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03-05-2009, 05:35 AM
Seven PCI-Express Slot X58 ASUS Motherboard Shown at CeBIT (http://www.techpowerup.com/87057/Seven_PCI-Express_Slot_X58_ASUS_Motherboard_Shown_at_CeBIT.h tml)
Yes, you read the title correctly, on their stand at CeBIT, ASUS has a motherboard on show featuring seven full length PCI-Express slots. Four operate at full x16 speed, whilst the remaining three are at 8x speed. This has been achieved through the use of Intel's X58 chipset and the addition of two NVIDIA NF200 chips. Dubbed the P6T7 WS Supercomputer, it has been said to be the, "best choice for intensive parallel computing (http://www.techpowerup.com/87057/Seven_PCI-Express_Slot_X58_ASUS_Motherboard_Shown_at_CeBIT.h tml#) demand." Although no details yet on availability or pricing, the board is confirmed to support up to 24 GB RAM through six DDR3 slots, six SATA ports, two SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) and two eSATA ports and the usual 7.1 onboard sound and gigabit ethernet. The featured shot shows the board "naked" so to speak but due to this, you can see how ASUS have crammed the northbridge, southbridge and two NVIDIA chips into the bottom right corner of the board. This has given the space for the seven PCI-E slots, though it will require some sort of low profile cooling solution so as not to obstruct the installation of any graphics cards (http://www.techpowerup.com/87057/Seven_PCI-Express_Slot_X58_ASUS_Motherboard_Shown_at_CeBIT.h tml#).
http://www.techpowerup.com/img/09-03-04/p6t7ws040309_thm.jpg (http://www.techpowerup.com/img/09-03-04/p6t7ws040309.jpg)
Sources: TechConnect (http://www.tcmagazine.com/comments.php?shownews=24995&catid=2) , Computerbase (http://www.computerbase.de/)
Yes, you read the title correctly, on their stand at CeBIT, ASUS has a motherboard on show featuring seven full length PCI-Express slots. Four operate at full x16 speed, whilst the remaining three are at 8x speed. This has been achieved through the use of Intel's X58 chipset and the addition of two NVIDIA NF200 chips. Dubbed the P6T7 WS Supercomputer, it has been said to be the, "best choice for intensive parallel computing (http://www.techpowerup.com/87057/Seven_PCI-Express_Slot_X58_ASUS_Motherboard_Shown_at_CeBIT.h tml#) demand." Although no details yet on availability or pricing, the board is confirmed to support up to 24 GB RAM through six DDR3 slots, six SATA ports, two SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) and two eSATA ports and the usual 7.1 onboard sound and gigabit ethernet. The featured shot shows the board "naked" so to speak but due to this, you can see how ASUS have crammed the northbridge, southbridge and two NVIDIA chips into the bottom right corner of the board. This has given the space for the seven PCI-E slots, though it will require some sort of low profile cooling solution so as not to obstruct the installation of any graphics cards (http://www.techpowerup.com/87057/Seven_PCI-Express_Slot_X58_ASUS_Motherboard_Shown_at_CeBIT.h tml#).
http://www.techpowerup.com/img/09-03-04/p6t7ws040309_thm.jpg (http://www.techpowerup.com/img/09-03-04/p6t7ws040309.jpg)
Sources: TechConnect (http://www.tcmagazine.com/comments.php?shownews=24995&catid=2) , Computerbase (http://www.computerbase.de/)