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EVGA Names and Details its Dual-LGA1366 Enthusiast Motherboard
EVGA today named its dual-LGA1366 enthusiast-grade motherboard, so far known by the codename W555. After a short contest on the company's forums, the company came up with "EVGA Classified SR-2" for its name. SR stands for "super record" and 2 denoting the dual-socket design. The Classified SR-2 is a an entusiast-grade (read: overclocker friendly) implementation of the Tylersburg platform, supporting Intel socket LGA1366 processors with two QPI links (2P Xeon, etc.) As an addition, the board allows you to do something that's difficult on typical 2P server motherboards: it allows you to mix different models of Xeon processors, provided they're based on the same architecture, and series. For example, you can mix a Xeon 5520 with Xeon 5540. You can also mix a quad-core processor with a six-core processor, provided the quad-core part is based on the Westmere architecture (32 nm), not Nehalem (45 nm).

The board will also let you run a single 2P-capable processor in either sockets. DDR3 memory modules can be non-ECC or even ECC. 2P Xeon DRAM Multipliers / Uncore Multipliers are locked so you will only be able to use maximum 2:8 or 2:10 depending on segment of CPU. EVGA tells that the board supports 4-way SLI on its GTX 285 Classified VGA, but adds that a "future flagship GPU" also supports it. Could this be GeForce GTX 400 series having it as a standard feature? We have to wait and see. 4-way CrossFireX is supported.

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Another dent in the wallet! Where is this going to stop? He He!
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Really dont think this is going to be a successful motherboard, doesnt vantage and 06 stop scaling at a point, takes longer for the cpus to communicate with eachother? Wprime will only get few points in the x16 and x24 categories, I just dont know. How well do those xeons clock anyway?
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Nice but think they could have come up with something better than super record for a name. lol
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Really dont think this is going to be a successful motherboard, doesnt vantage and 06 stop scaling at a point, takes longer for the cpus to communicate with eachother? Wprime will only get few points in the x16 and x24 categories, I just dont know. How well do those xeons clock anyway?

I agree but it will pwn primes and Vantage for some global goodness
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I agree but it will pwn primes and Vantage for some global goodness
No global to be had in wprime, itll be competing against 12x cpu

Depends on whether vantage continues to scale with that many threads if it will help there
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This thing is going to destroy 3DM Vantage.
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I believe this why Futuremark fixed the threading optimization issues in their latest patch.
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CPU score does not scale as well with CPU score. A cpu score 2.5 times more than another only makes a couple thousand point differnce in Vnatage from what I have seen.

06 is hugely impacted by CPU... but if it has core limitations then yeah, not a big help.

Still 8-12 cores possible is going to make a serious enthusiast machine if not a bot buddy.
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