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Re:EVGA X79 Motherboards! Monday, November 14, 2011 6:43 AM (permalink)

taako

Do any of any of these new motherboards fit on a Corsair 800D?
Cus.. you know, I bought this case thinking "Ok, this case is huge and big enough to hold any board out there! So, I should be good"

I know it can't fit the SR series, but I'm not a crazy person
Althought I wouldn't mind having one, teehee.

SR-2 will definitely fit in an 800D but you have to get out the dremel. Just needs a bit of a trim.

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donta1979 Total Posts : 12655 Joined: 2/11/2007 Location: Under your Bed!!! Status: offline Ribbons: 60 Folding: 125,464	Re:EVGA X79 Motherboards! Monday, November 14, 2011 6:43 AM (permalink) mwparrish I'm tempted to nab an SLI and then step-up to the FTW. cant do that. Go Green Machine Build My 600 HP V6 Mustang Video Driver Updating/installation Guide Heatware Environment Artist & Modeler for AAA Games
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Re:EVGA X79 Motherboards! Monday, November 14, 2011 6:46 AM (permalink)

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mwparrish

I'm tempted to nab an SLI and then step-up to the FTW.

cant do that.

Not anymore? Usedtacould... At least I did on the P55.

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Re:EVGA X79 Motherboards! Monday, November 14, 2011 6:50 AM (permalink)

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I confussed..I thought most sound cards are single slot anyways. Why can't you use the 1x slot for a sound card?

Because it's right above the primary PCI-Express 16x slot. And if you're using any decent gaming card, that card will take up at least 2 slots. Only if you're using water cooling plates on those cards would you have enough room.

And have you ever tried to run a PC with graphics cards anywhere but in the first PCI-Express 16x slot? It's supposed to be just fine "in theory", yet may give you all sorts of headaches in the future.

beaker7
SR-2 will definitely fit in an 800D but you have to get out the dremel. Just needs a bit of a trim.

Yeah, and by those standards you could fit an SR-2 into an HTPC case, but who'd want that?

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Re:EVGA X79 Motherboards! Monday, November 14, 2011 6:55 AM (permalink)

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I'm tempted to nab an SLI and then step-up to the FTW.

cant do that.

Not anymore? Usedtacould... At least I did on the P55.

EVGA is prob going to pull the its a special edition card esp since its higher end hardware.

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Re:EVGA X79 Motherboards! Monday, November 14, 2011 6:55 AM (permalink)

cipher_nemo

Yeah, and by those standards you could fit an SR-2 into an HTPC case, but who'd want that?

The 800D / SR-2 is quite a nice combo actually. It's a handsome case and not nearly as ridiculously huge as the Mountain Mods stuff. I've done 2 myself and am quite happy with them.

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Re:EVGA X79 Motherboards! Monday, November 14, 2011 6:59 AM (permalink)

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The 800D / SR-2 is quite a nice combo actually. It's a handsome case and not nearly as ridiculously huge as the Mountain Mods stuff. I've done 2 myself and am quite happy with them.

A ridiculously huge motherboard wants a ridiculously huge case. The Mountain Mods Ascension case is a very nice fit. The 800D would require modding to fit the SR-2, which not everyone is willing to do (I'm not speaking for myself here). So why recommend it to others at all? I modded my Tagan Black Pearl case to fit my Scythe cooler, and I love it, but I wouldn't recommend that combination to anyone else. If a modder wants to build such a system, chances are they wouldn't need recommendations like this at all since the whole point of modding is to do something unique with their own hands.

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Re:EVGA X79 Motherboards! Monday, November 14, 2011 7:03 AM (permalink)

donta1979

mwparrish

donta1979

mwparrish

I'm tempted to nab an SLI and then step-up to the FTW.

cant do that.

Not anymore? Usedtacould... At least I did on the P55.

EVGA is prob going to pull the its a special edition card esp since its higher end hardware.

I know nothing about how this works to be honest but all three boards are listed as step-up products.
http://www.evga.com/support/stepup/
Should I still concern over this? Because if not I may end up going the same route parrish is mentioning.

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cipher_nemo Total Posts : 562 Joined: 3/21/2007 Location: State College, PA Status: offline Ribbons: 3	Re:EVGA X79 Motherboards! Monday, November 14, 2011 7:10 AM (permalink) Yup, looks like everything is Step-Up Program upgradable. I used the Step-Up program to go from a GTX 285 to my GTX 295 Co-Op, but I probably won't go with that program again since you can't get the upgrade advance-shipped, so you're sitting without a replacement for up to two weeks.
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Re:EVGA X79 Motherboards! Monday, November 14, 2011 7:32 AM (permalink)

Has anyone heard anything about the status of the 4-core 2011 socket processor? I heard rumors that it was going to be delayed?

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Re:EVGA X79 Motherboards! Monday, November 14, 2011 7:43 AM (permalink)

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bcb325ci
I confussed..I thought most sound cards are single slot anyways. Why can't you use the 1x slot for a sound card?

Because it's right above the primary PCI-Express 16x slot. And if you're using any decent gaming card, that card will take up at least 2 slots. Only if you're using water cooling plates on those cards would you have enough room.

And have you ever tried to run a PC with graphics cards anywhere but in the first PCI-Express 16x slot? It's supposed to be just fine "in theory", yet may give you all sorts of headaches in the future.

beaker7
SR-2 will definitely fit in an 800D but you have to get out the dremel. Just needs a bit of a trim.

Yeah, and by those standards you could fit an SR-2 into an HTPC case, but who'd want that?

Most gaming sound cards are single slot. Sorry I'm still confussed on what you mean. Any gaming sound card goes right above your video card in the 1x slot right. You said have you tried using any decent gaming card and it takes up 2 slots well yes I have and it does take up 2 slots, but under the primary PCI 16 slot. Mine are watercooled so just 1 slot for me anyway. I don't know of any 2 slot gaming sound card that would not fit in the PCI 1x slot right above the primary PCI 16 slot.

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Re:EVGA X79 Motherboards! Monday, November 14, 2011 8:15 AM (permalink)

Hey EVGA_JacobF does the EVGA X79 Classified support 4 way sli?

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remenaker Total Posts : 814 Joined: 12/18/2004 Status: offline	Re:EVGA X79 Motherboards! Monday, November 14, 2011 8:16 AM (permalink) Hay What no PCI-Express 3.0 Support for the years to come. The other guys have PCI-E 3.0 support.
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remenaker Total Posts : 814 Joined: 12/18/2004 Status: offline	Re:EVGA X79 Motherboards! Monday, November 14, 2011 8:17 AM (permalink) So then a PCI-E 3.0 card comes out I need a new board again. I do not think so.
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linuxrouter Total Posts : 7752 Joined: 2/28/2008 Status: offline Ribbons: 77 Folding: 16,596,182	Re:EVGA X79 Motherboards! Monday, November 14, 2011 8:20 AM (permalink) mike211 Hey EVGA_JacobF does the EVGA X79 Classified support 4 way sli? According to this spec sheet, yes. http://www.evga.com/products/pdf/151-SE-E779.pdf
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Re:EVGA X79 Motherboards! Monday, November 14, 2011 8:48 AM (permalink)

remenaker

So then a PCI-E 3.0 card comes out I need a new board again.
I do not think so.

there is absolutely no need for PCIe3 for atleast a few more years, when you really need it, your gonna end up needing to upgrade at that point anyway

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remenaker Total Posts : 814 Joined: 12/18/2004 Status: offline	Re:EVGA X79 Motherboards! Monday, November 14, 2011 9:03 AM (permalink) But I keep my systems for 5 years before upgrading that does not help me out and what do you think i am made of money. OH thats right I have a money tree in the back of the house.
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EVGA_MatthewH Total Posts : 4238 Joined: 3/16/2010 Status: offline Ribbons: 2	Re:EVGA X79 Motherboards! Monday, November 14, 2011 9:06 AM (permalink) The boards are PCIe 3.0 ready, however there are no current CPU's that offer PCIe 3.0 support. Thanks, Matthew Hurwitz - Assistant Product Manager Matth@evga.com Feel free to contact us with any questions, comments or concerns: Toll Free 888-881-3842 You can rate our service here: http://www.evga.com/myevga/rateus/
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remenaker Total Posts : 814 Joined: 12/18/2004 Status: offline	Re:EVGA X79 Motherboards! Monday, November 14, 2011 9:07 AM (permalink) I think I will take my brothers X58 board and use that for gaming and wait another year. I was hoping it would be a better chip oh well.
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remenaker Total Posts : 814 Joined: 12/18/2004 Status: offline	Re:EVGA X79 Motherboards! Monday, November 14, 2011 9:09 AM (permalink) Oh thank you for that info. MatthewH I did not know that. thanks again.
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josepineiro Total Posts : 76 Joined: 9/23/2006 Status: offline	Re:EVGA X79 Motherboards! Monday, November 14, 2011 9:33 AM (permalink) Nice board, but only have 4 DDR3 memory Slot, and I have 6 DDR3 1600 Mhz modules, I better wait for another release with 8 DDR3 slot or go with the Asus Rampage IV, it's has 8 DDR3 Slot and an awesome motherboard too.
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EVGA_JacobF Total Posts : 12191 Joined: 1/17/2006 Location: Brea, CA Status: online Ribbons: 21	Re:EVGA X79 Motherboards! Monday, November 14, 2011 9:40 AM (permalink) mike211 Hey EVGA_JacobF does the EVGA X79 Classified support 4 way sli? Yes. 3770K @ 5.4ghz -45c \|\| evga z77 ftw \|\| 2x evga gtx680 sc sig \|\| 8gb 2.4ghz cl10 \|\| 480gb vertex3 raid0
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Re:EVGA X79 Motherboards! Monday, November 14, 2011 9:44 AM (permalink)

I will echo my already made post. Not only is the SB-E and X79 platform underwhelming, but the EVGA Classified is clearly overpriced and feature poor compared to ASUS, MSI, and even ASRock as well for the simple fact it does not support 8 channels of RAM.

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Re:EVGA X79 Motherboards! Monday, November 14, 2011 9:44 AM (permalink)

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Nice board, but only have 4 DDR3 memory Slot, and I have 6 DDR3 1600 Mhz modules, I better wait for another release with 8 DDR3 slot or go with the Asus Rampage IV, it's has 8 DDR3 Slot and an awesome motherboard too.

Well you'll probably never need that much memory and Corsair has just introduced their quad channel memory kits today:

http://www.corsair.com/pr...quad-channel-dram-kits

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linuxrouter Total Posts : 7752 Joined: 2/28/2008 Status: offline Ribbons: 77 Folding: 16,596,182	Re:EVGA X79 Motherboards! Monday, November 14, 2011 10:03 AM (permalink) EVGA_MatthewH The boards are PCIe 3.0 ready, however there are no current CPU's that offer PCIe 3.0 support. Is there any info from Intel when they plan to add PCIe 3.0 support to their processors?
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Re:EVGA X79 Motherboards! Monday, November 14, 2011 10:11 AM (permalink)

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EVGA_MatthewH

The boards are PCIe 3.0 ready, however there are no current CPU's that offer PCIe 3.0 support.

Is there any info from Intel when they plan to add PCIe 3.0 support to their processors?

I can not find any good info from Intel about that question at this time.

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josepineiro Total Posts : 76 Joined: 9/23/2006 Status: offline	Re:EVGA X79 Motherboards! Monday, November 14, 2011 10:12 AM (permalink) Yes, it's true, but now I only have to buy two modules DDR3 1600 that is super cheap compare to the new quad channel memory.
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Re:EVGA X79 Motherboards! Monday, November 14, 2011 10:16 AM (permalink)

It's a quad memory CPU and EVGA motherboards have four slots, so you need all four slots populated for quad core memory support.

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Re:EVGA X79 Motherboards! Monday, November 14, 2011 10:47 AM (permalink)

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Just wish that they also released a board with dual lga2011's. However in time maybe. Now to just find the processors??

Intel postponed multi-socket boards and Xeon E5 series to next quarter, and like SR-2, i7's won't work there either.

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