EVGA’s W555 Motherboard has Room for Seven GPUs
EVGA’s W555 Motherboard has Room for Seven GPUs
Posted 01/28/2010 at 3:36pm
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The EVGA W555 made a brief cameo appearance at CES but the guys at bit-tech managed to get some fantastic tidbits of information about the new workstation/server board. Notably, that it was designed with overclocking and enthusiast level performance in mind.
The quick and dirty facts are that it features dual overclockable LGA1366 sockets, each with a dedicated bank of six DDR3 slots. To top it off, it features seven PCI-E 2.0 slots with dynamic lane configurations and will be certified for SLI and CrossFire. Underneath the massive heatsink/fan are reportedly two nForce 200 controllers as well as an Intel 5520 chip. Further, it features eight SATA ports, 6 running on a 3Gb/sec and two running at 6Gb/sec.
Basically, you couldn’t really ask for too much more out of a motherboard of this caliber. Unfortunately, pricing and other model configurations haven’t been released. The board itself is to be released later this year.
Image courtesy of bit-tech.net
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Airheadq
March 11, 2010 at 6:02am
I wonder how this one compares to the ASUS Supercomputer...
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131390
wlballplayer
January 29, 2010 at 7:35am
hey this sounds like a really nice motherboard. Can't wait to see 7 gpu's or gpux2x7=14gpu's on this thing. Most likely i'll watch it on youtube or some media site due to the fact that some rich guy will make the ultimate build with pocket change they got laying around.
fnordfnord
February 05, 2010 at 5:41am
That would take a dedicated 1600 watt powers suply just for the graphics card.
DBsantos77
February 08, 2010 at 11:30am
1600 WATTS? With the other components, that's close to running TWO vacuums constantly. WOW ELECTRIC BILL.
-Santos
wlballplayer
January 29, 2010 at 7:35am
hey this sounds like a really nice motherboard. Can't wait to see 7 gpu's or gpux2x7=14gpu's on this thing. Most likely i'll watch it on youtube or some media site due to the fact that some rich guy will make the ultimate build with pocket change they got laying around.
Taz0
January 29, 2010 at 12:01am
Two LGA1366 sockets should mean it would support the upcoming hex-core CPUs, for a total of 12 cores, 24 GB of RAM (or perhaps 48GB?) and 14 water-cooled GPUs. Impressive.
I hereby nominate this mobo for the Dream Machine 2010.
Sebie Kay
February 03, 2010 at 9:49am
I second your opinion of nominating this board the the dream machine! What do you say, MaxPC? Lets put this in the next build and watch sheer joy spread across the faces of geeks everywhere.. :D
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nekollx
January 29, 2010 at 9:55am
you know i'd love to know how you would mount a setup like that...
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quickone
January 28, 2010 at 7:35pm
A Folders dream right there, two i7's 4 duel GPU's all in one case. Would probably need two PSU's and 2 regular home box fans to cool it on air or a firehose on water.
speaking of, a firetruck just pulled up infront of my house hummm...
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leetNightshade
January 29, 2010 at 12:14am
-.- My computer is about a year old with just a GTX 260, a single i7 920, and 8GB of ram; it can run Crysis on the HIGHEST settings (except for anti-aliasing, where anything above 4x causes the framerate to drop to around 30 or something). There are better graphics cards, of which you'd obviously only need one to run crysis.
Quakindude
January 29, 2010 at 5:44am
You're new to these comment areas, so I'll cut you some slack. Don't make another personal attack or you will find your account blocked. And yes, calling someone stupid for using a WAAAAAAY over used "joke" is a personal attack.
Thank you.
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leetNightshade
January 29, 2010 at 7:40pm
I guess I've never actually read a terms of service or whatever it's called here, and with the addition of your points, I didn't realize it would be a bad idea.
Thanks for the warning.
Keith E. Whisman
January 28, 2010 at 6:01pm
This is so hot and sexy it should come with an R rating at least and nobody under 18 can look at it. This is nerd porn if there ever was.
Still though 7PCIe slots is overkill because the most you going to be able to fit in this thing when it comes to graphics cards is 3. Maybe 2 cards in SLI with a couple PCIe based SSD's. Now that sounds cool. Or even one really bad ass dual processor graphics card in the bottom slot with 5 or 6 SSD's in PCIe. Sounds freaking awesome. Wont need the SATA except for the optical drive(s).
Santa Clause, err, I mean Bill Gates I need one of these for research or something.
HeartBurnKid
January 28, 2010 at 4:47pm
Only question is, how would you fit 7 GPUs on there? Let's face it, even low-end GPUs these days come with coolers that partially block a slot... The slots may be willing, but the physical space is weak.
Glycerin
January 29, 2010 at 1:30am
I think they'll start making PCI-Express SSC's, or Solid State Cards, which you plug in the slot. How crazy would that be. No more spinning hard drives needed.
Bilbert
January 28, 2010 at 5:49pm
Eight GPUs with four dual GPU dual slot cards such as the ATI Radeon 5970 or Nvidia GeForce GTX 295. i don't know if you could use them all though.
bingojubes
January 28, 2010 at 5:22pm
it could be 7 of the single PCI slot videocards, the ones without the monstrous GPU fans on them.
kanzy
January 28, 2010 at 5:04pm
You can always water cool them, if you have 7 GPU, you kind need to WC them anyway
bingojubes
January 28, 2010 at 4:37pm
to bad i cannot install a sound card on it. guess i would have to go back to onboard.
that thing must be EATX, because otherwise, i think that the SATA ports will be covered up.
a must have, but damn is it going to be expensive to fill that to the max with parts. i think my regular i7 Setup almost cuts about half of that.
leetNightshade
January 29, 2010 at 12:28am
Why would you need a sound card? The integrated sound works perfectly fine, besides there are 6 audio ports for whatever you could possibly need. I don't even know anybody who has actually bought a sound card for their new computer, these days the on-board ones work nicely!
Quakindude
January 29, 2010 at 5:50am
An audiophile would no sooner use onboard sound than a gaming enthusiast would use onboard graphics. Personally, I'm no audiophile. But if I had the spare room like this mobo has, I'd simply plug one into one of the x16 slots and call it good.
But seriously, this mobo is intended for a very specific market segment. This mobo will probably start at $750.....if not more. That's before you buy the first CPU or graphics card. Much less the TWO PSU's this thing will likely need to run.
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leetNightshade
January 29, 2010 at 7:48pm
"An audiophile would no sooner use onboard sound than a gaming enthusiast would use onboard graphics. "
To a point. I was trying to come up with an argument, but I couldn't make it really sound. I don't think I'd notice that much of a difference from switching to an integrated audio solution to an add-on card. Switching from some Nvidia Geforce Go graphics card from a laptop to a Nvidia GTX 260 to run Unreal Tournament 3, you notice a big difference. The first card runs the game only at crappy settings, making it look like a game more than 7 years old; the second, making it look like a current generation high definition game :)
Heck, if I can fit 7 gpu's into a computer why would I want to waste a slot on a sound card ;p
But yes, I guess an audiophile would, of course. I just don't know of many, and hear about gamers all the time; as far as gaming goes, visuals have been the most important part of games for many years, sound still has catching up to do.
Taz0
January 29, 2010 at 12:50am
I bought a sound card for my computer, a Creative X-Fi XtremeGamer. I love it, despite its bugs. I use headphones exclusively, and the X-Fi's MCSS-3D makes all the difference. When I turned off, everything sounds flat and stereo, when on, it makes the audio enveloping, as if you had a 7.1 sound system. You really have to hear it to understand it. I don't regret getting the X-Fi, and it wasn't even expensive.
leetNightshade
January 29, 2010 at 7:43pm
What do you mean by "makes the audio enveloping"? Stereo is affecting what you're hearing in what ear; besides being a sound affect doesn't really affect how the music sounds, just how your ears interpret it.
"You really have to hear it to understand it. " I guess I would :) How expensive is something like that?
Taz0
January 30, 2010 at 1:49am
$60 at NewEgg: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16829102006R
A review of CMSS-3D Headphones: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/creative-x,1101-16.html
"With a stereo source, CMSS-3D continues its extraction of ambience information from the recording to give the listener the sensation being in the middle of the action. But naturally, the effects are most spectacular with multichannel sources (movies in Dolby Digital or DTS) and with games. Headphones are no longer the punishment they once were, and become a real pleasure in their own right."
Also, in the first 6 seconds of this video, you can hear a comparison of with and without CMSS-3D Headphones: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-rXtSfq_Po&fmt=18
leetNightshade
January 30, 2010 at 4:24pm
I'm confused, from that video, I don't see how it'd be useful at all. The tool is cool, but those kinds of effects are done in video games, no need for a special card; you wouldn't really want to do those kinds of things to music when you're listening to it anyway. Besides, my sound card is an integrated sound card, I have a 5.1 speaker system running out of a single speaker jack, and the surround sound is emulated "perfectly".
Taz0
January 31, 2010 at 9:12am
I was talking about only the first 6 seconds of that video, not the rest. I tried recording a music track with and without CMSS, but unfortunately the resulting recording ended up without CMSS, since it is applied at the hardware level and is not available to the mixer. In order to record it, I'll have to use a loopback cable. Too much trouble for me, you'll just have to take my word for it - it's awesome and worth every penny (at least for headphones users).
Taz0
January 28, 2010 at 11:55pm
Why wouldn't you be able to install a sound card? It has SEVEN x16 slots. Unless you plan on using ALL SEVEN for video cards, you can spare one for the sound card, can't you? Since, if you didn't know, you can stick a x1 (or x2 or anything x16 or lower) in a x16 slot.
nekollx
January 28, 2010 at 4:38pm
Me Likey EVGA!
Me Likey EVGA!
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