EVGA Classified SR-2 fits twin six-core Xeon processors

Not to pick on you or anything, but I have noticed that all of your comments are formatted in the '6th grade girl' font. Why is that?

Back on topic. I do not keep up on server-side hardware, so how does this compare to current server motherboards? I would imagine servers have mobos similar to or better than this already available, and if that is the case, then this would theoretically be targeting consumers. As others have stated, what kind of consumer could possibly make use of this?

I wonder if crysis runs better on two xeons or a core i7.

Maybe it will be like dual channel memory vs triple channel memory where games benefit just because there is an extra channel to communicate with the memory not that it actually needs this much bandwidth(marginal performance gains) and anyway I dont know how a xeon would compare to an i7 in gaming

Yah i noticed that too..... its a bit annoying really rskapadia2294

Don't mean to pick on ur tho.

Ok on to topic

O_O WOW! That's one hell of a motherboard. I want a build with that for my graphic design computer at work

OMG thats a beast!! I think I'm in love holy freaking O.O wow makky someone probably already said it but this is gonna be amazing for servers! Damn they even made a new form factor :0 that's insane if this goes in to the market :| I don't know what I would do with myself I mean it has everything you could possible think of that you would want out of a motherboard I mean omg I'm looking at the southbridge right now smexy!! I can go on forever about this mobo "48GB of DDR3 1333MHz RAM" :| right now I think 8GB would be too much 48GB!!?! why? this is too much for me omg I'm in awe. Holy crap! This is not real lol I love technology!!!

The only reason that I can see for such horsepower in a home computer, is to render movies/graphical objects. My son complains sometimes even about his Core i7 920 setup when it takes forever to render complex objects for animations. I use old C2D 8400 to edit photos and it's somewhat sluggish applying filters in Photoshop. However, I'm not ready to drop that much money for a rig that would not be used for professional purposes - would rather get another camera body or a lens. But that's just me.

The pricing and feature set actually seem to stack up quite well alongside the the other dual socket boards. Factor in the ability to use non-ECC RAM (considerably cheaper) and the quality of the (over)power delivery, overclocking ability (which server boards typically lack), SATA 6Gb and USB3 and the board would make an attractive hybrid personal workstation. If you use heavily multi-threaded apps (graphics, CAD etc, folding) or are interested in obliterating benchmark records then I can see the attaction. For EVGA it is mission accomplished- a niche product that has, and will continue to garner PR attention out of all proportion to the number of people who will ever own one - a refined and better marketed Skulltrail.

Completely insane, I'll wait five years before this becomes "standard" and then buy it.

WOW!

Sorry, i think i was pulled into that whirlwind (or black hole who knows!) ...
yes, would make a perfect machine that has no use to me, hey someone said folding @ home, yeah why not, I'm at 14 jobs done till now, maybe i would be able to go over a 100 in less than a day with that 1.

Maybe for Crysis 5 (no way, 4 will maxx it out) .... but then what will they come up to in 6 months?

will check out then.

thank you techspot for the share!

cheers!

Oh my goodness, WOW, that is makeing me drool, i want that board... I want too see that thing boot Server 2008 R2... i bet that would be killer for any app, or game. (some day i would like to order that for my system)

I have no idea what to do with this motherboard nor can I afford it. But I want it. I will buy one and put it on my credit card because people always use a credit card to pay for things that they can't afford. So I am doing what society is expected of me. Seriously, if I had the money to burn, I would buy it just to brag about it. Good going EVGA.

Oh-my-god... I've been waiting to see a dual or quad processor board just show up. It was something I considered 10 years ago. Just insane. I'd need T-1 to do this any justice.

This reminds me of the time I went shopping for my first computer and wound up calling Sun. Too much stuff! Way out of my league!

thanks for the explanation. I was curious why it didn't work with the 9xx series.

Woah. This is a monster for the ages. 48 gigs of ram, 12 processors. I don't see how this will be surpassed anywhere in the next 10 years. Don't get me wrong I know that roughly every 6 months capability doubles, but when we hit 4 gigs of ram and 3.2ghz duel core processors we started to think we were cresting the wave of human perception and speed of the machine. Now we've proven that wrong just look at vista and its ability to turn that figure into a whimpering child thats lagged out in the corner. But come on fellas, I was just sweating over the new gateway fx series with 16gigs of ram and the i7 quad core. THAT machines not likely to be outclassed by your run of the mill machines for at least another 5 years and its what 1/3 the capabilities of this mobo? Going by that logic whoever buys this motherboard will have it melt down and turn to dust before it gets matched by any of the major "consumer" companies daily/performance computers, find out its lifetime, because thats about the only limitation this thing seems to have in the foreseeable next decade.

I want one, the funny thing is, even a beast of a mobo like this, will still run crysis like crap.

D*MN is all i can say, (drooling)......

Not sure if anyone mentioned it but yes, "mountain mods" not only makes their gargantuous cube cases that will fit this mobo but they make a special rear end mount for it as well.

My next build will be in a mountain mod case since they will hold absolutely any hardware on the market today and in the foreseeable future.

ok ok ok!!!! Is this going to hit the market or what? I wanna see some benches please!! I love you EVGA!

Hunt around there are a few SR-2 's up and running
Xtremesystems (start from post #471) have a few members with the board as do EVGA's forum guys I believe. These people are basically beta testers for the board which is why no tech site has the board for review yet.

A CPU-Z validation here

You can play ALL the games at the same time

To see this motherboard loaded out and benched on water.....

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/home/dream_machine_2010