Gold Leader

EVGA should of stayed withing the E-ATX standards, it just flaws that you need another case to fit this mobo, it's not perfect because of the odd and unknown format, no socketed Bios chiips for full reliability of bios failures & bios chip replacements and lacking IPMI 2.0 support which is very recommended and highly wanted in the 2CPU world.

If it was E-ATX, like most 2CPU boards are; it would of been alot more useful and client friendly.

But now it has a format no which case has, it's kinda useless this way, unless there are cases that can really fit it without any modifications needed?
Sorry but this is something I rather evade hence of the important features it is missing ad it's odd format.

I hope EVGA will improve the ormat to E-ATX & ATX , a smaller one would be alot more interesting, like Supermicro's X8DAL3i:


it's ATX format, it has Tri Channel DDR3 per CPU, it has Nehalem & Westmere support, max ram support = 3x 4GB DDR3-1333 ECC Reg per CPU, it's only down side is 1x PCI-E 2.0 x16 @ 16 lanes &  1x PCI-E 2.0 x16 @ 4 lanes.

Now if EVGA can make a sucha board in that format with a NF200 chip @ 2x PCI-E 2.0 x16 with 32 lane SLI & CFX support, then they will have a great success in the 2CPU gaming world with a much smaller product that can deliver the same performance CPU wise with same OC possibilties and it will fit in any ATX case!

So no more over sized mobo's, just the good ole ATX format and no nonsense.

U, it has Nehalem & Westmere support, max ram support = 3x 4GB DDR3-1333 ECC Reg per CPU, it's only down side is 1x PCI-E 2.0 x16 @ 16 lanes & 1x PCI-E 2.0 x16 @ 4 lanes. Now if EVGA can make a sucha board in that format with a NF200 chip @ 2x PCI-E 2.0 x16 with 32 lane SLI & CFX support, then they will have a great success in the 2CPU gaming world with a much smaller product that can deliver the same performance CPU wise with same OC possibilties and it will fit in any ATX case!

Gold Leader

like a game will use more than 4Gb ram rofl, It's not like you'll be running real time simualtions more than 21 hours a day right or more
Quad SLI support not possible 32 PCI-E lanes over 2 PCI-E x16 slots? uhm I think you are forgetting something very important man

Uhm ever heard of the Dual Chip VGA lines of cards like the GeForce GX2 Line like the GeForce 9800 GX2, GeForce GTX 295 or Dual GTX 495 which possibly with be the 5th generation GX2 VGA card that will be released Q2 this year and will be absed on die-resized Dual Fermi GPU's most likely.

If you want Quad CFX, that is not an issue with 32 lane PCI-E, just take a pair of HD 5970's or ATi's new breed X2 VGA's the HD 5990
There are options enough, all you need is the know how that those options are there to make use of them, simple and plain, as aVGA collector these cards have been around even before the Vodooo5 5500 rofl, hello ATi Rage Fury MAXX.

Gold Leader

like a game will use more than 4Gb ram rofl, It's not like you'll be running real time simualtions more than 21 hours a day right or more
Quad SLI support not possible 32 PCI-E lanes over 2 PCI-E x16 slots? uhm I think you are forgetting something very important man

Uhm ever heard of the Dual Chip VGA lines of cards like the GeForce GX2 Line like the GeForce 9800 GX2, GeForce GTX 295 or Dual GTX 495 which possibly with be the 5th generation GX2 VGA card that will be released Q2 this year and will be absed on die-resized Dual Fermi GPU's most likely.

If you want Quad CFX, that is not an issue with 32 lane PCI-E, just take a pair of HD 5970's or ATi's new breed X2 VGA's the HD 5990
There are options enough, all you need is the know how that those options are there to make use of them, simple and plain, as aVGA collector these cards have been around even before the Vodooo5 5500 rofl, hello ATi Rage Fury MAXX.

GoofyR

I like the DD case also but no answers to phone calls.  Plus you have to promise you first born to post a message in the forums.  So if anyone has a better number or link.  I would like to add 3 blk ice rads and have the back panel customized for 2xPSU and Top panel 4 centered 120mm fan openings.

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