Which case could hold this mobo?
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Doesn't look to be larger than normal. You can tell by the mounting holes. IDK why the article calls it an EATX as those are 12" wide by 13" deep. That looks to be the standard 12 x 10 deep - though some ATX mobos have been made shorter than normal recently, so it depends on your frame of reference... OOOPS, now that I do more comparing, it looks WIDER than normal by a couple of inches, maybe 15" instead of 12". Almost no case I know of could tolerate that due to the PCI card spacing, so I'm guessing they'll be bundling it with a custom case as they make those too. Due to this discovery, the following can and should be ignored.
The Rosewill R5600 series I've been recommending forever would hold it and the 4 vid cards, no problem. As will the C-M 690 and 631 I have here - maybe even the old Wave Master. Many cases should as the vid cards aren't even as long as the mobo is deep - IOW, less than 10" long.
Foxconn isn't a big enough force in the PC market yet to make something that won't fit in existing cases. The card slots are arranged differently, but not so much that the cards don't line up with the standard spacing.
.bh.
The Rosewill R5600 series I've been recommending forever would hold it and the 4 vid cards, no problem. As will the C-M 690 and 631 I have here - maybe even the old Wave Master. Many cases should as the vid cards aren't even as long as the mobo is deep - IOW, less than 10" long.
Foxconn isn't a big enough force in the PC market yet to make something that won't fit in existing cases. The card slots are arranged differently, but not so much that the cards don't line up with the standard spacing.
.bh.
Look carefully at the bottom pic, theres 10 slots and normal mobo's have a maximum of 7.
While its not as wide as eatx boards, its vertically stretched.
While its not as wide as eatx boards, its vertically stretched.
Board #1
Ok, nitpick - how do you know which slots to populate to get dual channel? All of the slots are red and all have the same offset distance. And what's under those two extruded copper heatsinks (not referring to the piped waterblocks).
Board #2
Looks awfully ASUS-like, other than the red Quantum Force shield in the place of the usual blue ASUS logo. Did Foxconn really build that themselves? Or did they contract ASUS to make it (which would be amusing if true)? It also possible they ripped off the color scheme from the Bad Axes, which I guess Intel contracted them to make :evil:.
I'm more used to seeing midnight blue or red boards from Foxconn.
Board #3
No comment. (it's a Phenom board)
Ok, nitpick - how do you know which slots to populate to get dual channel? All of the slots are red and all have the same offset distance. And what's under those two extruded copper heatsinks (not referring to the piped waterblocks).
Board #2
Looks awfully ASUS-like, other than the red Quantum Force shield in the place of the usual blue ASUS logo. Did Foxconn really build that themselves? Or did they contract ASUS to make it (which would be amusing if true)? It also possible they ripped off the color scheme from the Bad Axes, which I guess Intel contracted them to make :evil:.
I'm more used to seeing midnight blue or red boards from Foxconn.
Board #3
No comment. (it's a Phenom board)
I don't know of one.
that really bothers me because there has to be one, i just don't know that I've ever seen a case with 10 expansion slots.
Must find one.....
that really bothers me because there has to be one, i just don't know that I've ever seen a case with 10 expansion slots.
Must find one.....
Thank you, I knew there had to be at least one chassis.
EDIT: Wait, no, won't work, those lower HDD bays are in the way of the lowest three slots, you could use them for USB headers or the such but, not for a longer motherboard.
What he said...
There are some server cases that support 12-slot backplanes. CPU, etc. are on a board that plugs into the backplane. Actually the Tts above are variants on the same case but I guess that's about it for now.
.bh.
There are some server cases that support 12-slot backplanes. CPU, etc. are on a board that plugs into the backplane. Actually the Tts above are variants on the same case but I guess that's about it for now.
.bh.
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those look like barbs which stick out the rear.
LOL.. i dont know why they would do something like that. Id figure you'd want the barbs on the inside and not outside.
Also, the board looks like a must watercool board. The sinks are just copper tubes which as i said contact the NB and other chipsets. There isnt much copper to keep the mosfets cool from what im seeing. And if those are water tubes, they will be terrible unless they have water inside it to cool.
The board looks like an absolute monster. Most definitely something ATI/Intel has brewing to combat the 790i.
Okey off topic, but wht is greater? 4 x Xfire?? or tri-SLI?
lets leave quad sli out of this becuase only 1 board can do this:
skull trail can support 4x pci-e's but let leave systems whose price tag carries a 5 digit number out of this...
LOL.. i dont know why they would do something like that. Id figure you'd want the barbs on the inside and not outside.
Also, the board looks like a must watercool board. The sinks are just copper tubes which as i said contact the NB and other chipsets. There isnt much copper to keep the mosfets cool from what im seeing. And if those are water tubes, they will be terrible unless they have water inside it to cool.
The board looks like an absolute monster. Most definitely something ATI/Intel has brewing to combat the 790i.
Okey off topic, but wht is greater? 4 x Xfire?? or tri-SLI?
lets leave quad sli out of this becuase only 1 board can do this:
skull trail can support 4x pci-e's but let leave systems whose price tag carries a 5 digit number out of this...
The lower HDD bays are removeable, so it's no problem to use a larger motherboard:
http://www.thermaltake.com/pro.../XaserVI/vg4000bns.asp
http://www.thermaltake.com/pro..._innerStructure_14.gif
Lian-Li's PC-P80 has ten expansion slots... So did the original Cosmos, I think, but not the Cosmos S. Foxconn was showing off its own cases for that mobo [they call it "Ultra-ATX] at CeBIT.
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