Seven PCI-Express Slot X58 ASUS MotherboardPost Date: 2009-05-07 |
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Perlife 
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http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=87057 Yes, you read the title correctly, on their stand at CeBIT, ASUS has a motherboard on show featuring seven full length PCI-Express slots. Four operate at full x16 speed, whilst the remaining three are at 8x speed. This has been achieved through the use of Intel's X58 chipset and the addition of two NVIDIA NF200 chips. Dubbed the P6T7 WS Supercomputer, it has been said to be the, "best choice for intensive parallel computing demand." Although no details yet on availability or pricing, the board is confirmed to support up to 24 GB RAM through six DDR3 slots, six SATA ports, two SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) and two eSATA ports and the usual 7.1 onboard sound and gigabit ethernet. The featured shot shows the board "naked" so to speak but due to this, you can see how ASUS have crammed the northbridge, southbridge and two NVIDIA chips into the bottom right corner of the board. This has given the space for the seven PCI-E slots, though it will require some sort of low profile cooling solution so as not to obstruct the installation of any graphics cards. |
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DST4ME
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Posted: 07 May 2009 at 4:09am |
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other then folding a regular user has no use for that, but I do
 
also unless I'm mistaken, if you go with a gtx cards only 4 will fit on there Edited by DST4ME - 07 May 2009 at 4:10am |
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justin.kerr
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Posted: 07 May 2009 at 11:20am |
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should fit 7, if water cooled.
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DST4ME
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Posted: 07 May 2009 at 4:29pm |
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not 295s tho but other then that I guess ya LC should do it
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Posted: 07 May 2009 at 4:33pm |
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... Wow. That's over kill. I saw a 6 PCIe x16 board, but this is insane.
I could see it for a server, but for home/gaming use? Where does a sound card or wireless network card go? |
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justin.kerr
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Posted: 07 May 2009 at 4:57pm |
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as long as there are pcie x cards, then sound cards, raid controllers ect will work. |
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Zurginator
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Posted: 07 May 2009 at 5:31pm |
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Really? I was not aware of this. xD
If that's true then I guess it is true that you learn something new every day. xD |
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venom
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Posted: 09 May 2009 at 6:08am |
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You could fit 4x295s for a total of 1920 cores, which is the most you will get out of any other gfx setup, e.g. 7x285s would give you 1680 cores.
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