Talonman

joernjacobsen
There are a wonderful case theory build out there, that most certainly will do and be able to deal with all this heat we are talking about for this setup. My view is that this idea is both stylish, as it is not, a dual size wide fat box on the floor, and can for certain retain all the needed water cooling parts inside the case itself: http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=217611&page=19  

Maybe we should get together and sponsor this guy to do a manufacturing run on his case dream, so he can get it manufactured, unless we all wanta  brick to get what at least I need done.....

We need more water cooling.. with no doubt in my view, a Quad fan radiator sandwitch setup  plus a triple fan radiator, and all in sandwich or as swiftech calls it the QP, should in my view be able to cope with the extra heat generation this motherboard with its extra CPU on OC and the expected heat of triple fermi cards on OC. 

A huge "brick" or quadratic or equal box, is not what I am looking for. I been looking at the current Lian Li cases and none of them holds more than max 1 triple rad in front or you have to dump one power supply and modify the top part of the build. This wont do for this build and heat output at all, at least not at the dual CPU 4.5 Ghz range and triple fermi or more... Lian Li do make some wonderful sleek computer cases in hi quality that are "the sex" Example:    

To sum it up; In my experience on OC, I believe we have a fundamental heat problem here, no other case than custom made cases, other than a HUGE case brick will do, and somehow we need to solve it unless we are all going to go for the gigantic brick case if we want this motherboard on a silent stable OC setup with some graphic cards in the loop at some good speeds. Just my 2 cents

Maybe we should inquire if a group run is an option, as it is a looker for sure, and it's apparent that lots of thought has already been put into it's design.

I am up for this, you want to run it?
We may need the creator to edit the design a bit first thou to fit this card and a full rack of dual slot GPUs, more HDs, he mentioned 20?  two PSU sockets just because "there is no way round it on this mobo" as well as fit the needed QPI rads we need to pull of the heat we generate at full blast. It will make the case a bit larger but I think I can stand that, with that look

There is a Australian option as manufacturing plant, and the aussie dollar is on a fine level so this could be our best option.
This given what I seen so far from Lian LI, unless Lian LI want to post some info here or EVGA can give us some tips on what exactly they are "in the works of creating here"

smcclelland


Case wise I am waiting to hear back from ABS if the Canyon 695 has enough room to fit this board.  I like the MM case layout but I dislike the footprint and the style.. it reminds me of the old APEXX machines we had that were giant freaking cubes that were always horribly awkward to place in a studio environment.  The ABS Canyon isn't much better given how ridiculously tall it is but it's narrow which means I can squeeze it amongst the other slew of machines under the desk and still have room to wheel around.  I've also got my fingers crossed that another manufacturer comes out with something aesthetically pleasing and functional by the time the board launches :) 

This case is the Lian LI, http://www.lian-li.com.tw/v2/en/product/product06.php?pr_index=258&cl_index=1&sc_index=25&ss_index=61&g=q

In my experience if you want to OC any part of your machine you need more RADS and more PSU space than this case can fit in total even if edited and custom modified to fit a triple in front, a dual in bottom and a dual in top, and two PSU units.  
That leaves you at 1 HD bay thou, but with a bit more modifications you should be able to squeeze in something somewhere for the blue ray burner. I cant tell by the manual and not doing full CAD work thou.

EVGA said somewhere on this forum that Lian LI would make a case that fit this mobo, we need their feedback.

Lian LI definitely have what it takes to do this right if they so want to and understand at least what I and a few other guys need here.  Thou I have no idea if the market is large enough to make a case especially for these needs. 

But, It all depends how much you want to run your almost silent stable OC at I guess. At least I am running at the limit of what my case can do at my setup, so more is needed to do more components. IF you just want to run two cpu, 48 GB ram, 3 fermi cards, I think a 1500W with no OC one psu will do, that leaves space if they do edit that case foundation for what they are aiming for. It wont fit the bill for anything above the most basic OC needs thou.   

that is to bad, when i built my bedroom i had two 4 ganges put in under my desk on different breakers ^_^

but hey if this guy buys my i7 975 for 950 bucks im going to be building one too.

do we know when this new board hits the markets?

Get that version of wPrime here, on the download page... (Must be run as admin too.)

http://www.wprime.net/

Use v1.55. This is my current score with my Q6600@ 3.73GHz:


That is going to be a wee bit more CPU than I'm used to... 

18 x faster on the 32M run...
and 22 x faster on the 1024.

She's going to be a runner!

can i ask a stupid question. would you have to populate both cpu sockets or can you wait till you have enough to buy a second cpu srry if this is newbish

5thduke

can i ask a stupid question. would you have to populate both cpu sockets or can you wait till you have enough to buy a second cpu srry if this is newbish

1 is all you have to have. That is my understanding...

cercle
Hello.

-> "FERMI" is the first gpu to use ECC memory (Error Checking Code...), because Fermi was designed for massive parallel computing .

It it  useless in a game : an error would result in a slightly different color that an human eye can' t see or would ignore.

But  "Fermi"  do need ECC memory in order to ensure errorless calculations :

(Enrico Fermi was an Italian born then American Nobel Prized scientist  :the first Nuclear Reactor,some parts of the A-Bomb  and more ...) .

You should must use ECC memory on the motherboard too, otherwise , there will be errors  , and  Fermi's ECC will be useless ...


Sorry for bothering you  all , i have one question :

->According to Kingston  and Crucial  ,  Evga is not ECC  compatible  ?

So ,ECC don't work (with or without a  Xeon) on any X58 or 1366

motherboards?
Best Regards.
PS: ECC DDR III maximum speed is 1333 mhz ?

Thanks for the post...

I don't have the answer, but also would like to know.

hey Talon, i am planning on this mobo as well for the bigadv folding. ( native linux ) without the use of fermi because of some other tech reason.

WB

So it would seem that the i7 980X is a dual-qpi CPU given FahMan's latest post in the F@H section about his Dual i7 980X folding machine so that's a big plus for those interested in building a setup like this :)

clo007
The Tesla card will come in a 3gb and 6gb flavor , so you will be fine, unless you want to buy the geforce variety over the HPC variety. Personally I want a tesla flavor, probably 3gb.

Depends on pricing this time around.  I received the 7750's through work so there was no cost involved with them but most of the time when it boils down to Quadro vs GeForce I tend to side with the GeForce cards as there's always at least one or two gems that shine and can put up good performance against the Quadro cards (i.e. a GTX285 for Mudbox is singificantly better than a Quadro 4800 or 5600).

shamino

That bios was still veeeeryy raw now, just getting this P55 bios update i m testing atm over with and then jumping back to this.

Outstanding... Thanks for the post! 

If you have any strong opinions on Memory, or PSU, that would be a good matchup for this board...
I would love to hear anything, that you might have to say on the matter.

(Or if one Xeon processor, seems to OC better than the rest.)

That should do nicely!! 

Thanks for the post...

I'm going to purchase hardware for this starting this week. I just dont know what type of RAM this will take, or if a Corsair 1000watt will be good enough. I see this board might need 2 PSUs. And from what I know, there isnt a case that you can buy that offers 2 PSU bays.
The other thing is I read on some sites, that this board can do i7 920+ and/or Xeon CPUs.  Anyone know what type of RAM this will take ? Thanks

jose1776

I'm going to purchase hardware for this starting this week. I just don't know what type of RAM this will take, or if a Corsair 1000 watt will be good enough. I see this board might need 2 PSUs. And from what I know, there isnt a case that you can buy that offers 2 PSU bays.  
The other thing is I read on some sites, that this board can do i7 920+ and/or Xeon CPUs. Funny, it seems the only thing I can be to work with that board are my drives and GPUs.

Regarding PSU numbers, it will run on a 1 K W or a 1.5 K W PSU if you run tripe sli and 2 cpus but that psu will make a lot of fan noise at that level, if you don't over-clock much and run a normal amount of power these days compared to the pus available to us these days this thing will run just fine with one cpu. 

Its when you OC and as well run full slots of PCI slots this thing starts needing a LOT of power. Also dual PSU cases that house the motherboard in with if you don't use all PCI slots are plenty available.

What is the problem is a dual PSU and a full set of PCI slots as well as giving the needed cooling to run things quiet mode. There is only one case for that and its a brick case. There will be more cases available on the market when this thing launched as other options. What is still lacking info is exactly how those cases will look or how much they will hold of what the power users typically put in a case here on this level.