MSI's 890FX-GD70

[sttubs]

Who said you have to use Graphics cards in those PCI-E slots...If i didnt have my 790FX GD70 id buy it because the only PCI card i have is my sound card, all the other cards i have are PCI-E. You know you can put a PCI-E 1x Card in a PCI-E 16x port and it will negotiate down to 1x right. Because of this it makes this board great, you have so many options, you can plug in any card you need to and up to 6 Graphics cards if you wanted.

I was not aware of that, thanks for the info.

 

[nt300]

256 GB for only 1000$!!!! WHO IS THAT ***************************** who is going to buy that? Where the hell did u find this hardware man? It must be superbly fast but 4$/1Gb it is not worth to buy

If you think Read: Up to 750MB/s and Write: Up to 650MB/s is fast for about $800 then you should look at OCZ new PCIe SSD's that will do more than 1,300MB/s Read and 1,100MB/s Write

By now companies need to be coming out with motherboards with as many PCIEx16 slots as possible. I rather hav x16 than x1 or x4 or x8, with x16 you can plug in any one of them and give you good flexibility

 

[eidairaman1]

If you think Read: Up to 750MB/s and Write: Up to 650MB/s is fast for about $800 then you should look at OCZ new PCIe SSD's that will do more than 1,300MB/s Read and 1,100MB/s Write

By now companies need to be coming out with motherboards with as many PCIEx16 slots as possible. I rather hav x16 than x1 or x4 or x8, with x16 you can plug in any one of them and give you good flexibility

I think either video cards need to be refined where they use single slot coolers or motherboards need to have the top 2 PEG slots spaced properly so all slots can be utilized and the PCI Org needs to Force all accessory board makers to have PCI E only devices and phase out PCI devices.

 

[nt300]

You make good point. I hate that my HD 5770 has a dual slot cooler because I lose one of my PCIe slots.

 

[GSquadron]

The reason for all of this is that the pci - express need to be as near to the ram and northbridge as possible, that is why they produce them so near. Normally if you dont like it and than buy it, it is your opinion that turns down from ice to water. The companies produce the boards as standart as possible, so what if there would be a pci-express between the nb and ram? What is more is that the pci - express needs to be near the cpu, so there is a lot of complex there, of which the enginners of all companies of boards have thought of. In my book of computers that i study at university, it clearly says you cannot "break the rules" of the board architecture. So what is left to do here is to create a second floor boards that makes the prices go HIGH UP to milion of dollars, as it is something new, not explored, impossible or better saying it is the same thing as making diamonds in a laborator, which normally can't be done. We all must think of something that does not break the rule, but breaks the pourpose of this so called "architecture rule"

 

[nt300]

I think the whole point here is GPU's need to come with real good single slot cooling and make it as good as double slot cooling performance. All you hav to do is get 2 GPUs with dual slot cooling and you' wiped out the rest of the PCIe slots. Not being able to use the extra PCIe slots is a waist.

 

[Formula350]

I think the whole point here is GPU's need to come with real good single slot cooling and make it as good as double slot cooling performance. All you hav to do is get 2 GPUs with dual slot cooling and you' wiped out the rest of the PCIe slots. Not being able to use the extra PCIe slots is a waist.

Gigabyte made it work Sure you might not want to use that 3rd PCIe x1 slot, but it IS usable still.
(BTW check out the cute lil' BIOS in the bottom right corner!)

 

[nt300]

Gigabyte made it work Sure you might not want to use that 3rd PCIe x1 slot, but it IS usable still.
(BTW check out the cute lil' BIOS in the bottom right corner!)

So you use 2 of the PCIe x16 and lose 1 PCIe x1 and 1 PCI, but you gain 2 PCIe x1. That is a good layout. I like the PCIe x1 above the PCIe x16. Good move But I don't like Gigabyte all too much.

 

[Formula350]

So you use 2 of the PCIe x16 and lose 1 PCIe x1 and 1 PCI, but you gain 2 PCIe x1. That is a good layout. I like the PCIe x1 above the PCIe x16. Good move But I don't like Gigabyte all too much.

My old NF4 GB board uses virtually the same layout, except it doesn't have 3 PCIe x1, only 1 between the x16 slots. :\

I've owned 2 GB systems, both treated me very well. My last being the current NF4 board I've used since 96! Heavily OCed 24/7 never complained Before that was my second AthlonMP rig I ran for like 2+ years OCed and 24/7 as well So now I'm on my third with my 890GX based, which I won't be able to sport till I get a CPU lol

The only company I'm not a fan of, only due to how they work their BIOS and set it up, is ASUS :\ Not that they aren't great boards, just I spent so much time on my GB that when I went to tweak my friend's P45 ASUS board, I ran into nothing by brick walls. Was quite frustrating :S

 

[eidairaman1]

I still dont like board layouts, I say move the Graphics cards to the bottom or have at least 2 PCI devices above the video cards and then 2 at the way bottom spaced for the other PEG slot

 

[DaedalusHelios]

When I saw this I remembered seeing something similar when looking for a X58 mobo

How about 7!
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813188059

Now for the e-peen crowd 4 way SLI is pretty cool (except that 3 way isant much better than 2 way, lol) That 2Kwatt PS is starting to look good to me..

Personally I like the all PCI X slots (time to get rid of the old PCI slots anyways) What I wish for is a way to configure the slots the way the user wants in the bios, that way I could decide what slots had X16 and so on.

7 8800gt's for folding nirvana? 8800gt's can be had as cheap as $50 shipped on the BST forums lately.

 

[Super XP]

7 8800gt's for folding nirvana? 8800gt's can be had as cheap as $50 shipped on the BST forums lately.

Wow, now that is what I call a Motherboard. That's out it should be done all the time
Can you imagine 7 x 8800GT's How well do you think it would scale?

 

[TheLaughingMan]

7 8800gt's for folding nirvana? 8800gt's can be had as cheap as $50 shipped on the BST forums lately.

I was wondering what took so long.

Folders will eat this board up. To have 6 GPU's in a single rig for folding would be awesome. Saves space and money for parts as you will need less mobos, cases, PSU's, etc. A 24 card farm now is 6 complete computers, while this will bring that down to only 4. Same production, 2 less rigs to worry about.

 

[Kantastic]

Wow, now that is what I call a Motherboard. That's out it should be done all the time
Can you imagine 7 x 8800GT's How well do you think it would scale?

Shouldn't even need to scale, I recall folding doesn't require the cards to be run in SLI mode.

 

[TheLaughingMan]

Shouldn't even need to scale, I recall folding doesn't require the cards to be run in SLI mode.

They specifically are not suppose to run in SLI.

 

[Formula350]

I was wondering what took so long.

Folders will eat this board up. To have 6 GPU's in a single rig for folding would be awesome. Saves space and money for parts as you will need less mobos, cases, PSU's, etc. A 24 card farm now is 6 complete computers, while this will bring that down to only 4. Same production, 2 less rigs to worry about.

Why only 6/7? Run GTX295 and have 12/14

Unless you can write off all those high ass dollar components, what is the point (I mean other than self gratification that you are helping out) of dropping all that cash for folding?

 

[erocker]

Why only 6/7? Run GTX295 and have 12/14

Unless you can write off all those high ass dollar components, what is the point (I mean other than self gratification that you are helping out) of dropping all that cash for folding?

Competition, just like overclocking. Whoever crunches the most is win. If you're the competitive sort.

 

[Formula350]

Competition, just like overclocking. Whoever crunches the most is win. If you're the competitive sort.

Jeebus :S I'd rather openly admit to liking Knight Rider by using KITT as the backdrop to my sig image, than go and drop that much coin on making a box just to fold


(I kid, while I don't have anything against Knight Rider, I do love my Firebird. Hence my name, owned a 91 with the 245hp 350 TPI and now a 93 with the 275hp LT1 )

 

[Super XP]

All I know is that was the mother of motherboards. If you are looking for longevity, this motherboard seems to fit the bill. I would prefer an AMD/ATI chipset of course .

 

[nt300]

same here.

 

[TheLaughingMan]

Jeebus :S I'd rather openly admit to liking Knight Rider by using KITT as the backdrop to my sig image, than go and drop that much coin on making a box just to fold


(I kid, while I don't have anything against Knight Rider, I do love my Firebird. Hence my name, owned a 91 with the 245hp 350 TPI and now a 93 with the 275hp LT1 )

I think you can actually get a Tax credit for building folding rigs. It ain't much, but it helps.

So to the guy who help to pass that tax credit thank you for helping us help you help us all.

 

[Formula350]

All I know is that was the mother of motherboards. If you are looking for longevity, this motherboard seems to fit the bill. I would prefer an AMD/ATI chipset of course .

Surprised no one linked these two:

So to the guy who help to pass that tax credit thank you for helping us help you help us all.

 

[eidairaman1]

whats the point when you cant utilize all slots due to being single slot spacing!? Im sorry onboard audio is still not as good as a Sound Card, also what if i would like to have one of those direct PCIE SSDs installed instead of a SSDrive that hooks through SATA?

 

[Formula350]

whats the point when you cant utilize all slots due to being single slot!?

I don't see the point PERIOD lol

Im sorry onboard audio is still not as good as a Sound Card

I happen to be one of those who is quite content with onboard sound now. Before RealTek went to HD, it was decent but obviously could be improved on with a dedicated card. I'm anxious to find out how my ALC892A sounds You could go ATi though and run CFX Sound Cards That'd be like... 49.7 Surround Sound

also what if i would like to have one of those direct PCIE SSDs installed instead of a SSDrive that hooks through SATA?

:\ That is certainly a lot of "what-ifs" you are dropping If it is a dedicated Crunch Box, get just a single SATA6 card, throw it in the bottom slot and run more than just 1 SSD at probably the same performance as the PCIe model. Though I'm totally ignorant when it comes to the whole SSD market, and I could be wrong heh

 

[TheLaughingMan]

Why only 6/7? Run GTX295 and have 12/14

Cause they are dual slot cards and you can't put 6/7 of them on a board, just 3, so we are back where we stated with 6 total GPUs.

Surprised no one linked these two:

http://www.fierysource.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/evga-classified-x58-4way.jpg

http://techgage.com/images/news/evga_w555_010810.jpg

Cause EVGA are always over priced IMO.