georgep001

So thats it no more bios updates or support :(

georgep001Ya its a real shame..

georgep001
Oh ya people still buying this board like crazy i defently recommend it if u want fast and atleast some ease of mind you future proof for atleast a couple years.

georgep001

texinga
The whole thing about where they are going in the future with the SR-2 type board is a mystery.  While I can understand why they may not be able to talk any specifics about an SR-3, I do think they have some responsibilty to tell us (SR-2 customers) if the product will have future life.  The silence causes us all to speculate and is not helpful. 

Evga itself my not say much about i mean common u dont fork out 10k for a sr-2 and whatever else to scrap the system in 5 months most of us bought the sr-2 and plan on keeping it atleast 2 or 3 years i do anywaise i atleast know my cpu ram and mobo are good for quite awhile like i said alot of us didnt fork out all this cash to scrap the stuff in 5 months.

georgep001
In that case i highly doubt there will be  a sr-3 since that guy left evga i dont think any more future plans are gonna be made for the future of the sr series but thats just my personal opinion.

Johhny Doe

georgep001I dont think its dead support is scarce but its still the only dual xeon board that can be overclocked and still break records on futuremark.

Technically, this isn't true.

You can OC like how you OC the SR-2 with an Asus Z8 if you get a properly working one(most were dud boards). OCing could very well be done on both hardware & software level and World records could still be broken on a Tyan board. It doesn't always take unbelievably high clocks to beat the World record, and we've seen this many times up to this date. KingPin's one of the latest "Compromise is for Losers" record wasn't a hard one to get, they had the fastest hardware and got the highest score easily.

A handful of people have two Xeon Gulftown EE's and quad GTX 580's. You can even get the World record on air or water if nobody else has tried for it. I just wanted to add this.
 

horseman18702 

Evga-usr,
I think that this is a more popular feeling even though people are not stating it here. You got to watch what you say or Georgep001 might jump on you like he did me for trying to give people a heads up on possibly losing money for faulty products.
I would still buy EVGA vid cards and such because in truth I have never had any other issues with them and have bought plenty of their products and they all worked as they should and still do. To clarify, I would continue to buy their products in the fields that they have been constanly proven in. I just wont be inclined to fall for tons of cash popped into propaganda over an "experiment". I always find it hard to swallow when people create something that they cant actually understand fully and yet charge a small fortune just to be popular. This company is more than popular and do have good products but never should have done this to people or to actually be considerate enough to reimburse or basically just fix their product.
I really would love to use this board and not have to look elsewhere because the theories behind it are terrific, but its just a shame that their are plenty of known issues and they will keep on taking peoples money for a lab experiment.

horseman18702

Again another ignorant post with very poor grammar and punctuation. No one posting these issues are saying anything other than you should get what you pay for. Those who are posting are trying to get resolve to issues that board is facing. Just because there may be 90% working boards with no issues doesn't mean that other 10% should just accept it and lose the money. You are posting to where people are looking for answers or help to get the problem fixed but yahoo's like you are chiming into a conversation to say something totally irrelevant to that topic. Some people may have more cash than brains and it becomes apparent with the above post. If you buy a $30k car (that is thirty thousand dollars if you couldn't understand) and the wipers went off when you turned on the radio or the hood popped open every time you put it in drive, you would most certainly expect that car to be fixed. Or better yet you would see people relying on government to mandate that car be recalled for it KNOWN issues.
It it so wonderful that you have a working board as do many others, thats all anyone wants when they buy something whether it be $10 or $1000. We have legitimate issues and expect legitimate results to these issues but brainiacs as yourself just like to make yourself sound either more intelligent or more important by posting stupid responses that absolutely do not fit in the conversation. Instead of spending lots of cash to build a monster PC to do nothing more than to play Crysis, invest a little more in a little bit better education because I wont even say to get more common sense since this cant be taught.
To break it down so even you can understand:
Bi  product = product shuld wrk (translation - BUY A PRODUCT AND THAT PRODUCT SHOULD WORK)