My next workstation board

[SCSIraidGURU]

Super Micro Computer, Inc. - Products | Motherboards | Xeon Boards | X8DAH+

I can put on a pair of 4870x2 ATI Crossfire cards, 8708EM2 SAS RAID controller, pair of Intel X5550 Nehatam Xeons (1333 FSB), 24GB DDR3 1333 FSB RAM triple channel.

 

[Brink]

WOW, sounds very nice Michael.

 

[SCSIraidGURU]

I can't wait to see the X5550 Xeons with 1333 FSB RAM along with SAS RAID and a pair of ATI Crossfire 4870x2.

 

[Brink]

It should run pretty fast with that. I wouldn't mind seeing some benchmarks on it.

 

[SCSIraidGURU]

I expecting 50%-75% faster than my Supermicro X7DWA-N with E5430 DDR667 Xeons.

SiSoftware Sandra

Benchmark Results
Dhrystone ALU : 148965 MIPS
Whetstone iSSE3 : 57608 MFLOPS
Results Interpretation : Higher index values are better.

Performance Test Status
Run ID : XPPROX64 on Tuesday, May 27, 2008 at 12:46:13 PM
NUMA Support : No
SMP Test : Yes
Total Test Threads : 8
Multi-Core Test : Yes
Cores per Processor : 4
SMT Test : No
Dynamic MP/MT Load Balance : No
Processor Affinity : P0C0T0 P0C1T0 P0C2T0 P0C3T0 P1C0T0 P1C1T0 P1C2T0 P1C3T0
Number of Runs : 64000 / 640

Processor
Model : 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5430 @ 2.66GHz
Speed : 2.67GHz
Cores per Processor : 4 Unit(s)
Type : Dual-Core
L2 On-board Cache : 4x 6MB Synchronous, ATC, 24-way set, 64 byte line size, 2 threads sharing

 

[SCSIraidGURU]

I am looking at a HAF chassis and talked to PC Power and Cooling about a customed wired 1200W power supply. Downloading the drawing for modification.

 

[Brink]

LOL, makes my system look like a:



I can't wait to see shots of it when it's built.

 

[SCSIraidGURU]

I do A/V and CAD work on it. It was designed around Photoshop CS4 x64, Lightroom 2.3 x64, Sony Vegas Movie Studio, and other CAD applications. I can run 4 applications at the same time without problems in performance.