Don't need a video card for a server.

correct in most cases but as you know server market is always wide spread, some only need onboard others needs lots of them.

one we use for rendering now.... 11 x pci-e slots

http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en...3-3716072.html

[Jimmer411]

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

Or buy a $10~ adapter plate for your current waterblock

[BulldogPO]

Yep, gotta get adapter plate for my Swiftech Apogee GTX coppertop block

[Kasparz]

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.

These are probably non or half working engineering samples. ASUS won't make extra high end engineering samples, because lots of non working ES boards are trashed out, and thats why first boards are always minimalistic. Probably lots, if not all boards seen in pictures will hit retail with little different layout or different components on board.

[stevecs]

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

Problem is that I'm trying to build up a new system to replace my current one and it will have 3-4 areca cards in it. Plus SAS card for tape backup unit. I'm out of space on my current array and need to build up a much larger/faster system.

[m^2]

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 ?

Long time ago.

[Bobsama]

I wouldn't mind Nehalem DP workstation boards and a pair of Nehalem chips...

[uOpt]

The dual boards, what memory do they use? Registered or FB-DIMMs?

[virtualrain]

Keep in mind that the memory controller is on the CPU die... therefore Bloomfield dual-socket boards will use the same DDR3 as desktop boards.

Gainstown may introduce a different IMC that uses other memory technology but Bloomfield is DDR3 only.

Cheers,
-Chris.

[uOpt]

Keep in mind that the memory controller is on the CPU die... therefore Bloomfield dual-socket boards will use the same DDR3 as desktop boards.

Gainstown may introduce a different IMC that uses other memory technology but Bloomfield is DDR3 only.

Cheers,
-Chris.

Not necessarily, not even likely. The memory controllers in K8 could also deal with unregistered and registered DDR1 and later DDR2. The mainboard (BIOS to be precise) nails down which one is required.

You have a point that FB-DIMMs are overall unlikely. It's probably too complicated to put a memory controller onto the die that does unreg and FB-DIMMs. And it isn't as required as it was for socket 771 because now you can have one memory bank per CPU, avoiding the huge bank mess that 771 ran into.

That still leaves registered or unregistered as choices.

[virtualrain]

Good points. In addition, I'm confusing the code-names... Gainstown is the dual-socket server variant of Nehalem, and although it will support DDR3, there's no information on whether it's registered or not.

[Zytek_Fan]

FB-DIMMs are gone.
It will be regular or registered DDR3.

[Hornet331]

FB-DIMMs are gone.
It will be regular or registered DDR3.

nah its still there, it only has moved on notch up. -> DP server RDDR3, MP server FP-DIMMs. At least that was the last thing i heard.

[perkam]

Can a volunteer from the Intel section make a sticky about the X58 boards from all the manufacturers?

Me needs to see zem

Perkam

[bowman]

Yeah, I mean, we've seen them before but if anyone has large, Drool-Ready™ photos of them (especially the abit IX58-MAX) that would be nice.

[villa1n]

wow, all these perfect upgrades are coming out of the woodwork The Ix-58 looks like a nice fit, with a 2.93ghz nehalem... now i just have to see if it its ATI fun party time again with the 4870x2.

[virtualrain]

Can a volunteer from the Intel section make a sticky about the X58 boards from all the manufacturers?

Me needs to see zem

Perkam

See the link in the OP... they are all on Nehalem News.

[Buckeye]

Problem is that I'm trying to build up a new system to replace my current one and it will have 3-4 areca cards in it. Plus SAS card for tape backup unit. I'm out of space on my current array and need to build up a much larger/faster system.

<Gulp>

[WhiteFireDragon]

aww asus's board went back to the poopie brown color. what a turn off. they should have stayed with black PCB

[alpha0ne]

The Intel board seems to have one of the better layouts IMHO

The Abit board is just pure Pr0n

[Blauhung]

nah its still there, it only has moved on notch up. -> DP server RDDR3, MP server FP-DIMMs. At least that was the last thing i heard.

yup, i think that's how i have heard it. Also since Bloomfield and Gainstown are phisically the same product and just finalized differently durring assembly for the extra QPI link, there really isn't anything prventing the Gainstown chips from using unregistered ddr3.

I'm not sure but i think there's also something new about how buffering works on MP. You'll probably see more on that later when Beckton starts getting talked about more..

[Zytek_Fan]

yup, i think that's how i have heard it. Also since Bloomfield and Gainstown are phisically the same product and just finalized differently durring assembly for the extra QPI link, there really isn't anything prventing the Gainstown chips from using unregistered ddr3.

I'm not sure but i think there's also something new about how buffering works on MP. You'll probably see more on that later when Beckton starts getting talked about more..

Basically the workstation DP segment is now DDR3 (registered or unregistered), and the servers are FB-DIMM?

[Blauhung]

yup, pretty much

[saaya]

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

they look like any other dual socket board, just that the nb is missing...