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[Tom's HW] Asus Shows Off Dual Socket 1366 Motherboard

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Asus is shaking things up in the netbook world, but it hasn't forgotten about the enthusiast crowd.

During CeBIT Germany today, the Taiwanese computer giant showed off its newest motherboard. Dubbed the Z8NA-D6, this newest mainboard will allow for two LGA1366 processors to be used in the same system.

Asus also claims that at 12-inches by 9.6-inches, the Z8NA-D6 is the world's first dual socket ATX motherboard, which allows for it to be used in virtually any ATX computer case (note: Intel's Skulltrail is an Extended ATX mobo). The power connector is another point of interest. The 24+8 pin connection allows for both ATX and SSI power supplies to be used, the latter of which is traditionally used in servers.

The motherboard is based on Intel's 5500+ICH10R chipset, and can support all 1366 processors, including the upcoming Xeon 5500s. Supported memory includes up to 48 GB of RDIMM or 24 GB of UDIMM, with ECC support. The one shortcoming of this board is the lack of PCIe 2.0 x16 slots. With only one on the Z8NA-D6, you can forget about any sort of SLI or Crossfire setup. As for other expansion slots, the Z8NA-D6 comes with two PCIe x8 slots, one PIKE slot, and a PCIe x1 slot, which will likely be used for a soundcard. Like any other Asus mobo, expect this one to come with RAID software already included on the board.

The Z8NA-D6 may be the first dual socket 1366 motherboard spotted (no price or release date yet), but we doubt it's the last. 1366 Skulltrail, anybody?

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This was posted already.
And I hate ASUS. JK~only their reps.
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Too bad it's a server board.
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msremmert
No PCIe x16 slots?... I'm not convinced this will fly with the enthusiast market.
You know what we're like, we like to shove in one (or more) stupidly large graphics cards.
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Originally Posted by msremmert View Post
No PCIe x16 slots?... I'm not convinced this will fly with the enthusiast market.
You know what we're like, we like to shove in one (or more) stupidly large graphics cards.


its not an enthusiast board
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Boyboyd
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1366 Skulltrail, anybody?
Not quite, skulltrail allowed for SLI and Crossfire. It's just a server board.

Silly Toms
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I wonder how long it will stay running before you get memory errors or random instabilities...a week? A month? 2 maybe?
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Originally Posted by TestECull View Post
I wonder how long it will stay running before you get memory errors or random instabilities...a week? A month? 2 maybe?
server grade boards dont go south very often.
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joemaniaci
The link takes me straight to a online virus scanner/phisher.

EDIT: well it did the first time.
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My good math skills tell me I could put 16 hard drives on that board
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