BuckeyeSSD

Hey Talon, nice job on starting this thread :)

This is a very exciting new platform and that has a huge amount of power, drool :)

As I have watched/read many of your build logs in the past and you do a very good job at them, covering everything from the little details to the major stuff very well :)

I look forward to seeing what you come up with !

Thanks buddy... Your always welcome here.

Talonman

The point to me is having a system that will keep me happy for a few years to come, and should have enough CPU to keep Fermi happy too. 

The other threads currently going, aren't focusing on the actual build enough for my liking, and the reason I am running this one.
I intend to keep it on track as best I can.
Back to specific part selection.

I am looking for builders input mainly.

The debate why I/We want to build one has no place in this thread.
There are plenty of threads already going for that...

Question: Any chance if we get a few people looking at the same case, maybe we can organize a group buy from MM, and receive a discount?
(Just a thought.)

This is awesome!!!  Ive been going though so many scenarios on how to best build a system using the 270 board.   But most involve selling my house to do it.  I hope this thread takes off and we get more money saving/performance idea's.

Old news on the net but should be useful to this thread as it was not yet in here.

Launch date on most of these : March 16 2010 

Quote:
Intel Readies 13 Westmere-based 32 nm Xeon Processors
Outgrowing the known lineup of 32 nm client processors (under the Core family), Intel's upcoming lineup of processors based on the 32 nm Westmere architecture will comprise of no less than 13 models under the Xeon E5000, L5000, X5000, and W3600 series. Among these, there are six hexa-core Xeon processors, including X5680 (3.33 GHz), X5670 (2.93 GHz), X5660 (2.80 GHz), and X5650 (2.66 GHz). X5680 has a TDP of 130W, with the latter three sub 3 GHz models having TDP as low as 95W. There is an energy-efficient L5640 hexa-core model clocked at 2.26 GHz, with TDP at 60W, and a single-socket W3680, clocked at 3.33 GHz with 130W TDP. All these models have six cores, and 12 MB of L3 cache.

Next up, are Intel's first 32 nm quad-core processors: Xeon X5677 (3.46 GHz, 130W), X5647 (3.06 GHz, 95W), E5640 (2.66 GHz, 80W), X5630 (2.53 GHz, 80W), X5620 (2.40 GHz, 80W), and energy efficient L5630 (2.13 GHz, 40W), and L5609 (1.86 GHz, 40W). Except L5609, all these quad-core chips have HyperThreading Technology and Turbo Boost available. The L2 cache amounts for each of these chips is unknown as of now, but should be up to 8 MB, or as low as 4 MB for some models. Most of these chips are slated for release on March 16, 2010.

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E-Power EP-2KW 2000 Watt Review

http://www.epowertec.com/ep-2000p10-t3.html

here is another PSU that will do the job, it needs re wiring to fit the needs thou but they are all built to fit the customers so not a worry from the custom factory of this manufacturer. Its cheaper than ordering two PSU as well

http://www.extreme.outervision.com/articles/psu/epower/ep350cd/ep_350cd_1.jsp
http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?sku=A1311646&cs=04&c=us&l=en&dgc=SS&cid=52102&lid=1342490

a 350W or 450W PSU in a 5,25 slot. one or two of this in combination with the water unit will do the job and fit inside the box itself. Aging of the main PSU have to be account especially as we are on the hairy edge of what one PSU will manage if you are doing a bit of OC & folding with some SLI in there, or just running your system 24/7. I need this thing as I think I will have that water PSU unit and this one extra PSU unit is quiet and it all fits into a case.    

Maybe there are more units like this slim unit out there but its the first one I found. I need a total of 2200 W, when I take into account PSU aging, something that I did not do above, so with aging of the PSU for the machine itself on this mobo and 24/7 OC and 3 fermi cards it will draw round about 2200W! I am still researching and eagerly awaiting any kind of news from EVGA as we draw closer to shipping date or any kind of news from the case manufacturers or mod case designers out there. If Nick is not able to get his box produced I will be in the market for someone to build me a custom one of case.   

I have been considering one of these boards for a folding setup. It would be a bare-bones setup that runs a small Linux (200-300MB). I was thinking of something like this:

EVGA dual-socket board
Dual L5640 or X5650 depending on pricing
6-12GB of memory per socket
MountainMods 10-slot PCI board tray
Compact-Flash to IDE adapter for the Linux OS (from looking at the board image, it appears to have an IDE port)
A low cost PCI-E video card for video output

I have a PC P&C 1200W I could hook up to it which is currently feeding an E758. I have not decided what would be best for cooling yet but will probably go with some kind of air cooling since the system will be running in the garage which for now is cold.

linuxrouter

I have been considering one of these boards for a folding setup. It would be a bare-bones setup that runs a small Linux (200-300MB). I was thinking of something like this:

EVGA dual-socket board
Dual L5640 or X5650 depending on pricing
6-12GB of memory per socket
MountainMods 10-slot PCI board tray
Compact-Flash to IDE adapter for the Linux OS (from looking at the board image, it appears to have an IDE port)
A low cost PCI-E video card for video output

I have a PC P&C 1200W I could hook up to it which is currently feeding an E758. I have not decided what would be best for cooling yet but will probably go with some kind of air cooling since the system will be running in the garage which for now is cold.

sounds like you will have about 50% of your PSU left to go on, should be a no worry setup there 

i have an entire build planned out to the T for this board.

already in my possesion:

Mountainmods ascension crystal ship CYO ( reviewed by me on www.techpowerup.com )
enermax revo 1050watt psu
4 gtx295s
2x x5650 westmere's
6x2gb mushkin redline ascent ddr3
2x hwlabs gtx560 rads + 1x hwlabs gtx280 rad with 10 delta 376cfm 140mm fans(will be running them at low voltage for silence)
iwaki RD30
2x EK supreme LT acetal
60ft of MDPC-X sleeving in black and red
2x SST 64gb ultradrive GX2 ssd's

just waiting on gtx480 and the evga 270-gt-w555 to come out. :D

with everything on water this machine shoule crunch and fold up a storm. i can hardly wait.

As far as using 2 Corsair H50's I like the idea I'll mull it over. If you want to go with the glass top on the mountain mod Extension (the only case for me rt now) and the Horizon back (keeping the MOBO Horizontal to support all that weight). Then with the Trinity front it seem like you could use one of the 9 intake fans to blow the second radiator out. The tubes on the H50 are 11 inches and the case is only 24 inches deep. Of coarse you would use 1 fan on either side of the radiator push pull out to improve its cooling and shorten distance to front. Anyone think this would work?

Most people I have seen seem to use 2 GTX 295's in SLI. I have never seen anyone with 4 unless you just meant Quad SLI. Does anyone have an opinion which is better using 4 way SLI 285 Classified or using 2 x 295 FTW CO-OP in quad SLI. I am new to graphics cards the support person said that the 285's would have more processing power and a wider memory bus. If someone could confirm or deny this thinking I would grateful. Is their any other reason why 4 285's might not be better that 2 295's. ty

Skull Crusher

Most people I have seen seem to use 2 GTX 295's in SLI. I have never seen anyone with 4 unless you just meant Quad SLI. Does anyone have an opinion which is better using 4 way SLI 285 Classified or using 2 x 295 FTW CO-OP in quad SLI. I am new to graphics cards the support person said that the 285's would have more processing power and a wider memory bus. If someone could confirm or deny this thinking I would grateful. Is their any other reason why 4 285's might not be better that 2 295's. ty

4 285's of the EVGA classified are running a not only faster core and extremely overclockable but a 285 classified are running full GPU not a smaller by design one to lower heat output below 300 W when having two of them on one card. This is by design to stay withing max limits. I would guess out of the specs that you can run the Quad 285 classified about 25% faster and total output for games on OC versus the Quad SLI 295 setup.  IF you need compare the exact specs, or post again and I will find them for you. 

iamwardicus

slugbug

Speaking of this motherboard, where did the contest thread for it go to? It was stickied but now appears to be gone. Has a winner been chosen?

It still exists as I bookmarked it:  http://forums.evga.com...p;m=118790&mpage=1

The latest info:
http://forums.evga.com/tm.aspx?m=168158

fitseries3

i have an entire build planned out to the T for this board.

already in my possesion:

Mountainmods ascension crystal ship CYO ( reviewed by me on www.techpowerup.com )
enermax revo 1050watt psu
4 gtx295s
2x x5650 westmere's
6x2gb mushkin redline ascent ddr3
2x hwlabs gtx560 rads + 1x hwlabs gtx280 rad with 10 delta 376cfm 140mm fans(will be running them at low voltage for silence)
iwaki RD30
2x EK supreme LT acetal
60ft of MDPC-X sleeving in black and red
2x SST 64gb ultradrive GX2 ssd's

just waiting on gtx480 and the evga 270-gt-w555 to come out. :D

with everything on water this machine should crunch and fold up a storm. i can hardly wait.

Thanks for the post... 

Skull Crusher

Do you think 4 285's or 2 295's would stay cooler without water cooling ty for you last post.

I would not recommend running either one of those combinations of that with no water cooling myself. You might get away with running the cpus on a non 4.5 ghz club  OC with a nice good huge heat sink with good effect and little noise produced, but aiming for the same on the VGA cards, if low noise is your objective, I would put my money on water cooling the evga cards first, and the cpus second, if I had to choose where to invest money into the system. 

Its simple, the fans and heat sinks on the cpus can be far larger than the stuff that can fit into a graphics card. I don't think 4 285s versus 2 295 will make much difference, the 4 285 will have a larger surface area so he fans can spin less than the 295s but there is more of them, so net it should be roughly the same. Just look at the cooler size of a cpu cooler on air versus the size of the cooler on a vga card on air. Then think of the heat output of 2 max clocked cpus at round 400w heat, versus, 2 295 cards at tdp at 300w each at max. The logic of what makes the most noise and heat is relatively simple to understand when you think of it this way. 

Then I jizzed in my pants...

Will it sell as shown with water cooling setup already built in?  Dual cpus 4 gtx cards would require lots of power.  This case would need a larger area for a 1500 to 2000 watt pcu or a dual pcu solution.