3/07/2012 08:24:00 PM
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After being showcased at various trade shows and events, EVGA’s Classified SR-X dual-socket LGA 2011 motherboard for Intel’s Xeon E5 series processors based on the Sandy Bridge-EP architecture is now finally official.
The board was announced earlier this morning, soon after Intel made its Xeon E5 processor family official.
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 earlier this year during CES 2012, but it has now received the addition of some new VRM and PCH heatsinks.
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.
On the outside, the SR-X resembles its LGA 1366 predecessor a great deal, as it uses the same black/red color scheme, but the board is now based on an Intel Patsburg chipset, which adds support for Sandy Bridge-EP CPUs.
The two processor sockets are placed right next to each other and the board includes 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.
According to TechPowerUp, EVGA has set the price of the Classified SR-X to $648.99 (about 493 EUR), but so far we don’t know when the motherboard will make it into retail.
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