Friday, January 1st 2010
EVGA Prepares High-end Dual-LGA1366 Motherboard
EVGA is keeping up its streak of releasing high-end motherboards for processors based on the new Intel Nehalem architecture, with a new dual-socket monstrosity. Slated for CES 2010, not much about this high-end workstation motherboard has been revealed beyond the picture below. From the looks of it, probably EVGA is making a high-end, overclocker-friendly dual LGA-1366 motherboard based on the Intel 5500 "Tylersburg" chipset with the usual ICH10R southbridge. Existing LGA-1366 processors that support dual-socket operation which includes Xeon 5500 series may work on it. Probably, a future high-end Intel Core family CPU is released that is capable of dual-socket setups, too. The picture reveals two LGA-1366 sockets, each powered by an 8-phase digital PWM circuit. Each socket is wired to six DDR3 DIMM slots supporting triple-channel memory for that socket. More this CES.
Source:
EVGA Forums
54 Comments on EVGA Prepares High-end Dual-LGA1366 Motherboard
24 threads + 48GB of ram
add in a few fermis, and i bet it can run crysis :D
unless its about its performance on this awesome mobo
Been checking just about every day for new Nehalem-EX news :) Earlier I had heard that they're might be a cheaper version for 2P boxes (3 QPI links?), but it looks like you might just have to use the standard chip:
And for those who can 'live' with only 12 cores ;)
(I actually had a guy ask me "would a $1000 cpu make his internet run faster?")
i do agree though a pic of this full board would be nice and maybe a little bit of info on it as well
The main issue here remains the price of those mobos, which is kinda outrageous for the end-user...
Yes, they have been out a LONG time. Since like 8086 days i think (maybe older) but the problem is most if not all are for the IT crew and server junkies.
This board from eVGA is meant for the enthusiast consumer and its looking like it will be a Classified variant guessing from the color scheme. Also, it will most likely use consumer i7s instead of high priced Xeon server chips. Only some time will tell but ill be guessing that it support SLI or Crossfire too.