Asus New Motherboard Supports Seven PCI-E x16 Cards
Asus New Motherboard Supports Seven PCI-E x16 Cards
Posted 07/01/2009 at 6:00am
| by Paul Lilly
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Let's get this out of the way right off the bat - Asus launched its P6T7 WS SuperComputer motherboard in mid-March, so technically it's not 'new.' But there's no splitting hairs about this workstation board being one of the baddest mobos around thanks to a whopping seven PCI-E x16 slots. Yes, we said SEVEN!
While there's nothing to stop a power user from building a truly brag worthy rig with the P6T7 WS as its foundation, this motherboard was really designed for parallel computing. It's been certified for Nvidia Tesla GPU computing with support for up to three Nvidia Tesla cards and one Nvidia Quadro card. Such a configuration adds up to 960 parallel processing cores pumping out 4 freakin' teraflops of processing power, enough to qualify for a basement level supercomputer.
Other specs include RAID 0/1/5/10 support, up to 12 USB 2.0 ports (6 native and 3 USB connectors supporting an additional 6 ports), 2 eSATA 3Gb/s ports, two nForce 200 chips, three-way ATI CrossFireX and Nvidia SLI support, dual LAN ports, and more.
The board is available now for around $450 street.
Image Credit: Asus
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domih2009
July 04, 2009 at 3:04pm
It would be great if Maximum PC could compare this:
ASUS P6T7 WS Supercomputer LGA 1366 Intel X58
Intel Core i7-975 Extreme Edition Bloomfield 3.33GHz (or whatever)
PNY Quadro FX5600 1.5GB GDDR3 600Mhz DualDVI PCI-E x16 (or equivalent)
3 x eVGA GeForce GTX 295 CO-OP 1792MB DDR3 PCI-E (or equivalent)
Leadtek's WinFast PxVC1100 / Canopus' FIRECODER Blu
TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress + Toshiba's SpursEngine plug-in (*)To a professional encoding farm.
(*) See http://tmpgenc.pegasys-inc.com/en/product/te4xp_spurs.html
Note: As far as I know Sorenson Squeeze does not have CUDA nor SpursEngine plug-ins :-(
whitneymr
July 01, 2009 at 8:19pm
Lets see 7 GTX 295's for 14 F@H clients at once. :-) There's just the small issue of paying for it.
Lord Omega
July 01, 2009 at 12:04pm
If you were to put 7 single slot nvidia cards (like 7 9800GTs :D) and fold with them your going to have a hell of of a machine (and no sli because folding cannot use SLI or xfire)
Devo85x
July 01, 2009 at 11:41am
The only thing I can think to do with this board (other than what is sugested by MaxPC) is to put a TON of HDDs or SSDs in a huge RAID array... as for the dude who is thinking about 7 video cards, no game can use that many GPUs, as for apps... maby if you ran F@H?...
nekollx
July 01, 2009 at 12:31pm
Why not all of the above
Tri SLI for Gaming
dedicated PhysX card
and 3 GPUs for Folding at home...
All at the same time.
Crysis at 60FPS+physics WHILE Folding.
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Videogamer3211
July 01, 2009 at 9:38am
Really,where can you find a cpu that could handle 7 video cards! And besides, who needs 7 of them anyways. It is a nice concept though.....Hey! They Probably made this for windows 7!
nekollx
July 01, 2009 at 8:07am
yes but can it play Crysis (cause you knwo workstation boards and consumer boards don't always get along at the application level)
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