EVGA dual socket desktop motherboard.

[tweakboy]

Whatever happened to this EVGA dual cpu socket for desktops. I saw a picture of it,, it obviously wasn't a fake. I should have saved the darn picture cuz I dont know where I got it from.

Imagine putting in 2 2600k @ 5ghz wow,,,,,,,,, Will 2015 bring us dual socket ubber motherboards. Or sooner ?

 

[nehalem256]

I wouldnt get my hopes up for a desktop dual socket CPUs. Given the prevalence of multi-core cpus, the number of individuals who would buy such are minimal.

And it would cut into their selling of Xeon/Opteron CPUs reducing profits.

 

[Rubycon]

Whatever happened to this EVGA dual cpu socket for desktops. I saw a picture of it,, it obviously wasn't a fake. I should have saved the darn picture cuz I dont know where I got it from.

Imagine putting in 2 2600k @ 5ghz wow,,,,,,,,, Will 2015 bring us dual socket ubber motherboards. Or sooner ?

Ok so when you see a picture of something on the internet it's automatically real, right?

Dual sockets need Xeons to function.
The EVGA SR-2 and SR-X motherboards work with some desktop CPUs but only in one socket. For dual it requires more expensive processors.

I personally see little point in the SR-X from a high end enthusiast point of view particularly with high end water cooling. The chips are locked and there is no overclocking whatsoever.

Unless this changes (Intel making an enthusiast Xeon that would probably retail north of $2k U.S.D.!) I don't see the appeal of this board.

 

[vailr]

Supposed to be what an updated Mac Pro is predicted to have.
So: someone looking to save money might want to use a dual-socket Xeon board as the basis for a Hackintosh.

 

[nenforcer]

Whatever happened to this EVGA dual cpu socket for desktops. I saw a picture of it,, it obviously wasn't a fake. I should have saved the darn picture cuz I dont know where I got it from.

Imagine putting in 2 2600k @ 5ghz wow,,,,,,,,, Will 2015 bring us dual socket ubber motherboards. Or sooner ?

This is the original SR-2 from a couple of years ago.

Your talking about the SR-X which is available right now.

In fact, both motherboards are available for sale right now from EVGA.com.

 

[Rubycon]

This is the original SR-2 from a couple of years ago.

Your talking about the SR-X which is available right now.

In fact, both motherboards are available for sale right now from EVGA.com.

Yes but they do not take desktop CPUs as the OP described.

 

[RampantAndroid]

Yes but they do not take desktop CPUs as the OP described.

Better, why on earth would we WANT dual desktop CPU boards? Growth of cores on die is enough that dual CPUs costs more than you gain on the desktop.

 

[ShintaiDK]

Whatever happened to this EVGA dual cpu socket for desktops. I saw a picture of it,, it obviously wasn't a fake. I should have saved the darn picture cuz I dont know where I got it from.

Imagine putting in 2 2600k @ 5ghz wow,,,,,,,,, Will 2015 bring us dual socket ubber motherboards. Or sooner ?

Plenty of LGA1366/LGA2011 dualsocket server and workstation boards.

And LGA1155, LGA1150, LGA1156 etc cant support dualsocket nomatter how much you hope for it.

 

[T_Yamamoto]

Better, why on earth would we WANT dual desktop CPU boards? Growth of cores on die is enough that dual CPUs costs more than you gain on the desktop.

It'll be a poor mans Extreme edition.

 

[RampantAndroid]

It'll be a poor mans Extreme edition.

Really though? The mainboard isn't cheap, and you need to buy 2x as much RAM since you need two banks. Plus, a new case as it is a different form factor.

 

[PCTC2]

It'll be a poor mans Extreme edition.

Really though? The mainboard isn't cheap, and you need to buy 2x as much RAM since you need two banks. Plus, a new case as it is a different form factor.

It's the rich man's extreme edition. 16 cores that can turbo over 3 GHz, and the ability to easily have 96 GB of RAM (12*8GB for the SR-X)

Unnecessary? Yes.
Awesome for some? Yes.

Some of us could really use 16 core/32 thread monsters like this as a workstation for day-to-day work. Strong discrete graphics, and the resources to virtualize AND still have a full workload is nice. (The Asus Z9PE-D8 would be another choice).

I bought my X8DTH-6F over 2 years ago now. Sure, it can only turbo to 2.53GHz, but it had 8 cores / 16 threads and 6 channels of DDR3 in a land of 4-core Extreme Editions. It has integrated graphics, but it also has 7 PCIe x16 slots. I can easily virtualize 10 environments and still have RAM and processing power to run anything in my workflow. There are uses for these monsters, but it's not for most. But I think the price makes that obvious.

 

[RampantAndroid]

It's the rich man's extreme edition. 16 cores that can turbo over 3 GHz, and the ability to easily have 96 GB of RAM (12*8GB for the SR-X)

Unnecessary? Yes.
Awesome for some? Yes.

Some of us could really use 16 core/32 thread monsters like this as a workstation for day-to-day work. Strong discrete graphics, and the resources to virtualize AND still have a full workload is nice. (The Asus Z9PE-D8 would be another choice).

I bought my X8DTH-6F over 2 years ago now. Sure, it can only turbo to 2.53GHz, but it had 8 cores / 16 threads and 6 channels of DDR3 in a land of 4-core Extreme Editions. It has integrated graphics, but it also has 7 PCIe x16 slots. I can easily virtualize 10 environments and still have RAM and processing power to run anything in my workflow. There are uses for these monsters, but it's not for most. But I think the price makes that obvious.

I guess I don't see why this is better than two Xeons, or two 2011 SB-Es. On my workstations at work, I've got one that's a quad core SB with Hyperthreading and 16 GB of RAM, and I can easily run 8 VMs simultaneously (not stressing them all at once, but all of them booted) until I want to debug code on one, and need to bump its CPU power up a bit and give it a few cores.

 

[PCTC2]

I guess I don't see why this is better than two Xeons, or two 2011 SB-Es. On my workstations at work, I've got one that's a quad core SB with Hyperthreading and 16 GB of RAM, and I can easily run 8 VMs simultaneously (not stressing them all at once, but all of them booted) until I want to debug code on one, and need to bump its CPU power up a bit and give it a few cores.

It is 2 Xeons. The difference is that it isn't the same as Workstation/Server parts you get from manufacturers like Supermicro. The eVGA board is SLI certified and meant as the ultimate GAMING workstation. The eVGA SR-X only takes SB-E Xeons. The SR-2 only takes Nehalem/Westmere Xeons. It's just a different class of workstation for the power user.