EVGA Unleashes Classified SR-2 Motherboard and Power Supply

[caleb]

I like evga's style. They don't care about the price but the goal. Considering there are phat ppl in the world why not ?

 

[Roph]

Could those SATA ports be positioned in a more annoying manner?

 

[WSP]

that is indeed a workstation motherboard, but I dont think it would fit into a server motherboard.

why would a server needs an onboard audio? an onboard gpu is more needed.
and overclocking feature in bios? not gonna do much good in server

put this puppy and slap 2 i7 980X, plus 3-way SLI GT470/480 and you have a crunching monster

 

[btarunr]

put this puppy and slap 2 i7 980X, plus 3-way SLI GT470/480 and you have a crunching monster

Put this puppy and slap 2 i7 980X and stare at a blank screen.

 

[Saakki]

Sick benchies with that MovieMan`s monstermachine @ xtremesys

 

[runnin17]

Put this puppy and slap 2 i7 980X and stare at a blank screen.

 

[jasper1605]

isn't this the mobo that fitseries is putting into his dream system?

 

[Frick]

have a card like this and without utility,it's pure bling .I have the biggest

On a forum like this, that's more than enough reason.

On the other hand, if you have it you might as well crunch with it.

 

[Salsoolo]

HPATX ?!

what kind of chassis this board will go in? i cant figure out.
the same goes for XLATX, i cant find a case for XL

 

[Deleted member 3]

Seems they are actually photos of motherboards that have been covered in, for instance on the blue one you can see SATA ports XD

Anyway Dan this board is not marketed for you, its marketed for High endservers/super computer builders and OTT enthusiasts.

You just described two uses that require reliability, yet it clearly states

Apart from a plethora of overclocker-friendly features at the hardware and BIOS levels, the board supports the proprietary EV-Bot module that helps on-the-fly overclocking.

My point being that I would prefer one at the price of the entry level 5500 boards (or even the 5520 used in this one) with the overclocking features. I guess we have to wait for Asus to do it now, and they have been less than reliable lately.

 

[epicfail]

isn't this the mobo that fitseries is putting into his dream system?

yes hes waiting for it to be released were suppose to contact him when its able to buy it, but he didnt give me his phone number lmao

 

[EarlZ]

If I had the $$$ to purchase this I would and hoping Dragon Age runs with DUAL socket ( just for giggles )

 

[Deleted member 3]

If I had the $$$ to purchase this I would and hoping Dragon Age runs with DUAL socket ( just for giggles )

Software is not aware of the number of sockets, it won't care whether you run a quad core or two dual cores. It's exactly the same as far as the software is concerned.

 

[MadClown]

Damn, I might have to get one of these, max out the ram, and load as many copies of Crysis that I can and see what happens.

 

[Completely Bonkers]

Oh dear, this thread sounds like a schoolboy trip to the local brothel. I'm with Dan on this, if you follow the 2 or 4 CPU market, this really isnt anything to get too excited about.

There are (IMO) much better value boards out there from ASUS, Tyan and Supermicro. Yes, the EVGA is interesting, but not at this super-premium price

 

[REVHEAD]

I am thinking about getting one, but are there any cases in the market atm that will take this puppy? If I was to build a system with this I think it would see me through untill cloud computing takes over, this will most likely be the last of its kind, high power consumption, high price, high specs ect ect, they wont build them like this again.

 

[InnocentCriminal]

Fits posted a link in another thread regarding this board to a MountainMods custom case.

 

[Breit]

Oh dear, this thread sounds like a schoolboy trip to the local brothel. I'm with Dan on this, if you follow the 2 or 4 CPU market, this really isnt anything to get too excited about.

There are (IMO) much better value boards out there from ASUS, Tyan and Supermicro. Yes, the EVGA is interesting, but not at this super-premium price

neither a tyan board nor a sm board will ever allow you to overclock, not even adjusting bclk... i think that indeed is a reason for some folks to go evga don't you think?

asus had its last dual-socket xeon board with mild oc-adjustments (fsb and vcore) with its Z7S-WS (look at my system specs) back in the days, but as far as i know there is nothing in the works right now for the nehalem/westmere flavored xeons...

 

[Completely Bonkers]

Good point. And also true about the s771 xeons; very few had any OC capability. Server and workstation boards are generally not designed for OC. The Z7S-WS did, but was horribly unstable IIRC and many people had warranty returns or just "gave-up".

My solution was to avoid the Z7S-WS and go with the very stable server ASUS DSEB and then do the BSEL FSB 1333 to 1600 OC.

 

[Breit]

my z7s-ws lasted for over 2 years now without complaining, but i know what you mean, i've read the storys over at xs too...

 

[Deleted member 3]

I only broke a single Z7S, which isn't much compared to some other people Due to some accident it ended up in my server ebing complete overkill, too lazy to swap it. Asus has had some enthusiast dual socket board for most generations, so I would not be surprised if they come with one anyway. The Z7S wasn't announced officially until after Skulltrail was on the market. They had the NCCH-DL, PCH-DL, PC-DL and whatnot before that.
Besides, being unable to overclock at all is new since the 5500's, and from what I understood it is a bug that is present in early x58 boards as well. (in fact, you can raise your bclk about 4mhz) Nearly all boards before that did allow adjustments to the FSB via pinmods and software.
And perhaps some other manufacturers will follow EVGA's example, Gigabyte had some 771 boards, so who knows.

 

[Assassin48]

I wouldn't doubt that Asus will bring out a Rampage version just like this Classified

 

[Icejon]

There is no decent chassis to support this for two reasons.

#1. This motherboard is too long for any chassis that's common. Taking measurements, HAF 932, no, ATCS 840 no, 800D no, TT Armor no, Antec 1200 no. The motherboard overlaps the hard drives area.

#2. This motherboard has a really bad/nonstandard heat sink I/O layout. This is because the motherboard's first PCI slot is 2 expansion slots lower than normal. The heatsink of the motherboards move the stuff down. This means when matched up with a chassis you LOSE 2 expansion slots. EVGA recommends 10 PCI slots and here is why

Imagine you have 7 PCI slots on a normal chassis HAF 932.
7 - 2 = equivalent to having 5 accessible PCI slots!
Say you have an 800D with 7 and a vent PCI slots same.

8 - 2 = 6 actual PCI slots (maybe enough for 2 cards)
9 - 2 = 7 PCI slots which brings us to normal level ATX functionality

10 - 2 = 8 PCI slots actual!

This is madness, and EVGA is not Sparta.