owcraftsman
There is already Z68 G3 edition boards that support PCIe 3.0

 
True, but you need the CPU to support them in the end otherwise it's just a gimmick for now.
 
I guess the mobos could come with PCI-E 3.0 support regardless, they probably will as it seems most manufacturers were expecting intel to go for PCI-E 3.0... then we'd have to wait for PCI-E 3.0 capable CPUs however D:
 
I *hope* I'm wrong.
 
Article: http://vr-zone.com/articl...t-this-year/12991.html
 
I think intel is being very short sighted... unless they know things we don't about Bulldozer, and this is designed to compete with it ASAP.

looks nice so far, damn tease...lol

NerdGZ

@Agression Prime since I know about EVGA on December 2010 i´m totally loyal to EVGA buying a lot of stuff for the labo(primary graphics cards and motherboards) except the 2 Sandy Bridge 2600k due to delay which choosed Asrock P67 Extreme6 but have a g210 and gt430 and is running as a frontend and backend linux servers.
Tyan is expensive and could not obtain the performance friendly like SR-2 for the CUDA simulations of the 4way sli GTX470 thats why i´m looking for some info about the future SR-3.
A 4p/2p g34/c32 6200/4200 Opteron Interlagos/Valencia with full overclock support will be an option for EVGA but probably is now out of specs.
Here we are currently out of funds until Jan 2012  because the project is not a priority now for gov/university and i must justify every buck spended so i was asking to anticipate and make some moves to reserve funds or even get a sponsor who could pay part of this research.
I´m planning of sell/loan the  part time of the CPU/GPU which is not busy for other people and projects to make some money or probably like i said on another posts this research must be closed and i will be unemployed :(.
So spot some SR-3 info will make me and the enthusiast SR-2  community happy because Jacob is the man who has partly the key to the dark side of the socket :P.

PD:Sorry for my english is not my primary language ;) EVGA FTW!!!

 
CUDA does not need SLI or a gaming motherboard. And EVGA has not made an AMD motherboard in a while. If you want the best price/performance solution, I suggest finding any motherboard with 6-7 PCIe 16x slots since nVidia estimates that a 1 CPU core:1 GPU is a good enough ratio to ensure balance between resources. If you are dependent on more CPU resources, needing more than 2 CPUs, although I am only a watcher of technological developments, I can ensure you the chances of EVGA making a board that supports more than 2 CPUs is slim to none as it would require them to change their marketing strategy. It was somewhat of a surprise that they introduced a dual CPU board, but 2 CPUs is the limit of consumer OS's, so it is not unthinkable for a gaming/mainstream machine to have 2 CPU's and EVGA's main market is to the gaming/mainstream community. However, once you hit 2+ CPUs (4-way and 8-way), you have reached the server market, and EVGA has never invested in the server market to this point. Things could change of course, but I doubt EVGA would refocus their efforts when they are doing so well with the focus they have. And besides, the server market is ruled quite well as it is by Tyan and Supermicro. EVGA is sure to make a LGA2011 board with 6-7 PCIe slots as they have done this for P55, P67, and X58. Unless if you need the extra CPU power, from a price/performance ratio, I would suggest getting a X79 single socket board with 6-7 PCIe slots and load it up with the cheapest 6-core LGA2011 you can find and those 470's. If you think you need more CPU power, the "SR-3" should be available about a month after EVGA launches its first LGA2011 boards, but I doubt you will need that much CPU power if you are just using 4 GPUs and running CUDA, from a price/performance perspective. But of course, EVGA's SR-2/SR-3 solution is one of the least expensive dual CPU solutions around fortunately since it is focused on the non-server market.
 
Also, to those wishing for 3-socket motherboards, do realize that the computer industry likes to have nice x^2 figures. It was odd that 3-core, 6-core, and 12-core CPUs were introduced, but that mostly happened to help die costs. It would not make sense to have 3-socket motherboards because once you move past 2 sockets, you restrict yourself to using a server OS, and the server market wants to maximize price/performance. The amount of circuity for a motherboard with 3-way and 4-way CPU configurations would be the same, so might as well make it 4-way to maximize the price/performance figure. And besides, Intel's and AMD's official CPU topographies only have 1P, 2P, 4P, and 8P configurations.
 
As for 8-slot RAM configurations, realize that the more RAM modules you put in each channel, the more stress it puts on the CPU causing Intel to lower the officially supported ratings for 8-slot and 12-slot configurations. While it is possible to make a LGA2011 board with up to 12 RAM slots (3 per channel), it would take a lot of space and from a purely performance perspective, wouldn't be worth it since people seeking maximum performance would use 1/3 of the slots. Currently, bound by official standards, you can easily place 4 4GB 1600MHz DDR3 modules with a LGA2011 CPU, giving you 16GB of 51.2GB/s bandwidth. Now I'm only running 4GB on my machine and in no way is it a gaming machine (being a 4 year old laptop), but I would be confident in saying that games won't use more than 16GB of system RAM. When they start to, 8GB DDR3 should be available. From a workstation market, the extra RAM may be useful, but those concerned with just raw performance, the speed is most important as the RAM usage will be less in games than workstation applications.

owcraftsman

Crusheddream

 where is the PCI 1x located?  asking because of soundcards

All PCIe sockets are backward compatible with x1 cards no matter if it's 16x, 8x or 4x so I don't understand your point.
The only concern being how it effects SLI users which shouldn't be much of an issue with the Sandy Bridge-E architecture with it's 32+ lane PCI-Express 2.0 hub on die and X79,s 8 GB/s of bandwidth awesome possibilities here vs the DMI (physical PCI-Express 2.0 x4) of P67
 

 
I believe he is referring to the location of the x1 slot for using his sound card because of most cases having 7 expansion slots and the layout of the PCB, not bandwidth of the slot on the board. The perfect (and only one that I can think of) example is how the X58 classified E759 and E760 have an x1 slot above the first x16 slot so you can have 3 way SLI and a dedicated sound card. Where as most other boards waste that top expansion slot on your case. Boards without this extra x1 slot above the primary x16 slot do not allow 3 way SLI and a sound card, because of the PCB layout. This is important to me as well and was one of the biggest selling points of the X58 classified to me. Now that there will not be a northbridge to cool with a massive heatsink, this PCB layout should be even easier for them to implement.
 
I need 3 way SLI and a sound card. I just hope this time around on the X79 Classy, the heatsink above the PCI-E slots (or lack thereof) will allow a full sized x1 sound card, and not limit you to a short card because of that extra little bump on the bottom of the heatsink (the only ones that fit are the X-Fi titanium, and X-fi titanium fatality. I also wonder what the reason for the bump was?). I'd like to have a choice of any sound card as well as 3 way SLI all in a 7 expansion slot case. 
 
Another thing I'd like to see is a 4 way X79 classy that doesn't waste the top 2 expansion slots as the E762 4 way X58 does. This is the reason that board needs a 10 slot case. I wouldn't mind having to use a 10 slot case, if I could fill all 10 slots. There must have been a reason for it with the E762 (my guess is the 2x NF200's), but hopefully they can get it done this time around, even with 2 NF200s, in the EATX form factor. Or even XL-ATX with 3x NF200's and 9x PCI-E x16's. I realize that is probably asking for too much, but imagine 4 way SLI, a dedicated sound card, and a RAID card. That would be amazing. I just hate to see wasted space on a board that could have PCI-E slots, because I want to populate as many as possible.  But hopefully Intel implements PCI-E 3.0 on X79 (actually the PCI-E controller is on the CPU die itself now I believe) so we don't need NF200s, or at least less on a 4 way board. But I'm sure Nvidia will require the NF200 artificially for 4 way SLI anyway just so they can sell those chips. Nvidia has done stuff like this before since they where pushed out of the Intel chipset market. Weren't they going to require an NF200 for 3 way SLI on X58 originally before the chipset was released? An artificial limitation to sell chips of course, because they weren't allowed a licence by Intel to make a Nehalem chipset. 

Come on let us show some more details from this board

If early adoption is your end game EVGA is not your board and  that has always been true with EVGA but, you can not equate the B3 revision debacle with a typical EVGA release. They spared us the frustration of rushing a lemon to the public. In my mind that's a good thing.  I understand your concern but do not believe this will happen again because it simply is not in Intel's best interest. If EVGA is a month behind the rest of the pack with x79 I'd be surprised but they will be behind as always.

Yea it probably wasn't even an actual image... probably just a really good render haha.

EVGA_JacobF

This is preliminary, most of you probably know what it is...

Can't wait for this!  I'm definitely gonna start saving for this, or maybe even the dual socket version
 
Looks like I won't be going out for quite a while!

SiriusDragon I'd like lots of 'native' SATA/SAS ports on my mobo, kthx.

 
You got it

EVGA_JacobF

SiriusDragon I'd like lots of 'native' SATA/SAS ports on my mobo, kthx.

You got it

 
I'd also like dual sockets on my mobo, thx.
 

SiriusDragon

EVGA_JacobF

SiriusDragon I'd like lots of 'native' SATA/SAS ports on my mobo, kthx.

You got it

evga delivers!

Chances are the support was always there, so it is an easy promise to make.

SiriusDragon
there's no 4-way support on AMD chips so I won't be leaving Intel any time soon.

Pardons if I've misunderstood, what are you talking about? 
 

SiriusDragon
I'm also hoping that's a confirmation the rumours I've seen of there being cut down chipsets is false... or atleast that evga won't use them

Patsburg is like Cougar Point, it is just a southbridge chipset and can apply in many board types.  X79 is just one type, and it is and always has been vendor perogative which features to enable.  If EVGA feels enabling all of it will helps their sales and/or reputation, they will.

so much want!

Halo_003

EVGA_JacobF

SiriusDragon I'd like lots of 'native' SATA/SAS ports on my mobo, kthx.

You got it

How about a 4 Way SLI version? 

 
Yup!

14 sata ports , 4 pcie 3.0 slots.... 2x slots running both sides etc... :) cant wait