EVGA dual-socket LGA-1366 m/b

[Dr Mordrid]

Dual Quad cores? The mind boggles

http://www.tcmagazine.com/comments.php?shownews=31767&catid=2

Keeping PC enthusiasts on their toes, EVGA has provided a peek at a new motherboard which it will present next week at CES 2010. As you can see below, EVGA has made a dual socket LGA 1366 board, one that's said to have all the bells and whistles of a Classified series product (overclocking feature galore) so to please extreme users.

Digital power seems to be in, you have six memory slots per socket, and most likely enough PCI-Express slots for SLI (3-way/Quad SLI) and CrossFireX setups. No comment on price tag, let's just wait for CES and see the whole picture.

[Tjalfe]

why not dual hex cores?

.. now show me something useful to do with all these cores, besides bragging rights

[Dr Mordrid]

3D and video rendering, physics, maths, engineering, architecture etc. etc. I'd probably use them in our rendering farm (12 systems and counting)

[Evildead666]

From what I've read today, there will only be 32nm cores without GPU's as Xeons.
Or Maybe the Extreme(ly) expensive editions.

They apparently overclock a lot better than the 45nm parts.

This will be for new Alienware systems and such I suspect....

edit : Hex core = 24 Threads !!!! or 16 with just quads...

[Evildead666]

Piccy if the whole board.

A BIG beast.

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showpost.php?p=4183046&postcount=85

writeup here at SemiAccurate.

http://www.semiaccurate.com/2010/01/04/evgas-dual-socket-lga-1366-gets-pictured/

edit : added piccy

[Evildead666]

Looks like the CPU's will talk to each other directly, and that the NB is only possibly connected to one CPU.....adds an extra 'hop' for one CPU to access certain things....

Could be a server chipset, but then you would need two QPI links per chip, therefore a Xeon DP chip. (One to NB and the other to the other CPU)

Would be the sort of machine 7 water cooled 295's would look good and have a folding machine that would kill everything else.

edit : Or the sort of thing you imagine could be in a Very High end Apple Workstation....(Alienware probably tho)

[Jammrock]

The chipset used for Nehalem-based servers is based off the X58 so this is not much of a surprise. My work has a handful of dual quad-core Nahelem based servers and they are crazy fast.

Since it's X58 (or newer) based it looks like triple channel RAM is there as well. If the chipset is the same as the server chipsets each CPU has its own path to the NB.

http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=37111&processor=X5570&spec-codes=SLBF3

[Evildead666]

Eyewatering price, even for people with Extreme edition 1K/CPU budgets.

Its pretty hard to see how the cpu on the right gets routed to the NB.
Maybe its a 8 or 10-layer board.

[Evildead666]

The current Alienware cases won't take it by the looks of things :

edit : They're both mATX boards so no, it won't fit.

[TransformX]

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Asus-supercomputer-motherboard-P6T7,7720.html

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/asus-nehalem-xeon-motherboard,7211.html

[Dr Mordrid]

These things will be fast enough to smoke tires

I want 'em. Yesterday.