EXCLUSIVE! New EVGA Classified Dual-Proc Board - 270-GT-W555!

[jcool]

Wow, a whole lot of uninformed BS going on in here, as usual as of late

First of all I'd like to thank evga on behalf of the entire DC community, this is what we have been waiting for a LONG time now, almost one year to be exact. You guys rock

For those that don't seem to have a clue exactly WHO this board was made for, here we go.

1. Extreme benchers (obviously). There is so much unreleased potential in the DP 1366 platform, with the new soon-to-be released hexacores now more than ever. DP LGA1366 boards have been out for (almost) as long as their single socket counterparts, and so have the CPUs - only until know, there was no way to OC any of the boards past 138Mhz BCLK (yes I have tried them all ).
So now, for the first time, people can actually unleash the power of Gainestown/Westmere. Combined with 4 GPUs, this motherboard will allow for some insane new World Records. Think 2-3x the performance of current multithreaded CPU benchmarks

2. Distributed computing maniacs. Needless to say, moar cores + moar mhz equals moar work done, which is what some of us crave way more than chasing the next WR.

3. Affordable HPC performance for everyone. People used to have to pay top dollar for high end Xeons if they wanted their video/picture/whatever editing machine to pack some punch. Now you can just get the lower end models and OC them by 50-80% just like the standard 920's.

4. Yes it can play Crysis

Again, thank you evga.

Only negative aspect I see is the dual NF200's. I specifically told Dave to make sure this was gonna get dual 5520s to provide for the 72 PCIe lanes, and not those godforsaken power-eating NF200's
Oh well, you can't have everything. Certainly nothing to prevent me from buying at least one of those monsters.