Dual CPU - Crunch Time

[dalewakelin]

in fact asus has many strong points also so i dont know which has my vote

 

[I Hunta x]

the evga[font=Verdana, sans-serif, FreeSans] is more organized than the asus and it supports i5 which is quicker than xeon so the EVGA has my vote[/font]

Wut? The xeons have an identically performing desktop equivalent usually, there is literally ONE difference and that's the part that allows them to run 2 CPU's at a time, other than that, performance is pretty much identical to the i5/i7 equivalent when ran on its own.

The ONLY difference is you NEED xeons to run 2x chips in one board.

Also EDIT your posts instead of multi posting....

 

[Vicey]

the evga[font=Verdana, sans-serif, FreeSans] is more organized than the asus and it supports i5 which is quicker than xeon so the EVGA has my vote[/font]

The EVGA SR-X does not support Core i3, i5 or i7 processors it only supports LGA 2011 XEON processors. For dual-CPU use you must purchase XEON's that have two QPI links.

Not only does it not support i3, i5 or i7 processors but the i5 processors won't even physically fit either of the SR-X's sockets as Intel does not sell any LGA 2011 i5 processors.

And about organisation, that is definitely an area for debate as the SR-X uses a non-standard form factor (HPTX) to deliver identical performance to the Asus offering. Both boards support the same XEON's and both boards support up-to Quad-SLI and Quad Fire. The only usable benefit the EVGA board has over the Asus one is more RAM slots but using over 96GB of RAM on the EVGA board is unsupported whilst the Asus board has backed support for up to 256GB of RAM when using ECC Registered Memory.

 

[hackalive]

the evga[font=Verdana, sans-serif, FreeSans] is more organized than the asus and it supports i5 which is quicker than xeon so the EVGA has my vote[/font]

How is it more "organized"? In what ways?

 

[Big WigglyStyle]

I personally would go for the ASUS board, the EVGA board seems a bit flashy and more targeted at the overkill gamer. You said you're going to be using this as a serious work station for CAD and such right? Also I'm guessing you won't be using SLI on your graphics cards correct? The ASUS boards has what they're calling enhanced parallel GPU computing, EVGA doesn't appear to have a feature like this.

If it were me getting a build like this for a workstation I would opt for the ASUS board.

 

[hackalive]

I personally would go for the ASUS board, the EVGA board seems a bit flashy and more targeted at the overkill gamer. You said you're going to be using this as a serious work station for CAD and such right? Also I'm guessing you won't be using SLI on your graphics cards correct? The ASUS boards has what they're calling enhanced parallel GPU computing, EVGA doesn't appear to have a feature like this.

If it were me getting a build like this for a workstation I would opt for the ASUS board.

I think I will be ordering the ASUS board.

And yes No SLI - just two Quadro 6000s.