Oh look, another EVGA board...

[Katanai]

I'm starring at that picture trying to figure out where the kitchen sink is.

Now I'm wondering who will be the first with a water block for this. It's got to be one huge chunk of copper to cover the northbridge, southbridge and those nf chips.

[sholvaco]

oh and some here said it is equipped with dual x58, im not too sure about that.

We were talking about the equivalent server parts (Intel 5520) which would definitely allow a dual IOH setup, as demonstrated by a couple of Super Micro and Tyan boards.

[DragoonXX]

I wonder if there's going to be a massive CPU backplate for it (judging by the standoff spacing, the entire CPU area and half the ram banks are between two sets of standoffs, might call for some wicked warping)

[Expat GriZ]

I'm not worried about a case.....it will just "EXIST" on my benchtable!!

Thanks for the full board shot Solid, I'm now scheming on how to put 2 new Westmere Xeons onboard...hmmmm ... have two kidneys...if I lay off the booze I only really need one...

[bowman]

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

[The-Fox]

So a short BOM for this board:
- 2x LGA 1366 Sockets
- 1x Intel 55XX (5520 or 5500) chipset.
- 1x Intel ICH10R
- 2x NF200 chips
- 12x Memory slots
- 7x PCI-E X16 slots.

- 1x Monster Motherboard.

[SAE]

I agree on the sizes, but pushing the market for bigger cases for these kind of "special" products probably won't happen, since eventually everything will get smaller and a massive case like that would cost a LOT of $$ which could be hard to sell due current economy state, EVGA should make their own case for these kind of enthusiast products

Yep, I know. Was meant ironically.

And about that case by EVGA... I don't think it would come in time, even IF they wanted to offer such a thing. Think of the "special" PSU rumored to come with/for the classified. IMHO it's been just a rumor, it would be bad if it was not...

Maybe Mountain Mods is the right partner to do it...

[SAE]

I'm not worried about a case.....it will just "EXIST" on my benchtable!!

Thanks for the full board shot Solid, I'm now scheming on how to put 2 new Westmere Xeons onboard...hmmmm ... have two kidneys...if I lay off the booze I only really need one...

My new bench table is too small for it, respectively it's lacking the appropriate holes/standoffs. But a customized bench table perhaps is the best way to give such huge boards a cosy home.

[ShadowFox19]

That's definately an XL-ATX board, compare the screw holes to the 4-way...they're identical.
I wonder if you could "fit" that board in a Corsair 800D? That case makes a Classified E760 look tiny. With a little modding, I bet it can be done.

[ulticool]

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

Agreed.

[XS Janus]

What no integrated LSi 9260i Sata6 controller!!

[ulticool]

No USB 3.0.. no pci-e 3.0 slots.

good for about 6 months.

[alfaunits]

What no integrated LSi 9260i Sata6 controller!!

Ye, what gives?? Ditch one NF200 for it! (or ditch both )

[Serra]

No USB 3.0.. no pci-e 3.0 slots.

good for about 6 months.

Aside from USB drives there is really not a lot of need for USB 3 now, nor is there likely to be for awhile; fortunately it looks like there might be some eSATA ports. As it stands there's only like 1-2 USB 3 devices out now, and besides drives I don't think most people plug in anything more than a mouse or keyboard. PCI-E 3.0 is totally unnecessary right now too as we're nowhere near using the bandwidth of a full PCI-E 2.0 x16 slot.

SATA 3.0 might have some merit, but maybe/maybe not in 2010. We'll see how things progress. If nothing else this board has enough lanes to handle a SATA 3-compliant RAID card, which is how the real speed demons will be going anyway.

[Blacky]

No USB 3.0.. no pci-e 3.0 slots.

good for about 6 months.

Techpowerup mentions it seems to have USB 3.0 & while Marvell-made SATA 6 Gbs controller provides two additional ports, just wait until CES to see additional specifications...

[trn]

Wow, that is the biggest board I've ever seen. That is bigger than the Dual lga1366 Asus Z8PE-D12 I have and that board is SSI EEB (roughly EATX) form factor. Forget ATX, the form factor of this board should be listed in acres!

BTW, when is a full cover waterblock for this board comming out?

[mk_dir]

Looks awesome; to have non-ECC support it's important IMO, a BIOS with overclock options? (well it's a Classified so ...), Westmere-EP support... maybe the 980X don't lacks the second QPI link in order to work on DP configurations, that would be a nice combination.

[tomb18]

No USB 3.0.. no pci-e 3.0 slots.

good for about 6 months.

AH, no.
The latest news from jacob is that it has USB3 and SATA-3 as well. Its also a classified, with all the feqtures that go with that name.
http://twitpic.com/w3peg

Hope this starts some competition from other overclocking duallies.
The BIOS is goining to be insane///imagine all the parameters to tweak????

[Tobit]

It's just a little bit wider (front to back) than the XL-ATX but the mounting holes do appear to match up to my XL-ATX motherboard tray.. it may hang over the front edge a tad bit.

[Necetra]

I really can't wait for an extreme overclocker to get their hands on one of these and load of dual hexacores to the max.

[lkiller123]

I agree on the sizes, but pushing the market for bigger cases for these kind of "special" products probably won't happen, since eventually everything will get smaller and a massive case like that would cost a LOT of $$ which could be hard to sell due current economy state, EVGA should make their own case for these kind of enthusiast products

Ditto.

[chuchnit]

Why is everyone making such a big deal about what cases will fit these mobos? Won't 90%+ of the boards sold sit on the box it was shipped in or a bench table with pots strapped to it?

[Blacky]

Why is everyone making such a big deal about what cases will fit these mobos? Won't 90%+ of the boards sold sit on the box it was shipped in or a bench table with pots strapped to it?

probably hardcore overclockers would, but crunchers, and all other stuff you can do on this server platform won't...

[Tobit]

I'll be putting it in my Mountain Mods case which already has an XL-ATX tray.

[chuchnit]

probably hardcore overclockers would, but crunchers, and all other stuff you can do on this server platform won't...

Agreed except I'm gonna guess that benchers is who they are targeting and everyone else is secondary.