That W555 motherboard previewed was pretty awesome, but it has just got better and branded official. Renamed to the EVGA Classified SR-2, the fancy motherboard fits two LGA 1366 CPUs – that could be two Xeon 5600/5500s, or two of the latest and greatest Intel Core i7-980X processors for 12 cores/24 threads. Also on the board are the same seven PCIe 16x slots for seven graphics cards supporting either 4-way SLI or CrossFire X.
As you may be able to tell, the are 12 DDR3 RAM slots on the huge motherboard; enough for up to 48GB of RAM. Port-wise there are two SATA 6Gb/s ports, six SATA 3Gb/s ports and two eSATA ports; two USB 3.0 ports + ten USB 2.0 ports, dual gigabit Ethernet, 8 channel HD audio and an IDE port. The board is also quite large, fitting into the HTPX board sizing (15″ x 13.6″) so it might not fit into your standard case.
Unfortunately there is no word yet on a price or release date, but we’re betting it’s going to be released soon and that it will be very pricey. Gallery below for more pics.
