@THe -Hunter
I see no probs here since I measured it out already and I have cut a fine slot into the steel over the power supply. But I probably won't need this since we measured here and if the photos are believable then there are 3-5mm to the top of the steel-plate that is creating the thermal zone for the supply. I'm a hardcore modder and I'm prepared for everything.
And I will never take a case that is looking like a fat honeycomb or is too big/fat to be nice.

I have bought a 1200W BeQuiet Supply that will be awesome for me. I will use all fans @ 1200rpm so cooling power with over 16 Fans beiing bigger than 120mm is satifaction.
Pumps: I dont care to have another pump, although I have the money there is no need except you run two loops or you need redundancy. So save that! Water will flow....but this has been dicussed a thousand times...

THIS is insane!

@ fitseries3
Nice rig. You should get 2x mushkin kits
and btw what's your pump or pumps? If you go for 4 GTX then you better run 2 Loops.
Sleeves: 40m of small, 10m of medium and 6m of big sleeve from MDPC no other brand for you enthusiast!

@fitseries3
oh , I meant 2x12GB Kits!
I have also sleeved my PSU with MDPC. You can also sleeve your 6+8PIN PCIe+2x8 PINs cables , you willneed them!

Ok, progress are indeed being made by EVGA and a launch date is going as predicted on the cpu side of things as well with mobo.
And given we are on a projection in time and I like to see things move on. Because of this, I have lost faith in the case from mick64, after offering money on the table, there was people to build it, and so on, I cant see what we have not put up on the table in that respect. 

Since I don't love the MM cases, and I am not directly after what looks to become a wonderful case in acrylic from one of the dedicated guys that work on this on this forum. I have decided to give Spotswood a good shot at it, this process will take ages to make something useful I believe. We need to start at the beginning somewhere.

I will get the parts that he needs to do his job well, an d give  Spotswood plenty and more than just plenty of relaxed time to get the work done. I am estimating more than 3 months, maybe as much as 6 months for doing this right.

I think we are up for creating some mix of Cygnus X1 Cygnus X1 and use some elements in its design from the Bugatti veyron. So yeah.. aim hi, there is no other way! 

If I can have my way with Spotswood it will be built with the usage of Jarrah and a bit of steel here and there. A extremely hard and resistant wood type usable for this kind of thing. I believe if I can strike a deal how to get this done together with Spotswood, this case or "should I say BIG BOX in my head should be a nice build! 

Something that maybe more than just me like to have on their desk, and I hope, or at least its my aim to try to get more tools to do the job right to the case master of wood here, if all goes right here, you guys might like what he does and Spotswood could create cases for more than just me and a limited few others. 

Links above links to source takes you there, although Its to early to tell how this will run and pan out, as its in initial sketching phase only so far and its to soon to set a deal based on a sketch idea.
Unfortunately I am completely useless at paper sketching myself and no so grand on defining exactly what I got in my head either by writing it down over emails, but given a bit of dedication, and time, this might and very well may be good, and with time it may just happen. Will try to keep you all posted  

Will this board work with ANY LGA1366 processor or only Xeons?

orkalass

Will this board work with ANY LGA1366 processor or only Xeons?

only LGA 1366 Xeon cpu with 2x QPI link

WB

mick64

I'm sorry if I can't be more pro-active at getting my case built. As I said before, I get very little time to work on my design and it's time that is required to get it done. What little time I do get, I am working on the 2d drawings required to get each of the component parts cut on a CNC. This is not as easy as it sounds. The measurements need to be precise, otherwise things will not fit when it comes to putting it all together. I also said that I have someone who is going to build a prototype of my case, with a view to produce it on a limited basis, ie. to order. He has now started working on my design and I am endeavouring to supply him with the drawings he requires. You must also remember that there are now two sets of drawings, as there will be two different sizes, one that has eight slots and one with ten. 

Mick, please m8, there is no need to apologize for all the help and inspiration you been giving me and others here.

When it comes to me and others wanting to hear back, please see here this link [link=http://forums.evga.com/tm.aspx?&m=59488&mpage=2]http://forums.evga.com...mp;m=59488&mpage=2[/link]

All I got was no reply on last query Mick, sry I have missed all this info you post above here now completely. I looked at xtremesystems post of yours daily and did not see much moving there either. I have missed that vital bit of info you now give, I am sorry to say m8. 

Its not  just that missing bit of info alone thou that are the reasons for my decision; the numbers of wattage over what OC that Shamino posted is more or less dead on what I prior to it being posted, speculated on and came close to a draw on somilar conclusion myself with help from another community.
I have also come to the conclusion that dispatching 2200w of heat is best done with more than two radiators even thou they are big thou, for the silence of it all when crunching hot on max OC. 
With two water cooled PSUs I am actually at 2500w heat now, that needs removed at max OC on CPUs and OC on graphics cards with 4* GTX480. 

I have ordered and tried those fans i said in this thread earlier here above this post, and frankly it will generate a fair bit of noise, more than the my current rig does, with that setup at 1800 rpm, the excel sheets your linked and all the info I found, determined temps will be stable but fans at 1800 rpm, and with the number of fans as projected on the thread here. Today I run 14 fans at 1000 rpm. Your case gave me about 18-20 fans at 1800 rpm. 

Even thou I found a solution as posted it in this thread, when the case alternative in wood here was posted and after about one and a half month of reading about heat dispersion and case designs, the alternative cases and so on, to get this project going I found it best to get a even bigger case than yours was best for me. Reason is simple, 2500w, 32* 140 fans plus at only 1000 rpm, and a fan that you cant hear what so ever at that speed, the only noise you hear is the turbulence it generates over the rad. And also a duct tunnel designed to remove heat from below and up to the top is ideal. 
Having the mobo lying flat is also a bonus for me, not only for looks, as this thing surely will weight, a lot. In other words, want this mobo, go with a MM case or get one from spotswood as he posted it here or direct alternative designs. I would go with the wooden one as it actually will be more silent than the MM case just because its wood not metal. that alone will make a difference, just like MM you can get it in any variant you want, and the cost are more or less exactly the same as the MM case. 

The only other alternative to what you now have "in the works Mick", to the MM case and yours according to my book, is this forum very own Gone Cruising. His latest creation that he is creating now for this mobo" it looks great, and with all the bells and whistles, but has mobo standing side mounted. I figured I wanted it lying down flat this time round.  

I don't like any of the other existing cases out there by manufacturers, in fact, none of them will do if you got more than 1200w of cooling needs, or expect something extremely noisy that you don't want under your table, at least I certainly don't want that stuff they are making, even if you mod them round 100%, you are making a noisy beast if you wants temperatures on a ok level and some life span out of your CPU on OC for everyday usage. 

When the wood option got posted like it did with that design, I found best to try research and go a trial down that wood avenue. And so far the research and the results are astounding and the opportunity is promising indeed.  
My resilience to accept anything that is done before thou are going to make it rather.. um... errr... "unique?" Well, lets see shall we, If I can get onto that and post some updates on another forum section on this site in some weeks, give or take a bit of luck and a grain of salt. This build, well, its going to be "taking ages", that is all I think I can say with some consent at this point :-)  

I am enjoying myself like a kid thou, I hope spotswood will have some fun too soon, so I think that is the most important of all in this crazy at times hobby of ours here , thx for all your help and inspiration your renderings and all your help have given Mick. Much appreciated. 

I am very interested in this platform.  I like the inspiration it brings for case design as well.  I would run this board with dual Xeon E5520s, two sets of 6 gig Corsair Dominator GT 1600, and run my two GTX 295 Co Ops. I may step-up the 295s to Fermis when they come out if i can.  As for PSUs im waiting to see what would come out to support it.  I would be doing mild over clocks on the CPUs.  I'm not to familiar with OC'ing but I see this community is the right place to be for it.  I'm wanting to design a custom case for it and will probably water cool it.  I'm new with water cooling as well.  I have been building my own PCs since 06, but have never done Overclocking or dealt with water cooling.  So this new build, if I decide to go with this platform, will have allot of firsts for me. 

nikkocortez

I am very interested in this platform.  I like the inspiration it brings for case design as well.  I would run this board with dual Xeon E5520s, two sets of 6 gig Corsair Dominator GT 1600, and run my two GTX 295 Co Ops. I may step-up the 295s to Fermis when they come out if i can.  As for PSUs im waiting to see what would come out to support it.  I would be doing mild over clocks on the CPUs.  I'm not to familiar with OC'ing but I see this community is the right place to be for it.  I'm wanting to design a custom case for it and will probably water cool it.  I'm new with water cooling as well.  I have been building my own PCs since 06, but have never done Overclocking or dealt with water cooling.  So this new build, if I decide to go with this platform, will have allot of firsts for me. 

cool stuff, I would just make the plunge and go for it, welcome to the fanclub thread :-)

This forum gives extreme support levels I never seen elsewhere for starting out with your OC first time out. I am am sure you will be taken care of. 

Great thread guy's!!! All of you are making my mouth water!!!! I asked the wife if I could spend some $$ on this new mobo and set up and she said one word "couches".  Looks like I'll have to wait until we get some new furniture!!! arrrghhh!!!!!

I also have a tech bench design for this mobo (this is a new one). It's pretty big. 23.5" wide x 23.5" deep x 12" tall (if you don't count the gpu mount.

I almost have the design finished and will build the prototype in two weeks. It holds four 120mm quad rads, hold 8 HD's, has twelve 5.25" bays, and holds two psu's. It is a box shape design with the mobo flat on top and is made out of acrylic and aluminum angle.

I should be able to make two of these with some spare acrylic I have here. Both will be black, white, smoked in color. Both of them will be given away to two of you who own this motherboard, since I don't have the $$$ yet to build something like this (remember couches)

I offered one to Talonman so there will be one left, unless he has other plans. I'll post sketchup pic's of the bench tomorrow...let me know what you think....

Thanks,

Gone Cruising

I was considering it but then thought what would be the point? Unless i planned to do the full 4 card SLI this set up would be a waste of time and money.

Case in point essentially this is a server board with the specific purpose of having quad sli with 2 CPU's so anywhere from 8cores to 24 theoretical cores assuming that it will fully support the new Intel 6 core CPU's with HT . So given the fact that if your not going to do a quad SLI on this board your just wasting $$$ that could be spent on another server board that would probably be cheaper and  actually do a better job at its desired functions. I just recently built a dual xeon 5500 series cpu system bases off the intel 2625urlxa server chassis. Its a beast to say the least though it is not being used as a gaming rig its still a nice system for a small - med business.

I love evga products but this triple and quad sli boards are cramping my builds do to the fact that i prefer a non on board sound card and or other cards as well say a DVR card for video security.

On a side note I love the customers that buy these products. Makes my bank account phat... I sell you the CPU's at dealer cost btw.

Gone Cruising

Great thread guy's!!! All of you are making my mouth water!!!! I asked the wife if I could spend some $$ on this new mobo and set up and she said one word "couches".  Looks like I'll have to wait until we get some new furniture!!! arrrghhh!!!!!

I also have a tech bench design for this mobo (this is a new one). It's pretty big. 23.5" wide x 23.5" deep x 12" tall (if you don't count the gpu mount.

I almost have the design finished and will build the prototype in two weeks. It holds four 120mm quad rads, hold 8 HD's, has twelve 5.25" bays, and holds two psu's. It is a box shape design with the mobo flat on top and is made out of acrylic and aluminum angle.

I should be able to make two of these with some spare acrylic I have here. Both will be black, white, smoked in color. Both of them will be given away to two of you who own this motherboard, since I don't have the $$$ yet to build something like this (remember couches)

I offered one to Talonman so there will be one left, unless he has other plans. I'll post sketchup pic's of the bench tomorrow...let me know what you think....

Thanks,

Gone Cruising

Sounds amazing. Can't wait to see it!

The-Hunter

Full Metal Folder

I have an Thermaltake Armor VH6001 wit 10 PCI slots and supports Extend-ATX.
Do you guys think this board will fit, as i also hope to build one of these systems. 
http://www.thermaltakeusa.com/Product.aspx?S=1226&ID=1806

I don't see specs on with on mobo space inside the case, so maybe you should measure it, and look at a post above here or the faq that is on sticky, for the dimensions of the SR-2 mobo
please have a look at the power draw when you think of how much cooling you need for your setup, a quad rad if you want to water cool this will give you about 1000-1400w with 1800-2200 rpm fans with a "cough" 7 to 25 degree delta Celsius on water to air temperature depending on fans if you use shrouds and other parts in your water loop.

If you can squeeze in the mobo, or remove parts of those areas of metal that needs removing, maybe you can insert rad in front of case by removing and filing on those HD space holders to make room for the quad fan rad.  Depending on what computer parts you want to use, what OC and if you want to water cool this or not. If you go with water, and have a plans to buy a single GTX 480 or have a 295 you want to use, then this setup wont be silent, but it will be more quiet than a air cooling setup. Alternatively you could also hang a rad extra in the back of the case. Check out swiftech.com for how to do that one.

 
Thanks for the reply.  
I found this on the specs, Motherboard Support ATX,M-ATX,E-ATX,SSI CEB
 
The Compact Electronics Bay Specification (CEB) is a standard form factor for dual processor motherboards defined by the Server System Infrastructure (SSI) forum. The specification is intended for value servers and workstations based on the Intel XEON processor.
The width x depth of a SSI CEB motherboard are 305 x 267 mm (12” x 10.5”), while SSI EEB is 305 x 330 mm (12” x 13”) and SSI MEB is 411 x 330 mm (16.2” x 13”).
The SSI CEB specification was derived from the EEB and ATX specifications. SSI CEB motherboards have the same IO connector area and many of the same motherboard mounting holes as ATX motherboards, although SSI CEB motherboards are larger in size than ATX motherboards and have different processor mounting holes. The rear panel aperture is identical to the EEB and ATX specification and expansion cards mounted on an SSI CEB motherboard appear much the same as they would on an ATX motherboard.
 
So i woul'd assume it will fit, or someone correct me if i'm wrong.

Here's the 80% drawing complete. The mobo on the first pic is the Classy and the red piece under it is the size of the SR-2. It will have holes surrounding the mobo platform which will be raised up above the base.

Sorry for all the pic's just wanted you guy's to see all sides and colors. Let me know what you think?