http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/17/evga-classified-sr-2-fits-two-980x-cpus-for-24-threads-exemplif/ Engadget Comments for EVGA Classified SR-2 fits two Xeon CPUs for 24 threads, exemplifies overkill http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/17/evga-classified-sr-2-fits-two-980x-cpus-for-24-threads-exemplif/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/17/evga-classified-sr-2-fits-two-980x-cpus-for-24-threads-exemplif/Mar 17th 2010 4:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/17/evga-classified-sr-2-fits-two-980x-cpus-for-24-threads-exemplif/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/17/evga-classified-sr-2-fits-two-980x-cpus-for-24-threads-exemplif/ITS OVER 9000!!!11!1!ONE!!]]>Mar 17th 2010 5:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/17/evga-classified-sr-2-fits-two-980x-cpus-for-24-threads-exemplif/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/17/evga-classified-sr-2-fits-two-980x-cpus-for-24-threads-exemplif/I... Just came.]]>Mar 17th 2010 5:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/17/evga-classified-sr-2-fits-two-980x-cpus-for-24-threads-exemplif/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/17/evga-classified-sr-2-fits-two-980x-cpus-for-24-threads-exemplif/
Can you say dream machine?]]>Mar 17th 2010 6:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/17/evga-classified-sr-2-fits-two-980x-cpus-for-24-threads-exemplif/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/17/evga-classified-sr-2-fits-two-980x-cpus-for-24-threads-exemplif/Mar 17th 2010 6:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/17/evga-classified-sr-2-fits-two-980x-cpus-for-24-threads-exemplif/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/17/evga-classified-sr-2-fits-two-980x-cpus-for-24-threads-exemplif/
May the Classified Super Record 2 (SR-2) live long and prosper!]]>Mar 17th 2010 6:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/17/evga-classified-sr-2-fits-two-980x-cpus-for-24-threads-exemplif/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/17/evga-classified-sr-2-fits-two-980x-cpus-for-24-threads-exemplif/
If you thought the old Skulltrail rigs were expensive to build, check out the price of one of the CPUs that this was built for: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819117176.]]>Mar 17th 2010 6:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/17/evga-classified-sr-2-fits-two-980x-cpus-for-24-threads-exemplif/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/17/evga-classified-sr-2-fits-two-980x-cpus-for-24-threads-exemplif/Mar 17th 2010 7:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/17/evga-classified-sr-2-fits-two-980x-cpus-for-24-threads-exemplif/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/17/evga-classified-sr-2-fits-two-980x-cpus-for-24-threads-exemplif/
Wrong processor. It's not compatible with the 7400 processors... those are high end servers with 4 to 32 processors. This board is intended for the consumer grade 5600 series, but note, not all 5600 series processors have 6 cores.

http://www.intel.com/Assets/en_US/PDF/prodbrief/323501.pdf ]]>Mar 17th 2010 11:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/17/evga-classified-sr-2-fits-two-980x-cpus-for-24-threads-exemplif/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/17/evga-classified-sr-2-fits-two-980x-cpus-for-24-threads-exemplif/
Sorry, forgot to say, the board looks absolutely stunning, although I have no need for more than 2 video cards. I suppose they can hold SAS or some other PCI-e cards.]]>Mar 17th 2010 11:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/17/evga-classified-sr-2-fits-two-980x-cpus-for-24-threads-exemplif/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/17/evga-classified-sr-2-fits-two-980x-cpus-for-24-threads-exemplif/
JIZZ IN MY PANTS!!!!!!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwDMLToRBgY]]>Mar 17th 2010 11:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/17/evga-classified-sr-2-fits-two-980x-cpus-for-24-threads-exemplif/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/17/evga-classified-sr-2-fits-two-980x-cpus-for-24-threads-exemplif/

Whats wrong with you?]]>Mar 18th 2010 5:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/17/evga-classified-sr-2-fits-two-980x-cpus-for-24-threads-exemplif/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/17/evga-classified-sr-2-fits-two-980x-cpus-for-24-threads-exemplif/
Adding this to my list. I'll get it for $500 when it goes on sale. :) Anyone else?]]>Mar 17th 2010 4:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/17/evga-classified-sr-2-fits-two-980x-cpus-for-24-threads-exemplif/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/17/evga-classified-sr-2-fits-two-980x-cpus-for-24-threads-exemplif/Mar 17th 2010 4:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/17/evga-classified-sr-2-fits-two-980x-cpus-for-24-threads-exemplif/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/17/evga-classified-sr-2-fits-two-980x-cpus-for-24-threads-exemplif/Mar 17th 2010 4:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/17/evga-classified-sr-2-fits-two-980x-cpus-for-24-threads-exemplif/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/17/evga-classified-sr-2-fits-two-980x-cpus-for-24-threads-exemplif/Mar 17th 2010 4:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/17/evga-classified-sr-2-fits-two-980x-cpus-for-24-threads-exemplif/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/17/evga-classified-sr-2-fits-two-980x-cpus-for-24-threads-exemplif/Mar 17th 2010 4:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/17/evga-classified-sr-2-fits-two-980x-cpus-for-24-threads-exemplif/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/17/evga-classified-sr-2-fits-two-980x-cpus-for-24-threads-exemplif/
Enough about Crysis!

/rant]]>Mar 17th 2010 5:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/17/evga-classified-sr-2-fits-two-980x-cpus-for-24-threads-exemplif/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/17/evga-classified-sr-2-fits-two-980x-cpus-for-24-threads-exemplif/
SOLITAIRE WILL NEVER BE PLAYED THE SAME!!!

/sarcasm/]]>Mar 17th 2010 5:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/17/evga-classified-sr-2-fits-two-980x-cpus-for-24-threads-exemplif/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/17/evga-classified-sr-2-fits-two-980x-cpus-for-24-threads-exemplif/
You'll just lose that much FASTER!

=P]]>Mar 17th 2010 5:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/17/evga-classified-sr-2-fits-two-980x-cpus-for-24-threads-exemplif/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/17/evga-classified-sr-2-fits-two-980x-cpus-for-24-threads-exemplif/Mar 17th 2010 5:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/17/evga-classified-sr-2-fits-two-980x-cpus-for-24-threads-exemplif/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/17/evga-classified-sr-2-fits-two-980x-cpus-for-24-threads-exemplif/NOPE I'll wait for a big price drop next year then get it or competitor]]>Mar 17th 2010 5:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/17/evga-classified-sr-2-fits-two-980x-cpus-for-24-threads-exemplif/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/17/evga-classified-sr-2-fits-two-980x-cpus-for-24-threads-exemplif/I'll be waiting till next year when you throw this one out as you upgrade then to the latest and greatest.]]>Mar 17th 2010 6:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/17/evga-classified-sr-2-fits-two-980x-cpus-for-24-threads-exemplif/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/17/evga-classified-sr-2-fits-two-980x-cpus-for-24-threads-exemplif/yeah games that suck always have a 91 at metacritic.]]>Mar 17th 2010 6:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/17/evga-classified-sr-2-fits-two-980x-cpus-for-24-threads-exemplif/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/17/evga-classified-sr-2-fits-two-980x-cpus-for-24-threads-exemplif/
Crysis isn't a "game".

It's an interactive benchmarking tool.]]>Mar 17th 2010 10:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/17/evga-classified-sr-2-fits-two-980x-cpus-for-24-threads-exemplif/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/17/evga-classified-sr-2-fits-two-980x-cpus-for-24-threads-exemplif/
... but yeah... like others have said, it's a good benchmark mostly because it doesn't use efficient coding for pushing pixels and effects.

If they remade it and tried hard to optimize it it'd run a lot better on much lower-end machines. ]]>Mar 18th 2010 2:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/17/evga-classified-sr-2-fits-two-980x-cpus-for-24-threads-exemplif/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/17/evga-classified-sr-2-fits-two-980x-cpus-for-24-threads-exemplif/
Which is exactly what they are doing.

I thought Crysis was a fantastic game. You had a huge range of options in pretty much every objective you had to complete. It was beautiful game, but I thought the gameplay was fantastic as well.]]>Mar 18th 2010 2:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/17/evga-classified-sr-2-fits-two-980x-cpus-for-24-threads-exemplif/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/17/evga-classified-sr-2-fits-two-980x-cpus-for-24-threads-exemplif/Mar 18th 2010 11:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/17/evga-classified-sr-2-fits-two-980x-cpus-for-24-threads-exemplif/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/17/evga-classified-sr-2-fits-two-980x-cpus-for-24-threads-exemplif/Mar 17th 2010 4:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/17/evga-classified-sr-2-fits-two-980x-cpus-for-24-threads-exemplif/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/17/evga-classified-sr-2-fits-two-980x-cpus-for-24-threads-exemplif/
Hey baby, I've got a PC with 4 graphics cards in SLI, two 980X 6 Core i7s, 48Gb of DDR3 RAM and USB 3.0. I would say "Your place or mine", but I sold my place to buy this PC.]]>Mar 17th 2010 4:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/17/evga-classified-sr-2-fits-two-980x-cpus-for-24-threads-exemplif/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/17/evga-classified-sr-2-fits-two-980x-cpus-for-24-threads-exemplif/LMHO]]>Mar 17th 2010 5:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/17/evga-classified-sr-2-fits-two-980x-cpus-for-24-threads-exemplif/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/17/evga-classified-sr-2-fits-two-980x-cpus-for-24-threads-exemplif/Mar 17th 2010 5:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/17/evga-classified-sr-2-fits-two-980x-cpus-for-24-threads-exemplif/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/17/evga-classified-sr-2-fits-two-980x-cpus-for-24-threads-exemplif/
It's a British Gentlemanly internet phrase,
Lift My Hat Off]]>Mar 17th 2010 5:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/17/evga-classified-sr-2-fits-two-980x-cpus-for-24-threads-exemplif/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/17/evga-classified-sr-2-fits-two-980x-cpus-for-24-threads-exemplif/Mar 17th 2010 6:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/17/evga-classified-sr-2-fits-two-980x-cpus-for-24-threads-exemplif/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/17/evga-classified-sr-2-fits-two-980x-cpus-for-24-threads-exemplif/Mar 17th 2010 6:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/17/evga-classified-sr-2-fits-two-980x-cpus-for-24-threads-exemplif/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/17/evga-classified-sr-2-fits-two-980x-cpus-for-24-threads-exemplif/

MY PRRRRRRECIOUS!]]>Mar 17th 2010 7:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/17/evga-classified-sr-2-fits-two-980x-cpus-for-24-threads-exemplif/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/17/evga-classified-sr-2-fits-two-980x-cpus-for-24-threads-exemplif/(you know the same feeling you get when you walk into a Brookstone at the mall)]]>Mar 17th 2010 4:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/17/evga-classified-sr-2-fits-two-980x-cpus-for-24-threads-exemplif/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/17/evga-classified-sr-2-fits-two-980x-cpus-for-24-threads-exemplif/

i know that feeling. but I lie to myself so well that i convince myself that I NEED it]]>Mar 17th 2010 4:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/17/evga-classified-sr-2-fits-two-980x-cpus-for-24-threads-exemplif/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/17/evga-classified-sr-2-fits-two-980x-cpus-for-24-threads-exemplif/
it's not even like "there isn't a game in existence that could harness that kind of power".

it's more like "there is nothing. period. that can harness that kind of power".]]>Mar 17th 2010 4:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/17/evga-classified-sr-2-fits-two-980x-cpus-for-24-threads-exemplif/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/17/evga-classified-sr-2-fits-two-980x-cpus-for-24-threads-exemplif/Mar 17th 2010 5:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/17/evga-classified-sr-2-fits-two-980x-cpus-for-24-threads-exemplif/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/17/evga-classified-sr-2-fits-two-980x-cpus-for-24-threads-exemplif/Mar 17th 2010 5:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/17/evga-classified-sr-2-fits-two-980x-cpus-for-24-threads-exemplif/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/17/evga-classified-sr-2-fits-two-980x-cpus-for-24-threads-exemplif/CORRECTION:
There is NOTHING you could EVER want to do, in your whole life, that could harness this kind of power. Period.

It would take 20 years for to gameing industry to even need a quarter of that potential power, but I can think of several boring scientific and mathematical applications that could definiately use this and LOVE the idea of a sub $10K supercomputer.]]>Mar 17th 2010 5:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/17/evga-classified-sr-2-fits-two-980x-cpus-for-24-threads-exemplif/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/17/evga-classified-sr-2-fits-two-980x-cpus-for-24-threads-exemplif/Mar 17th 2010 4:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/17/evga-classified-sr-2-fits-two-980x-cpus-for-24-threads-exemplif/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/17/evga-classified-sr-2-fits-two-980x-cpus-for-24-threads-exemplif/
What he said!]]>Mar 17th 2010 4:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/17/evga-classified-sr-2-fits-two-980x-cpus-for-24-threads-exemplif/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/17/evga-classified-sr-2-fits-two-980x-cpus-for-24-threads-exemplif/Yeah? But can it play Cry-- oh, don't worry...]]>Mar 17th 2010 8:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/17/evga-classified-sr-2-fits-two-980x-cpus-for-24-threads-exemplif/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/17/evga-classified-sr-2-fits-two-980x-cpus-for-24-threads-exemplif/Is there anything even ready for this? Like a case that won't melt?

On another note, I thought photography was an expensive hobby... ]]>Mar 17th 2010 4:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/17/evga-classified-sr-2-fits-two-980x-cpus-for-24-threads-exemplif/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/17/evga-classified-sr-2-fits-two-980x-cpus-for-24-threads-exemplif/

it is an expensive hobby. you need a DSLR camera with lenses that is probably worth 3x this mother board and you're going to need this motherboard, 2x i7-980x, 48GB of RAM, 4x GPUs, and probably 2 1KW PSUs to power this monstrocity all to edit your photos ;)]]>Mar 17th 2010 4:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/17/evga-classified-sr-2-fits-two-980x-cpus-for-24-threads-exemplif/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/17/evga-classified-sr-2-fits-two-980x-cpus-for-24-threads-exemplif/
Ahah, I'm a fairly new photographer, and haven't spent anywhere near that much.
And I think they're both fairly expensive.
My old Q6600 will have to suffice, haha.]]>Mar 17th 2010 5:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/17/evga-classified-sr-2-fits-two-980x-cpus-for-24-threads-exemplif/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/17/evga-classified-sr-2-fits-two-980x-cpus-for-24-threads-exemplif/Mar 17th 2010 6:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/17/evga-classified-sr-2-fits-two-980x-cpus-for-24-threads-exemplif/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/17/evga-classified-sr-2-fits-two-980x-cpus-for-24-threads-exemplif/Prove it :D]]>Jun 8th 2010 9:02PM