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
How exactly does an "XL-ATX" board fit into a case? Would it work with a case that holds EATX?
im just illistrating the size of the mobo tray in the pic.
mountainmods and a few other companies are already making 10 slot cases.
im telling you guys... 2010 is year of the 10 slot mobos... you can take my word on it.
asus has a rampage III extreme on the way that is a 10 slot mobo and has dual nf200s which will allow you to run 4 gpus at 16x
EATX signifies a mobo that is wider than the normal ATX boards(more mobo past the 2nd set of screws on the 24pin power connector side of a mobo)
So are you going to get one Fit?
i already have a really cool case that can house 2 psu's, PLENTY of radiator to cool everything....
i just lack the money haha
EVGA xeon mobo
7 GTX 260 single slot video cards
2-4 Delta Fans, Benchtable setup.
4x Corsair TX 750watt PSU's Set Neatly ziptied to stay clean.
2x Xeons i9's, doing 3.8-4.0ghz on 2 seperate Looped 360-240 rads.
And you got your self a folder.
2x3gb triplechannel sets of some nice 1600Mhz ram?
Or Get 900+ bucks in water blocks, 2x 480Rads, Silly loop for 7 GTX 295 video cards.
1512 folding card cores, 24 folding Processor cores.= EPIC PPD.
Just leave that sucker on a big bench table in the garage, and such, and check on it once in a while. Delta fans wont blow threw insulated walls at sleep :).
Also If you get Really silly. You can go by 900+ bucks in water blocks for some GTX 295's and have a huge 480+480 rad loop cooling 14 240 core GPU'z which would = 3360 shaders.
The max you can have on this mobo
i have more than enough watercooling gear... more than you mentioned. over $1800 in stuff actually.
if i had the money i would have 4x gt300's which will put out more PPD than 6 gtx295s and still fit in the allocated space and still fit the power envelope that 2 enermax 1050watt psu's that i have can provide.
i plan on having 2 6core cpus along with 12gb of ram and at the least.. very least.. 3 gt300's
yes it will drain my wallet faster than elliot spitzers hooker but i will have one HELL of a rig that will likely blow anyone out of the water.
EDIT:
2 140x4 hwlabs gtx560s
1 140x2 hwlabs gtx280
EVGA has the upper hand and show no signs of remorse.
you also have to remember though... the 6core cpus will likely come close to dual quads clocked slower. so its not THAT far off.
besides... cpu isnt a bottleneck if you use it for CUDA and folding apps.... its only a bottleneck in benchmarks
you have to use chips with dual QPI links.