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

[ulticool]

So the hot air is vented right onto the pci-e slots. That'll get nice and toasty.

Pretty cool though me rikey.

[Boogerlad]

why nf200? Couldn't you just use 2 x58?

[jmke]

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

you're bringing up cost as an argument in this thread?

[slim142]

I woulda have preferred they removed the IDE and keep the Floppy.

If you have money to buy this motherboard, then you can definitely buy SATA hard/optical drives.

[Buckeye]

I woulda have preferred they removed the IDE and keep the Floppy.

If you have money to buy this motherboard, then you can definitely buy SATA hard/optical drives.

IDE is better for benching tho

All my main rig stuff is SATA but I use IDE when I can for benching.

[slim142]

Hmmm am I late here?

May I know why is it better for benching?

[Don_Dan]

Hmmm am I late here?

May I know why is it better for benching?

IDE clock is derived from PCI, SATA is derived from PCIe, when you push PCIe clock during 3D benches SATA devices can lose their "connection" to the board, i.e. not able to transmit data correctly any more.

[slim142]

Interesting... I guess been out of the forums has kept me uninformed lol

[jmke]

wouldn't this be solved by using a PCI SATA card?

[[XC] gomeler]

wouldn't this be solved by using a PCI SATA card?

Yup, but is it really necessary? I was able to bench at 117MHz PCIe, more than enough for bclk and 3D gains were minimal.

[Biker]

IDE clock is derived from PCI, SATA is derived from PCIe, when you push PCIe clock during 3D benches SATA devices can lose their "connection" to the board, i.e. not able to transmit data correctly any more.

I wonder when some genius will engineer a SATA clock lock into a board's bios so we can then clock the nuts out of PCI-e and not worry about a SATA drive crapping out....

Then and only then will i happily wave goodbye to an IDE connector....

Anyone?

[Xoulz]

Boot from USB 3.0 thumbdrive..?

[Kal-EL]

This board looks very exciting. It'll cost a pretty penny but nothing a fire-sale can't fix.

[EnJoY]

Man this thread really took off.

[slim142]

wouldn't this be solved by using a PCI SATA card?

Yeah but then PC mark would be deeply affected, specially with SSDs...

[[XC] Oj101]

That is technically possible (I suppose, I could be wrong), but you would have to seriously work to tune it so that those speeds matched exactly, down to the very last Hz (which would be a big problem unless you were willing to accept one of two or three block positions that are likely well under full OC potential). Whether the CPU's expect eachother to operate at the same speed would be a good question as well.

What about Phenoms running each core at a different speed?

[ShadowFox19]

Did they ever release the full specs of this beast during CES, or did they only do the teaser?

[Serra]

What about Phenoms running each core at a different speed?

Keep in mind I haven't dealt with AMD on my main [eg. benching] systems since the C2Q's came out, but wasn't it flagged as a bug by AMD when that was seen to happen in the wild? I'm pretty positive it is not a vendor-supported feature. My guess would be that because they have the same base clock it does basically work, but dual-socket CPU's do also perform some health checks on one another that I can't say whether multi-core CPU's do to their own cores (ala a what-is-the-point scenario... if one core is broken, the whole thing is broken... but when one socket is broken, the entire board isn't necessarily down).

Even if it seems to be stable on some systems, I can't imagine AMD certifies it as "safe" operation... nor would Intel in this case. No server board has ever certified such operation, so I think it is fair to assume that EVGA isn't breaking the mold on this given they don't have that much experience in this area.


This thread has definitely shown there are still some questions about the exact operation of this board, we need to get our hands on one of them to give it a good workout!

[[XC] Oj101]

I run my cores at different speeds and I have WCG running 24/7. AMD OverDrive allows you to change individual multipliers. Anyway, I think outright unadulterated performance is more important that data server stability in this case.

[NaeKuh]

LOL saw the board at the XS party.

My first comments were OMG its HUGH.
Second comments were... Mine. :P

When i was talking to peter, also, he said USB3.0 was on it.

[JC_Denton]

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

I suspect that a Lian Li V2000/2010/2100/2110 could fit her, with slight modding (because of the height) - not sure though. Nevertheless, the length won't be a problem for these cases.

Really nice board btw, I am really tempted...

[TiN_]

Volterra

Why not used two IOH as 5520? That could let bridges away.

[Andrea deluxe]

yellow part..... Cooling?

[chuchnit]

yellow part..... Cooling?

I imagine it will be something similar to the other classified boards?

[zalbard]

Pretty sure that's not the final heatsink setup.