Monday, January 4th 2010
EVGA Dual LGA-1366 Motherboard Pictured
The recently surfaced high-end dual socket LGA-1366 motherboard is pictured in full, without its cooling assembly. The picture reveals quite a bit about EVGA's new monstrosity. To begin with, the motherboard is neither ATX, nor EATX in the truest sense. Like the recently announced X58 Classified 4-way SLI which was based on the "XL-ATX" form-factor, this motherboard seems to be 13.58 inches (344.93 mm) long, and about as wide as EATX (330 mm, 13 inches), or maybe a little more.
Each LGA-1366 socket is wired to six DDR3 DIMM slots for triple-channel memory, and is powered by an 8-phase digital-PWM circuit. Each socket further has a 3-phase power circuit for its DIMM slots. The CPU VRM for each socket takes input from an 8-pin ATX, and what appears to be a 6-pin +12V (PCI-E?) connector. The motherboard further takes power from a 6-pin PCI-E power connector apart from the usual 24-pin ATX power connector. Some of these inputs may be redundant and needed only for additional electrical stability to support competitive overclocking.
At the heart of the board is what appears to be an Intel 5500 "Tylersburg" or Intel X58, paired with an Intel ICH10-class southbridge. All of its SATA 3 Gb/s ports are located next to it, while a Marvell-made SATA 6 Gb/s controller provides two additional ports. There are seven PCI-Express 2.0 x16 slots in all, driven by four x16 links over two NVIDIA nForce 200 bridge chips. The exact lane distribution is not known. There seem to be two gigabit Ethernet controllers, 8-channel audio, eSATA, USB 3.0, and EV-Bot support. More about the board may surface during the CES event.
Source:
XtremeSystems Forums
Each LGA-1366 socket is wired to six DDR3 DIMM slots for triple-channel memory, and is powered by an 8-phase digital-PWM circuit. Each socket further has a 3-phase power circuit for its DIMM slots. The CPU VRM for each socket takes input from an 8-pin ATX, and what appears to be a 6-pin +12V (PCI-E?) connector. The motherboard further takes power from a 6-pin PCI-E power connector apart from the usual 24-pin ATX power connector. Some of these inputs may be redundant and needed only for additional electrical stability to support competitive overclocking.
77 Comments on EVGA Dual LGA-1366 Motherboard Pictured
While I couldn't use any of the EATX cases that I already have, there is luckily one from Supermicro that I like, and maybe another one or two from other manufacturers that I could tolerate.
But the cherry on top of the cake are those 4 PCI-E full x16! Imagine 4 x 5970 in CFX! Damn, playing on 3 or 6 monitors never seems so sweet!
The question is tho, what PSU do you need in order to power the above setup??????
well the NB will run hot for sure with 2 CPU's and RAM in 12 slots .... :eek:
and about the PSU ... well it will need the highest rated PSU out there for sure at least a 1000W minumum ... 3 x 6-pin + 2 x 8-pin :roll: thats one heckuva MOBO ...
"Omg omg, pwettyyyy". Suffice to say, squashing your face like that is more effective than clearasil.
i deam 2010 "year of the 10 slot mobos" !!!
i cant wait to get one of these boards.
from my experience i can say a 1000watt psu would be plenty for this mobo and a few decent gpus.
It's a very neatly organised mainboard. Someone has put a lot of effort in to style and organisation, excepting that the RAM slots are very close to the CPU slots and will crowd out a lot of third party silent coolers. Shame. This is a problem for a lot of 5500 series mainboards.
edit: wait, it would make more sense like fitseries said to run 7 single slot gpus. which would probably yield about the same as 4 gtx295s or whatever.
this board will not support i7 cpus.
you will have to have xeons with dual QPI for this mobo
If both CPUs were also running -big adv projects, wouldn't that potentially be somewhere upwards of 130K+ PPD total?
Of course, you would need a case capable of housing the monster of a MB as well as the 3 PSUs you would need to feed everything, AND the nuclear grade cooling system. Hmm... might as well just turn the spare bedroom into a computer case... yeah, a case with a ceiling fan and it's own closet :rockout: