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

[G.Foyle]

For a single CPU.

Should be possible - it's as if you ran a DP board with one socket empty.

[cmay119]

So lets say you try to max this board out with CPU's, Video Cards, Storage devices, etc. How are you supposed to be able to power all of that. Don't you actually run into an issue drawing too much current from the wall? Even if the power supply is rated high enough to run it?

[DragoonXX]

thats where using 20A breakers (if you're north american) comes in handy, or powering using seperate circuits (you'd probably have to use seperate power supplies to power a fully loaded behemoth)
normal household circuits use 15A...IIRC maximum rated power supplies for north american use is 1500W

[MrHydes]

with this motherboard must be peace of cake beating almost any WR

[sethk]

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

This is a 5500 series chipset board to accomodate SMP, the X58 doesn't have the multi-processor link / logic.

[DarthBeavis]

thats where using 20A breakers (if you're north american) comes in handy, or powering using seperate circuits (you'd probably have to use seperate power supplies to power a fully loaded behemoth)
normal household circuits use 15A...IIRC maximum rated power supplies for north american use is 1500W

Oregon bud. I had a two separate 15a circuits installed in my home office because my Jagermeister tap machine flipped the breaker whenever I fired it up if my (then) gaming rig was on . . .a Skulltrail rig with Silverstone Zeus 1200 watt PSU and 60" DLP for my monitor.

[DragoonXX]

eww yager ;P
yes..its an intentional misspelling

[Bolas]

Oregon bud. I had a two separate 15a circuits installed in my home office because my Jagermeister tap machine flipped the breaker whenever I fired it up if my (then) gaming rig was on . . .a Skulltrail rig with Silverstone Zeus 1200 watt PSU and 60" DLP for my monitor.

I wanna hang out with you. High end gaming rigs, Jagermeister taps... what's not to like?

[tiro_uspsss]

EVGA: pleeease PLEEEEEEEASE bring out a version WITHOUT nf200 - PLEEEEEEEEEEEASE.. lets face it, this board is targeted @ small market segment, its niche. I'm willing to bet ~90% of the 'ground work' is already done - there are many of us out there (myself included) who have no NEED for benching etc & thus no NEED for *any nf200 on mobo.. replace it with another X58 or tylersburg(?) chipset.. basically.. there are some of us who no longer game/bench but want a 'server' mobo with OC capabilities. This mobo is a whisker shy of perfection in regards to that, so PLEEEEASE PLEEEEEEASE make a version without nf200 (I'd insert a begging emoticon here but there is none)






please?
btw, if u do, I promise I'll buy one

[STEvil]

I still game but dont care for nf200. Tired of SLI/X-Fire.

[KoHaN69]

Saw this baby live. It's a large pizza of awesomesauce.

[Blauhung]

Now waiting till someone makes single LGA1366 board with two X58 chips and without NF200

x58 is the exact same piece of silicon as the xenon 5520 chipset this is using (Tylersburg), just fused differently so that 1 of the QPI links on the chipset is disabled. If anything, the NF200 chip probably uses less power then the chipset does as its only really doing 1 thing.

EVGA: pleeease PLEEEEEEEASE bring out a version WITHOUT nf200 - PLEEEEEEEEEEEASE.. lets face it, this board is targeted @ small market segment, its niche. I'm willing to bet ~90% of the 'ground work' is already done - there are many of us out there (myself included) who have no NEED for benching etc & thus no NEED for *any nf200 on mobo.. replace it with another X58 or tylersburg(?) chipset.. basically.. there are some of us who no longer game/bench but want a 'server' mobo with OC capabilities. This mobo is a whisker shy of perfection in regards to that, so PLEEEEASE PLEEEEEEASE make a version without nf200 (I'd insert a begging emoticon here but there is none)






please?
btw, if u do, I promise I'll buy one

I agree completely, I want this board, but I will only be using 1 or 2 cards and don't want to pay for useless heat generation that i'm not using.

[saaya]

x58 is the exact same piece of silicon as the xenon 5520 chipset this is using (Tylersburg), just fused differently so that 1 of the QPI links on the chipset is disabled. If anything, the NF200 chip probably uses less power then the chipset does as its only really doing 1 thing.

I agree completely, I want this board, but I will only be using 1 or 2 cards and don't want to pay for useless heat generation that i'm not using.

yeah, would be cool if there was a nf200 less version... but the volume must be pretty low so i dont think they will do it...

iirc nf200 is around 20W, real power draw, not tdp
X85 is around 30-35W isnt it?

[tool_462]

X85 is around 30-35W isnt it?

20-24 watts for X58 TDP, not sure about how much it actually draws. Probably wont find a "real" answer.

[AuDioFreaK39]

This video is swaying my opinion in favor of this evga board.
I hope evga will release the board to consumers in short order. Do not feel like waiting around until say um...JUNE OR JULY for this.

They told me sometime between March and April.

EVGA unveils its dual-socket 270-GT-W555 beast motherboard

[EnJoY]

They told me sometime between March and April.

Same here, and that was is my original article. Not sure why people are still guessing wrong.

[chuchnit]

Same here, and that was is my original article. Not sure why people are still guessing wrong.

Same reason people are ing about little crap like IDE port and sata placement when we know the real use for this board is for benchers. I really can't believe some of the speculation and ing that is going on about this board. Especially when 99% of the people ing aren't even gonna consider buying this board.

[LarsMarkelson]

Actually I think in addition to benchers, people who do a lot of encoding (like for video editing or 3D work) will definitely be interested in this board. The ability to overclock dual quad cores with HT (or even hexa cores with HT) is insanely awesome for heavy encoders. Not only does it give the fastest solution but it also provides it at a relatively low cost due to the overclocking features.

[dansus]

Actually I think in addition to benchers, people who do a lot of encoding (like for video editing or 3D work) will definitely be interested in this board. The ability to overclock dual quad cores with HT (or even hexa cores with HT) is insanely awesome for heavy encoders. Not only does it give the fastest solution but it also provides it at a relatively low cost due to the overclocking features.

That would be me then.

I was about to buy a macpro for rendering, but now ive seen this, it looks like much more fun and will be top of my list.

Might even be worth getting a mac mini and using this for a network node. It will be most fun watching peeps scratching their heads as it spits out 100fps from this little white box with a gbit pigtail..
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[[XC] Synthetickiller]

EVGA: pleeease PLEEEEEEEASE bring out a version WITHOUT nf200 - PLEEEEEEEEEEEASE.. lets face it, this board is targeted @ small market segment, its niche. I'm willing to bet ~90% of the 'ground work' is already done - there are many of us out there (myself included) who have no NEED for benching etc & thus no NEED for *any nf200 on mobo.. replace it with another X58 or tylersburg(?) chipset.. basically.. there are some of us who no longer game/bench but want a 'server' mobo with OC capabilities. This mobo is a whisker shy of perfection in regards to that, so PLEEEEASE PLEEEEEEASE make a version without nf200 (I'd insert a begging emoticon here but there is none)



please?
btw, if u do, I promise I'll buy one

You know........ You bring up a good point.

What about an ATX version w/ only 4 slots like mATX, but enough room for dual cpus and at least 6 slots for memory, maybe 12 (idk how that would fit)?

[jfromeo]

They told me sometime between March and April.

EVGA unveils its dual-socket 270-GT-W555 beast motherboard

Damn, I thought beforehand this year would be quite dull, hardware-wise. But in ~March we are getting:

ASUS Rampage III Extreme
EVGA 270-GT
Fermi series
i7-980X (32nm hexacores)

Yummy :P Who is going to pick three of them?

[Fitseries3]

so is there a list i need to get on to buy one of these mobos? im guessing it will be an evga exclusive.

price is going to be around $700 right?

[ulticool]

Did anybody measure the board or were any dimensions released?

Just curious.

/me takes sawzall to full tower case

[ShadowFox19]

Did anybody measure the board or were any dimensions released?

Just curious.

/me takes sawzall to full tower case

It's 381mm x 345mm...or 15in x 13.6in

[H2O]

It's 381mm x 345mm...or 15in x 13.6in

What standard is that? Too big to be XL ATX and too small to be WTX.