News - EVGA ushers in 4-way SLI with X58 Classified motherboard

[aidanjt]

I'm surprised it hasn't come up, but... does it come with a chassis?

Even most of the high-end full-tower Lian-Li chassis don't come with 10 PCI slots. Where would you install this beast?.. Other than on your desk, of course. Not that it wouldn't be awesome, it's just not very safe or practical.

[MrP]

stuff games, i wanna see what it does with a folding client on it and 7 GPU's!

[pauldarkside]

I'm surprised it hasn't come up, but... does it come with a chassis?

Even most of the high-end full-tower Lian-Li chassis don't come with 10 PCI slots. Where would you install this beast?.. Other than on your desk, of course. Not that it wouldn't be awesome, it's just not very safe or practical.

According to their FAQ, there are a few (they list 9) cases which meet the requirements. I've not had a case that big (the Lian Li PC-P80 towers at 633mm) since the 90s and I'd not want one again.

More powerful, smaller devices please. Still, it'd be nice to see this powering triple head 5040x1050 awesomeness

[aidanjt]

More powerful, smaller devices please. Still, it'd be nice to see this powering triple head 5040x1050 awesomeness

It could power a 14 (28 if you got a bunch of matrox cards) head desktop with all those PCIe slots. And that'd be all kinds of epeen, nerd cred, and awesome rolled into one. But I don't really have much need for such an elaborate Linux workstation. :/

And I don't think I have enough walls space (or indeed, sufficient sun block) for that many 22" monitors.