Monday, June 6th 2011

EVGA Readies Dual-LGA2011 X79 Motherboard

At this year's Computex event, we were treated to socket LGA2011 motherboards by various motherboard manufacturers, except EVGA. The company makes some of the highest grade enthusiast motherboards in the Intel platform, and so it was missed. It is however, said to be working on a monstrous dual-socket LGA2011 motherboard based on the Intel X79 chipset, that would replace its dual-socket LGA1366 EVGA SR-2.

Just imagine, such a monstrosity would combine two six/eight/twelve-core LGA2011 Sandy Bridge-E processors with eight channels of DDR3 memory, and four PCI-Express 3.0 x16 (electrical x16) links to drive its graphics cards and connectivity. EVGA said that it will have single-socket LGA2011 motherboards by the time the platform launches, and this dual-LGA2011 about a month later.
Source: TechReport
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34 Comments on EVGA Readies Dual-LGA2011 X79 Motherboard

#26
georgep001
I personally own a sr-2 that i purchased a few months ago did it all out 4 gtx 580s with 2 intel xeon 5650s and so on this is great news for anyone looking to upgrade me personally i only built my sr-2 for gaming and since right now there isnt a game i cant run i dont see the need to waiste money to go to this hopefully theyll still support the sr-2 and continue to give us bios updates etc.
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#27
Steven B
DriedFrogPillsWouldn't an NF200 or even two be a bottle neck on PCI-E 3 as it only runs at gen 2 bandwidth. And I am just guessing here but four x16 PCI-E 3 links means two X79's are lurking on this board
No they would use a server chipset instead of X79
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#28
georgep001
As others have already stated the nf200's have been working great with the sr-2 interms of no bottlenecks or issues my 4 gtx580's run great i am curious to see how there gonna do this now for the x79 chipset
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#29
DriedFrogPills
georgep001As others have already stated the nf200's have been working great with the sr-2 interms of no bottlenecks or issues my 4 gtx580's run great i am curious to see how there gonna do this now for the x79 chipset
Nf200 is fine for X58 but a bottleneck on X79. And as the article says X79 it's either going to be two X79's or the server version as was outlined in a post above
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#30
derwin75
DriedFrogPillsNf200 is fine for X58 but a bottleneck on X79. And as the article says X79 it's either going to be two X79's or the server version as was outlined in a post above
Maybe it will have the new NF300 instead of NF200 to overcome the bottleneck for X79 motherboard but I'm just guessing or dreaming though...Who know...LOL
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#31
erocker
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derwin75Maybe it will have the new NF300
Does that even exist?
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#32
derwin75
erockerDoes that even exist?
Who know....
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#33
raymond.johnson
randomWhat I would build if I had enough money for this monster,

2x 5.6ghz clocked 2011 CPU's
32GB Ram 8x4 2133mhz
3x 6990's or 4x GTX 580's Watercooled and OC'd
3x 2560x1600 monitors
1x Power Plant
why would yo bother with 3 monitors like that
why not just get that 6 monitor setup
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#34
Aquinus
Resident Wat-man
raymond.johnsonwhy would yo bother with 3 monitors like that
why not just get that 6 monitor setup
For first person shooters, 6 displays puts the crosshairs right on the monitor bezel. Wider view angle is better depending on what you're doing.
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