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EVGA W555 Dual CPU Benchmarks

The spiritual successor to the Skulltrail platform has been unveiled with quite the show of force. Two hex-core Xeon processors are put to the test under traditional air-coolers and non-traditional liquid nitrogen pots. Hitting speeds fo 4.1GHz on air and 5.5GHz on liquid nitrogen is no small feat and the system demolishes the wPrime and Cinebench R11 benchmarks.

The truly gigantic mainboard leaves the observer in 'shock and awe' to use the words of some not particularly popular retired politicians. It's larger than any EATX or workstation mainboard I've seen, and the red-and-black colour combination adds to the visual power. Every single feature you could think of is there - up to 96GB of RAM support in 12 DIMM sockets, at speeds up to DDR3-2000 across six channels, native SATA3 and USB3, in addition to the usual spread of SATA and USB connectors, dual Gigabit Ethernet, and of course seven PCIe v2 x16 slots, four of them able to act as true x16 slots in parallel, thanks to a pair of Nvidia Nforce 200 PCIe bridges for a total of 64 PCIe v2 lanes.

The Inquirer

Posted by | Wed, Mar 17, 2010 - 01:21 AM