Where did you order yours?
 
 

manny2002

 Where did you order yours?
 

http://www.performance-pcs.com/catalog/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=33978
:)

"Out of stock" and you cannot add it to the shopping card or preorder.
:-(
 

Hello again.
 
I just want to add a few informations about the SR-X, which I have discovered.
 
1.) Enable CPU1 jumper (its not a switch as a picture in the manual suggests).
2.) Enable in BIOS : Advanced -> ACPI Configuration -> Enable ACPI Auto Configuration - > [ENABLED] (else windows will have some trouble with some hardware)
3.) Enable in BIOS :  Chipset -> Launch PXE OpROM [ENABLED] - (it says "Enable of Disable Boot Option for Legacy Network Devices." ... but if it is not enabled, Windows will complain that there are no Intel LAN hardware installed in the computer, when you try to install the LAN drivers (neither will Windows 7 itself recognize the LAN hardware in any way). Seems that the availability of the LAN is dependent on something else, as enabling and disabling this several times after has not made any change in behaviour.
 
4.) Using 16GB modules in all 12 slots, yields the unfortunate result, that only the 8 slots connected to CPU0 are recognized - the last 4 slots bound to CPU1, are not recognized (even when setting the "Space to 128 x 1GB space pr CPU" ... dont remember the exact BIOS submenu - still only 128GB of the 192GB installed are recognized. Around 10 bootups done --- maybe playing around with the BIOS might alleviate the problem - BUT - you can have 128GB via 16GB modules (mine are 9-9-9-24, at 1333MHz, Hynix, ECC, Dual Rank, Registered - ill add the exact descriptor, when I have the time.   192GB installed (When you have the CPU1 Jumper enabled ... I simply could not believe that it was disabled pr default)
 
So yes, you CAN have 192GB installed!!! (just remember to enable CPU1 .... *SIGH*)
 
thats all for now.
 
Might post later tonight if more is discovered. (Redited 4 times).
 
 

A few results:
 
Asus Z9PE-D8 i could clock at a max of 105 MHz, yielding 3570MHz on all cores, and giving a max of 26.82 in Cinebench 11.529.
 
EVGA SR-X i have been able to clock BCLK = 107 MHz, yielding a max of 3638MHz on all cores, and giving a max of 27.39 in Cinebench 11.529.
 
For comparison, via www.cbscores.com :
 
 
Opteron 6174, 48 Cores @ 2.20 GHz, OS = Win XP 64-bit = result = 27.20
 
So this 2x E5-2687w 3.1GHz @ 3.33GHz is a tiny bit faster than the AMD 4 CPU, 48 core Magny Cours @ 2.2GHz. Mind you, my system is not that stable still, and refuses to boot up in BCLK = 107 now, at least for the time being. 105MHz or 106MHz seems stable enough (not tested with any Burn programs/ Prime95 yet though).
 
 

Cyber,
 
Post pics of your benchmarks, or it didn't happen ;)

Here are a few temporary results, after getting it back to running BCLK 107 MHz. No Network / LAN running atm ... feels very erratic, the LAN and OC to 107MHz - Dont take these results as stable and obtainable on every boot - they are NOT.
 
105MHz BLCK is pretty stable, quite similar to the ASUS Z9PE-D8 WS.
 
A few screenshots that I transfered via USB stick (no LAN atm) ...
 
Both pictures were with Cinebench 11.529 and HWinfo64 running - one is where Cinebench Finished, and the other while it is running (to see the Core freq. on all cores (3643MHz)).
 
If there are other results, that you would like to see, let me know.
 
Remember, I have NOT added any proper graphics cards yet (no gtx 680 with 3-4GB cards out as of yet, and ill want to wait for those).
 
It reminds me of when I bought my first Phase 5 Cyberstom I card, and running sysinfo 3.24 on my Amiga 4000T ... the Comment was "Call me NOW!!!!!" (from the creator of SYSinfo) - that performed around 2-3 times the standard Amiga 4000.
 
 
Best regards : CyberstormXIII

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Today is the 26th.
The end of the month is coming.
EVGA has only 2 business days to keep up their word or disappoint us one more time.

CyberstormXIII


Hello again.

I just want to add a few informations about the SR-X, which I have discovered.

1.) Enable CPU1 jumper (its not a switch as a picture in the manual suggests).
2.) Enable in BIOS : Advanced -> ACPI Configuration -> Enable ACPI Auto Configuration - > [ENABLED] (else windows will have some trouble with some hardware)
3.) Enable in BIOS :  Chipset -> Launch PXE OpROM [ENABLED] - (it says "Enable of Disable Boot Option for Legacy Network Devices." ... but if it is not enabled, Windows will complain that there are no Intel LAN hardware installed in the computer, when you try to install the LAN drivers (neither will Windows 7 itself recognize the LAN hardware in any way). Seems that the availability of the LAN is dependent on something else, as enabling and disabling this several times after has not made any change in behaviour.

4.) Using 16GB modules in all 12 slots, yields the unfortunate result, that only the 8 slots connected to CPU0 are recognized - the last 4 slots bound to CPU1, are not recognized (even when setting the "Space to 128 x 1GB space pr CPU" ... dont remember the exact BIOS submenu - still only 128GB of the 192GB installed are recognized. Around 10 bootups done --- maybe playing around with the BIOS might alleviate the problem - BUT - you can have 128GB via 16GB modules (mine are 9-9-9-24, at 1333MHz, Hynix, ECC, Dual Rank, Registered - ill add the exact descriptor, when I have the time.   192GB installed (When you have the CPU1 Jumper enabled ... I simply could not believe that it was disabled pr default)

So yes, you CAN have 192GB installed!!! (just remember to enable CPU1 .... *SIGH*)

thats all for now.

Might post later tonight if more is discovered. (Redited 4 times).

http://www.superbiiz.com/detail.php?name=D3-16R16GH
 
excellent stuff. Got the board in hand two days ago,  now to hunt down those chips in a retailer in Europe. Anyone have a site they recommend or are just happy with the service of carrying this brand in Europe? 

After further testing :
 
To sum up my discoveries:
 
1.) Enable CPU1 - via the jumper - its not per default.
2.) Enable ACPI in the BIOS - its not per default.
3.) LAN is erratic with an OC on the BCLK - BLCK range 102-107 often yields a non-present LAN interface
4.) 12x 16GB = 192GB ram possible.
5.) for BCLK 106 and BCLK 107 to be able to clock to those, at least for me it have worked as follows:
    a.) Enter BIOS set BCLK 100 - save and exit
    b.) Enter BIOS set BCLK 105 - save and exit
    c.) Enter BIOS set BCLK 107 - save and exit.
    If you go straight from 100 to 107 - at least for my 2x E5 2687W (SR0KG) C2 stepping 7, it will either stop at BIOS POST code 19 or 34 or 69 (could list the entire range of states, but would serve no purpose).
 
6.) the Power LED jumper on the motherboard is 2 pins directly next to each other, where as nearly all other motherboards/case cables have them with an empty pin in-between - making it hard to get the Power LED to show (I unfortunately does not have a 3-to-2 pin converter to use from my Lian-Li case (All Lian Li cases in my possession have the 3 pin (with empty middle pin) Power LED connector).
 
7.) From observation so far, overclocking to 105 - 107 on SR-X is often not successful, and have you wait for it to reboot 3 times+, this goes especially for 106 and 107. 105 is more stable, but does not feel quite as stable (as in starting every time w/o problems, as the Asus Z9PE-D8 did --- that on the other hand did not work with 106 and 107 at all (with the same processors (the exact same, not just similar)).
 
That should be all for now.
 
 
 
 

My current system build :
 
Case:           1x Lian Li PC P80N
PSU :           1x Enermax Platimax 1500W
Motherboard: 1x EVGA SR-X
Ram:           12x 16GB Hynix ECC Dual Rank 1333MHz 9-9-9-24
                        (Exact descriptor : Hynix Korea 01   16GB 2Rx4 PC3-10600R-9-11-E2 HMT42GR7MFR4C-H9 T8 AC 1203)
CPU's:          2x Intel Xeon E5-2687W (SR0KG) C2 stepping 7
Cooler's:       2x Noctua NH-D14 SE2011
Optical:        1x Pioneer BDR-207EBK
Sound:         1x Asus Xonar Essence One
SSD:            1x Intel 520, 240GB.
GFX:            1x Sapphire Radeon HD 5450 (cheap, until proper 680's / 690's show up).
 
 
When I get the Graphics cards, ill post some pictures of the system ... and have not dared watercooling yet ... ah well.
and I should be able to link properly now :
 
http://img819.imageshack....o64cinebench11529r.png
http://img802.imageshack....o64cinebench11529r.png
 

The-hunter : http://www.superbiiz.com/detail.php?name=D3-16R16GH

 
Seems thats a bit better than mine, and at seemingly similar price >.<

May all of you who have been waiting for the SR-X get it soon.
 
Best regards : CyberstormXIII
 
 

So based on your experience, apart from the extra memory slots on the SR-X, should we bother with it or simply go with the Asus model?...I can live with 64GB of unregistered ram just fine, wich the asus board support up to 2133mhz speeds.
 
The only problem with the asus board is the form factor but i was told that it's physically the same size as E-ATX, but with the mounting holes on different locations, so it's no big deal for me to drill new holes on the motherboard tray and add standoffs if it's just that...
 
 
Edit: how much did the asus board cost if you don't mind?

Today is the 27th.
The end of the month is coming.
EVGA has only 1 business days to keep up their word or disappoint us one more time.

Would anyone know of any CPU coolers that would have enough clearance for the corsair dominator ram? I don't want to remove the top fins and I heard a while ago that Noctua was making a few coolers that can clear it.
 
Just waiting on the SR-X...
 
 
-unarmed13

CyberstormXIII

... .
7.) From observation so far, overclocking to 105 - 107 on SR-X is often not successful, and have you wait for it to reboot 3 times+, this goes especially for 106 and 107. 105 is more stable, but does not feel quite as stable (as in starting every time w/o problems, as the Asus Z9PE-D8 did --- that on the other hand did not work with 106 and 107 at all (with the same processors (the exact same, not just similar)).

 
Does SRX bios have Signal Tweaks and or other settings related to DMI or PCIe speed?  If is does, would you please post a pic(s) of the page(s)?  I  may able to come up with a way to raise that BCLK more and retain stability.

Cyber,
 
nice pics!! Any chance you could take pictures of the overclock settings on the bios? Even if they were cell phone pics I'd want to see the overclock options..

shadow001

So based on your experience, apart from the extra memory slots on the SR-X, should we bother with it or simply go with the Asus model?...I can live with 64GB of unregistered ram just fine, wich the asus board support up to 2133mhz speeds.
[snip]
Edit: how much did the asus board cost if you don't mind?

 
First off, I might not be best qualified to answer that question, but I am in the process of putting up a comparison chart between the two boards - which might make it easier for people to decide.
 
Second, I think the Asus Z9PE-D8 WS, i paid around £413 plus shipping to Denmark, so, i think it was around £440 or so, total.
 
 

unarmed13


Would anyone know of any CPU coolers that would have enough clearance for the corsair dominator ram? I don't want to remove the top fins and I heard a while ago that Noctua was making a few coolers that can clear it.
Just waiting on the SR-X...
-unarmed13

 
From what I remember about the height, the Noctua NH-D14 SE2011, that I use, have rather large headroom for memory modules - But I cannot say exactly - I will get around to taking some pictures in the near future, so, by that, you should be able to see the spacing.
 
 

CyberstormXIII

shadow001

So based on your experience, apart from the extra memory slots on the SR-X, should we bother with it or simply go with the Asus model?...I can live with 64GB of unregistered ram just fine, wich the asus board support up to 2133mhz speeds.
[snip]
Edit: how much did the asus board cost if you don't mind?

First off, I might not be best qualified to answer that question, but I am in the process of putting up a comparison chart between the two boards - which might make it easier for people to decide.

Second, I think the Asus Z9PE-D8 WS, i paid around £413 plus shipping to Denmark, so, i think it was around £440 or so, total.

 
 
I'm asking since the asus board is available on newegg at 589$ canadian and in stock, so it's actually cheaper than the SR-X, and i can set up my existing quad crossfire setup on it just fine since all 4 cards are water cooled, and still use a dedicated sound card and a dedicated Raid card just fine, so if at least the SR-X allowed for higher base clocks for the slight overclocking that is possible, since the chips are locked i'd have a reason to wait for it, and if seems the asus board has provisions for overclocking if ever the Xeon chips are ever unlocked anyhow....
 
I'm trying to keep the faith here since my SR-2 board has been pretty awsome overall, but the constant waiting for the SR-X is starting to get on my nerves...

I'd say wait for the SR-X at least for now.
 
Also, I knew from the start that my memory might give trouble with the overclocking, (the Hynix 1333MHz) - so, it might in fact be the memory's ceiling that I am reaching, and not the processors / motherboards ceiling. I have been trying to obtain the
 
http://www.newegg.com/Pro...x?Item=N82E16820231523
 
But here in Europe its more than hard >.<, and newegg refuses to ship to Europe *sigh*
 
Before someone with proper high speed memory tests the SR-X, its likely, that we have not seen the proper potential.
 
Though there is still one very disturbing fact, that is, the LAN ports of the SR-X will simply not show up, at any kind of OC ... a problem that the Asus Z9PE-D8 WS did not exhibit - maybe im doing it wrong, but have been unable to find any feature to suggest making it work better at OC's.
 
I will post some pictures of the BIOS setup later today.
 

Seems that memory itself isnt the culprit - the Hynix 1333MHz can manage 1600+ MHz at looser timings, so, this probably isnt the problem.
 
 

Going through Linux Mint "Cpu-z" style program, named "dmi-decode" just now, there might be another hidden limiter, that we do not normally see (or maybe its dmidecode's own "invention") --
Using the command:

sudo dmidecode | more

 
and looking through that, under the :
Handle 0x0004
Max Speed : 4000MHz
 
And the other givens
MinMultiplier: 12
MaxAllCoreMultiplier: 34
MaxMultiplier: 38
 
For my system the following seems to be true (take the values with a grain of salt, they are not necessarily set in stone):
Standard BCLK : 100
Max. (stable) BCLK : 105 (with stable means boot-up with 1 or fewer resets)
Max. (unstable) BCLK : 107 (with unstable means boot-up having to set-save-exit BCLK to 100, 105, and then 107, with upto 3-4 reboots between each set-save-exit cycle) (it is though stable enough when in the OS)
 
So, doing a little math we get:
MaxMultiplier * MaxUnstableBCLK = 4066
MaxMultiplier * MaxStableBCLK = 3990
 
This lends credit to the dmi-decode value of Max = 4000MHz (though this is only circumstantial evidence)
 
If we could somehow get the motherboard to supply 2 BCLK's for the CPU, 1 for the MaxMultiplier and one for the MaxAllCoreMultiplier as follows:
MaxMultiplier * BCLK_1 < 4000   -- here BCLK_1 < 4000/38 = 105.26
MaxAllCoreMultiplier * BCLK_2 < 4000 -- here BCLK_2 < 4000/34 = 117.65
 
If this was possible, and it really is this "internal max = 4000" that hinders further overclocking, one would be able to achieve quite a bit higher processing power.
 
Remember this is still highly speculative, and not at all proven.
 
Best regards : CyberstormXIII

CyberstormXIII

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Max Speed : 4000MHz

And the other givens
MinMultiplier: 12
MaxAllCoreMultiplier: 34
MaxMultiplier: 38

... .
So, doing a little math we get:
MaxMultiplier * MaxUnstableBCLK = 4066
MaxMultiplier * MaxStableBCLK = 3990

This lends credit to the dmi-decode value of Max = 4000MHz (though this is only circumstantial evidence)

If we could somehow get the motherboard to supply 2 BCLK's for the CPU, 1 for the MaxMultiplier and one for the MaxAllCoreMultiplier as follows:
MaxMultiplier * BCLK_1 < 4000   -- here BCLK_1 < 4000/38 = 105.26
MaxAllCoreMultiplier * BCLK_2 < 4000 -- here BCLK_2 < 4000/34 = 117.65

... .

 
Can't you lower MaxMultiplier to 37?  If you could, you'd get:
MaxMultiplier * BCLK_1 < 4000   -- here BCLK_1 < 4000/37 = 108.1 
MaxAllCoreMultiplier * BCLK_2 < 4000 -- here BCLK_2 < 4000/34 = 117.65; 108.1 < 117.65, but greater than 3.4 x 1.07 (3.638) for all 8 cores, because 3.4 x 1.081 = 3.6754 for all 8 cores. 
Pics like those requested, above,  by safan 80 and terry price might help to make for faster clocking.

Hello all.

Used most of yesterday trying to get a proper link between video-out S-video on a dated radeon card that my girlfriend had, and my also dated Plextor PX-tv402u - but unfortunately, at least though SageTV it got rather blurred.
 
So, instead this morning, I hooked it up to a dated 19" samsung screen, and took pictures of nearly every menu option (im sure Ill have missed some anyways ;-) - After that I processed them all,  by hand, first with Lens Correction, and the Perspective Crop, for the first 10 or so, then the rest just with perspective crop.
 
I have uploaded the 94 images that I took to imageshack, along with the 2 pictures from cinebench, that I previously uploaded :
 
http://profile.imageshack.us/user/cyberstormxiii/
 
I will add all the links to the pictures here as well:
 

And tbh, it would have been VERY nice, if EVGA had added an option to the BIOS  to be able to use PrintScreen button to save pictures to a connected USB stick, like some of the newer ASUS boards with UEFI BIOS. - Would probably have saved me some 10-20 hours of frustration getting the above images done.
 
 

CyberstormXIII
... .
 So, instead this morning, I hooked it up to a dated 19" samsung screen, and took pictures of nearly every menu option (i'm sure Ill have missed some anyways ;-) - After that I processed them all,  by hand, first with Lens Correction, and the Perspective Crop, for the first 10 or so, then the rest just with perspective crop.

I have uploaded the 94 images that I took to imageshack, along with the 2 pictures from cinebench, that I previously uploaded : ... .

 
Excellent work!  I'll analyze the options and give you my thoughts.

Tutor

  I'll analyze the options and give you my thoughts.

 
Good, I'll look forward to it ;-)
 
A question of rather high importance is the lack of LAN connectors, when BCLK > 100 ... this is extremely frustrating, and happens for both Windows and Linux - and the ASUS Z9PE-D8 never had any of these kinds of problems - So I find it rather strange that EVGA has not tested this.
 
At BCLK=100 the 2 LAN connectors work fine, but at BCLK>100, they are simply not present.
 
I wish EVGA could somehow direct me to a solution on this matter.

CyberstormXIII
... .
A question of rather high importance is the lack of LAN connectors, when BCLK > 100 ... this is extremely frustrating, and happens for both Windows and Linux - and the ASUS Z9PE-D8 never had any of these kinds of problems - So I find it rather strange that EVGA has not tested this. At BCLK=100 the 2 LAN connectors work fine, but at BCLK>100, they are simply not present.

 
I suggest that you slightly increase  (1) the phase-locked loop (PLL)  Voltage Control (img9922h & img9936c) VCore 1.9V for both CPUs and (2) the system's PCH Voltage Control value for PCH Voltage 1.5000V (img9947kc & img9947z).  Tweaking the PWM Frequency Control (img9950ee & img9951d) might also provide some relief.  These voltages are used by the CPUs' clocks.  Try to keep PCH Voltage 1.5000V in the low 1.5xxx range and the PLL Voltage Control in the low 1.9x(x) range.  Let me know if this helps.

Seems that the bios on the Asus board is more mature to be able to handle the lan issue easily, even though the overclocking is pretty mild with the locked multiplier anyhow....
 
Starting to lean more towards the asus option myself...