14 DAY TRIAL // EVGA certainly took its time to introduce LGA 1155 compatible motherboards into the market, but the company doesn't want to repeat the same mistake once Sandy Bridge-E arrives and it has started developing a dual-socket X79 board that will replace the extravagant Classified SR-2.
The company didn't bring any LGA 2011 boards at this year's Computex fair, but it has stated that it will have a motherboard ready when the chipset arrives this fall.
A few months after, this initial model will be followed by a dual-socket LGA 2011 board.
Much like the current SR-2 this will target primarily enthusiasts and overclockers and EVGA expects that it will be used for establishing quite a few world records. Sadly, no specific details are available at this point in time.
The current Classified SR-2 motherboard is designed to operate two LGA-1366 processors and was released in March 2010.
At this year's Computex fair, most motherboard manufacturers have showcased LGA 2011 boards, but none of these were designed to support two Sandy Bridge-E processors.
The only X79 dual-socket motherboard that we have seen is the Asus Danushi Bay model, but this was designed as an easy upgrade path from LGA 1366 to LGA 2011.
Intel is expected to launch the first batch of high-performance Sandy Bridge-E processors in the fourth quarter of this year, together with the X79 PCH.
Initially, the consumer space will witness the introduction of just three chips, including two six-core and one quad-core model.
Both six-core SKUs will come with a fully unlocked design, but Intel's flagship processor will work at 3.3GHz and pack 15MB of Level 3 cache, while its smaller brother will run at 3.2GHz and feature “only” 12MB of L3 cache.
The last of the three processors will pack four computing cores (8 threads), has limited overclocking potential and features 10MB of Level 3 cache and a 3.6GHz base clock. (via TechReport)