EVGA SR-2 with dual x5690 OR Gigabyte x79A-GD45 with i7-4820k

[phill]

Sure can

It's FOOKING HUGE!!

In seriousness the measurements are - 385 mm wide and 360mm high (roughly, might have added on 5mm either side just to make sure)

 

[sepheronx]

So that's 15.1inches.

That is wider than what our friend is expecting.

Which will make his Alienware case rather difficult to fit it unless he removes the HDD and 5.25 cages to fit the Mobo in

 

[phill]

So that's 15.1inches.

That is wider than what our friend is expecting.

Which will make his Alienware case rather difficult to fit it unless he removes the HDD and 5.25 cages to fit the Mobo in

It's a massive motherboard mate, like I said before.... It's nearly two ATX boards stuck together!

 

[Norton]

It's a massive motherboard mate, like I said before.... It's nearly two ATX boards stuck together!

It's a large board, not as large as my Supermicro 4P G34 board (SWTX 16.5"x13"), but still large

 

[phill]

I'd hope it was a bit bigger @Norton if it's got two more CPU sockets on it!

 

[aQi]

Sure can

It's FOOKING HUGE!!

In seriousness the measurements are - 385 mm wide and 360mm high (roughly, might have added on 5mm either side just to make sure)

Seriously ?? Phill kill me....

360mm ?? 14 inches ??? Evga said its 13.6 inch and you wana over kill my modded case ?? Lol

Im just short of few centimeters in (height) as the length(depth) is no issue 15 inch even 16 inch...height is ruining it. Thats why i asked to be very precise please... not to mention the selling cant finalize it himself. Says its 15x15 inch lol

So that's 15.1inches.

That is wider than what our friend is expecting.

Which will make his Alienware case rather difficult to fit it unless he removes the HDD and 5.25 cages to fit the Mobo in

Width is no issue at all even if its 16 inches but the height i am worried of

 

[sepheronx]

When I said width, I was meaning from PCIE brackets (back of case) to front of case.

 

[aQi]

When I said width, I was meaning from PCIE brackets (back of case) to front of case.

Yes thats no issue for upto 16 inches. But from top to bottom height is the issue. Just a few centimeters.

 

[phill]

Seriously ?? Phill kill me....

360mm ?? 14 inches ??? Evga said its 13.6 inch and you wana over kill my modded case ?? Lol

Im just short of few centimeters in (height) as the length(depth) is no issue 15 inch even 16 inch...height is ruining it. Thats why i asked to be very precise please... not to mention the selling cant finalize it himself. Says its 15x15 inch lol

Width is no issue at all even if its 16 inches but the height i am worried of

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I did say it was fooking huge lol Unless you could cut it in half but I'm not sure that will work very well either...

Thing is, I've no idea how those 1400w units would fit in the PC.. Do they have cables or special connections that would go directly into a motherboard??

 

[aQi]

I did say it was fooking huge lol Unless you could cut it in half but I'm not sure that will work very well either...

Thing is, I've no idea how those 1400w units would fit in the PC.. Do they have cables or special connections that would go directly into a motherboard??

Man really don’t know that much about it I have to travel to see it. I’m planning and I had planed it for this weekend, however again looking at responsibility as well, house renovation. But I am trying to manage as iv to travel about 600km.

 

[phill]

From looking at servers at work and such with the slide in PSUs, there's connections on the motherboards that feed the power in, I don't believe there's any cables etc physically plugged in the board for example like the 24 pin motherboard plug or the 8 pin CPU plugs.

Might be worth a check I think especially if you have to travel so far to have a look at it. I was lucky to a point with mine as it came with a Corsair AX1200i (I wasn't very impressed with the unit as such but that was easily solved and changed lol) but a good sized PSU is definitely worth while with these beasty hardware setups

 

[sepheronx]

So buddy, what is the outcome so far? Did you get the SR-2?

 

[aQi]

So buddy, what is the outcome so far? Did you get the SR-2?

well so far its all going wrong, perhaps evga is right of sr-2 dimensions and its fair enough the board needs room. In short my case just cannot accommodate the board from top to bottom measurement.
Again
I can modified it by cutting it from the bottom but will ruin it anyway. This is where the seller comes. He provided me with more options X79 and X99 even The Threadripper with Asus Zenith Extreme.
Iv been away doing my homework on these. As most of the market sellers told me one thing about the sr-2 that it is a jewel to keep and worth buy but only if I am planning to stop there because sr-2 with 2 x5690 is already maxed out leaving no room. However if I wana go even deeper, I can. While the market fluctuates and most of the people don't go for X series or server class hardware anyway.

What I found is as follows:

Motherboard:
Alienware x79 aura r4
Asus P9X79-WS
MSI X79A-G45 Plus
Asus X99 Deluxe
Asus X99 WS-M
Asus Zenith Extreme x399 (AMD)

Processors:
i7-3820
i7-4820k
i7-3690x
i7-5960x
Xeon-1650
Thread ripper 1950x

Leaving apart of the dual channel chipsets and the generations, there are plenty of them which I never want to use.

I am offered these hardware just to take back what I left I mean my project that I want to finish. As I stated lol I came along people looking for me to mod their cases as well but I merely get time to even look at my own projects.

Too many to chose from infact I was even offered variety of SSD's and then came up these SAS hard drives, never bothered to look at them but I did got my hands on WD Raptors 600GB for 300$ each (No experience for those as well, advise ? )

Tones of M2. with and without NVME support.

Too bad SR-2 lack these features however I was thinking of getting those addin cards to run nvme drives. But those dreams shattered once I found that the case could not accommodate the sr-2.

 

[aQi]

Hey guyz. Is the thread still up ??
Sorry i was away and had to take care of my business and job.
So lately i got alot of computer hardware which i sold off locally but what i prefer to keep was the evga sr-2 with pair or x5690 and an old dell xps 730 h2c
I even sold off two of 5930k paired with gigabyte g1 and rampage v. But the evga sr-2 is honestly something unique where most people dont owe one or just dont have an idea of its existance. Courtesy of evga for its announcement of evga sr-3 with atx design and single powersupply.
So its better to keep it as a server.
And i am thinking of buying this ssd pci express 3.0 nvme from a friend.
Building a system off evga sr-2 with a moded alienware case is the way to go. (Perhaps for now)

Samsung SSD sm1715 is a pci express 3.0 nvme claiming upto 3500mb/s reads. I wounder even by modifying evga sr-2 bios to nvme and getting it to boot may result in the same reads as it should be ? Because of PCI express 2.0 limitations? No ?