Wednesday, March 4th 2009
Seven PCI-Express Slot X58 ASUS Motherboard Shown at CeBIT
Yes, you read the title correctly, on their stand at CeBIT, ASUS has a motherboard on show featuring seven full length PCI-Express slots. Four operate at full x16 speed, whilst the remaining three are at 8x speed. This has been achieved through the use of Intel's X58 chipset and the addition of two NVIDIA NF200 chips. Dubbed the P6T7 WS Supercomputer, it has been said to be the, "best choice for intensive parallel computing demand." Although no details yet on availability or pricing, the board is confirmed to support up to 24 GB RAM through six DDR3 slots, six SATA ports, two SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) and two eSATA ports and the usual 7.1 onboard sound and gigabit ethernet. The featured shot shows the board "naked" so to speak but due to this, you can see how ASUS have crammed the northbridge, southbridge and two NVIDIA chips into the bottom right corner of the board. This has given the space for the seven PCI-E slots, though it will require some sort of low profile cooling solution so as not to obstruct the installation of any graphics cards.
Sources:
TechConnect, Computerbase
80 Comments on Seven PCI-Express Slot X58 ASUS Motherboard Shown at CeBIT
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septuple cfx/sli?
Its what is used on officially supporting SLI X58 mobos, to support TRI-SLI. Two from X58, one from NF200.
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But in all seriousness, it would really depend on what cards you put in. Not like you can fit seven GTX295s
As for the board itself - I now have two choices when I upgrade, the P6T6 and the P6T7! Besides the awesome amount of PCIe (which means no PCI thankfully), there's no IDE, floppy, and the backplane looks pretty good.
Seriously though, as others have said this is a folder's dream motherboard.. 7 9800GT's would make for a F@H monster I'm sure
I could see though why they used full slot pci-e though. Even smaller pci-e connectors can use these and if you needed a bigger slot for a sound card or whatever this can accomodate it.