Seven PCI-Express Slot X58 ASUS Motherboard Shown at CeBIT

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Yes, you read the title correctly, on their stand at CeBIT, ASUS has a motherboard on show featuring seven full length PCI-Express slots. Four operate at full x16 speed, whilst the remaining three are at 8x speed. This has been achieved through the use of Intel's X58 chipset and the addition of two NVIDIA NF200 chips. Dubbed the P6T7 WS Supercomputer, it has been said to be the, "best choice for intensive parallel computing demand." Although no details yet on availability or pricing, the board is confirmed to support up to 24 GB RAM through six DDR3 slots, six SATA ports, two SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) and two eSATA ports and the usual 7.1 onboard sound and gigabit ethernet. The featured shot shows the board "naked" so to speak but due to this, you can see how ASUS have crammed the northbridge, southbridge and two NVIDIA chips into the bottom right corner of the board. This has given the space for the seven PCI-E slots, though it will require some sort of low profile cooling solution so as not to obstruct the installation of any graphics cards.



wow...Imagine seven 9800GTs (Is that the most powerful single slot for folding?)

Behold, a folder's dream:

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Minor issue you could only use 4 high-end cards as they would cover the conjoining slot ;) not really that novel be good for network monitoring setups you could have 14 monitors connected with ease
 
*sigh*

is this really nesscary? i mean we only have tri sli and quad fire. seems point less.

It's not really for gaming. ASUS made this workstation board geared towards Folding@Home users and parallel computing. And maybe supercomputer or server type purposes.
 
Another thing is pci is going to start being phased out...and you can plug in any pci-e card into those slots.

This includes sound cards, usb cards...etc.

We are used to seeing the smaller slots but they are not necessary as an x16 slot can accommodate all of them.
 
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