not sure if its been already posted but scan have the SR-X up for pre order i want one http://www.scan.co.uk/products/evga...dr3-4-way-sli-plus-crossfirex-sata3-usb3-hptx cant wait to see some of the mods people come up with for this ( although they would likely have to sell a kidney and the first born child to afford it + the xeons ) at £563 it dont come cheap ( although thats pocket change to what the xeons will come to )
I'm amazed they've even bothered to use air cooling. They should just supply waterblocks for the price.
Depends one one's use really, there's obviously still going to be people who just want to get an air cooled workstation set up. Waterblocks would probably add another ~£100 considering their size.
Heh, I've been tempted to go dual socket for a long time. I'll have to check on these back when I go home for the Summer. They're about 40% more expensive in the UK so no thanks A pair of E5-2687W's would be amazing. But the motherboard and two CPU's alone will be around $2700. Ouch.
Only two sata. Aye, but also two sas, which are crazy with enough sas expansion cables. Think 8 drives per port.
if I ever got one of these I would max it out. Fill every single PCIe slot with graphics cards even if I can't get more than 4x SLI I'll still do it. Run as many displays as I possibly can, u3011's off my main cards and probably u2412m's off the extra cards. 20 SSD's, 18 in RAID0 and 2 in RAID1 as boot(18 per SAS connector, 1 per sata3 port), 4 hard drives(for the lonely SATA2 ports). 96gb of DDR3 1600 of course(btw, Scan lists it as having DDR2 memory ). Jesus, I'd need a hell of a case to put it in. Any suggestions?
you wouldnt use Sata at all on such a board workstations sas drivers and cable link 4-8 drivers per port £563 for a motherboard is some nuts pricing mind you 2 xeons will be 4x that so maybe not
Hell. Get enough Sas Expanders and you can theoretically have well over 20,000 devices per port. That's how crazy the standard is. So 'Only' having two of them on the board isn't actually that large an issue, it just saves on space.
Trust you lot to teach me something! I didn't know sas ports could take so money drives. Learn something new every day!
I disagree, every expander bottlenecks bandwidth that much more... if you want a 1GBps or faster array, you really can't use expanders.
I never claimed speeds would remain good, I just said you could have a crazy number of devices per port.
Looked at that board for a dual-Xeon setup but has quite a few disadvantages so struggling to see where it fits in the marketplace Xeon can't be overclocked (or only very very slightly) The board is HPTX so you need a suitable case it will fit in - Xigmatek Elysium is one that would work. Only 2 sata 6gb/s ports Over-priced when looking at other dual-Xeon mobos already out there For me I'd rather go with the Asus Z9PE as that has 6 sata 6gb/s ports and is over £100 cheaper.
