If god had created a mobo

[Theraima]

Looks like people cant decide is this good or bad

But I'd buy it, its quite cheap and it sure is better than any laptop lol.

 

[Cermage]

Looks like people cant decide is this good or bad

But I'd buy it, its quite cheap and it sure is better than any laptop lol.

its JUST the motherboard, no other components. have fun trying to keep an entire rig using this motherboard cheaper than most higherend laptops.

 

[BlueStar]

You wouldn't need to upgrade your PC for quite a while with those specs. That's a monster of a computer.

But by the time you had any software that could actually take advantage of it, computers with the same specs will be a fraction of the price.

As for rendering, if you're really doing anything that benefits from that amount RAM then you should be doing it professionally and your employer should be supplying you with the hardware to do it. You need some kind of borderline personality disorder to buy this as a home user.

EDIT: That might be why they're trying to market it to gamers I guess

 

[TheWingless]

600 MB/s reading speed, I presume? That's fast as hell.

On another note, I never knew USB 3.0 already existed, is it used in anything yet or still in a prototype phase? Either way, just the name can make me tremble with excitement

It's out already, but most motherboards I've seen only have 2 in the back as USB 3.0. I have not seen very much storage hardware adopt it though. Perhaps in another year. You can also get a PCI-E card right now but PCI-E (2.0?) x4 was the absolute minimum for that I think.

SATA 6.0gbit is also out, and a few hard drives/SSDs have also moved on to that. Once again, only SOME of the SATA ports are 6.0 gbit.

 

[Perseid]

600 MB/s reading speed, I presume? That's fast as hell.

On another note, I never knew USB 3.0 already existed, is it used in anything yet or still in a prototype phase? Either way, just the name can make me tremble with excitement

A lot of motherboards are supporting it now, and some external HDDs are beginning to come out that support it. Imagine an SSD in a USB 3.0 case. Drool.

QUOTE(Perseid @ Aug 1 2010, 08:12 AM) Who are they trying to sell this to?

Easy. People that think that the most expensive computer is the best. Also, bragging rights. Besides that, there are people that want fast render times without
having to buy a renderfarm.

There are a lot of legitimate reasons to buy a Xeon setup, but I can't think of any that would also take advantage of Quad-SLI. Rendering surely wouldn't need that. I suppose you could try to offload some of the rendering onto the GPUs via CUDA, but then why did you buy a Xeon?

 

[DSGamer64]

If I won the lottery I would buy that, and two processors, and 48GB of memory, and 4 monitors to go along with 4 GTX 480 graphics cards, and 5 1TB SSD's.