EVGA teases dual-socket LGA2011 SR-X
EVGA's teaser image reveals a production-ready design for its dual-processor SR-X, but the company is still silent on pricing.
Promising 'more details soon,' the company posted a teaser image of a production-status SR-X board complete with its final heatsink design to microblogging service Twitter to keep its fans assured that development continues apace.
The image shows that EVGA has, unsurprisingly, chosen to cover all voltage regulator modules (VRMs) in aggressive-looking heatsinks, while the chipset itself gets a surprisingly compact yet wide-area heatsink of its own to keep things cool during overclocking.
The picture reveals 12 memory slots, eight situated in two banks of four by the first processor socket and an additional two banks of two by the second, which suggests support for a total of 96GB of DDR3 memory for those that can afford it.
Seven PCI-Express 3.0 slots are included, all of which appear to be full 16x slots and which are known to include support for both Nvidia's SLI and AMD's CrossfireX multi-GPU capabilities. As is becoming increasingly common on high-end enthusiast boards, switches for disabling individual PCIe slots are provided for improved stability when overclocking. EVGA has also added voltage read points.
Designed for use with Intel's Sandy Bridge-EP Xeon processors, the board requires plenty of power. Both CPU sockets have an eight pin and a six pin power connector each, although two of these can be left disconnected if only a single CPU is used.
Additional features rounding out the board include six SATA and four SAS ports, two eSATA ports, six USB 3.0 ports, and dual gigabit Ethernet ports. EVGA has also previously confirmed that its EVBot tweaking tool will be fully supported by the board.
What EVGA isn't sharing, however, is potentially the most crucial point of all: the price. With buyers having to invest in the high-end server-oriented Sandy Bridge-EP Xeon series of chips in order to make use of the dual socket design, a system with the SR-X at its heart is unlikely to come cheap.
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http://www.anandtech.com/show/5379/evga-plans-to-enter-the-psu-market-with-the-nex-psu
Wonder how much more than the SR-2 this board will be.... I guess that'll depend on uptake and the price of the Asus model they are rumoured to be planning...
They're developing their own range of PSUs; the 'NEX' series, one of which is 1500w model I expect is designed for this board.
Edit: Big lottery win...lol
the 1 awesome use i see this for is as a CUDA server. put 4 tesla GPUs in sli and something like 2 i7 980x and you've got one hell of a powerful multi-purpose server.
... and folding....
And 3d rendering... and video editing...
No OC. Xeons don't have overclocking. Look at Xeon E3 (Sandy Bridge) if you need an example.
If you have to ask, you can't afford it...
You are really willing to pay all of that to do folding? Also, you can't handle waiting a few more minutes for rendering or encoding?
Yes - sort of.
Personally, it'd be for my own high end gaming/folding and SQL server machine, but I'm not even going to consider it until AFTER Xmas, to let the market settle down, and then the next-next gen gpus come out. Ideally I'll be consolidating 2 machines into 1, in a custom desk build, but that's the dream... 12 months time might be a different reality. :)
To release this for god's sake and the Xeon's to go with it, I even have the PSU and Case all ready for it :D
Yea my MM case could take it and I have the right mobo tray as well :D But it is big 24"x24"x24"
would I spend it to shave a few minutes off a render... no... but if the difference was hours [as would be the case in a complex scene or animation], and/or it was the difference between hitting a deadline or not... then yes I'd consider it...
Antec P280, Lian Li ARMORSUIT PC-P80R, Lian Li PC-P80N, Lian Li PC-Z70 just to name a few.
I won't be buying a Strider PSU. 80 plus silver isn't that efficient when you are using over 2 KW spread over 2 PSUs. I will be going for a pair of 80 plus platinum PSUs (I haven't decided exactly which yet). Over the lifetime of the system, that extra 8-10% efficiency will more than pay for the cost :)
Nobody is really sure yet. Some people with ES chips have stated that hey couldn't be overclocked, by bclk or multiplier. Others have claimed they can change the bclk ratio. So until we see them in the wild we won't know.
I will be using one. It'll serve two functions. First, it's an unusual setup for some extreme overclocking (I believe they can be overclocked, otherwise why would EVGA have put so much money into developing an overclockable board?). Second, it'll be a perfect folding machine, and will have the power to do anything else I ask of it.
I won't be building the system immediately on release, it'll take me a few months to buy the main parts, but I hope to have it up and running before the end of the summer (and by then there will be plenty of reports about which chips are good for overclocking).
And LOOK AT THE SIZE OF IT!
Is that what you expect it to cost? Do you have a link to back it up? It's significantly cheaper than I am expecting if that is the price :)
I'm willing to spend that much for folding. Well, sort of. It's my intention over the next couple of years to build a range of top end systems for most (all?) 64-bit x86 platforms (Intel and AMD). A lot of them will be purely for benching, but the fastest of them will be folding rigs :)
LOL, I would sell my neighbours house to build a better folding farm! Not sure that the council would be too happy though :D
I have the case ready for it. Bought a Little Devil, although it's certainly not "Little" :)
Both CPUs get quad-channel memory. CPU 0 gets two banks with 4 channels each, and CPU 1 gets 1 bank with 4 channels.
Who says computers have to get smaller every year? I've been looking at a Caselabs case that's big enough to sleep in (and fit 2 SR-X based systems with dozens of drives and more than enough rads for pretty much anyone). I might buy one for a later build :)
Yup thats the case I have :D;) Although what is this Caselabs case you speak of? I love there cases.
I've got an Enermax Platimax as I know that it can pull WAYYYYYYYYYY more than what it says on the tin under load if need's be, the 1350W unit could pull 1700W for christs sake! While remaining within ATX spec of course :D
I've got the memory for it ready as well, 2 x 16Gb Corsair Dominator GT 2133Mhz kits :D I'm doing exactly the same as you debs and building myself like an ULTIMATE system, partially to obliterate Simon's score in Geekbench, but also to speed up my video rendering and 3d modelling work that I do ;)
However I vote this thread be closed before Simon sees it! :p
However, I've just built a watercooled FT03 system with a M4G-Z Gen3, 2500k and a 580, so no point shelling out more money :(
but it does have a SAS interface and two lovely well positioned sas ports - i would deffo use some fast SAS disks if I were to shell out for one of these.
It looks fricking awesome. Not sure if I should change cases now for this build :?
you could build a few rigs and have a lot better farm going if you build anyways.. but it's always cool to see the top end.. I know star will probably get it and looks like unicorn is saving up
off topic.. but Tattysnuc's name- is everyone else reading that as tattynutsacks? maybe it's just me
I'd get it, then DICE it and benchmark the balls off it, just for the Geekbench scores. That's how much I want to win. Sadly pure greed doesn't fill my wallet with the money needed at the end of the day. Not Legal greed, at least.
Glad someone else had the same thoughts that I did about one of these, I can't wait to obliterate TG's score in geekbench :D with two 8 core E5 2687W CPU's ;)
I keep seeing it that way too. It has something to do with the way brains can process letters out of sequence. Even though not all the letters are present, there is enough of them scrambled in to trick the brain into making a sense of the jumbled letters.
htis si hyw mose pleope acn drea tsih netences...
even at a fairly normal pace.
Don't be ridiculous no they can't:D
They don't have overclocking because the manufacturers don't make overclocking boards for them.
http://www.evga.com/articles/00537/
That runs 1366 Xeons.
Sure, you can do a limited overclock with the changing the base clock like you do with X79, but that is about it. The primary issue is that you won't have unlocked multipliers, and that means you will be very, very limited in overclocking, which will pretty much equal to no OC.