2/14/2012 07:25:00 PM
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EVGA seems to be making great progress with the SR-X dual-socket motherboard for LGA 2011 processors, as the company has recently posted a picture online showing this upcoming solution in a near final design stage.
Those of you familiar with EVGA’s creation would notice that the motherboard’s layout is almost identical with that of the SR-X presented at CES, except for the VRM and PCH heatsinks that are brand new.
Four of these were installed by EVGA in some key points of the board, thus managing to cool this monstrous HPTX solution using only passive cooling.
The SR-X is based on the Intel Patsburg chipset with support for Sandy Bridge-E CPUs from the Xeon E5 series.
Its most distinctive design feature is the presence of the two processor sockets that are paired with a total of 12 DDR3 memory slots, eight for what seems to be the primary CPU and four surrounding the secondary processor.
These are all powered via two 6-pin and two 8-pin connectors, while an additional 6-pin PCI Express plug is installed for delivering some extra juice to the PCIe slots when running SLI or CrossFireX setups.
Speaking of the PCI Express slots, EVGA has included no less than seven of these (all Gen 3.0 compliant) and each one can be enabled or disabled via a series of DIP switches (CPUs and SAS connectors can also be disabled via these switches).
These are placed right next to the two SATA 6.0Gbps and four SATA 3.0Gbps ports included by EVGA in its dual-socket LGA 2011 creation, which are seconded by two additional SAS connectors.
Other features include on-board Power, Reset and Clear CMOS buttons, a debug LED, as well as dual Gigabit Ethernet, USB 3.0 support and Bluetooth connectivity.
No information regarding the price or the release date of the EVGA SR-X was provided by the company, but CeBIT seems like a good time to introduce this sort of motherboard to the world.
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