EVGA Dual socket 1366.

[peter leman]

You'll love this thing, found these links on the seti fourms.

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/take_sneak_peek_evgas_dual_socket_lga_1366_motherboard

http://www.hardocp.com/news/2010/01/05/evga_dual_lga1366_motherboard_at_ces_2010

[kashi]

So I wonder how much it will be? If it's about $1000 and two Xeon E5520 currently cost about $920, you could have a 16 core box for a few grand, plus memory. If I had the necessary funds, I'd prefer to spend that much on a couple of HD 5970s myself but I must admit the idea of a box with 16 cores a crunching is appealing. :)

[Furlozza]

HMMMMMMMMmmmmmmmmmmmm 16 cores at a modest 3.2GHz, 12 gig per cpu of the latest ddr3 memory, 4 ATI 5900 series cards........ box?? Bloody big... with plenty of room for fans.... cooling??.. definitely water, if not liquid nitrogen..... ah Mastercard

[Nathan]

I'm kinda "borrowing" a dual E5540 server with 48GB ram at work ;) Been thinking of throwing my GTX295 in it for :drool: good stats ;)

[Dataman]

HMMMMMMMMmmmmmmmmmmmm 16 cores at a modest 3.2GHz, 12 gig per cpu of the latest ddr3 memory, 4 ATI 5900 series cards........ box?? Bloody big... with plenty of room for fans.... cooling??.. definitely water, if not liquid nitrogen..... ah Mastercard

I wonder how long it will be until one can'tplug them into a wall socket anymore?  ???

[veebee]

there are already dual socket lga 1366 boards (when I did a search yesterday).. but the product description at my retailer said " for Xeon" cpu's...

sounds like a 'server" type board, but any reason one couldn't put their two i7-920's in it ???

[kashi]

Yes there are already dual socket 1366 boards but because they are server boards they have very limited overclocking options and also the layout is not suitable for gamers or crunchers who wish to add multiple high end video cards.

Unfortunately using two desktop cpus such as i7 920 won't work for Intel 5500 chipset. You need a SMP capable Xeon 1366 based processor I think. The normal desktop ones are missing the support for the 2nd QPI link which Xeon SMP based processors have. That's why I priced the cost of two Xeon E5520 in my previous post.

[peter leman]

Some new info on the beast.

http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/17/evga-classified-sr-2-fits-two-980x-cpus-for-24-threads-exemplif/

[BF]

HMMMMMMMMMM...

I have a fairly major birthday coming up in June...  AND have been told by my other half to "build a big bad BOINCing machine" for it 


Looks like I may have found my present!!  :drool: :drool: :drool:

Will watch the release of board this with interest..

[BF]

Some specs on the 5600 series xeons supported by this board... Interestingly all the chips have 12MB of L3 cache regardless of core count..

http://www.guruht.com/2010/03/intel-xeon-six-core-x5609-to-x5680.html



edit:  as an aside this wiki will keep you informed of all future Intel processor releases..

[kashi]

Very interesting, thanks for posting.

As well as the quad core 32nm Xeon DP having 12MB of L3 there were a few other items that I noticed.

Firstly the more affordable desktop 6 core is due to be released in 3-6 months for an estimated release price of US$562. Yes it's still expensive but much better than the current Extreme version.

Secondly it's only hypothetical because the low voltage Xeon CPUs are always more expensive for the clockspeed, but the low power 6 core "L" models really take advantage of the efficiencies of 32nm.* I know many often concentrate on higher clockspeeds for more daily credit but a computer with one or two Xeon L5640 with a TDP of 60W would be a great crunching tool in these times of rising electricity prices.


* Relatively higher power usage in some circumstances was one of the drawbacks of 45nm Nehalems. The TDP of 130W and the reduced L2 cache meant that on some projects the 12MB L2 cache Core2 quads were more power efficient per cobblestone. An avid Einstein cruncher did the comparison some time ago and was surprised when he discovered his Q9450 was more power efficient than his new i7 920 when crunching Einstein. The same is probably true on some other projects where a larger amount of L2 cache improves processing speed.

[peter leman]

This guy got very lucky, it's a long read but worth it.

Dam him, i won't 1.

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=246135

[BF]

Here is my favorite pic from that XS thread..

24 threads clocked to 4.4Ghz..

Oh.My.God.

[Furlozza]

BF
My favourite bit is that it is running at that speed doing WCG on all 24 cores...... and sitting on those temps on what looks like standard Themaltake CPU cooler, albeit the expensive ones (says he that has two V-10s ).

Have a feeling that the box it is in helps as well. Wonder how much it'd cost to get a mountain mod case here?

[kashi]

......Have a feeling that the box it is in helps as well. Wonder how much it'd cost to get a mountain mod case here?

Yes pretty low temps for that speed. Haha, perhaps a bit noisy in my bedroom with those all those high power fans.

Mountain mods cases are too big to go through ordinary US postal service I think, so must be sent FedEx. Someone in Melbourne got one sent over a few years ago and the freight was US$304.10.