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

[Bolas]

I'm very impressed with this board as well. Nice work coming up with something new, different, and very desirable.

I've been wanting a good board to overclock and that has USB 3.0 and SATA 6GB/s and lots of PCIe lanes. So far nothing fits the bill, until now with this board.

All the other boards I've checked either don't have USB 3.0 or don't have 4 or more PCIe x16 lanes.

Top that off with dual socket and twelve slots for memory and the board gets exciting extremely quickly.

Now all we need are two things....

1. A good looking water-cooling ready case that will hold this mobo. Lian Li or Silverstone or Corsair, please make us a good case to hold this board. Lian Li PC-80B seems like it would be tough to mount a radiator in the top with the funky shroud up top, correct me if I'm wrong.

2. Good full-board water-cooling blocks. EK or Bitspower or MIPS, get to work on that ASAP so that the blocks will be ready shortly after launch of the board.

[[XC] serlv]

1) This isn't serlv writing..:
2) To Peter and EVGA:
How can we thank you?
You people took the gamble and went ahead where others were not willing to go.
You took an idea and in a very short time brought it to reality.
My immense gratitude to you!
2) After reading through this thread with all the misinformation tossed around as if it was fact someone has to comment so I will try to add something to this...
Listen to jcool . He speaks the truth and has a better understanding than most here.
Serra: No to mixing cpu's.
I think you misunderstood what Peter was speaking to.
To the doubting Thomas's:
How come every time a manufacturer tries to push the boundaries people jump on them?
Seriously, why always see the glass as 1/2 empty?
Why can't you look and see this as I do : OMG, someone had the cojones to actually spend the time and money to make what many including myself have been looking for since socket 1366 came out.
To look skyward and say a quiet prayer of thanks that we have people like Peter Tan and companies like EVGA that will try to push the limits.
I kid you not when i first heard of this I wanted to reach out and hug him for just trying when no one else would.
If you stop and think of the obstacles faced in this project maybe many of you would think twice before biatching.
You look at what has to be included on this board for it all to work and then you'll realize why their board is the size it is.
The PC world is changing my friends but without the "explorers" such as we see here with Peter and EVGA to push the boundaries advances would be very slow.

Don't have a case that it will fit in?
Make one, mod one or buy one.
Remember where you are and what forum your at.
XS not 'Dell PC's for wusses"..
My last words in this post are very simple and EXACTLY how I feel:
Peter, THANK YOU for being you and please send my thanks to EVGA.
We need more like both of you in this hobby.
MM..
PS: To the guy that said 5670's: Why so slow?
There are X5680's you know..
As to what will work in it:
This should run any dual QPI quad core Gainestown or 6 core Westmere cpu.

[PatRaceTin]

Record Breaker is here Haha

[saaya]

why remove floppy?
im sure at least some people will run raid and plug in storage controllers, and for that you need floppy for some OSes... even if you dont NEED it, its useful... the board is big enough, who cares if theres a floppy port somewhere on it :P

[LardArse]

My last words in this post are very simple and EXACTLY how I feel:
Peter, THANK YOU for being you and please send my thanks to EVGA.
We need more like both of you in this hobby.
MM..

thanks Dave, my boss will be very happy to read this
didnt check your email? been waiting for you at the suite!

[ulticool]

thanks Dave, my boss will be very happy to read this
didnt check your email? been waiting for you at the suite!

kinky

[Tobit]

Well said Dave.

[xsbb]

i Feel That I Speak For Many People,














Thank You Evga, Peter Tan, And Everyone Involved For The Birth Of This Amazing Motherboard!!













The Enthusiast Community Will Enjoy This Creation Of Yours!





Thanks for taking the risk and innovating unlike other companies!!


KEEP IT UP EVGA








-XSbb

[JacobF]

why remove floppy?
im sure at least some people will run raid and plug in storage controllers, and for that you need floppy for some OSes... even if you dont NEED it, its useful... the board is big enough, who cares if theres a floppy port somewhere on it :P

You can use a USB Floppy

[slim142]

To eVGA

Will this motherboard fit on a Thermaltake Armor+?

My case was designed to fit EATX no problems and even has some extra space, but I would like to make sure first.

[Bolas]

Xeon DP, Six-Core
[edit]"Gulftown" (32 nm)
Based on Intel Westmere microarchitecture
All models support: MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, Enhanced Intel SpeedStep Technology (EIST), Intel 64, XD bit (an NX bit implementation), TXT, Intel VT, Hyper-Threading, Turbo Boost, Smart Cache
Here are the chips to put in this board. Board comes out in (hopefully early) April, these chips come out mid-March. Coincidence? I think not.

All models support dual-processor configurations
Model Number sSpec Number Frequency Turbo L2 Cache L3 Cache I/O Bus Mult Uncore Speed Memory Voltage TDP Socket Release Date Part Number(s) Release Price (USD)
Xeon W5680 3333 MHz 6 x 256 KB 12 MB 2 x ??? GT/s QPI 25x 3 x DDR3-1333 130 W LGA 1366 March 16, 2010
Xeon X5670 2933 MHz 6 x 256 KB 12 MB 2 x ??? GT/s QPI 22x 3 x DDR3-1333 95 W LGA 1366 March 16, 2010
Xeon X5660 2800 MHz 6 x 256 KB 12 MB 2 x ??? GT/s QPI 21x 3 x DDR3-1333 95 W LGA 1366 March 16, 2010
Xeon X5650 2667 MHz 6 x 256 KB 12 MB 2 x ??? GT/s QPI 20x 3 x DDR3-1333 95 W LGA 1366 March 16, 2010
Xeon L5640 2267 MHz 6 x 256 KB 12 MB 2 x ??? GT/s QPI 17x 3 x DDR3-1333 60 W LGA 1366 March 16, 2010

Thank you again EVGA and Peter for making my dream motherboard... luckily, I've been saving up for two years now to build my dream computer, so it's looking likely that I will actually be buying this motherboard! You've got a customer! All I need to do now is figure out how to buy, build, or mod a case to hold it. I'm open to suggestions.

I've already figured out the water cooling part.... EK will be making blocks for this board, so I'll do that. YAY!

[Tobit]

I'm going to put cheap E5520's on this board initially.. overclock the biznatch out of them.

[V I P E R]

Who cares for fitting this thing into a case .... I'll buy it, and run it naked with some pots over both CPU's .

Nice work EVGA

[lowfat]

To eVGA

Will this motherboard fit on a Thermaltake Armor+?

My case was designed to fit EATX no problems and even has some extra space, but I would like to make sure first.

No. It won't fit in any normal computer case.

[DragoonXX]

absolutely amazing looking board *looks at empty wallet* a man can dream about it...that would make for one SICK rendering beast

[sholvaco]

More images @ pcgameshardware.de

[saaya]

You can use a USB Floppy

so the final boards will not have floppy?

usb floppy doesnt always work, and they tend to cost more than they are worth, a lot more...

[Buckeye]

so the final boards will not have floppy?

usb floppy doesnt always work, and they tend to cost more than they are worth, a lot more...

EVGA X58 and Classys do not have a Floppy controller so we had to use a USB Floppy drive for those. Never had to use mine as I put the drivers I needed on a USB stick for my ARC-1231ML controller so it was np what so ever.

I am happy they are not wasting there time putting this stuff on MB's any more.

absolutely amazing looking board *looks at empty wallet*

I hear ya LOL

Makes my little WHS with 955 crunching away look like a toy with all the power this thing could put out.
Just need boards for all my old QX CPU's to start crunching with. So lets see 3 QX CPU's would hardly equal 1 CPU from this beast LOL.

[Serra]

so the final boards will not have floppy?

usb floppy doesnt always work, and they tend to cost more than they are worth, a lot more...

The only reason to use a floppy is for XP Pro x64 compatibility with RAID cards (the only conceivable OS that provides sufficient performance, meets socket requirements, and allows more than 4GB of ram [needed to populate channels properly]). Given XP will not run DX10 (let alone DX11) and that it is now 2 full OS's back, I think we can let the old horse die in this regard. I mean, if you have a storage controller and this much to spend on a mobo + CPU's (plus GPU's, because it's definitely designed for performance GPU's)... you can run Windows 7.

Or, heck, you can use Acronis or nLite and get the driver in there via a workaround. It's actually more convenient to use those methods than floppys in my experience... floppys tend to have very short lifetimes.

[Metric]

*images*

No PWM heatsink on the northern most socket or just missing?...

[Bolas]

No PWM heatsink on the northern most socket or just missing?...

Heat sinks were removed to show the chips. It's just missing.

[Russian]

Thanks to Peter and Jacob i was able to take some pictures of this board with Quad SLI? it ended up being something like the board needed 15 6pins??

[Bolas]

This board could potentially open up not just new overclocks, but also looks like it might be the start of a personal render farm?

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...er_farm&xtcr=1

With dual socket multi-core processors and a bunch of the new Nvidia Fermi cards in the board, I would think you could do a lot of gpu computing, rendering, and ray tracing.

Imagine opening up an entirely new world of home movie production where people could make their own "Toy Story" and "South Park" in their homes. I could think of a few cartoons I would make.

I wonder how tough it would be to use this mobo for a build to make homemade cartoons?

[Mad1723]

Those heatsinks remind me of the ones on 6800GT

[zalbard]

They should make the same exhaust for the back of the case like for gfx cards!