5520 Evil-Twin Classified Edition

EVGA 5520 DUAL CPU 7-WAY SLI Classified
EVGA 5520 Classified -  DUAL CPU 7-WAY SLI 
EVGA SKULLTRAIL 2 Classified
EVGA Classified WORKSTATION
EVGA Classified WORKSTATION DUO
EVGA Classified WORLD RECORD
EVGA Classified BUSSINESS
EVGA Classified MULTI COMPUTER
EVGA 5520 DUAL CPU CLASSIFIED
EVGA Classified GREEN energy
EVGA Classified 32 core (ı mean 8 core 16 vırtural core)
EVGA Classified angel and deamon
EVGA Classified illuminati (anagram cpu)
EVGA Classified anagram
EVGA Dual Classified
EVGA mirror Classified
EVGA redundant Classified
EVGA multiply Classified
EVGA v2 engine Classified
EVGA V24 Engine Classified (6 core dual) 
EVGA v32 Engine Classified (8 core dual)
EVGA Classified extreme
EVGA Classified preminium
EVGA Classified platinium
EVGA Quantum Classified

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EVGA 5520 DUAL CPU 7-WAY SLI Classified
EVGA 5520 Classified -  DUAL CPU 7-WAY SLI 
EVGA SKULLTRAIL 2 Classified
EVGA Classified WORKSTATION
EVGA Classified WORKSTATION DUO
EVGA Classified WORLD RECORD
EVGA Classified BUSSINESS
EVGA Classified MULTI COMPUTER
EVGA 5520 DUAL CPU CLASSIFIED
EVGA Classified GREEN energy
EVGA Classified 32 core (ı mean 8 core 16 vırtural core)
EVGA Classified angel and deamon
EVGA Classified illuminati (anagram cpu)
EVGA Classified anagram
EVGA Dual Classified
EVGA mirror Classified
EVGA redundant Classified
EVGA multiply Classified
EVGA v2 engine Classified
EVGA V24 Engine Classified (6 core dual) 
EVGA v32 Engine Classified (8 core dual)
EVGA Classified extreme
EVGA Classified preminium
EVGA Classified platinium
EVGA Quantum Classified

They are going to have a hard time picking out your 1 allowed entry from that list!!

EVGA Entity "Classified" Dual Socket X58

*edited* due to Haitian Earthquake, Magnitude might not be the best thing to mention.

kidcrumb

hmmm, a lot of people making either alt accounts or just a lot of people making accouns only to win this board because i see a lot of people with only 1 post. that post being their guess.

This contest was advertised on many social networking sites and such - those are actual, unique people. 

mr.nuke.me@gmail.com

Moltenlava
not sure what you mean by this but main portion of EVGA's customer base care about gaming, benchmarking, SLI/Crossfire and they will sometimes use that power to fold also.

I mean that this is one of the very few boards that has enough PCI-Express connectivity and bandwidth to make it worthwile for professional applications involving GPU computing. I can still count the boards capable of such feats on the fingers of one hand. Any in this echelon hanldes Quad-SLI and Quad-Crossfire like a breeze

Moltenlava
This is not a board aimed at the server/super-computer segment, although it could be used for that, the board is basically EVGA using whats available to make a Dual socket Desktop board.

At the very least, this is a workstation board. Factor the cost of two Xeon CPUs and six registered DIMMs, and you could easily build two or three "desktops" just as capable of gaming and n-way SLI/CROSSFIRE. I'm not suggesting that this board is not suited for gaming,; what I am saying is that using it as a gaming board provides little to no benefit compared to single-Core i7 systems.

Moltenlava
There has already been a picture of this board with 4 GTX 285 Classifieds inserted in it, so the whole point for EVGA atleast for this board to have the same 2x nForce 200 chips and 7 PCI-E slots like the current EVGA X58 Classified 4-Way SLI is to give the board 4 Way SLI support, otherwise they could just have stuck Dual intel 5520 IOH's on it like SuperMicro do with their Serverboards, infact since this board uses the 5520 chipset it may be necessary to have the nForce chips to enable SLI support.  The board also has "Nvidia SLI" branded on it.

Coming from the GPGPU programming world, I can tell you that dual 5520 boards do not play well with multiple GPUs. In fact it's been proven over and over again that single-IOH dual nForce200 boards are better suited to handling several GPUs than dual-IOH. As far as SLI support, that's a simple licensing issue, not a nForce200 issue. Look at the plethora of X58 boards with SLI support.
The nForce 200 chips are not that important if SLI is the only concern. In GPGPU, getting less than 4.5GB/s transfer rate between RAM and the GPU is a serious issue. DirectX and OpenGL get around 0.8 to 1.5 GB/s, so having four PCI-E 8x connections for 4-way SLI is not far from overkill. Why then the added cost of the 2 nForce200? Because people like myself are scavenging for such boards, where just the initials nF200 make us shell out at least twice as much money as a regular board.

Moltenlava
basically this is for the person who wants the processing power of a Dual socket server board but in a desktop package so they can use SLI when they want to.

That's the workstation user, the same person that does heavily mutithreaded tasks, GPGPU computing, and generally stuff that requires so much RAM, a normal person would faint just to hear the number. As a side note, one could put 96GB of RAM on this board. Obviusly, occasional gaming is not excluded, but not the main activity of our workstation user.

Moltenlava
I am not saying it cant be used the way you stated and some people may use it like this but its not really the area EVGA has designed this board for or where they are trying to market it but i am sure they will welcome any additonal sales the "super-computer" market brings on top of the one they originally intended it for.

8 cores, 16 threads, up to 96GB of RAM, Quad PCI-E 2.0 x16 support, ECC support...
These sound like workstation/server features to me. To give you an idea, I use a single X58, single Core i7 board, with one nForce200, and three full bandwidth x16 slots, and that is already considered workstation-class (and carries the appropriate price tag).

You can build a dual-CPU 4-way SLI board, using cheaper motherboards, and get the same performance. Why then would you pay the rumoured price of $600 for this board if you're just gaming?

I know that but the board is a dual socket EVGA boards thats got a red and black color scheme, there will be people with deep pockets who will want it just for those reasons alone, its also 1 up on everyone else, you be surprised how many people care about that, so you will probably have people with not so deep pockets "convincing" themselves that this set up is viable for them and they need that sort of CPU processing power.

You may disagree with me but i think those going for the SLI branding with this motherboard are more in-line with EVGA thinking on this board than those who are thinking this is EVGA's att0empt at a workstation/server board but like i said i am sure they will welcome whatever markets it attracts.

I see others agree that this is EVGA attempt to get into the server market, i think anyone whos thinks this is anything but EVGA's attempt at an "overkill" desktop board are pretty naive, its been slow for the high-end/enthusiast market, vendors are looking for anyway to differentiate themselves or give them an edge that might make their products appealing to enthusiasts but at the same time giving them some type of upgrade.  I think EVGA is being quite clever since it looks increasingly like Intel is going to "artificially" limit the use of their 32nm 6 core Xeons, giving support for the extreme edition i7 980X only for the X58 chipset and leaving the Xeons for the 55xx series chipsets onlt, but thats just my opinion/speculation.  I doubt there are many people in the professional market looking to overclock, especially with the power this board could provide anyway and they usually look for reliability/stability above all else but i guess i could be wrong and thos in the professional realm have just beenitching to overclock their expensive high-end workstations, possibly somehting for them to do at lunch times? (thats more of a resposne to lehpron than you mr.nuke

Also even if the market is limited those "World Records" are worth their weight in gold anyway, they will help elevate the EVGA brand as one of the top performing motherboard vendors.  EVGA was a little late to cause a buzz with the GTX 285 Classified, the ASUS MARS got alot more attention (atleast in the general media, not talking about forums like extremesystems), i am not sure if thats because it was first, EVGA is not considered a significant player in the hardware market (yet) or ASUS just has the clought/influence in the media world to command those column inches above everyone else. Hopefully with EVGA being the first (that i know of) to offer a overclocking dual socket botherboard with the ability to run 4-Way SLI it will get the recognition it deserves, it may even help re-ignite the GTX 285 Classified.

I disagree that EVGA's core business would be the majority of sales responsible for this board.  The general sentiment towards the first Classified board (759) were very similar, yet the majoity of Classified owners don't use it for what we thought it was only good for

I am not sure what you mean by this Lehpron, if your suggesting that alot of people who got the Classified only stuck a single card in it then you could be right but if your suggesting that the main bulk of Classified owners down use it for gaming, benchmarking (which includes overclockers obviously) then i would be skeptical and look to disagree unless you have evidence that shows the Classifieds have beens selling to a different group then i would be intrigueded to have a look at that myself.

Dont underestimate the power of the e-peen guys, i would have submitted that as a suggestion, its a relly good name for this board but its rude and thus wouldnt be chosen so no point wasting my one entry.

I respect your opinions though and i am not saying i am ever wrong or what i wrote/say is gospel.  I wish you good luck with the competition also.

kidcrumb

hmmm, a lot of people making either alt accounts or just a lot of people making accouns only to win this board because i see a lot of people with only 1 post. that post being their guess.

i really think they should have a minim post limit to prevent this

It's fine,  maybe some will stay and add good things to the forums.  (we were all new once)

How about EVGA Double Eagle Classified.

quadlatte

kidcrumb

hmmm, a lot of people making either alt accounts or just a lot of people making accouns only to win this board because i see a lot of people with only 1 post. that post being their guess.

i really think they should have a minim post limit to prevent this

Well....anyone can just spam up posts.

motorex259

EVGA Classified Double Agent 5520


*Caution, the EVGA Classified Double Agent 5520 is NOT related to Agent Tiny in ANY way.
**Also, the EVGA Classified Double Agent 5520 is Also NOT related to 007.
But it does kick bum like a spy :D

Good one.  Same thing that I thought. Hope you win.

EVGA Binary Classified 5520

EVGA 5520 Classified Bigfoot Edition
 
:)

EVGA 5520 Ethereal 2S Classified
 
 
Edited because - tried to append signature.

Moltenlava

I disagree that EVGA's core business would be the majority of sales responsible for this board.  The general sentiment towards the first Classified board (759) were very similar, yet the majoity of Classified owners don't use it for what we thought it was only good for

I am not sure what you mean by this Lehpron, if your suggesting that alot of people who got the Classified only stuck a single card in it then you could be right but if your suggesting that the main bulk of Classified owners down use it for gaming, benchmarking (which includes overclockers obviously) then i would be skeptical and look to disagree unless you have evidence that shows the Classifieds have beens selling to a different group then i would be intrigueded to have a look at that myself.

Dont underestimate the power of the e-peen guys

I don't don't the power of e-peen, just the number of them with the cash to drop without any real use other than what they could practically do with th eboard other than brag they have it, lol.
 
I didn't mean Classified owners were mainly single-card, rather I meant that Classified 759 was originally advertised for people who accepted this as an extreme overclockers board, as if 758 was meant for everyone else.  I have two kinds of 'evidence', but maybe only I believe them :

1. All companies do their homework to seek among those who demand, what they want, then how much they cost to see what they are willing to spend, and then find a balance that fits the companies interests; this is market research.  I find it facinating that Intel initially intended a 2,000-unit run with their Skulltrail board, but somehow ended up selling just over 60k before Nehalem came (note, take that with salt, it was a figure I remember reading about a year ago though everytime I search for the source I get my own posts from EVGA.com .  I know it wasn't from an enthusiast site).  Did Intel make a mistake in their own market research, or did other people not part of the original targetted group want the product, and thus made up the majority versus the originally targetted minority? 
2. Other Classified boards came into existence after 759, why did that happen?  If EVGA set out to, as I've put before, hit as many birds with one stone in terms of pairing features with as many customer needs, then there should have been only one Classified board.  Rather I think other people began to have uses beyond intent and those segments were large enough for EVGA to target Classified boards at those groups, separately.

Similarly, while I don't know if EVGA would offer another dual-socket and cheaper board (personally doubt the niche is bigger), I figure considering Intel's Skulltrail example, most getting the EVGA dual-socket aren't who they are aiming at with marketing.  To many this is will be another premium board, dual-socket flavored.