Posted on Friday, October 21 2011 @ 22:07 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
EVGA shows off the SR3 (Super Record 3), an upcoming dual-socket LGA2011 E-ATX motherboard for enthusiasts or workstation builds. Socket 0 supports eight DDR3 DIMM slots (2 per channel), while socket 1 is limited to four slots (1 per channel). Full details about the SR3's features can be read
at TPU.
In LGA2011 2P systems, the processor sitting on socket 0 is wired to the PCH (SR3 looks to have Patsburg-T), while the processor on socket 1 is wired to the one on socket 0 using two QPI links, closing the daisy-chain. Socket 0, apart from its 4 GB/s DMI link, has a PCI-Express 2.0 x4 (another 4 GB/s) link to supplement the DMI link, so the storage controllers don't get bottlenecked with just DMI. Both processors contribute to the PCI-Express lane budget of the motherboard. There are seven PCI-Express x16 slots, among which four are PCI-Express 3.0 x16 capable, every slot is PCI-Express 3.0 x8 capable. NVIDIA 4-way SLI is supported. This board will support Sandy Bridge-EP Xeon processors, though we don't know at this juncture if Core i7 Sandy Bridge-E is 2P capable.
