Seen 2 or 3 16x PCI-E ports on single mobo, how about SEVEN of 'em?

You know, when you opened the case of your PC you could see that there was a single or more 16x PCI-E ports on the mobo (stands for Motherboard). Usually it's only one, two or more advanced, three of them for SLI (nVidia) and CrossFireX (ATi). 

But, a company called EVGA has made a prototype, coded W555, containing SEVEN of 16x PCI-E ports, so many that it didn't left any space for their families and ancestors ('ye old PCI port and smaller sister 1x PCI-E port). That's not only the special thing, it also has two LGA1366 socket to accomodate two Intel Xeon processor that's designed for server, now could be made to fit into a (gaming/workstation) desktop. It's also designed to be overclockable. Even more, it also has 12 DDR3 DIMM socket to accomodate a bunch of memory, maximum amount still unknown.

Of course, accommodating a huge amount of high performance parts in your rig must have made something to be so special that it needs a fan. What? Fan? On the mobo? Yes, a fan specially made for the chipsets that's been hardworking to accomodate these huge amount of power plant. So hot that it needs a fan, just imagine that. Well, I started to think about power consumption though...

Function of this mobo? Well, when viewed form the amount of processor sockets it had, it must be some kind of a workstation/server. But, when viewed from the potential amount of GPU installed, it doesn't make sense and only one type of person who could used it (depends on his budget).

It's the Folding Team. Though, I can't explain long about it in this topic, but indeed, it's a club or team that uses their rig (PC/Laptop) to be used together, indirectly becoming a supercomputer, for protein folding that can be used as anti-cancer medicine, etc. There's a PC fact that nowadays graphic card was so powerful that it's physics counting performance was faster than a processor. So folders (an individual of a folding team) used their GPU as a priority in folding rather than using the CPU. More GPU, more faster folding.

With this mobo they would be happy folding and bragging about his rig's folding performance.

(thanks for Bit-Tech about the picture and Engadget for the latest infos in KlipGadget)

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